HEILUNG - Futha VINYL

This is not background music. This is music for standing in a field at dusk wondering if you made a terrible or a perfect decision.

Heilung's 2019 record Futha doubles down on everything that made Ofnir a revelation for fans of dark folk, ritual ambient and Norse-rooted experimental music. Where a lot of acts dabble in the ancient and come out sounding like a fantasy game soundtrack, Heilung actually disappear into it. Futha, meaning the second half of the Elder Futhark, is dense, hypnotic, and genuinely unsettling in the best possible way, built from reconstructed Germanic and Norse languages, bone instruments, throat singing and field recordings that feel like they predate recorded history. A landmark in the dark aesthetic music space and essential listening for anyone whose tastes run from industrial and doom to neoclassical and beyond.

Standard LP. For fans of Wardruna, Myrkur, Dead Can Dance.