Tyr Valkyria

2013, VALKYRIA, the 7 full-length album from the Faroe Islands natives Týr, is a concept album with a story line based loosely around an anonymous Viking age warrior who leaves his woman and goes off to impress the Valkyrie on the battlefield so that she may bring him to Valhalla, or to Fólkvangr, the home of Freyja - the goddess associated with love, sexuality, beauty, fertility, gold, sorcery, war, and death. One can say the album is also indirectly about women and how they affect men and what men will do to impress and obtain women. A distinctive trademark that sets Týr apart from most other bands of the Viking metal genre is the authenticity of their music. The band's drummer, Kári Streymoy, parted ways with Týr after the band completed their US run on Pagan Fest and before they entered the studio so Týr enlisted George Kollias who stepped in to handle recording duties on VALKYRIA.