Metalbandet Týr från Färöarna släpper sitt sjunde album Valkyrja den 17 september via Metal Blade Records. Albumet är inspelat tillsammans med producenten Jacob Hansen i Danmark.
Bandets sångare/gitarrist Herl Joensen kommenterar,
”Valkyrja 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.
”The woman that the warrior leaves may represent the earthly women. Freyja, The Lady Of The Slain, may represent the perfection of Women, and the Valkyrie is the link between the two, taking men from earthly to godly women.”