Eihwar is ready to pillage on their “Viking War Trance 2024 headline tour”

Alright, misfits and marauders, gather ’round! Forget whatever tame plans you had for the next few months because EIHWAR is about to blow the roof off every venue from the Netherlands to France. Welcome to the sonic apocalypse, it’s time for the Viking War Trance – 2024 EU Tour, and it’s going be an absolute berserker raid on the senses!

Get ready to feast your eyes (and ears) on the raw energy of EIHWAR live! Here’s where the sonic storm will hit:

Viking War Trance 2024 – EU Tour Dates:
21 September: Arcen, NL @ Elfia
22 September: Arcen, NL @ Elfia
28 September: Saint Raphael, FR @ Distortion Festival
04 October: Bordeaux, FR @ Le Salem
05 October: St Macaire en Mauges, FR @ Mauges Pit Fest III
19 October: Les Pennes-Mirabeau, FR @ La Nuit des Sorcières
02 November: Bernay, FR @ Festival de Samhain
10 November: Porto, PT @ Ampli Fest
13 November: Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Music Bar
04 December: Monthey, CH @ Pont Rouge
05 December: Erfurt, GE @ Club From Hell
06 December: Dortmund, DE @ Phantastic Lights Christmas Market
07 December: Weiher, GE @ Live Music Hall
08 December: Strasbourg, FR @ La Maison Bleue
10 December: Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg
11 December: Tilburg, NL @ Hall of Fame
12 December: Lille, FR @ La Bulle Café
13 December: Nantes, FR @ Le Ferrailleur
14 December: Paris, FR @ Petit Bain

Tickets are available now on the Eihwar website: http://www.eihwar.com/

EIHWAR‘s Mark and Asrunn have forged an album that will make Valhalla quake! Their debut offering, Viking War Trance, is a bone-crushing, heart-pounding relentless ride. Picture a band of Vikings swapping their axes for synthesizers and going ham on a techno dancefloor. This album’s an electric storm—a wild, raw statement to the power of clashing eras, calling forth gods and demons from ancient legends. Tracks like Völva’s Chant, the eponymous Viking War Trance and the reforged version of Berserkr are the sonic equivalent of Odin’s ravens swooping down on a rave.

Viking War Trance is out September 20 on Season of Mist.
ᛟ Pre-order & Pre-save: https://orcd.co/eihwarvikingwartrance

Tracklist
1. Viking War Trance (4:30) [WATCH]
2. Ragnarök (Viking War Trance Reforged) (7:10)
3. Völva’s Chant (4:05) [WATCH]
4. Geri And Freki (4:21)
5. Baldr (4:08)
6. Fenrir (Viking War Trance Reforged) (5:13)
7. Berserkr (Viking War Trance Reforged) (4:04) [WATCH]
8. Mjölnir (5:25)
9. Sir Mannelig (1:54)
Total runtime: 40:54

Many bands have explored the Pagan & Norse worlds over the last 15 years seeking atmospheric, acoustic and ritual sounds with great seriousness. This is not the path EIHWAR chose.

Although the musicians of Eihwar are virtuosos in their acoustic traditional instruments, their goal is to bring some fun… and as much chaos as possible during their concerts, provoking the craziest trance on dancefloors. They bring a festive and furious neo-viking music whose primal force is based on technoid machines, mixed with trance vocals, shamanic drums and traditional Nordic sounds. Electronics are a ‘new steel’ for those modern warriors, cold and powerful. As the web already says, the duo is a kind of new ‘Viking Carpenter Brut’.

Thus, Eihwar named the album but also their style of music ‘Viking War Trance’.

“We are heavy drops of rain announcing lightning.
We call for war:  
A war waged against our judgments,  
Our inner demons, our limits,  
Our stiffness of body and mind.  
We don’t want our best enemies to spare us  
Nor to be spared by those we love.  
We invoke a war for our thoughts,  
A flamboyant chaos of fire & ice,  
Cradle of creation.”

Since its appearance on YouTube in February 2023, Eihwar has shook the Internet and concert venues. The band experienced rapid expansion on YouTube and was quickly booked by major European festivals such as Hellfest, Leyendas del Rock, Wave Gotik Treffen & more to be announced!

Line-up
Asrunn: Vocals, Traditional Percussions
Mark – Vocals, Machines