Heilung
Ofnir

Heillung means "healing" in German. A term that here takes on the connotations of a total catharsis. Heilung is a project that tries to connect the listener to a pre-Christian era, music that attempts to translate into sound the atmosphere that would arise in those extremely ritualistic and brutal societies. The work of Heilung is an eclectic reworking that uses everything from flowing water to recreations of swords and shields, human bones, and war drums. The lyrics are inscriptions on runestones, weapons, and translations, reinterpretations of ancient poems. The languages used vary, from Old Norse to German, to English translations of ancient inscriptions.

"Ofnir" is a work based on percussion, repetitive and hypnotic, vocal lines that resemble mantras, transcendental prayers, to be chanted together with the intake of psychotropic agents to enter direct communication with the Gods. It does not aim to be a relaxing and reassuring journey but rather a turbulent and intimidating experience with the underlying idea of the total insignificance of man in the face of the power of natural phenomena and the Gods. But even war has the power to wipe out entire civilizations. An image is created of a group of Nordic warriors who, facing their enemy, chant verses resembling a Maori Haka:

"Y! Ylir men
Ae! Aero Their
Era Mela os
Min Warb Naseu
Wilr Made Thaim
I Bormotha Hauni
Got Nafiskr Orf
Auim Suimade
Foki Afa Galande
Hu! War!
Hu war Opkam Har a Hit Lot"

What is expected with "Ofnir" is a feeling of peace created from chaos, a turbulent journey through history that by osmosis transmits an ancestral and magical energy. In a way, the approach of Heilung is wilder than that of Wardruna and other similar projects, likely wanting to evoke the dominance of nature over man and the violence of history.

The "Healing" intended by Heilung is not an easy path; history brings wounds, the wounds will become scars, and every scar is to be remembered, forever.