Heilung | LIFA - Othan LIVE 

It really is. I've seen them live two times and it truly is an experience.

Well said.. not songs.. Rituals.. not a band.. a tribe!! HAIL HEILUNG

And a video game, soon.

Each is an event! Our Sumbel is always led by some meditation, and Heilung. It is a connection to my (our) ancestors.

i concur o7 Heilung is Amazingk!

Sister Friede !

@@Smoothcity Actually like Vicar Amelia from Bloodborne.

Without make up and costume she looks so beautyful

Meaning she is going to kick your ass all over the floor and walls before you get it right.

I feel her as my sister and as itself she is as Mother of All!

Shane Christopher same

Same too.. Idk , some said it in the comments.. It feels like „ coming home“

same

F#cking Ditto!!! My new favorite band!!!

Welcome brother.

Indeed, this band is my discovery of the year. Awesome! :)

My goosebumps lasted for 3 months

That feeling is from your ancestors calling out to you from within your DNA.

I had that too!!!!! This song took me back in time.

Goosebumps and bliss and connection with ancestors - and all humans of the past and present too! LOVE THIS!

"Remember, that we all are brothers All people, beasts, trees and stone and wind We all descend from the one great being That was always there Before people lived and named it Before the first seed sprouted" ...(this is from the opening ceremony of Heilung)

On the rez Pine Ridge, we call this being Wakan Tanka, in Saxton, it translates to "the Great Mystery", though westerners will also say "the holy one, divine being", etc as we are also victim of those who used the cross in gross means that contradict its essence. Indeed the stones and leaves are our cousins and every being, be they grass, sun, water, deer, bird, wind, ape, or newly discovered peoples hidden deep in forests, we are kin and should be respected more than in the current state of things. I long for the old ways. While Danes are not known for peaceful meeting of peoples in history as Native Americans are, we share a similar aesthetic, code of honor and trust, music, and general respect for our tribes' members as a family as well as our surroundings. Granted, my mother is Oglala Lakota oyate and my father of Irish druid line, I find myself drawn and almost addicted to your sounds. I can not thank you enough for your art. Best of luck to your crew and again, thank you so much for doing what you do. Du skal nog få kärligheden at föle.

Troy Iktomi-Coots Greetings and blessings from this American Swede. Russell Means is a great inspiration to me, and I've learned so much from your brothers and sisters on the west coast. It's been a true blessing to have them help me connect with my ancestors since I am around the world from my native lands.

Soil is a substance that transcends national and governmental boundaries. We can draw lines in soil and sand but our mother and father erases this line at their whim. An artist realizes this in their craft and will communicate this without addressing the subject right out. It is our obligation to supply these textures and abstract messages so others will figure these things out for themselves. You do a wonderful job at this by just being and having a team of one mind who produces such soil in which sprouts individual ideas that are part of the universal mind. I know I've thanked you a lot for your art and that it is impossible for one to thank enough without being creepy or something, but still, there are few words in any language that can relay my thanks and many many others' for your art; this is what we need right now as divided as we are. A solidified message is as dividing as Nietzsche's dragon scales so having a voice or art that has a great deal of ambiguity is much more likely to impact a curious mind and perhaps a greater tool (that we medicine men and artists alike) can use to break the power hungry masters and bring ash to tables clad in spoils. Thank you again and best of luck.

Respect and greetings to the great Lakota nation

yes :)

I do and I'm a hardcore bluesman. It must be the DNA remembering some long forgotten thing.

Same! Its insanely comfortable, perhaps we should come home perhaps humans as we know ourselves weren't supposed to live a life like we do. This is what we were and still are and should return to.

That's exactly how it feels.

