Heilung: Fans dress up to enjoy the band’s alternative and genre-defying live spectacle
Face paint, piercings, Viking beards and creative costumes were much in evidence when the Nordic folk collective performed at Dublin’s 3Arena
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Heilung singer Maria Franz: ‘We have a weird sense of time when we perform. It feels like five minutes and an eternity at the same time’
The experimental folk group’s gigs are astonishing spectacles – think Viking funeral mixed with a battle from The Lord of the Rings – and their ultimate goal is to whisk the listener off to an ancient time and place
Heilung: Blood-soaked horsehair, undead percussion and Valkyrie singing. Beat that, Toy Show the Musical
At the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre the folk collective sweep the audience far away from Dublin on a chilly Thursday in January
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