Elf Queen: Grief is an all-encompassing part of the human experience

Elves are mythological beings. Ideas about elves can be found, among other things, in Norse mythology. In skaldic quatrains and edda poems, they are mentioned along the lines of æser and vaner, the Norse gods, and are described as deceased people or spirits, but also as underground people. The elves are associated with death, fertility and nature.

Elf Queen is a band and the album Requiem is their last release, and the albumwas relesed in the summer. FFO: Therion, Tristania, Sirenia, Norse Gael, 20th Century Art Music, and the band is located in  Los Angeles.

In November of 2021, LA based heathen rock band Elf Queen had just released their debut album Glory To The Brave. At the same time, Hauk Heimdallsman, guitarist and songwriter, was in the hospital, holding his fiancé Josies hand while she passed away. Grief is an all-encompassing part of the human experience, and Hauk threw himself into writing a work to honor his lost love.

Using his own retelling of the Norse Eddic poems Voluspa, Havamal, Voluspa en Skamma, and Hrafnagaldur Odins, Hauk composed a Heathen Requiem that tells the story of Odin seeking answers from the Seeress after the death of His own son Baldur. Featuring the soaring vocals of the Elf Queen Kelsey, and solo violin, viola, flute, and oboe, the Requiem weaves equal parts classical art music, skaldic poetry, and hard rock/metal into a complex journey of grief, life, death, magic, and beyond.

Tracklist:

1. Overture 03:44

2. Voluspa Part 1 06:01

3. Voluspa Part 2 03:23

4. Voluspa Part 3 05:21

5. Taking Up The Runes 04:51

6. Hymn To Heimdall 04:53

7. Voluspa Part 4 Ragnarok 06:02

8. Voluspa Part 5 05:20

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