HEILUNG — the Nordic collective whose performance rituals have drawn audiences from the Billboard charts to Glastonbury and beyond — are deepening their relationship with listeners through a new podcast, and its fifth episode is the most personal yet. Titled simply "The Podcast," the series is hosted by founding member, vocalist, and shamanic practitioner Kai Uwe Faust, who guides listeners through the lore, traditions, and primal forces that underpin HEILUNG's unmistakable concept of Amplified History.
For this fifth instalment, Faust is joined by Ingrid Galadriel, vocalist with Songleikr and a key voice in the HEILUNG collective. Together they look back to the time before HEILUNG existed — their first encounters with one another, the gradual gathering of kindred voices, and the slow crystallisation of a shared vision that would eventually become one of the most singular acts in contemporary music. It is, in Faust's own words, "a personal account of how human connection, memory and sound grew into HEILUNG's Amplified History."
The timing of this episode is deliberate and characteristically symbolic: its release coincides with the arrival of a Blue Moon, a rare lunar event that carries, in various folk and spiritual traditions, associations with heightened energy, potency, and threshold moments — an apt frame for a conversation about origins and becoming.
Previous episodes of The Podcast explored the mythological roots and historical sources behind some of HEILUNG's most beloved compositions, including "Alfadhirhaiti," "Marduk," "Traust," and "Nesso." The series functions both as a companion to the music and as a standalone journey into the ancient world that HEILUNG have made their home.
Formed in 2015, HEILUNG have forged a path unlike almost any other act of their era. Their live rituals are total environments: incense, fire, instruments crafted from human bone, throat singing, primordial percussion, and immersive light — a convergence of sound and ceremony that renders the audience not spectators but participants in something older than any of them. That approach has found them fans in every corner of the world, from festival fields to cinema screens.
Episode five of The Podcast is available now on Spotify.