News Archive
Runaljod Trilogy Book and 3CD • 15 Nov. 2019
2019 marks ten years since Wardruna released the first part of the ‘Runaljod’ trilogy. We are thrilled to celebrate its conclusion and see all three albums into a special limited book edition including original lyrics together with English translations and exclusive pictures.
Einar Selvik comments:
‘Ten years since the first release but almost twenty years since the first recording was made. It has been quite a journey so far, yet it feels like we just got started. The Runaljod albums are originally released on two different record labels and I am happy to collaborate with Indie Recordings and my own label ByNorse for a license and the opportunity to FINALLY release the complete trilogy, the way it should, as one single product.’
The Runaljod Trilogy Book + 3CD is available now in the Wardruna online stores. The first 1000 copies include a bookmark autographed by Einar Selvik.
EU based store:
wardrunashop.com
US based store:
wardruna.aisamerch.com
Norway based store:
wardruna.com/shop
It will also be sold during the upcoming Wardruna European Tour.
2020 Tour Dates and New Music in the Works • 11 Oct. 2019
‘2019 marks ten years since Wardruna’s first release and in the spring, a new chapter will start. I don’t wish to reveal too much at this point but can say that we are now deep into the process of writing and recording new music. For the upcoming album we are partnering up with Sony Music / Columbia Records. This is a new steppingstone for us and I am very confident that this new addition to the team will give us new opportunities to further develop our art and take it to the next level. Wardruna has been a DIY to-the-bone kind of project since the very beginning. Slowly and patiently evolving. Working hard and always keeping the art itself as the primary decisive factor. This will never change for us, and so it feels great to have top notch people on our team that also embrace this way of working. When Wardruna rise up from the current studio-hibernation and initiate the concert-year of 2020, it is clearly allowed to hope for new music!’
Einar Selvik - Wardruna.
2020 European Tour Dates:
28 Mar - Oslo (NO) - Sentrum Scene - Tickets - FB Event
2 Apr - Kristiansand (NO) - Kilden Teater - Tickets - FB Event
3 Apr - Stavanger (NO) - Stavanger konserthus - Tickets - FB Event
4 Apr - Bergen (NO) - Grieghallen - Tickets - FB Event
30 Apr - Moscow (RU) - Crocus City Hall - Tickets - FB Event
1 May - St. Petersburg (RU) - Yubileyny Sports Palace - Tickets - FB Event
3 May - Poznan (PL) - Hala Ziemi - Tickets - FB Event
4 May - Krakow (PL) - ICE Congress Center - Tickets - FB Event
5 May - Bratislava (SK) - Refinery Gallery - Tickets - FB Event
7 May - Belgrade (SR) - Sava Centar - Tickets - FB Event
8 May - Bucharest (RO) - Arena Romanele - Tickets - FB Event
4 Jun - Manchester (UK) - Albert Hall - Tickets - FB Event
5 Jun - Dublin (IE) - Vicar St. - Tickets - FB Event
6 Jun - Birmingham (UK) - Symphony Hall - Tickets - FB Event
7 Jun - Glasgow (UK) - Royal Concert Hall - Tickets - FB Event
9 Jun - London (UK) - Royal Festival Hall - Tickets - FB Event
10 Jun - Cambridge (UK) - Cambridge Corn Exchange - Tickets - FB Event
1 Aug - Savonlinna (FI) - Savonlinna Opera Festival - Tickets - FB Event
21 Sep - Reykjavik (IS) - Harpa - Tickets - FB Event
Photo by Arne Beck
European Tour – Winter 2019 • 30 Nov. 2018
In November 2019, Wardruna will head out on tour again with a select number of concerts. The tour marks that ten years has past since the first album was released and will be appropriately celebrated by presenting new music as well as material that has never been performed live.
Einar Selvik comments:
‘We have more or less toured now since 2009, and 2019 will be a year where the main focus will be on creating and recording new music as well as spending time on further developing our live expression to fit songs never performed live and new material. 2019 also marks the ten-year anniversary since our first release, and we are just getting started!’
Tickets sales will start on December 4th, 10am CET; tickets for the Polish shows will be on sale on December 10th!
