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After a restful hiatus, Heilung is waking up. The world-famous ritual collective is working on their highly anticipated fourth full-length studio album.
While fans around the globe eagerly await their next album, Heilung is excited to share “Seidh”, the second single from “Sagas”, a collection of recordings that core members Kai Uwe Faust, Maria Franz and Christopher Juul created in collaboration with Ninja Theory for the award-winning video game “Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga”.
Previously performed live at The Game Awards in 2023, “Seidh” invokes the Norse mythology that guides Senua on her quest through 9th-century Iceland. The song draws its breath from the oldest layers of the North, where ritual, poetry and prophecy were not yet separated. At its center stands the völva, who, through chant, rhythm and altered states of consciousness, opens a space where the unseen begins to speak.
The music video for “Seidh” was directed by Gornoss (IG: gornoss). It is the third in a trilogy of videos from Sagas that deal with the trauma induced by warfare. The second part, “Læknisgaldr”, has been viewed 981K times on YouTube during the past four weeks.
When you walk an unknown path, it will reveal itself while you explore it. This is what happened when Heilung and Gornoss began their adventure this May in creating the videos for Sagas.
“We knew we wanted to tell a story about healing from trauma, and the choice of song landed on ‘Læknisgaldr’”, Heilung core member Maria Franz says. “A tiny team with a great mission traveled first to a viking market in Borre, Norway, and then to rainy mountains in Iceland. But during the filming, it became clear that the story was too big for one video only. We instinctively knew that the next chapter needed to be to our song, ‘Seidh’”.
“To fulfill the vision for ‘Seidh’, there was no doubt that we had to bring the dancing of our Haarii warriors, who many might recognize from our live shows”, Franz continues. “The journey therefore brought us to a forest in The Netherlands. And as we followed the path, the story unfolded and revealed itself further… We now had too much to tell for only two videos.
This saga will now be told in three parts about trauma, healing and vision.
In part two, ‘Læknisgaldr’, you participated in the healing.
In part three, ‘Seidh’, we give you the vision.
And finally in part one, you will witness the trauma in the still to be released ‘Slagt’”.
Seidh
Fjoth ek for
Fjolth ek freistathak
Fjolth ek reynda regin
Kvat mælta odhinn
Ath a baul stigi
Sialfr i eyra suyni
Leng ek svaf
Leng ek sofnoth
Long er lydha læ
Odhinn thvi vældr
Er ek eigi mattak
Bregdha rammr blunnstafom
Seidh hon Leikinn
Hvars til husa kom
