2020. The year that will live forever in infamy as “The Covid year”. More than half of the population saw life crumble due to disease, economical problems caused by pandemics or mental issues as a result of lockdown. But not Danish symphonic/Viking metallers Heidra. The quartet took the downtime to work … Continue reading →
UDGÅRDSFEST in Copenhagen, Denmark, will be held on September 30th 2022 and is now ready with the program for 2022. At the top, we will find the Faroese viking metal heroes TÝR! When UDGÅRDSFEST returns in 2022, it will be with both strong Danish and foreign names in the folk/viking … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 26 October 2018 Label: Time To Kill Records Having previously listened to some of their material, I’ve begun to think of Heidra’s music as occupying that same controversial niche as the music of Wintersun albeit with a clearly different set of musical influences. However, Heidra’s latest effort, … Continue reading →
Venue: Maassilo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Date: 2 April 2016 On the second day of the “Return of the one man army” tour, Finnish folk metal gods Ensiferum played in the almost fully packed ‘Maassilo’ in Rotterdam. Of course I wanted to see them, since they are one of my favourite … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 28 July 2014 Label: Mighty Music The Danish group Heidra released their debut EP ‘Sworn to Vengeance” in 2012. The folk metal band’s EP heralded a promising future for a full length album. “Awaiting Dawn” only needed the first few notes to convince me that it could … Continue reading →
Rating: 8,5/10 Release: 3 November 2012 Label: Independent Some nice big surprises of 2012 seem to come from Denmark. Earlier in 2012 we got the beautiful debut-album of Huldre. This time we get the EP Sworn to Vengeance by the Danish band Heidra. This EP contains only three songs and … Continue reading →