17.11.2019 Helsinki (FI) – House of Culture - Tickets
19.11.2019 Gdansk (PL) – Shakespeare Theatre - Tickets
21.11.2019 Warsaw (PL) – Warsaw Palladium - Tickets
22.11.2019 Prague (CZ) – Great Hall of Lucerna - Tickets
23.11.2019 Vienna (AT) – Museumsquartier - Tickets
25.11.2019 Nürnberg (DE) – Löwensaal - Tickets
26.11.2019 Paris (FR) – Olympia - Tickets
27.11.2019 Utrecht (NL) – TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal - Tickets
28.11.2019 Wuppertal (DE) – Historische Stadthalle - Tickets
29.11.2019 Copenhagen (DK) – DR Koncerthuset - Tickets
01.12.2019 Stockholm (SE) – Annexet - Tickets
Voluspá Music Video • 8 Nov. 2018
I recently spent three blessed and life-altering days together with a small pack of wolves, their caretakers and some of the finest people in Finnish film, all led by Tuukka Koski and Koski Syväri. We made a video to my rendition of the Old Norse poem Voluspá (Prophecy of the Seeress) that you can now watch on our YouTube and Vimeo channels on the links below. The song is released digitally on all platforms tomorrow.
Einar Selvik
Skald • 19 Sep. 2018
New acoustic Wardruna album ‘Skald’ featuring Einar Selvik’s solo material will be released on November 23rd.
Track listing:
- 1. Vardlokk
- 2. Skald
- 3. Ein sat hon uti
- 4. Voluspá (skaldic version)
- 5. Fehu (skaldic version)
- 6. Vindavla
- 7. Ormagardskvedi
- 8. Gravbakkjen
- 9. Sonatorrek
- 10. Helvegen (skaldic version)
The album will be available in CD, vinyl and digital formats. Pre-order here:
Wardruna EU based store:
wardrunashop.com
Wardruna US based store:
wardruna.aisamerch.com
Digital:
radi.al/WardrunaSkald
North American Tour 2018 – West Coast • 28 Mar. 2018
Wardruna is returning to North America for six new concerts this September.
Update 5 Apr. 2018: Several shows are sold out or nearly sold out now. Extra show in Boulder, CO added!
- Sep 14: Theatre at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA - Tickets
- Sep 15: The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA - Tickets
- Sep 17: Neptune, Seattle, WA - Tickets
- Sep 18: Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC - Tickets
- Sep 19: Revolution Hall, Portland, OR - Tickets
- Sep 22: The Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO - Tickets
- Sep 23: The Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO - Tickets
Snake Pit Poetry Out Now • 20 Oct. 2017
Einar Selvik’s two track EP ‘Snake Pit Poetry’, which was originally written for History Channel’s TV series Vikings, is avalable now on digital music services and stores. It is also available as a 10-inch vinyl with etched B-side, exclusively in Wardruna’s online stores and today at the last show of their European tour!
EU/World: http://wardruna.aisamerch.de
North America: http://wardruna.aisamerch.com
Digital: http://radi.al/SnakePitPoetry
North American Tour 2018 – East Coast • 12 Oct. 2017
Finally! In February 2018 Wardruna will go on a short tour in the eastern US and Canada. Hopefully this is only the first of many American tours in the time to come.
Update 19 Oct. 2017: Two more shows added!
- Feb 1: The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD - Tickets
- Feb 3: Town Hall, New York, NY - Tickets
- Feb 4: Corona Theater, Montreal, QC - Tickets
- Feb 6: The Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA - Tickets
- Feb 7: Corona Theater, Montreal, QC - Tickets
- Feb 8: The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON - Tickets
Snake Pit Poetry • 15 Sep. 2017
On October 20th By Norse Music will digitally release a two track EP from Einar Selvik containing an acoustic version as well as the complete studio version of his much requested piece ‘Snake Pit Poetry’, originally written for History Channel’s TV series Vikings. The EP will also be available as a 10-inch vinyl with etched B-side, sold exclusively in Wardruna’s online stores and on their upcoming European tour.
