Helrunar - Vanitas Vanitatvm (CD-2 Box) Testimony blue skies

blue skies

the American guitarist and singer Dege Legg pulls everyone into his lush musical world

heartbreakingly sincere mixture

the East Frisians have added more dark and heavy parts as well as a healthy dash of melancholic feeling – and even black metal inspired moments

Helrunar - Vanitas Vanitatvm (CD-2 Box) Testimony blue skiesFounded in 2001, German black metal instigators Helrunar have gone from strength to strength, establishing themselves as a band approaching Nordic themes with brains. Records such as "Frostnacht" and "Baldr Ok ss" are regarded as seminal works for the country's scene before the group shook off genre conventions altogether in favour of a holistic approach to extreme music and its topics. This is manifest in 2011's double album "Sl". While their sixth