Arts & Culture
New Heavy Music for Pagan Hearts, Volume 2
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Karl E.H. Seigfried spins up five records sure to appeal to Pagan rock and metal listeners, including new releases from Green Lung, SpellBook, and Dungeon Weed.
Arts & Culture
Midgardsblot 2025: Return to the Blot-Mounds
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Lyonel Perabo makes his pilgrimage to the 2025 Midgardsblot festival, partaking in a sweeping day filled with ritual, scholarship, and the heaviest metal to be found anywhere in Scandinavia.
Culture
A Heathen in Church
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As a professional musician, I’m brought right into the heart of the service on the holiest of holidays. It’s a great vantage point to learn about things I would never otherwise be exposed to.
Living
Where Do We Want to Go?
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December is a month of holiday festivities, near-nonstop sales advertisements, and many religious observations surrounding light. In the Northern Hemisphere, as we venture faster than dropping temperatures to the longest night and shortest day, it is only natural to think of the coming year and ask: where do we want to go?
Arts & Culture
Of Sacred Hymns and Profane Revelry: Midgardsblot 2024
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The Midgardsblot festival, taking place each August in Borre, just south of Oslo, Norway, has slowly but surely become ubiquitous among Viking nerds, Norse Pagans, and metalheads alike. With its unique blend of extreme Metal and nordic folk acts (among others), alongside numerous artistic and academic entertainment acts, it was only a matter of time that I checked it out for myself.