It's the most powerful feel I've ever felt I teared up at the end, we've gone too far down the wrong way

Me me me!!!

over a year, listen every day

It´s cause you listen to real sounds

They came up in the recommended videos when I was watching Nightwish. I'd heard their name before but had no idea what their style of music was like. Clicked on the recommended video, watched a couple different ones and am currently watching the full Lifa concert. I want to see them live. That would be a beautiful, spiritual experience. Sadly, the only U.S. show for their tour is in Colorado (I live on the east coast) and $450 for a ticket so it looks like I won't see them this year

Me! I'm hooked! This is the most metal thing I've ever seen

Birm Forreal!!! Thought the same! Love it

Gates.. . . They thought us dead, Gone, forgotten.. . . .. . ..but from The Forest we walk, To rise again as wardens of The Green, planting our bare feet firmly in the ground once more, calling to the inner flame of our ancestors.. . . The light, from an ember, burning anew.

Yes. And that has a reason. The looks, song texts and instruments are inspired by actual historic artefacts - and from tribes where some of the culture survived until today like the Sámi people in Scandinvia or artic tribes in the North of Russia. A lot of the Neo Pagan actual copy Hollywood style druides and put in philosophy of there own. So the texts are inspired for example from artefacts, with written chants or similar - also from the antic Roman reports about the Germanic tribes and the further north. There do not put there own religious and political opinions in it but use actual sources and try to get some of the sounds back as far they can get reconstructed - but of course with a mordern interpretation. So you can take them seriuously as they really try to implement a kind of experimental archeology in music. So they were put in the Neo-folk or Neo-pagan camp but they self label their music as amplified history.

So true, can't wait for more of their creations and I hope they inspire other people to do similar projects!

Gates of Gergovia name a culture that does not.

That's because that balance is natural. It's not about feminism or masculinity. It's about spending time with each other and treat one another with equal respect.

@@AutisticArcher *cries in ancient love*

Well, because it's not Christian culture. So men were never put over women as being somehow more important. CHRISTIANITY CREATED/CREATES WEAK WOMEN. Also, it's not that hard to understand. LOGICALLY men need women and women need men, without each other, we can't make babies, and we all die.

@@finchwaddledog5026 Well, yea... duh.

Alright, I'll give credit where it's due then. Good job humans. Good job *most* of us. Let's not delude ourselves into thinking that somehow religion, especially one that's got a message in the revised, newer, more politically correct version that talks about how you shouldn't throw stones at a woman because you ain't shit either, was what brought a lot of us over the rational thinking that maybe, women are humans too.

For some its natural

what you do isn't easy. their beauty lies in their simplicity.

It's easy for any competent drummer what do you mean

9/4 vocals and synth, polyrythm drums.

What they do is basically a musical version of experimental archaeology. Definitely not easy at all.

I wish I could meet people like you in real life! i can go weeks without even a good conversation with regular people.

There is no where to run too. I'm from the us and want to escape to Peru lol

Its the inca within!!!!!!!!

Remember that we all are brothers! alot of ritual tribal music has similarities all over the globe from different cultures. cause at one point we were all one in africa long long ago. so that it even stirs in you is perfectly understandable.

Don't escape, explore your ancestral music, you might find what you are looking and share it

Awante bloodhound viejo

feel who you really are. your ancestors are in your blood. those who came before you that is who you truely are.

Our ancestors were survivors. Thus us. So honor them by living.

The "Vikings" were traitors that sold the indigenous European people into slavery. Fuck them.

@David -01 all is well and therapy is going great. Thanks for the concern.

I joined a Viking reenactment group this year in the UK, just a shame a month later lockdown happened!! Can't wait until we start back up again. Been listening to Heilung for a few years and absolutely love their music!!.

I am a Slav, and your Neighbor, hello from what thou know as Pommern. And I want to say one thing, we are all brothers and sisters, blessed by sun, fire, and steel. Heil Nords, Hail Celts, Heil Germania, Heil Gotia, Slava Slovianom, Cliù na h-Alba an tha glòir na h-Eòrpa WE ARE ALL ONE

@@DrogowitPomorski and as a follow Pomeranian via the United States, (my mother's family is all from there ~ Schlawe) I say hello to you!

