Hengestaur is a seclusive duo living and working out of the small township of Voss & a mountain village in Norway, surrounded by steep mountains and forests. Through the Wittgensteinian lonerism of composer and lyricist E. Hommedal describes the darkest corners of human existence through reflections on Time, the Birth of the Self, the Addictions of Modern Life, love and hatred. The introspective nature of Hommedal then meets the rabid and energetic side of his wingman, percussionist and vocalist Hésh, building a dynamic that sends the listener out of the floating and abstract, into thundering landscapes of war and bare-knuckle combat. Inspired by the groundbreaking craftsmanship of old Norwegian metal, Hengestaur aims to bear the torch onward and away from the glossy, derailed and polished tourist-black metal that acts such as 1349, Enslaved and Wardruna brings forth in 2020. A new wave of rawness and authenticity is building, and it does not stem from the urban lounge-toads of the once so great city of Bergen. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hengestaur">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.