In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit of a control freak, brutal when it c….

Music should be demanding for the listener. You can gain more out of it that way. I always try to leave space in the music for the listener to have t….

In regards to live shows, space is very important to me. Space and context should complement the music in some way; you gain so much from it. It enha….

People would be surprised if they knew how shitty my recording situation has been over the years. It took a lot of work to make the music sound ok. H….

My approach is a bit unconventional because it kind of turns things around. I made a promise to myself at a very early stage that I wasn't going to t….

Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones and samples to buil….

My music demands something of the listener, it is demanding music. I think that's a good thing. I'm not chiselling anything in stone or serving you a….

In my culture we had songs for everything, and that's lost now. There were songs for when people were born, when they died, when they sowed the field….

Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones that are used today….

I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think it's more difficult for those who n….