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Völur
Völur is a Canadian doom metal band based in Toronto, Ontario, signed to Prophecy Productions. Since forming in 2014 they have released two full-length albums, two EPs, one split[1] and have toured Canada, the United States and Europe. They play a hybrid style of doom metal and folk music while often incorporating jazz structures into their songwriting. HistoryVölur was formed in 2014 by Lucas Gadke (Blood Ceremony), Laura C. Bates (ex-Trent Severn) and James Payment (Do Make Say Think). Their first EP, Disir, was recorded in a single day in April 2014 by Ian Blurton and released independently. In 2015 the band signed with Germany-based Prophecy Productions and performed at Prophecy Festival in 2016 at the Stone Age Balve Cave in western Germany.[2] Prophecy subsequently re-released Disir later the same year. Völur released Ancestors in 2017, their first big label release.[3] They toured the United States for the first time in 2018 along with label-mates 1476, however the tour was cut short after Bates and Gadke were badly injured falling off a collapsing balcony.[4] Two more US tours followed in 2018 and 2019. Themes and influencesVölur's lyrical themes draw primarily from Norse mythology. Their name comes from an old Norse word (völva) which means a seeress or woman who can see into the future. Disir focuses thematically on these female Norse goddesses as told in "Voluspa: The Prophecy of the Seeress" from Poetic Edda.[5] Their second album, Ancestors, incorporated more chamber folk and drone musical elements and thematically focused on male gods.[6][7] Musically they are influenced by doom metal, folk music, ambient music, chamber music and drone. Band members
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