Hugsjá and Nordvegen • 5 May 2017
Einar Selvik and Ivar Bjørnson present music work entitled Hugsjá at the Bergen International Festival (Festspillene i Bergen) later this month. Hugsjá will be performed in Bergen and also Ullensvang, Bekkjarvik, Os, and Moster in a series of concerts entitled ‘Nordvegen’. For details about the concerts, dates and venues, please visit www.fib.no/en/2017/Nordvegen
Autumn Tour • 19 Apr. 2017
In October Wardruna will go on a short European tour:
- Oct 14: La Cigale, Paris, FR - Tickets
- Oct 15: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, NL - Tickets
- Oct 17: Kongresshaus Stadthalle Heidelberg, Heidelberg, DE - Tickets
- Oct 18: Huxleys, Berlin, DE - Tickets
- Oct 19: Dom Muzyki i Tańca, Zabrze, PL - Tickets
- Oct 20: Teatr Szekspirowski, Gdańsk, PL - Tickets
Tickets can be reserved now.
Hugsjá – World Premiere in Bergen • 15 Feb. 2017
Bergen International Festival will feature new music by Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and Ivar Bjørnson from Enslaved in May–June this year.
New work by Einar Selvik (Wardruna, Vikings) and Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) will be featured by the Bergen International Festival in May–June this year.
Selvik and Bjørnson’s new collaborative endeavours Nordvegen and Hugsjá continues to combine the ancient and contemporary with Norse and Norwegian poetry, accompanied by instruments from the Stone Age up to the present day.
A series of concerts under the name Nordvegen (‘the northern road’ – an ancient shipping route connecting Norway to the rest of world for some 3000 years), will be performed in four venues along the west coast of Norway in late May and early June. The audience will be taken on a spectacular journey along this route in a musical declaration of love to Norwegian coastal culture and Norse history. Bjørnson and Selvik have designed the concerts inspired by local history for each of these places. The Nordvegen concerts create an acoustic and intimate basis for the grandiose commissioned work Hugsjá, which will receive its world premiere Bergen concert hall Grieghallen on May 31.
The word hugsjá means to remember – literally ‘to see in the mind’. Focused on ideas, traditions and instruments from our Norse past, the work recounts Norwegian history while drawing lines to the present.
For details about the concerts, dates and venues, please visit http://www.fib.no/en
Tickets are on sale from February 15.
Raido Music Video Out Now • 6 Oct. 2016
Wardruna are proud to present ‘Raido’ – a new song taken from their forthcoming album ‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’, to be released on October 21.
The music video was filmed, directed and produced by Finnish photographer Tuukka Koski and his team at Koski Syväri in the stunning surroundings of Sandhornøya in northern Norway.
‘Raido’ is also released as a single on all major digital music platforms:
http://radi.al/RunaljodRagnarok
Winter Solstice in the Viking Ship Museum • 23 Sep. 2016
Einar will perform an acoustic concert celebrating winter solstice in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, December 21. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
Raido Music Video Teaser • 22 Sep. 2016
On October 6th Wardruna will release a music video and single for the song ‘Raido’ from their upcoming album ‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’. The video is filmed, directed and produced by Finnish photographer Tuukka Koski and his team at Koski Syväri in the stunning surroundings of Sandhornøya in northern Norway. Stay tuned!
Tyr Teaser Video • 1 Sep. 2016
Here’s a short teaser video of ‘Tyr’, the opening track on ‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’.
The album will be available in CD, vinyl and digital formats. Pre-order here:
Wardruna EU based store:
http://wardruna.aisamerch.de
Wardruna US based store:
http://wardruna.aisamerch.com
Odal Available Now • 19 Aug. 2016
Today Wardruna has released ‘Odal’. The track is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’, to be released on October 21.
The track is available on digital platforms worldwide:
Soundcloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify
Today you can also pre-order ‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’ in various formats from Wardruna’s EU and US stores:
• CD with slipcase
• Triple gatefold 2LP in black or limited gold vinyl
• New clothing designs
• Various bundles
• Limited wooden box (only 500) including:
- Limited gold stamped ‘Runaljod - Ragnarok’ CD
- Hand made pewter/alpaque bind-rune necklace
- Embroidered patch
- Runaljod book with original and translated lyrics from the entire trilogy.
