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WARDRUNA

Kvitravn

SONY/MUSIC FOR NATIONS

Norse visionaries embark on an intoxicating new adventure

emerge with a style of music bearing scant resemblance to traditional metal, yet who are reverentially held by wide swaths of the metal community. Wardruna - Norway’s spellbinding pagan collective - enjoy just such status. Their raw, ethereal hymns draw deeply from ancient Norse poems and stories, weaving strands of folk, pagan and ambient music into enthralling soundscapes. Certainly, the inclusion of their music on the TV series raised Wardruna’s profile within the metal ranks and beyond, but

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