The Palladium, Worcester, MA 9/8/2022
Sometimes your mind is clouded by your own thoughts, and you just need to get yourself saged, and howl throughout the night. I’m seeing Heilung on the 19th anniversary of my mother’s passing. I definitely felt some kind of way that day. If you’re still not familiar with Heilung by this point in time, the short answer is, they are an earthly ritual based performance.
Experimental folk collective Heilung (which means Healing in German) rather aptly describes their sound as amplified history; they’ve often taken inspiration for their music from ancient texts and documents. Old world instrumentation and techniques, coupled with ancient texts form the basis of their rituals. Continue reading
Heilung has shared a brand new video, ‘Norupo’, taken from their sensational June 2019 release Futha (Season of Mist). Cinematic and vast as the forest it was filmed in, the clip for ‘Norupo’ gives the experience of the ritual from all angles. The group recently announced a Lifa Blu-Ray release and are slated to perform a special show at Red Rocks later in 2020. a Directed by Roderik Patijn, and with amazing Aerial Cinematography by Maarten Slooves, watch the clip below! Continue reading