Skald (RSD Exclusive, Gatefold LP Jacket)

For years now Wardruna founder Einar Selvik has done acoustic concerts and lectures, performing Wardruna songs on his own, as well as creations made for the TV-show Vikings in an acoustic format. Now parts of this material has finally been recorded live in studio in Solslottet Studio in Bergen (Norway), and was released through By Norse Music on November 23rd 2018.nThe exclusive RSD 2024 edition features a brand new bonus track and comes as 2×12″ Transparent Red & Black Smoke vinyls; with the original Gatefold artwork masterfully revisited by Polish vinyl artisan and designer Bartek Rogalewicz (Behemoth, Mayhem, etc.); and includes two exclusive bonus tracks never released on vinyl before.

Skald takes the listener on a musical journey outside the massive soundscape that Wardruna is known for and into a simpler and more direct form, where voice, poetry and ancient instruments like Kravik-lyre, Taglharpa and Bukkehorn lead the way.