@@FMCH6444 heeyyy! Gods be with you!

Which region are you from, Guido? Herzliche Grüße aus dem Chattenland Nordhessen.

Skål, Germanic brother.

Who do you think created her ancestor's culture? The Scythians; the ancestors of the Nordic people. Whites ruled Midgard thousands of years ago and they are still running through your wife's veins. She should embrace her ancestors, and so should you.

@@LiZmichelea Scythians themselves were a tribe of ancient Iranians. Piss off with your 'white' ancestry, it's way more than that.

@Lethean Scythians are not Persians, they are just Scythians. Indo-Europeanic assume of their identity is a pre-acceptance to confirm Indo-Aryanic distribution in Europe and Asia. Kiengiras people (That was what they call themselves) of Mesopotamia is the ancestors of the Scythians, which we call them Sumerians according to Arabic sources. Name of the Kiengiras coming from 'Kiengir' the Suvarians (which migrated to Grand Tartaria which we call Siberia nowadays and related with the name of Sumerians) and 'As' people (As-gard comes from it, qar/qol means branch/arm in Altaic Language) was living in Anatolia or North of Caucasus which Herodotos or Klaudius Ptolemaios named these places as Turcae/Iurcae(probably 'T' letter were obliterated through times) Name of the Asia comes from the As people. Because the Greeks only and ever neighbour of them was As-related Hittites, Lydians and Trakians. Odin's Journey starts on Turkkaland and goes through Saaksland(Saka means Scythians/Iskit) and in Heimskringla Sturrlusson mentions about great mountains that splits Great Swithiod (Russia/Byelorussia) from other nations and south of it is not far from the place that Odin's wealths and properties preserved . We can assume that mountains that splits Swithiod from other nations are Caucasus Mountains and the place he mentions is Azerbaijan(modern name) which is not far from Asia minor nor Turcae( modernly Southwest of Russia and east of Ukraini) . Sturrlusson calls it, Turkkaland. So it is a definitely a saga and not the reason of migration of As people to cold and not so fertile lands of North Europe. Sturrlusson mentions in Heimskringla about Romans that expanded everywhere and make everyone kneel before them but probably he is not talking about the Romans but Alexander, Macedonian Emperor himself. Greeks were calling themselves Romaoi(Greeks) in the time of Sturlusson which means 11th century, the time when Sagas about Odin and his journey written in papers. This comment has become too long, If you are interested I can write another couple things about it and advise sources about the origin of the Normans. Do not be confused about modern Turkey and ancestral Turks. Of course they are related but modern Turks have been mixed with Arabians and Iranics and Islamized. So there are nothing so much in common. But Magyars/Hungarians and Kipchaks/Kyrgyz-Kazakh-Saka people in Russia is slightly more related with Nordics. But I only wonder about why Turks are speaking a Altaic language but Nordics speaks an Indo-Europeanic language. This is the only answer i do not have satisfying.

​@Lethean Naming of Iran is not like that quitely. Everyone in the Asia (includes persians, too) was calling them "Acem" or "Fars". When the Aryanism in Europe gone popular Padishah of Persia changed their international name to Iran to be accepted by Nazis. Alas, they were not considered to be Aryan by Germany furthermore Turkey considered as one. And as i said before: Accepting Scythians as Iranian people is a pre-acceptence to confirm Indo-European distrubition in Eurasia. No one can explain unity of Indo-Aryans when another race group literally slices your bonds with your other half. But that is the history. A Scythian Prince in Issyk Kurgan found in Kazakhstan which lived in 5th century BC. There is a writing on this sepulcher which if you read this as Indo-Iranian structure and nearly words it will be "This bowl (has?) grape wine, baked food and fresh butter, so much, deadly?" and if you read this in Altaic structure and nearly words "Brother here is Furnace (for you), make the foreigners kneel (before you), our nation (must be) plentiful!" according to Amanjalov. You can choose which one is more meaningful and makes sense. In summary: Scythians are not Indo-Iranian people.

