Draugr Balled – TO MY SONS & DAUGHTERS

Draugr Balled steps into unexpectedly personal and deeply moving territory with TO MY SONS & DAUGHTERS, a record that trades the battlefield intensity of their heavier releases for something that hits with an entirely different and arguably more lasting kind of weight.

TO MY SONS & DAUGHTERS moves with a measured, emotionally deliberate pace built on cinematic instrumentation and vocals that carry the gravitas of a message that has been considered carefully before being spoken, giving the record a quality of earned wisdom rather than performed sentiment. The production draws from the atmospheric dark folk palette that Draugr Balled has made their own while softening its edges considerably, creating a listening space that feels intimate and tender in a way that makes the intergenerational message at the heart of the song land with full and undeniable force.

Draugr Balled has been building a distinctive catalogue in the Viking folk and dark atmospheric music space through releases like When The Wind Calls and Ride The Lightning that showcase a band equally capable of sonic brutality and genuine emotional depth, with TO MY SONS & DAUGHTERS demonstrating the latter with a clarity and vulnerability that their existing audience may not have expected but will almost certainly connect with deeply. Their willingness to step outside the genre’s more aggressive conventions to deliver something this personally felt is exactly the kind of creative courage that separates artists building a lasting body of work from those simply executing a style.

This record carries the specific weight of words you want the people who come after you to remember long after you are gone, quiet and permanent in the way that only the most honestly felt music tends to be.

Stay Tuned and Enjoy!