With Skald at Hellfest, the audience is swept away by their Scandinavian world.

Skáld’s lyrics are influenced by Snorri Sturluson’s Edda and the Völuspá, two collections drawn from the Nordic poetic tradition. True to their sources, the band writes and sings in Old Norse and draws on in-depth musicological research to recreate as faithfully as possible the sounds and songs attributed to the Vikings.

Skáld’s music thus seems to come from the mists of time. Haunting drums, ethereal strings… The compositions by Christophe Voisin-Boisvinet and his bandmates are based on the use of ancient instruments and conjure up powerful images, by turns epic and mysterious.

Listening to Skáld’s discography — *Le Chant des Vikings*, *Viking Memories* and *Huldufólk* — is like travelling through time and space, letting the mystical and the marvellous take over. It is an evocative power that the band, here to promote their new album *Ørlo̧g*, unleashes to the full on stage, as this concert at Hellfest proves.