Ali İskender Kardeşoğlu Александр Кардашев The “Altaic” language family is largely disowned by linguists. There’s no positive evidence to support the existence of an Altaic ancestor language, just some correlations in other languages. It’s a euro-centric attempt to connect successful cultures outside of Europe with a European ancestry.

Yes.

Ahh, thank you SO much! I've been looking for the text for... a month now? This song has not left my mind since I've heard it for the first time. It filled a hole in my soul.

This should be pinned!

Thank you

Could you tell me what language is that?

Laukar is a dialect word to this day in Norway, it means onions. Allium Victorialis, the Victory Onion, held magical and religious significance among all germanic peoples between Norway and the Alps. It was rubbed on armour, swords and shields, planted around houses and worn as a talisman of protection. IMO, that is the laukar in question. It's a invocation of protection.

The music calls us to our heritage... our ancestors. I am Celtic/Viking and this music is sacred to us. It stirs our hearts and our souls. It calls us to our culture, traditions, language and spirituality. I hope this finds you well and helps you on your path.

this does something that any music derived from monotheistic relgions could never do, land soul connected!

You are spot on as this is so ancient and real medicine. They are clearly performing a ceremony on stage and eliciting a none ordinary state of consciousness in the listeners.

It took me a little while into the show to understand that we're not watching a band play songs.... but watching a live ritual that they're sharing with us and we became part of. Gratitude

I've found a new addiction in your music. I'm a performer from the UK. I'm also a Druid and I've always wanted to create something like this using our stories and ancient traditions. You are truly inspirational.

Actually, the bit starting at 2:57 is from Havamál 156 too. She sings the whole stanza.

And the rest? Really wish i knew the rest of the lyrics and source. I have much to learn about my heritage.

Andizu1 thank you!!!

i belive it is more a blessing than a battlecry. you see she blesses the men, while the man is standing in and algir pose, the rune. for life. what do you think

Sorlendingen82 it is both, actually. The lyrics i quoted are part of a 'galdr', which roughly means 'spell' or 'chant'. Above lyrics are a 'krigsgaldr' (coincidentally the title of another song of Heilung) so literally translated a 'battle chant or spell'. It was used to inspire courage for the warriors and fear in their enemies.

Glad you had the pleasure of seeing them live!

920avp glad you had the chance to see them live- what an incredible, transcendental experience it must have been!

That was the energy from your ancestors, not the kindred on stage. You were feeling your ancestors powers flowing through your veins. They were speaking to you.

skål för fan ;D

@@millennial_fairy I've seen them live twice so far and will again, it really is.

This is a ceremony to the Gods and to our Nordic ancestors.

@@LiZmichelea I am not a moron, mate...

Dietrich Steinwald Skalds? Those are fucking shamans! ;)

Dietrich Steinwald you say what I think it was

Agreed. I have practiced in secret for years. The Blota is not really accepted in the modern military pantheon. This group gives me someone to do the chants while I gear up and prepare to go practice my religion and earn my place in Valhalla.

Her teeth are in pretty good shape too

your comment wouldn't sound this dumb if they were performing without all those technologies :)

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp? :p

the old gods here us but we dont lisin

They've been awake. Just waiting, slowly puting plans in motion. Waiting patently for so long. Now the next step arises. Its time for the old soles to remember, to bring back what was lost and forgotten.

Woke up? Thev'e been partying this whole time. Maybe you should join em.

Dumbass😂

yes they are great, greets from Norway, also check out Wardruna and Danheim :)

Az ev felfedezettje szamomra..valami csodalatos dolgot muvelnek..

Sorlendingen82 thanks!

A bit late here, but still such an impactful discovery made. Listened to the whole album, this one got to me the most. Greetings from Hungary!

Hungary and Austria are by far my favorite two western european (by western I mean anything west of the russian border) countries.

