Norwegian dark folk band Wardruna released a new single, “Hertan,” last week, and now they’ve announced what they say will be their only US performance this year. It happens at Morrison, CO’s iconic ...

Just a couple weeks after that sold-out Heilung North American tour ended, likeminded dark Nordic folk band Wardruna have announced a new album and North American tour. The album is called Kvitravn ...

One of the more exciting festivals popping up next year is the annual Fire in the Mountains out in Montana. Now, I know what you’re thinking — who wants to go to the middle of nowhere Montana — but ...

Wardruna has a boatload of tour dates coming up throughout 2024 and 2025, all kicked off by a show at Red Rocks with Chelsea Wolfe. The show is part of an extensive world tour where the band is set to ...

Wardruna have donated over $14,000 to the Firekeeper Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting Indigenous communities and suicide prevention efforts in Browning, Montana. The Norwegian world ...

Paganism in heavy music may be having a moment, but few do it with as much authority as Wardruna. Helmed by founder and frontman Einar Selvik, the Norwegians’ darkly expansive folk brings the natural ...

Metal Hammer has teamed with Norwegian neofolk masters Wardruna to release a 2LP version of new album Birna that comes with an art card signed by the band. The package is only available through the ...

Nordic folk music with roots in black metal might sound ridiculously niche, but Wardruna are more than the sum of their parts—and to prove it, here they are at the Auditorium Theatre. Einar Selvik ...

Wardruna’s fifth full-length was due last June, but due to the pandemic, the Norwegian neo-prog-folk band bumped the release date of Kvitravn to this January. Though Wardruna were born out of Norway’s ...

Wardruna are about to turn the Royal Albert Hall from an Italianate marvel into a Nordic ritual landscape. Before that, though, JO QUAIL brings the kind of classical splendour this building was made ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Norwegian folklore has an image problem. The reason why was on display during the sacking of the US Capitol, in ...

It would be easy to mock Norway’s Wardruna. Their name translates as “guardian of the runes” – they make music from goat horns, bone flutes and a replica of a German lyre from 500 AD. Frontman Einar ...