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Live From The Pit: Wardruna and Jo Quail - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

Kensington’s genteel atmosphere is disrupted with sounds woken from an age that sleeps far beneath the pavement. That can only mean one thing; WARDRUNA have come to the Royal Albert Hall. The band is only at the beginning of a long-haul odyssey across the globe, dragging their ritualized spectacle from one ancient leyline to the next. Tonight, here in Britain’s classiest concert hall, they stand in support of Birna, their latest offering. A record so staggering it effectively ruined the rest of...

REVIEW: Wardruna - Birna - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK

A beast of savage majesty and atavistic gravitas, it has stalked the dreams of humankind since we first huddled around campfires and shivered under the stars. Consider the findings at Basura Cave in Savona, Italy: scientists uncovered the ancient remains of a cave bear, encircled by ritual pellets and carved stalagmites, evidence that Neanderthals may have exalted it as a guardian spirit, a deity who ruled the space between man and nature.

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