Heilung release third single ‘tenet’ from their new album’drif’

Today we received the third offering from the pagan Folk collective Heilung. The new single ‘Tenet’ is the third new track, taken from the band's upcoming album ‘Drif’ The group consisting of members from Denmark, Norway & Germany had this to say about the new song.

“Our third single release is a palindrome. All individual musical parts, melodies and instruments (and even at times the lyrics) play the same both forward and backwards. The song is based on the “Sator Square”, the earliest datable two-dimensional palindrome, first found in Herculaneum (Italy), a city buried under the ashes of the erupting Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, at that time part of the flourishing Roman Empire. What is particularly interesting with this palindrome is that not only does it read forwards and backwards but also vertically in both directions.

S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S

The unusual melody of the piece is created with a special code system employing numbers, runes and Latin letters taken from the square itself, and deciphered in a complicated system to give birth to Heilung’s first melodic palindrome. Love from Heilung"

Check out the track right here

The enigmatic ritual collective has been paving melodic paths to the past with their unique and mystifying sound. Evading all genre tags and the confines of any specific labels, the group aptly self-describes their sound as “amplified history,” emphasising their ability to connect modern society with the rudiments of humanity’s beginnings through music. HEILUNG once again journeys back in time with its new chapter, ‘Drif’ however, unlike previous offerings that centered around prehistoric northern Europe, album number three will explore other great rudimentary civilisations outside of Europe.

Kai Uwe Faust. One of the band’s three composers adds “the songs on ‘Drif’ have their own stories'. Each has its place and sense of belonging, with inspiration not only from Northern Europe, but from the ancient great civilisations, explains the band. “We took the ancient surrounding advanced civilisations in account, because our ancestral Nordic civilisations did not just pop up, exist and disappear in isolation. Already in the Bronze Age, we found silk on German land that was imported already from the far, far East 3000 years ago. From the Viking age, we found beads that were brought there from present-day Syria high up in the Northern mountains.

“Centrally important concepts, still in extensive use today, like the number Zero and all the mathematical universes deriving from it, the use of iron and the general concept of settling all originate from traditional high civilisations outside the north and still fundamentally changing our ancestor's world.

“With singing these primordial songs we want to give tribute to these cultures, reconnect to the beginnings and remember that we all, from East to West, from past to present, are connected through the exchange of ideas and inspiring each other.”

‘Drif’ will be released on August 19 via Seasons of the Mist be preordered right here through the groups band camp. Track list below.

Drif Track-list:
1. Asja (5:17)
2. Anoana (4:57)
3. Tenet (13:05)
4. Urbani (2:55)
5. Keltentrauer (8:26)
6. Nesso (7:54)
7. Buslas Bann (5:03)
8. Nikkal (3:04)
9. Marduk (8:34)