Arts & Culture
Bounded by Blood: Midgardsblot 2026
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Lyonel Perabo recounts his visit to the 2026 Midgardsblot festival in Borre, Norway, featuring bands like Venom, Wolves in the Throne Room, Taake, and the Heilung spin-off Songleikr.
Arts & Culture
Nexion’s “Sundrung” is a tantalizing sonic apocalypse
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“Sundrung oozes a sort of dark mysticism which can only stem from a deep understanding of Old Nordic lore,” writes Lyonel Perabo of the new album by Icelandic heavy metal band Nexion.
Culture
Table Full of Nazis
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This is why I no longer wear the hammer in public. There’s just too much darkness lurking below the surface, across the board.
Arts & Culture
An Encounter with Pagan Metal
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Except that what I heard then were no musical notes. These were sounds of the earth. Crackling; slowly rumbling; like a fissure opening up on the ocean floor; or a mountain growing, or a volcano awakening after millennia of stillness. The music had not even started that I was already captivated.
Paganism
Column: Giving Voice to the Skalds – Einar Selvik and Assassin’s Creed
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Lyonel Perabo interviews Einar Selvik, the frontman of the Nordic folk band Wardruna and a composer for the soundtrack of the new video game, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla.