The sound behind our reels and stories: homemade, Norse at heart – born of pure necessity and long since turned into a passion.
If you know our videos, you know the sound that goes with them: dark drums, rough voices, a touch of mead hall, a touch of longing for the North. That music comes from our house band Asgard Cantina – and yes, we make it ourselves. By now necessity has even produced three albums and a single, and what can we say: we have grown rather fond of it.
What sounds like a nice idea has a very practical reason. If you are on Facebook and Instagram as a business, you effectively are not allowed to freely use purchased or well-known music there: tracks get muted, videos throttled in reach or blocked entirely. For a small workshop, that is a constant stumbling block.
I am a trained sound engineer – so I know just how much technology (and, yes, trickery) has always gone into the music industry: voices are tuned, tracks doubled, samples laid in, and many a ghost singer stands behind the stage at major rock acts, singing along live. Once you have seen that up close, you lose a little of your reverence.
I played in a band myself for many years and understand every reservation. But there is no way around it: as business owners we have to make the best – and sometimes the most economical – decisions anyway. And before we risk a cease-and-desist over someone else’s song, we simply make our own.
And honestly? It turned out rather well.
“Skalds have always fibbed a little – we just call it ‘production’ these days. And we would sooner pluck the lyre ourselves than empty the mead-coffers for the cease-and-desist dragon."
Fifteen songs about the end of the old gods in the West: the Saxon Wars, Widukind and the Irminsul – and the Norsemen who, around 881/882, raided as far as Aachen, Prüm and Trier. Released 16 October 2026.
Our most personal album so far, because it is set right on our doorstep: the Rhine, Aachen, Prüm and Trier. It also contains the song we sent ahead as a single, “Als die Irminsul fiel” (When the Irminsul Fell).
Loki bursts into Ægir’s feast and settles scores with every god – after the Eddic poem Lokasenna, told as a video.
The song of the Saxons’ sacred tree, told as a video.
Our first single – wherever there is music.
The fall of the Saxons’ sacred tree in 772 under Charlemagne – as a single track to listen to and share.
Our album Asche im Atem (Die dunkle Edda) – everywhere you get your music.
Dark, Norse sounds – our own little Edda, set to music in the workshop between laser and campfire.
Our first album Lieder der Edda – everywhere you get your music.
Our debut: the old sagas of the North, cast into songs – raw, honest, with plenty of mead-hall at heart.
Asgard Cantina is our own Norse music: dark drums, rough voices and lyrics drawn from the old sagas of the North. If you like Viking sounds, pagan or Nordic folk and a bit of mead-hall atmosphere, you're in the right place. We set the Edda to music our own way – raw, honest and handmade between laser and campfire.
The house band of the Norse engraving workshop Glanz & Gravur in Alsdorf, Germany. Norse Viking music, self-made – by Thorsten, a trained sound engineer.
Three albums – “Die letzten Säulen” (2026), “Asche im Atem (Die dunkle Edda)” and “Lieder der Edda” – plus the single “Als die Irminsul fiel”.
On Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, TIDAL and everywhere music is available.
Because popular music is blocked or throttled for businesses on Facebook and Instagram. So we make our own – Norse at heart and without the risk of a takedown.
