With more than 1 billion streams and features in the History Channel TV show Vikings, Danheim has become a cornerstone for Nordic folk, Viking and World music alongside Heilung and Wardruna. On his upcoming ninth album and first since signing with Season of Mist, producer Reidar Schaefer Olsen is continuing to evolve the Nordic sound by journeying home.
“One of the key elements of Danheim’s work is the feeling that you are stepping into the past”, Hotel Hobbies writes in an early review of Heimferd. “As with much of his music, a hypnotic, pulsating rhythm is our guide and around it strings, horns and woodwind weave a special tapestry of melody”.
Heimferd comes out tomorrow, Friday, October 31, 2025, but you can hear all 13 revelatory tracks today by listening to the full album stream on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
–Pre-order & Pre-save: https://orcd.co/danheimheimferd
–Pre-save on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/5jx5D2KXJEaIyXKSYgiyR1
Heimferd is guided not by a mythological narrative but by intuition. Over the course of his ninth album, Danheim navigates the storm-born energy of “Stormdans” to the expansive calm of “Yggradsil II” and suspended longing of the title track. The songs are made from raw percussive strength and sparse electronic atmosphere, forming a landscape that feels both ancient and immediate. For Olsen, it marks a return to something familiar yet unreachable.
“I’ve always felt that home isn’t something you just arrive at–you have to move through something first. Memory, distance, or perhaps some form of struggle”, Olsen told Glide Magazine. “Heimferd isn’t about a perfect return; it’s about what shapes you on the way. Home means something more if you’ve had to long for it or fight your way back to it. So yes, the journey itself is just as important as the destination, or maybe even more”.
Tracklist:
- Agermark (3:25)
- Brenhin Llwyd (3:01)
- Haukadalur (4:52)
- Heimferd (4:12) [WATCH]
- Heljar Skuggar (3:26)
- Jǫtunsvärd (3:28)
- Kominn Dagr (2:28)
- Rúnmyrkr (3:29)
- Stormdans (3:35) [LISTEN]
- Valvejen (3:08)
- Vindfari (3:20)
- Hafvindr (1:06)
- Yggdrasil II (3:38) [LISTEN]
Full runtime: 43:08
DANHEIM is a Nordic folk/Viking inspired project from the Copenhagen-based Danish producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, a man with 10 years of experience in electronic and ambient music – focusing on Nordic Folk and Viking age inspired music with a certain Nordic authenticity or mood. Danheim’s music is often composed of ideas and stories based on the darker side of the Viking period, inspired or consisting of Nordic Mythology, old Danish folklore, and a vivid imagination.
Danheim hit 1 billion streams across streaming platforms in 2022, has 585.000 subscribers on YouTube, with music featured in multiple seasons of the popular TV show Vikings.
Early information: Singer-songwriter Reidar Schæfer Olsen, (born in 1985, Brøndby, Denmark), transitioned to focus on music in the early 2000s and has been composing music almost continuously ever since, alongside doing radio shows and starting the indie label Fimbul Records.
With a passion for songwriting running through his veins from an early age, Reidar Olsen’s Viking-inspired music and dark melodies have broadened the Nordic folk genre and inspired millions of listeners around the world, bringing them back in time with a blend of his imagination and creativity.
“A deep connection to his Danish roots and heritage fueled his interest in the Nordic Folk/Viking genre, prompting the creation of Danheim and his indie label Fimbul Records.”
Ǽttartrú, a self-made Scandinavian belief system that reconnects oneself with their ancestors.
Line-up:
Reidar Schæfer Olsen – All Instruments & Production
Production Credits:
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Reidar Schæfer Olsen in his home studio.
Cover Art:
Reidar Schæfer Olsen
Photography:
Reidar Schæfer Olsen
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