At first glance, you’d be mistaken for thinking that Norway only represented black metal, burning churches, restaurant prices that will make you drop your dessert spoon, and, naturally, Vikings. Which could be where you might have first discovered the music of Wardruna, as part of the haunting soundtrack to the unrelenting brutality that was the Vikings TV drama. In moments of quiet contemplation, the broken countryside around them looking like the moon had somehow sprouted grass, and in the contemplative idyll between bloody battle, Wardruna’s evocative songs played.