Draugablíkk

VERJASEIÐR
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW

MYTH & MANKIND: Is There Truth in Norse Numbers?

Streaming Worldwide — December 20, 2020

Verjaseiðr Album

DRAUGABLÍKK

Verjaseiðr embraces the dark, the unknown, and connects with the other-worldly.

What most people today refer to as “shamanism” is a spiritual discipline involving a skilled practitioner to interact with the forces of nature and the spirit world. Usually, the goal is to direct otherworldy energies into the physical world, such as manifesting various healing or protection entities.

Verjaseiðr hooks into the spiritual and was created with a specific purpose: to reinforce the egregore that is Draugablíkk. The album’s musical material has been carefully composed and performed to sense and ward against primordial evil, such as the left-hand path which is a term for “black” magic used to pull forces beyond the veil into this world — for darker purposes.

Hiǫrtr. Ormr. Úlfr. Arn. Those are Old Norse words for deer/stag, serpent, wolf, and eagle. They are also the four creatures which adorn the Verjaseiðr cover art which has been profoundly inspired by the “Jelling” and “Urnes” styles of Viking Age animal art.

The stag Eikþyrnir stands guard on top of Valhalla. The ormr longships lie ready to embark on new adventures. The úlfhéðnar wolf warriors are waiting for the next full moon. The Gothunni, Ostrogothic, and Anglo-Saxon eagle motif which originated with the Scythians — thousands of years ago — is awakening. If you are like us, you can feel it too.

33 is a master number in numerology that implies vitality and relief. The same number might also be the total playtime of Verjaseiðr.

 

Tracklist:

  1. Fornrít: At Verja Sik
  2. Arnlokkur
  3. Herjúlfamáni
  4. Ǫndskuggi
  5. Hreinnhǫfði feat. Sigrún Spákona

Streaming Worldwide — November 6, 2020

Yngvi Tyrkja Konungr Single

VALGAM AKATZIRI

Valgam Akatziri strikes out on his own — if only for a day — with a rather unexpected and uniquely-sounding single.

“Yngvi Tyrkja Konungr” captures the galloping spirit of the Migration Era’s horse lord warrior cultures, during which the Goths and the Huns became forever intertwined.

The Old Norse title Yngvi Tyrkja Konungr means “King Over Turks” or “Ruler of the Turks” — possibly in reference to Óðinn — whose army had subjugated one or more Turkic nomad tribes of the Great Eurasian steppe.  A large number of Hun warriors spoke ancient Turkic, although their warrior-priest elites spoke an Indo-European language, likely Sogdian or Proto-Gothic.

In the Íslendingabók written by Ari Þorgilsson in the early 1200s, Yngvi Tyrkja konungr appears as the father of Njǫrðr, who in turn is the father of Yngvi-Freyr, ancestor of the Ynglings. According to the Skjǫldunga saga Óðinn/Wōden came from Asia and conquered Northern Europe.

Tracklist:

  1. Yngvi Tyrkja Konungr

Streaming Worldwide — June 19, 2020

NÍU: Blood of the Amali (Ásaland Metal Cut) Album

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“NÍU: Blood of the Amali (Ásaland Metal Cut)” is Draugablíkk’s debut album — includes nine folk metal tracks.

“NÍU: Blood of the Amali (Ásaland Metal Cut)” features nine tracks inspired by Scandinavian and Eurasian history, shamanic philosophies of the great steppes, and last — but certainly not least — Norse and Gothic sagas and myth as well as Scythian beliefs.

The number nine is significant in Norse myth, as made evident by Óðinn who sacrificed himself, to himself, on the tree of life Yggdrasill for nine days and nights, until the secret of the runes was revealed to him.

Further, the sagas describe how Þórr takes nine steps and falls to the ground dead after he fought his last fight with Jǫrmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, at Ragnarǫkkr. Heimdallr, the whitest horse lord of the Æsir, is also the guardian of the rainbow bridge Bifrost. He was born by nine sisters — an event echoed in the nine daughters of the sea-goddess Rán who rules the oceans.

