It was only a matter of time before Amalie Bruun went the whole hog and released an entirely folk album. Such things are not altogether uncommon in black metal anyway, with Ulver’s Kveldssanger and Winterfylleth’s The Hallowing Of Heirdom both finding their creators operating completely acoustically, crafting songs from the traditional music of their respective Norwegian and English homelands. And Myrkur have never really sat in the genre’s inner ring, anyway, with Amalie forging away in her own bubble, in which doing things like jamming with Smashing Pumpkins is more of a natural fit than it may at first seem. Mostly, though, this stuff has always presented itself in her music, hiding in the blasting shrieks that made up her M debut, while folky interludes peppered 2017’s superb Mare...
