Norupo

Heilung is a group that borrows very heavily from Norse folk music. This together with the theatrics - Maria Franz has some of the best corpse-paint of any singer on the Metal circuit - appeals to me. And they do sing at Metal festivals. One of their first public performances was at Midgardsblot Metalfestival in 2017.

Here is how the band is described on their label's website.

Since its inception in 2015, the enigmatic ritual collective HEILUNG has been paving melodic paths to the past with their unique and mystifying sound. Evading all conventional genre tags and the confines of any specific labels, the group aptly self-describes their sound as “amplified history,” emphasizing their ability to connect modern society with the rudiments of humanity’s beginnings through music.

The song today is in Old Norse, so a translation of the lyrics might be useful.

This song is "Norupo" by Heilung from their 2019 album Futha. I have set the video and the link to skip the first portion of the video, because 90 seconds of pure self-indulgence on the part of the cinematographer is not worth it. If that offends you, you can reset it to start at the beginning.

And even though they do sing at Metal festivals, I don't hear them as Metal. So here we are on a Saturday morning.

I had this song stuck in my head for most of one week, in the month of August. I'm not sure if this is a warning or not...