MYRKUR - Ramund (Official Audio)

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Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive. With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect. After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe. Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past. But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level. It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall. An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home. (Words by Jonathan Selzer)

[@seangage9088]

I love this - it's so beautiful and evocative.....she is indeed an amazing and very talented artiste..........

[@odin9506]

I fell in love with rock when I was 7 years old, I grew up with it, it helped me a lot. 11 years later I listened to the first folk song from Wardruna and my soul experienced true peace for the first time. 8 years later, Myrkur made me feel that peace again.

[@HartRaver]

Check out Heilung ;)

[@thegamingfrenzy698]

and Garmarna

[@CovntFapula-uc1gl]

Aye, Brother.

[@erikaushamburg8279]

Beautiful and in perfect harmony. Thank you.

[@veny9213]

Krásná žena...duševně...dobrý host...

[@tinylol]

Jeg vidste ikke at dansk musik som dette eksisterer, wow jeg elsker det!

[@MrDoYouKnowMe2211]

prøv og lyt til Hamradun - Sinklars Vise

[@nelliebly6616]

Jeg lærte denne sang i 3.klasse, i 1980🥳Jeg sidder og synger med...nogle gange danser jeg Tribal Fusion til den😉

[@HartRaver]

@@nelliebly6616 lav en video hvor du danser ! 🤘

[@IuliaBlaga]

I get goosebumps every time

[@LestatTravesty]

gotta be a reason why this feels so like home and gives us some kind of so much comfort to hear singling like this..

[@pst5345]

There is something about that particular droning base sound done by deep voices I just adore. Just imagine sitting in a room with people starting with this on a cold winter's day enjoying your hot drink. Nothing comes close to that. Nothing.

[@Walduhu]

Goose bumps all over. So deeply touching 🖤

[@Nillerus]

It's about Ramund the Young fucking up 7 Jætter and other various local leaders that had it coming.

[@laser00]

"Das schaffst DU nicht alleine !" sagte Ramund "Kommt alle Sieben auf einmal !" sagte Ramund der junge Mann Er zerteilte alle sieben Riesen mit einem Schwung, dass das Blut floß, bis sie tot waren. "Hier liegen alle Sieben!" sagte Ramund "Ich stehe immer noch hier!" sagte Ramund der junge Mann

[@michaelstoeckel2954]

Ja, ein echtes Kinderlied ;-) Ich glaube allerdings, es heißt "Ramund, der junge" um ihn von seinem Vater (dem älteren) zu unterscheiden.

[@ElitsidanElitTV]

I am shaking and crying at the same time

[@geovannyolascoaga6268]

Excelente rola 🔥

[@rage22948]

Northern spirits

[@Athanatoi]

Skyrim belongs to the Nords!!

[@Tom_Quixote]

@@Athanatoi I take it you're from the US, with no culture or history to speak of, apart from what you find in your computer games?

[@Tom_Quixote]

@JebediahDidSevenEleven Why would that be controversial? Should I say that Turkey belongs to the Danes? Of course not.

[@wastehazey6468]

The only Danish song that Faroe Islanders know better than Danes. I say this as an insult and as a sincere compliment. Best Myrkur album to be released as of yet!

[@MDCCLXXVI1990]

As a Dane myself I can agree that is sounds better in Gøtudansk. Still amazing in Danish though.

[@Anesthesia069]

I have been wondering for a few days now whether Danes hear it in Gøtudansk and think it sounds good or whether they sound like backwater bumpkins to Danish ears.

[@TheMaskedAvengerN]

@@Anesthesia069 Gøtudansk honestly sounds amazingly badass to me. Its also why i love the songs by Tyr in Gøtudansk

[@TheBarser]

@@Anesthesia069 It sounds good to me alteast. Tyr is an awesome band. Its about 20 years I heard about them the first time, but only saw them live 1 time here in Denmark. Hope to see them again.

[@Crambeu]

As a non-dane i take Gøtudansk over Standard Danish pronunciation any day

[@karlamejia4549]

Loved it 🍃❤

[@HartRaver]

Alt for få vers !!

[@aedleathers]

Love the music and the video! Thanks Amalie!

[@vil4038]

Wow.

