Myrkur - Folkesange

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Amalie Bruun goes back to her roots in these new versions of Scandinavian traditional songs played on mandolas, lyres and a nyckelharpa

Plait-wearing girls knitting on mountaintops don’t usually feature on the albums of black metal artists, unless they’re shot in stark monochrome and looking particularly murderous. Myrkur (AKA Danish musician Amalie Bruun: her stage name is the Icelandic word for darkness) has taken a different turn on her album Folkesange. The woman Metal Hammer once described as “scaring black metal shitless” is now burrowing into a lifelong love of Scandinavia’s traditional music and writing her own modern versions, and without sacrificing her intensity.