Wardruna mainman Einar Selvik has named what he believes to be a benefit from the infamous black metal church burnings. During the early 90s, members of the Norwegian black metal scene, including Varg ...

When Einar Selvik founded Wardruna in 2003, they effectively existed in a scene of one. While by no means the first band to explore Scandinavian tradition, they helped popularise it to such an extent ...

Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) and Einar Selvik (Wardruna) are back. The album titled Hugsjá was originally commissioned by and performed at the Bergen International Festival in 2017 as part of a series of ...

When not leading Norwegian dark folk group Wardruna, Einar Selvik does music for film, TV and video games. Einar was among those who composed music for game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and he’s ...

For Norwegian songwriter and performer, Einar Selvik, making music is as much about excavation, construction and refinement as it as about melody and rhythm. A composer of epic, culturally rooted ...

From the deep woods now emerges Birna, WARDRUNA’s sixth studio album. Through his never resting dialogue with nature, main composer Einar Selvik has been searching for the voice of the bear, our lost ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. For most music fans, the distance between heavy metal and folk is so vast you’d get a laugh – or ...

Nevertheless, both the band and their fans’ patience was finally rewarded this week, as Einar Selvik’s seven-piece band of Norsemen and women came to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall for the first time.

Following the lofty flights of 2021 album Kvitravn (White Raven), Wardruna are returning to the heart of winter with new album, Birna (She-Bear). Central to Wardruna’s sound is Einar Selvik’s ...