
2019 also saw the group's music appear in the popular television show Vikings. The label reissued Ofnir in 2018 and put out Heilung's second studio album, Futha, the following year.

The band signed to Season of Mist and released the recording as their second album, Lifa. The performance was filmed and made available online, where it was streamed a million times. Amazingly, it was only their second ever show, and they had only three days to prepare. But their big break came at 2017's Castlefest in Lisse, the Netherlands, where they brought the house down with a unique ritual performance to a 10,000-strong crowd, filling the stage with guest performers all clad in ancient furs, bones, and antlers. When Franz joined, lending her ethereal vocals to the mix, Heilung was complete.Ĭalling their style "amplified history," in 2015, they self-released their debut album, Ofnir, which attracted some attention. The two connected immediately and decided to create a musical project that would take listeners back to the Bronze Age, using ancient instruments and objects and Faust's otherworldly throat singing, with lyrics taken from original Viking rune inscriptions. Heilung was born when Faust visited Juul's studio, Lava, to record some poems, offering the engineer a tattoo as payment. Juul was brought up directly connected to these traditions, the son of a pagan priest in Copenhagen. Franz felt a sense of belonging and community after discovering her local Viking re-enactment society at the age of 11.

He studied Tibetan throat singing and became a poet and a tattoo artist. As a youth, he rebelled against his parents and briefly embraced satanism before discovering shamanism and Viking culture. Brought up in a strict Christian home in rural Germany, Faust was forbidden television but encouraged to read, and he became fascinated by ancient pre-Christian traditions. Later, Norwegian singer Maria Franz ( Juul's girlfriend) joined the band.

Heilung ("healing" in German) was formed in 2014 by German vocalist Kai Uwe Faust and Danish multi-instrumentalist and studio engineer Christopher Juul. The group has issued a string of acclaimed studio efforts ( Ofnir, Futha, Drif) and has had its music appear in video games, television, and film.
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*If you’d like more robotic weekly rankings with projections, check out Rudy’s Pigskinonator which is available on a free trial and then only $5.99 for the rest of the season.Combining ancient melodies with otherworldly vocals, field recordings, dark ambient soundscapes, and shamanic rhythms, German, Norwegian, and Danish pagan folk act Heilung creates a trance-inducing blend that evokes the very dawn of civilization. Texans 31, Lions 17Īnyway, here’s my fantasy football rankings for week 12 which will be frequently updated until Sunday kickoff: With Chase Daniel tagging in for their meleagrisphobic QB, Detroit won’t stand a chance against J.J. When Stafford sees the enormous bird gobbling away on his sideline, he’ll run for the locker-room and never look back. Little does the Lions’ coach know, Matthew Stafford has a debilitating fear of turkeys-meleagrisphobia, it’s a real thing. In honor of the holiday, Patricia will dress up as a turkey.

This is a matchup of Belichick minions with Matt Patricia and Romeo Crennel facing off-think we know who has the advantage. Since I’ll be releasing my weekly fantasy football rankings each Thursday morning (except Thanksgiving week!) for the duration of the season, I’ve decided to throw in some bonus bold Thursday Night Football predictions along with my expertly handicapped pick for the contest:įorecast: Thanksgiving wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a crappy Lions team playing in the morning game and your drunk Uncle Arlo yelling about his all-time favorite Lions player, Whizzer White. After I was arrested for stealing old ladies’ purses from the retirement home down the block to fund my string of Arizona Cardinals’ Super Bowl wagers (a 50:1 lock!), the judge sentenced me to 6 month’s of in-patient rehab. I just snuck out of a court ordered gambling rehab facility to write this post, so I’ll have to be brief.