Wardruna EU based store:
http://wardruna.aisamerch.de
Wardruna US based store:
http://wardruna.aisamerch.com
Ragnarok Release Date, Cover art and Track Listing • 8 Aug. 2016
Wardruna’s third studio album, ‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’, will be out on October 21.
Track listing:
- 1. Tyr
- 2. UruR
- 3. Isa
- 4. MannaR – Drivande
- 5. MannaR – Liv
- 6. Raido
- 7. Pertho
- 8. Odal
- 9. Wunjo
- 10. Runaljod
Total running time: 58:36
‘Runaljod – Ragnarok’ will be available in CD, vinyl and digital formats. Presales begins on August 19. More details to follow.
Malmö Added to the Ragnarok Tour • 5 Aug. 2016
Wardruna are pleased to add another date to their Ragnarok Tour this autumn. On Wednesday November 30th they will perform at Slagthusets teater in Malmö, Sweden. Follow the link below for more details and tickets.
Ragnarok Tour Update • 13 July 2016
The announcement of the Ragnarok Tour has been met with great enthusiasm and many of the concerts are already sold out. Several extra shows has been set up.
The updated list of Wardruna live dates:
- Aug 20: Midgardsblot Metal Festival, Borre, NO - Tickets
- Aug 27: Håkonshallen, Bergen, NO - SOLD OUT
- Aug 28: Håkonshallen, Bergen, NO (Extra Concert) - Tickets
- Sep 2-4: Faerieworlds, Portland, USA - Tickets
- Nov 12: Eventpalast, Leipzig, DE - Tickets
- Nov 13: Wytwórnia, Łódź, PL - SOLD OUT
- Nov 15: TivoliVredenburg, Symphonic Hall, Utrecht, NL - SOLD OUT
- Nov 16: Union Chapel, London, UK (Extra Concert) - Tickets
- Nov 17: Union Chapel, London, UK - SOLD OUT
- Nov 18: Trabendo, Paris, FR - SOLD OUT
- Nov 19: TivoliVredenburg, Pandora, Utrecht, NL (Extra Concert) - SOLD OUT
- Nov 25: Nalen, Stockholm, SE (Einar Selvik Solo) - Tickets
- Nov 26: Nalen, Stockholm, SE - SOLD OUT
- Nov 27: Nalen, Stockholm, SE (Extra Concert) - Tickets
- Nov 30: Slagthusets teater, Malmö, SE - Tickets
- Dec 1: Portalen, Copenhagen, DK (Support: Krauka) - Tickets
- Jan 21: Sentrum Scene, Oslo, NO - Tickets
Also:
Dec 9: New York By Norse, New York, USA (Einar Selvik Solo) - Tickets
Ragnarok Tour 2016-17 • 25 May 2016
As previously announced, Wardruna will release the third and final album in the Runaljod trilogy, entitled ‘Runaljod - Ragnarok’ through own label By Norse Music this October and we will follow up with some selected concerts:
- Nov 12: Eventpalast, Leipzig, DE - Tickets
- Nov 13: Wytwórnia, Łódź, PL - Tickets
- Nov 15: TivoliVredenburg, Symphonic Hall, Utrecht, NL - Tickets
- Nov 17: Union Chapel, London, UK - Tickets
- Nov 18: Trabendo, Paris, FR - Tickets
- Nov 19: TivoliVredenburg, Pandora, Utrecht, NL - Tickets
- Nov 25-26: Nalen, Stockholm, SE - Tickets 25th, Tickets 26th
- Dec 1: Portalen, Copenhagen, DK (Support: Krauka) - Tickets
- Jan 21: Sentrum Scene, Oslo, NO - Tickets
We are also performing three concerts before the released, which are all set in fantastic surroundings and will all feature new music from ‘Runaljod - Ragnarok’.
- Aug 18-21: Midgardsblot Metal Festival, Borre, NO - Tickets
- Aug 27: Håkonshallen, Bergen, NO - Tickets
- Sep 2-4: Faerieworlds, Portland, USA - Tickets
Ragnarok • 4 May 2016
The next Wardruna album, ‘Runaljod - Ragnarok’ is coming autumn 2016.