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Hailing from Norway’s Sogndal region, Windir (indicating “Primal Warrior”) mixed the vicious fury of black color metallic with Scandinavia’s rich folk music, background, and mythology. Masterminded in 1994 by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Terje “Valfar” Bakken, Windir released several demos before debuting with 1997’s Sóknardalr, which Steingrim performed drums and Steinarson …

The Norwegian dark metal named Vreid (“wrath,” within their indigenous tongue) emerged from the embers from the critically acclaimed Windir, from then on group’s leader and chief songwriter, Terje “Valfar” Bakken, perished within a snowstorm while hiking over the remote countryside of his indigenous Sogndal. Unwilling to suitable the Windir …