Made in norway 1994
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| 24.12.2019 |
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| New song, Langt Oppi Nord (Far Up North), from the new album has now been released. You can check it out @ my Reverbnation site. Link above |
| 18.05.2019 |
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| The Media section is now updated. Music added. |
| 25.01.2019 |
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| The Media section is now updated with lots of new footage. |
| 16.01.2019 |
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| Most of the news will be added in the Facebook feed on the right side here. But I will try to have more important information also added here on the website. |
| PS. New music videos added in the Media section. Check them out, share and care. |
| 18.12.2018 |
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| Voluspaa is still working on their new album. Hopefully some music will be added here sometime soon. |
| 18.12.2018 |
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| As you can see, voluspaa.com has now been updated. Music, videos, pictures and news will be added asap. |
About
Freddy Skogstad is the founder of Voluspaa. Writes all the music and lyrics, sings and plays most of the instruments.
It was 1994 when Voluspaa first saw the day of light after Freddy Skogstad decided to form a band with a unique sound blending elements of Black and Viking metal with acoustic and more traditional folk music.
He teamed up with his good friend
Thomas Støen to create Voluspaa’s first release Volvenes Spådom (1994), a demo consisting of four powerful songs of the Black / Viking metal genre. Then after a year of touring and writing songs,Voluspaa recorded a second demo called T.Å.E.M.E.N. which has a more old-school Black metal sound with some Viking influences hanging over. Sometime after T.Å.E.M.E.N. was released Voluspaa was laid on ice, though Freddy continued to write new material.
Voluspaa later signed a deal with Sonicdeath Armageddon to publish T.Å.E.M.E.N. as a limited edition digipack (2006).
Then two years later Voluspaa released a promotional CD entitled En Tid Tilbake (2007), containing 6 songs of new material that ranges from extreme Black metal, rhythmic Viking through to acoustic folk.
Voluspaa re-worked the material on En Tid Tilbake, adding new songs for a second promo Norwegian Metal (2008). This combines the atmosphere of En Tid Tilbake with the additional female vocals by Hildr Valkyrie (of Folkearth). This release really brought to life what Voluspaa’smusic is about. It interweaves harsh Black with Viking metal with the intricate melodies of acoustic folk music to create a truly unique sound.
In early 2009 Voluspaa started discussing the possibility of a full-length recording with Aurora Australis, and after some consideration a deal was struck with Koia studio located in Åsa,Norway to engineer the recording.
So now we have “Åsa” named after the place where the recording took place and the rootword of “Åsatru”, whose spirit can be heard alive and well in this release.
Åsa got released in January 2010, and got good reviews worldwide. The first pressing got sold out in two months
The year 2012 Voluspaa did a split release with the norwegian one man band Myrkgrav. Together they released a 7" vinyl, limited edition. Only 500 copies. This was released on Einheit Production in Germany.
| Members | Instruments | Year |
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| Freddy Skogstad | Drums, strings, keys and vocals | 1994 |
| Kenneth Mellum | Drums and guitar | 2009 |
| Hildr Valkyrie | Female vocal | 2007 |
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Discography
Volvenes Spådom was the first demo released from Voluspaa. It has 4 songs, two in Norweigian and two in english. The style is Black Metal with a flavor of groove.
T.Å.E.M.E.N. was first released in 1995 and re-released in 2006 as a Limited digipack edition.
This ep has a more old school Black Metal sound to it.
En Tid Tilbake was released in 2007, and was a promotional release for the new direction of Voluspaa. This ep has a more folk/viking styl to the black metal sound.
Norwegian Metal was released as an ep in 2008. It has some re-recording from "En Tid Tilbake" and some new songs added.
Av Sin Klokskap was the first single from the up-coming album Åsa. This sigle was only released on digital platforms and has 3 songs.
Åsa is the debut album that got released in 2010. It has songs from all the previous releases but in a totally new sound to it. We like to call this sound NationalRomantic Black metal. It has all from Black Metal to Viking, folk and acoustic sound to it.
Ferden Går Videre is a split release with the producer of the Åsa album, Lars Jensen and his one-man-band Myrkgrav.
This was released as a 7" vinyl release in 500 copies. You can now find the songs on nearly every digital platforms as well.
This is the other side of the split-release Ferden Går Videre, with Myrkgrav.
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