Gives me chills. A sacred voice

Eric Jones I concur

those teeth though.......

Her teeth are fantastic. Maria would make an amazing vampire.

YES!.....Greg. we need a Cad Goddeu / War of the Trees given this level of depth and sonic soul slap. Something a bit more earthy than the 3 guys down the pub on folk night. ;) P.S. my real name is Moss...i AM the Earth which laid down for the roots of the Tree to grow. :D

Ivadinuff Shudupyabitch Bingo dude.

Hey Greg. My mother is Oglala Lakota (Native American of what this country calls "Sioux") and my father is from Ireland from an old tribe who has kept the old ways predating the cross. This strikes me in both lineages as a call to a sort of peace among traditions and familial tribal unity. In Lakota nation, we use similar drum patterns and use garb that dates back over 20,000 years of tradition, or at least 13,000 years since the language was created, and for similar purposes. My father has held a family tradition centuries old that has Druid origins, so the combination of these esthetics somehow drew me to this band as well. I've spread word on Pine Ridge and even our elders enjoy and appreciate a link to the old ways before the cross and are thrilled that, even from another nation, artists are diving into the old. It seems possible by delving into our ancient past, no matter which of the spices of people, helps educate how things once were without perversion of political or religious bias. This is most important in these times, however, I feel people are more inclined to appreciate the art for what it is. I too am become addicted to these sounds and I look forward to hearing what you can come up with in the future knowing you also are influenced. Hoka hey, kola, tohki wanaphika ni.

Troy Iktomi-Coots I'm so glad you've shared this with your elders! I've sat down with a few Native elders in Northern CA and shared with them the stories of my Swedish ancestors and how similar our stories are. We all agreed that our ancestors would have recognized one another. We all come from hunter gatherers, worshipers of Nature. Our ancestors all used similar tools, similar methods of procuring foods, had similar means of honoring the Earth, the Sky, and all our living relatives. It's time to bridge the gap, come together, and realize differences are not genetic, but in mindset. We need to come together and heal humanity from it's folly and conceit.

I could not agree more cousin. The base of our experience is rooted in our surroundings. We grow from the experience of our roots and to reverse this is to decay, starting a process all over again and this is not growth in any linear terms. Our "primitive" roots seem at times to have more sense than our current branches though it is worth noting we have still come a long way to support other trees on this turtle to flourish. Respecting our surroundings means respecting its inhabitants and the resources that support them. In supporting arts at our root, no matter what corner of this sphere these roots call home, we can see more of this intercontinental relationship and potentially recognize differences in which we could, hopefully, one day appreciate and embrace while still giving space for these differences to thrive. I see the clouds as one canopy in the skies we breath in this sense and offer this reality in the decades to come.

This isnt nordic its just truth of life we all come from the one great spirit the birds to the fish to you and me even the roots of a tree to the dirt under are feet everything comes from one so just share the love be true be love the most true thing.

Not only nordic countries, but most germanic tribes practiced the religion.

The Jokebrandt yes, for example, hunters and gatherers (not agriculturalists) respect our fellow Earth sentient beings, the deer, elk, bear, wolf, wild ox, even boar.

@Addison Aubrey that's how Maria, Kai and Chris started! I read someones take on how powerfully people are moved by Heilung - 'the Old Gods never went away - they've been waiting for us to remember them' ❤️

it makes me cry from how powerful every single song is. it speaks to parts of you you have never touched before its so fucking crazy, this band is too fucking underrated

They practice this because for a long.time, the North of Britain especially till the coming of Christianity was brimming with Celtic and Druidic influence, the more north u went, the more primitive and Celtic it got, eventhough most of them hAve been converted, there are those who still practice the Old druidic rituals in the UK especially in Scotland and wales

Not only that, it will probably induce feelings that they aren't used to either...lol

There is something deeply dark to this music, and it is a connection to evil. It's an attempt to connect with the Jungian Shadow: the darkness that exists in all of us. Christianity sees acknowledging the evil within as evil act in itself, thus it remains blind and naïve to evil.