 

Tracklist:

  1. Serpents in the Mist (Ásaland Metal Version)
  2. From the Ashes of Aujum (Ásaland Metal Version)
  3. To Særkland and Back Again (Ásaland Metal Version)
  4. Wolfclan Rising (Ásaland Metal Version)
  5. Battle of Brávellir (Ásaland Metal Version) [feat. Vinithor Amal]
  6. Across the Varangian Sea (Ásaland Metal Version)
  7. Húnagaldr (Ásaland Metal Version) [feat. Valgam Akatziri]
  8. Draugablót: The Fall of Indra (Ásaland Metal Version)
  9. Beyond the Silkroad (Ásaland Metal Version) [feat. Sigrún Spákona]

Streaming Worldwide — April 3, 2020

Hel var Árheim

DRAUGABLíKK

Old Norse saga release “Hel var Árheim (Norðrlandasaga)” is streaming now.

Hel var Árheim (Norðrlandasaga) is undoubtedly not the first work based on the Vǫluspá — the first and best-known poem of the Poetic Edda that tells of the creation of the world and its inescapable end. However, Norðrlandasaga comes with a number of small yet significant corrections not present in any other interpretation or translation of Snorri Sturluson’s Vǫluspá scripture.

 

Tracklist:

  1. Hel var Árheim (Norðrlandasaga)

Streaming Worldwide — November 15, 2019

ÞRÍR: Serpents in the Mist EP

DRAUGABLÍKK

ÞRÍR (three) is a significant number in Norse mythology. It is also the number of tracks included on the EP “ÞRÍR: Serpents in the Mist”.

  • The three Norns (Urðr/Wyrd, Verðandi, and Skuld) carves the threads of destiny as they rule over the past, the present, and the future of every individual (suggesting time was perceived as cyclical and not linear in ages past.)
  • The three roots of the world-tree Yggdrasill (where Óðinn sacrificed himself, to himself — pierced with his own spear Gungnir to gain knowledge of the runes.)
  • The three years without summer that will herald the coming of Ragnarǫkkr (Ragnarök) signals not only the end of the world, but also the glorious rebirth and return of Baldr (Balder), the dead Æsir god of ancient beauty, and his by Loki misled blind brother and mistletoe murderer, Hǫðr (Hodur).

The songs of Draugablíkk’s “ÞRÍR: Serpents in the Mist” blend east and west, death and war, and myth and history, to reflect the widely traveled world of the Vikings, the Rus’, the Varangians, the Goths, and those who came before them.

 

Tracklist:

  1. Serpents in the Mist (Tíl Valhǫll)
  2. To Særkland and Back Again
  3. From the Ashes of Aujum

Streaming Worldwide — October 18, 2019

EÍN: Ættarbál EP

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“EÍN: Ættarbál” includes two tracks: Burial at Sea (Ættarbál) & Hel var Árheim (Old Norse Poetry).

EÍN: Ættarbál tells the story of the creation of the world and hints at a historical origin of the Jǫtnar of Norse mythology.

  • Burial at Sea (Ættarbál) is a song that honors the fallen and is set against the sounds of sea and weather of long ago. As a dead chieftain’s ship is set ablaze by fire archers from the shoreline, his assembled comrades commend his soul’s journey to the old gods.
  • Written in Old Norse, Hel var Árheim draws inspiration from the Vǫluspá (“Prophecy of the Vǫlva/Seeress”) which is the most famous poem in Snorri Sturluson’s Poetic Edda literature. The Vǫluspá tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end. It is told by a Vǫlva addressing Óðinn.

 

Tracklist:

  1. Hel var Árheim (Old Norse Poetry) [feat. Vinithor Amal]
  2. Burial at Sea (Ættarbál)

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Hermóðr and Sleipnir boldly deliver news from the far reaches of Ásaland.






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