Who doesn't love Viking folklore?
. It's a swaying set of three tracks that build and recede and build again, evoking a Danish dragon boat adrift in a turbulent northern sea, about to go under.
Cook says he was drinking a lot at points during the pandemic as a way to cope, and that the album’s second track, “Giant’s Blood,” reworks an old Nordic story about the creation of alcohol as a metaphor for his own tribulations. Drune resides comfortably in the realm of doom metal, a subgenre of metal that utilizes droning, drop-tuned guitars and often crushingly slow tempos and lengthy song run times. The genre has stylistic origins and influence in the music of Black Sabbath, but members of Drune say they draw inspiration from all kinds of bands, includingDrune's latest release has a heavier sound than, and it’s more experimental and pulls in a wider variety of influences.
Haga says that the band experimented with different styles and more uptempo riffs on the record, in part because it was something fun to do when whiling away the hours. In one instance, Cook sent a black-metal track — generally faster than doom metal — just for fun, and Haga put a rapid-fire blastbeat over it.
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