Helheim – HrabnaR / Ad Vesa CD

Helheim, one of the founding pioneers of the Norwegian Viking metal genre, are known and respected around the world for their authenticity and integrity in representing their Nordic heritage. For more than 30 years they have gone their own way, constantly evolving without being influenced by musical trends and fashions. 

On this album, Helheim have recorded a split album with themselves. For the first time, the main songwriters V'gandr and H'grimnir have split the album into two parts, taking care exclusively of the vocals on the part they represent musically. This has resulted in two very different forms of expression - not unusual for this band, but never as evident as here.

The first half, "Hrabnar", contains four independent songs written by H'grimnir. The second part, "Ad vesa", is about the four components of Norse mythology that we know as the human soul. In pre-Christian Norway, the concept of the soul was not a singular, unified entity, but a composition of many elements, of which the four main components were Fylgja, Hamr, Hugr and Hamingja.