Danheim the Nordic folk and ambient project of Copenhagen-based producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, has released “Urblod” via Season of Mist. The single follows Heimferd, the project’s first album for the label, and looks toward “the explicit mythological storytelling” of Danheim’s earlier work. The track also sits within Danheim’s previous work of using percussion, chant and ambient texture.

Olsen says about it:

I wanted this track to feel like a chant reaching back beyond the gods, toward the oldest beings in Norse mythology. The Jötnar are not simply monsters or enemies of the gods: they represent something much older -primordial forces, and the untamed world from which everything else emerges.

More about the track:

“‘Urblod’ is a ritualistic chant dedicated to the Jötnar and the primordial beings of Norse mythology, the ancient powers associated with the world before and beyond the ordered realm of the gods. It draws on figures including Ymir, Bergelmir, Þrúðgelmir, Bölþorn, Bestla and Hræsvelgr, and evokes an older, untamed layer of the mythology: creation, ancestry, wilderness, and the forces from which both gods and giants ultimately emerge.”