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Valhalla - 2 Part LP

Part I: The Æsir
 

  1. Odin - The Allfather

  2. Tyr - God of Law and Sacrifice

  3. Heimdall - The Watchman

  4. Frigg - Goddess of Foresight

  5. Bragi - God of Poetry

  6. Idun - Goddess of Youth

  7. Sif - Goddess of the Harvest

  8. Ullr - God of the Hunt

  9. Vidar - The Silent Avenger

  10. Thor - God of Thunder

The first half of Valhalla lives inside the throne room. Ten tracks, ten major figures of the ruling pantheon, Odin, Tyr, Heimdall, Frigg, Bragi, Idun, Sif, Ullr, Vidar, and Thor, each built around an instrument and arrangement chosen to reflect who they actually are.

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Odin opens the album restrained and sparse, a deep tagelharpa drone carrying a deliberate, weighted motif that returns transformed throughout the record. Heimdall's watchfulness becomes sharp, shimmering percussion and a single sustained lur horn warning blast. Frigg's foresight rides a warmer nyckelharpa melody against harder rhythm underneath. Thor closes this half as the heaviest track on the album, frame drum hits functioning as literal thunder, driving the track's rhythm at its most aggressive.

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Structured, deliberate, and built to hit hard from the very first track.

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Part II: Beyond the Æsir

11. Njörðr - God of the Sea
12. Freyr - God of Prosperity
13. Freyja - Goddess of Love and War
14. Skadi - Goddess of Winter
15. Urd - Norn of the Past
16. Verdandi - Norn of the Present
17. Skuld - Norn of the Future
18. Loki - God of Mischief
19. The Valkyries - Choosers of the Slain
20. Nótt - Goddess of Night
21. Jörð - Goddess of the Earth

Bonus Track
22. Huginn and Muninn - Odin's Ravens

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The second half steps outside the throne room entirely. Eleven tracks move through the Vanir gods of sea and prosperity, the giantess Skadi, the three Norns who weave fate itself, Loki, the Valkyries, and the personifications of night and earth.

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This half is built to feel less controlled than Part I. The three Norn tracks, Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, share a single motif that evolves across all three, slow and echoing for the past, tightened and driving for the present, fractured and destabilized for the future. Loki's track breaks its own structure with a false drop and an abrupt, unresolved ending. The Valkyries bring the album's most intense war-cry-driven peak before Nótt and Jörð bring the record back to something grounded and still.

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Where Part I is order, Part II is everything that exists beyond it.

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