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Here is a presentation of the first Pagan Folk Metal cd of Eliwagar taken from the official website (link to a video and website below text): Eliwagar comes with her first album of Pagan Folk Metal after her 4 first cds of pure Neofolk. Runahild writes herself all melodies and lyrics, and her inspiration comes straight from nature. On "Gryningen" (The Dawn), Runahild plays 3 old traditional norwegian instruments: hardanger fiddle, bowed lyre and langeleik, in addition she plays also flute and cello. The old norwegian instruments really give a deep and strong connection to the norwegian nature and landscape and carry energies from the past and memories of ancient ancestral tunes. On this cd, her husband Bjørn Dahl plays electric guitar, Roar Ruus Finsås joined to play bass, Wargnar the drums, Nils Ailo Sara Labba, a Sami friend of the band, plays the lead guitar on some songs and Hildr Valkyrie (Greece) is guest singer on 2 songs. Their collaboration brought to Eliwagar a real good energy and strength. While the Neofolk cds of Eliwagar have a more spiritual sound, "Gryningen" has a wilder feeling fitting more for feasts though without loosing the spiritual energies. All Runahild's vocals are clear as the lyrics represent the beauty and might of nature, the pure essence of paganism, the countryside lifestyle following the seasons and concentrate on the positive energies... The lyrics represent the hyperborean society such as the ancient Greek described it after meeting this people, a people living above the north wind in the land of the northern light and the midnight sun, living in peace, being strong nature people with a sense of value, artists and spiritual. "Gryningen" meaning "the dawn" has this deep meaning of a cycle ending and a new one rising... the songs relate a full year, stories of nature people in the north going through the seasons, through the rising spring, the glorious summer, the falling autumn and the dark winter... and ends on the new rising dawn... celebrate the charm of every season... spring for love and passion, life coming back, awakening nature... summer for harvest, work in the farms and journey on the sea... autumn for the time where families gather at home and prepare for winter... and winter for spirituality, art and for the hunt... [ATTACH=CONFIG]504[/ATTACH]

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These are pretty nice songs. A very peaceful atmosphere in Håleygirland. Some moments made me think of Arkona ( maybe some part of the melody ) which is nice but it really has its own style. And some of the landscapes in the clip are breathtaking! I listened some other songs and really enjoyed Autumnal Equinox Gryningen. The last one really fits the today's weather. Well, I liked it, as I said it is peaceful and beautiful. I subscribed to the Youtube channel for the future songs.

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