[@mastersorcerer555]

Svartsot - Ramund Týr - Ramund Hin Unge

[@thesquiddude1]

please tell me i'm not the only one who sings ''Hi-hooo'' between each verse

[@Berkanann]

This is so beautiful. I must have some Nordic genes in my ancestry as I resonate so much.

[@ThePowerExcess]

Is this the same Ramund as the one from the Garmana song?

[@okxtan2648]

(De cette majestueuse interprëtre j'entends de par de lå les rives montagneuses et les plaines.. le cri rauque du karnyX.. ) *En voici la fransk traduk* ..Ramun serait un homme meilleur s'il avait de beaux vëtements.. La Reine lui en a donné pour se tenir debout de fils bleu cousus de raphia et de cuir.. "Je ne veux pas de ça !" a déclaré Ramund "Ce n'est pas bon pour moi".. Ramund marchait au bord du lac salé.. et.. Là se tenant il a vu sept géants.. _Je te prends Ramund sur ma plus petite main et te jette des terres au loin.. "Toi seul tu ne le fais" dit Ramund.. Vous devez venir tous les sept" dit Ramund le jeune homme.. ..Ramund pris sa chère épée qu'il appelait Dymlingen Rouge.. Et Il coupe les sept géants d'un seul coup.. Que de sang coulait de cette mort.. "Il y en a de tous les sept" déclara Ramund.. "..et toujours lå je suis.." Ramund a pris sa grand épée.. celle qu'il appelle sa chère Dymlingen.. *De l'Empire il a divorcé de par sa Vie.. "Cette tête a volé quinze milles.. Je pensais que ça ne priait pas.." dit Ramund "Cependant le sang coule à flot.." dit Ramund le jeune homme..

[@joshuagaither4866]

I hate that I have to listen to this here instead of her own channel since they made her take it down. 🙄😒

[@joshuagaither4866]

Beep m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3zOnI2kj7d0ick

[@okanerenli]

why everything is perfect.... where is mistakes, slide notes except nyckelharpa damn I'm so sad

[@Athanatoi]

Skyrim belongs to the Nords!

[@impendingdoom7920]

How can I help a brother nord?

[@Tom_Quixote]

@Athanatoi I take it you're from the US, with no culture or history to speak of, apart from what you find in your computer games?

[@Athanatoi]

@@impendingdoom7920 Help me defend the honor of our people from a troll who called himself as Trollkell The Tall

[@impendingdoom7920]

@@Athanatoi you have my sword

[@impendingdoom7920]

@@Tom_Quixote what's a milk drinker like you doing here?

[@_.AlterFeind._]

✨🤍✨

[@awwahunter]

I’m from Russia, but this song takes me off 🤤

[@emiliomarfull3798]

Tyr

[@thorbjrnbeckmann1018]

It's a folksong

[@nielsie22]

ye and tyr is norse god of war, so its perfect

[@joshuagaither4866]

@@nielsie22 especially given what the song is about.

[@henrikhansen4589]

I mangler 2 vers desværre

[@andershjarlvig7060]

Næremere 15,16,17 stykker :) Er der ikke 20+ i den rigtige ?

[@erikrungemadsen2081]

@@andershjarlvig7060 25 i den oprindelige version.

[@Nerdcrusher]

Autotune ain't folk.

[@vil4038]

Trazan Apansson this isn't pure folk, and it's meant to be this way, she spiced it up with other elements S

[@ArwenStarsongMusic]

Trust me when I say that she has a clip singing this live on her KZbin channel with nothing but the forest and her nykellharpa accompanying her and she sounds exactly like this

[@vil4038]

ArwenStarsong that is also true

[@nataliewisdom4790]

@@ArwenStarsongMusic is exactly right no autotune needed

[@HartRaver]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHeQm5qMaKqof7s

[@InasBHamza]

This version truly sucks sounds like britney spears version of folk music overtly tense and exaggerated pressure on the vocal and not in a good way, absolutely horrible vocal so disappointing wow

[@danielnaberhaus5337]

A truly laughable comment 🤣

[@joshuagaither4866]

Guess you don't know what the song is actually about. 👀👀

[@j.c.m5168]

Big words from a turd who's name seems close to being pronounced "anus".

[@dakotahlavender]

😂 sure.