@@EVROPAEAESTHETICA You must be thinking of something else

@@Maxi_Jano Nope.

@@LiZmichelea It has nothing to do with "jewish" hollywood. The christians villified the beliefs and harmless actions of others long before hollywood even existed. Also, people can't be subverted, only concepts can be.

Sorlendingen82 you are absolutely right. Her voice is like a spell on us. It take me somewhere else.... So good

Yes. God her voice is enchanting. Then that guy messes it all up. Hahaha.

Love her other band. Euzen. At least she’s the sole singer and I can listen to a whole song without forwarding it through certain parts. Hahaha

@Ben Mokriš Yes, he surprised at first but soon I got it. Love that part too!

@Ben Mokriš Song: Hamrer Hippyer 6.40 Minutes into the song untill 9.40. "REE RAN DAN DAN DAN DAN" x 80 times singing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hNu6FmaUIB0.html

Firefox(Linux) has "NO" commercials in any browser videos...

I use brave browser on mobile. No ads and you can save it to a playlist to watch offline and while doing other things.

Heilung is the reason I get RU-vid premium

Use youtube revanced

Heilung in the US this year! Are you stoked?

To feel the music isnt that easy with many bands today sad.

I am not deaf but I think I know what you are getting at. I have experienced synesthaesia in my life, and I expect you are "listening" synaesthetically, which is a real thing. Your brain is taking the visual data and sending it to your auditory cortex for processing, bypassing your ears, you will not be hearing it as accurately as a hearing person because of some visual corruption of the data, but it will, never the less be quite accurate. If you are not already doing so, play it through quality speakers, and feel the kinaestetic vibration, so that you have two sources of data to inform your auditory cortex. You will then have a much more complete and accurate experience.

Awesome. Thanks for sharing, Bruce. (can you feel vibrations, if you have a loud speaker system?)

Beethoven was deaf when he conducted the 5th symphony... music is meant to be felt not heard..

That sounds fascinating, would you like to explain to me what you feel/experience with this band?

Za ROD!

Hail.

Agreed, greetings from Canada

@Kurt Vinlander This is some absolute communist bullshit. Do not try to combine your communist "oneness, world tree" nonsense in with racial paganism! We are *NOT* all one and we did *NOT* come from the same world tree. You subvert people when you talk about capitalism. It wasn't capitalism that ruined paganism, it was people like you combined with the Abrahamic religions.

Satori2317 search for Atlantean Gardens Ancient Bloodlines. It will blow your mind

my slavic soul need this

Brothers we europeans allshare the common ancient ancestors

Ditto - Scottish/Germanic/Icelandic here

Same here. German, Irish, Basque (aka Cro-Magnon), Wolf Clan Iroquois/Shawnee.

There are no parts really, they used to be same thing.

Accuser/Opposer true dat!

Skål!

Danish is Germanic

Norse and Germanic aswell, say it with pride, brother.

I believe we could restore the real faith, the real human ways in harmony with nature, even in the world of high tech, this HAS a place. Hail the old gods, hail mother nature. Brothers, sisters, all the others, unite under the banners of nature.

Algiz!

he is still.

He always was

Is

I know what you mean. I love this brilliantly performed spectacle, but it leaves me wondering, and feeling a kind of lack, as to how in the 21century I/we can acknowledge and feel our deep connections with our ancestors, genetic and evolutionary history, our place in the universe etc. The Church of England just doesn't do it for me!

Felt the same. Can't stop listening in the same way I did with DCD. Ritualistic stuff is very strong in these songs.

Indeed! I have liked DCD for 20 years now. I also liked a lot of the neo-folk, ritualistic, tribal music I experienced as a fan of darker, more underground kind of music. Especially this song reminds me a lot of DCD. In a good way.

they are the litterall definition of "Fuck the future live the past"