HELHEIM – New Album LandawarijaR Detailed

Dark Essence Records has set January 20th, 2017 as the release date for landawarijaR, the ninth full-length album from Norwegian Viking Metallers Helheim.

LandawarijaR will contain seven tracks, all of which bear the hallmarks of Helheim’s traditional Norse heritage. A heritage of which they are rightly proud and to which they have remained true, eschewing the temptation to turn themselves into the Viking parodies that so many bands have espoused.  With landawarijaR, Helheim use their lyrics to express the need to include the Norse Heritage into modern life by emphasising the importance, mystery and never-changing wonder of the Runes. 
 
Just as Helheim’s raunijaR followed in the same vein as its predecessor Asgards Fall, landawarijaR continues where “Heidindomr” ended. All four albums incorporate the use of timpani and horns, and the new album also has a number of artists performing guest vocals including William Hut, Morten Egeland (Narrowhead), Pehr Skjoldhammer (Alfahanne),  Bjornar E Nilsen (Vulture Industries, Black Hole Generator) and Ottorpedo.
 
With music by by H’grimnir and V’gandr,  lyrics by V’gandr and  artwork by H’grimnir, landawarijaR  was recorded at the Conclave and Earshot Studios in Bergen, and produced by Bjornar E. Nilsen (Vulture Industries, Black Hole Generator) and mastered by Herbrand Larsen (Enslaved). 

Tracklisting for landawarijaR is as follows:

“Ymr”
“Baklengs mot intet”
“Rista blodørn”
“landawarijaR” 
“Ouroboros”
“Synir af heidindomr”
“Enda-dagr”

Helheim recently announced that two songs from the album were being turned into videos by Guilherme Henriques, who is both producing and directing the videos. “Ymr” and “Baklengs mot intet” are the songs that been chosen because, as the band  explained, they are “neatly intertwined into a dualism which Guillherme will portray”. The videos are expected to be debuted in the run-up to the release of landawarijaR.

A series of stills from the video shoot by the photographer Mathis Backe of Yggdrasil Photo, and featuring Helheim’s lineup of Vgandr on bass and vocals, Hgrimnir on rhythm guitar and vocals, Noralf on rhythm and lead guitar and Hrymr on drums and programming , were recently published, and can be seen on Helheim’s Facebook page.