This is Incredible! Heilung - Norupo (Reaction)

Second song from Heilung I've heard. Much like the first it feels like time sumltaneously stands still but also flies by, very interesting music and quite an experience.
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[@HenryAusLuebeck]

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[@robertwhite7234]

Glad you touched on this one. So well shot and so engaging. This is from a proto-Scandanavian poem about the old Gods. It discusses the adversity we all face and how we should look for hope in our future. Kai is heavily into the history and languages (well, they all are really) of these earlier times and finds these great old texts, that Chris and Maria help him realize into music. Amplified history, as they say.

[@metalzonereactions]

Hey thanks, really cool to see something historical brought to life like this. I should've looked up the lyrics or tried to find more about the meaning.

[@ChristineRowley-j1v]

Norupo was played at my son's funeral,he would have approved ,blessings on his memory

[@metalzonereactions]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, I can see why this song would be very powerful for you. Thank you for watching and sharing that, it's amazing to learn what music can mean to different people.

[@007painkiller]

may the old gods every look at him with pride and may he sit by odins table with the anserters

[@experimentalelemental92]

An ancient Norse poem, how the Gods & Goddesses interact with nature, us & the natural world. Fate, children, death, hope, a new dawn. Strange, u being a metal head that u started with the two softest / most gentle Heilung songs, & not Krigsgaldr. In Maidjan. Alfadhahaiti. Thx for adding this one to ur list 👍

[@metalzonereactions]

Thanks, I had no idea where to start! I will check out that one next

[@NorthHaus]

The drone is supposed to be the great raven coming in to witness the ritual on behalf of the Gods

[@metalzonereactions]

Interesting, good to know, thanks!

[@ColumbiaBeet]

The actual sound source is also something natural. Their "instrumentalist" and producer Chris has stated that any sampled sounds used are always sampled by himself from natural sources and that this is important to them. So what sounds like a squarewave synth drone, may have begun as a recording of a babbling stream, or the wind whipping around a forest, manipulated in the studio to achieve the desired effect, but always from a voice, handmade drum or instrument from the time period (again made of natural handmade elements), or sound from nature. They seek authenticity from ancient cultures that were erased nearly and wiped out by the Romans and similar forces, so details are scarce, but the band feel it's the least they can do out of respect for the sources of their songs and rituals.

[@littlemouse7066]

there are two people who impersonate (so to speak) shamans one is the guy with the horns the other is the woman dressed in white with the horns when you see someone who wears animal parts he/she is generally a shaman or a seer anyway we know female seers were very important in the ancient scandinavian culture still in the viking age. this is a reference to even a more ancient times. just a curiosity the woman head gear is a copy of one found in an archeological dig it's in a museum I think in Copenhagen (Denmark).

[@metalzonereactions]

Great information thank you

[@ColumbiaBeet]

Yeah, the head piece Maria wears IS inspired by that artifact from Denmark, and thought to be some 9,000 years old. It also includes bits and pieces that hold personal importance to her, as well as shells from the beaches near wear she grew up in Norway. Kai is an actual practicing shaman IR btw.

[@JamesMccasland-r1o]

Fylgija Ear is another song to checkout by Heilung. It's much more intense than Anoana and Norupo.

[@alancarter41]

Not sure why I like this, it is certainly not a music style I listened to before hearing Heilung, but it seems to speak to my primal Celt soul. I read somewhere (maybe in some comments or an interview?) that they use a synthesizer for some of the effects although they use traditional ancient instruments (not all are of Nordic origin). Interesting fact, there is evidence that the ancient Vikings and other Nordic people used the mushroom Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric, in their rituals. The use of hemp as a drug has been mostly debunked, although hemp was frequently used for fabric and rope. BTW, Heilung refer to their live performances as rituals. Nice new opening, but I thought you might go for something more epic with lots of reverb.

[@metalzonereactions]

Thanks, trying to keep the opening as short as possible and will add a quick graphic if I can get someone to make one - personally I often skip past long openers hah! Good point about the live performances being called rituals - hard to remember these details in the moment but I remember lots of comments pointing that out too. Which is pretty cool and makes sense given their music. Agreed about their music, this is not something I would really think to like. I'm interested in history of course, but my understanding of their music made me have some reservations. But I'm glad I gave them a chance, it's very haunting/mesmerizing. What got me to check them out was an interview I saw with Kai on @norsemagicandbeliefs kzbin.info/www/bejne/npvGc6R_rs5-j68&ab_channel=NorseMagicandBeliefs

[@goeranm55]

Love your reaction, but let's set the timescale (in Scandinavia): The viking age is from 797 to mid eleventh century if you look at the impact on Britain, and starts earlier in the eastward direction when the swedish sea travelsers went to the russian river systems. This is mainly iron age and the language is old norse which is pretty well known. Before that the bronze age dominated and the language is proto-norse which is only know in fragments from bracteats, rune stones, rock carvings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Carvings_in_Tanum and reports by greek and latin travellers back to their homes. This is the language these songs refer to. Maria impersonates in this movie (and in Anoana) a Disa (female divinity, but not a god). Sites like the one where this is filmed can be found in many places in Scnadinavia (See the link above)

[@metalzonereactions]

Thanks! I found on their FB Heilung explains this is from a poem preserved in a 17th century copy of a 13th century manuscript facebook.com/amplifiedhistory/photos/a.595483987219647/2540615476039812/?type=3

[@ColumbiaBeet]

@@metalzonereactions yes, but based in oral traditions that are thousands of years older. Most of what "survived" from these proto-gaelic and proto-viking Northern European Nomadic peoples was recorded by the conquerors of their own descendants during the rise of the Roman Empire and similar empires that basically wiped out their cultures

[@parryhotter3138]

not one of my fav's from heilung, but the vid is great. do the live ones, they are all great u can't do something wrong there... ;) have a good day!

[@metalzonereactions]

Thanks! I did the live Anoana one which started this journey, any others you'd recommend?