the musical subgenre of VolvaHaus!

 ... welllll, we confess there is no such Heathen offshoot of Witch House -- NorsePlay just conjured it up.* Yet if we look at the horror-derived, experimental noise, ASCII-"rune" occulted, and shamanic facets of Witch House, one can already see resemblances in the spooky costumery of Heilung, the rune-inspired ritualistic music of Wardruna, some of the Viking Metal drive of Amon Amarth, and the dark theatrics of Norwegian Black Metal, it would make for a perfect cauldron of things just ready to emerge with a sound to match. Just draw the bows across the kraviklyr, whisper some half-heard Voluspa, and then lay some dirty, grimey bass layers over it and we'd be across the Gjöll Bridge via your headphones already.

And it just seems that the Halloweenery of Witch House gets its aesthetic skeleton from the ancient feelings summoned by Arch-Heathen sacred trees filled with hung sacrifices, bogged bodies, hidden cart goddesses that to behold meant death, and the wyrd curse-like dooms foretold by the travelling seeresses of old, all the holy & original meanings of which were mostly forgotten by the burning times and instead reframed as post-conversion witchery centuries later.

NorsePlay hopes by inventing & incanting the name VolvaHaus here that it invokes into existence such music. It would be a brilliant NorsePlay to listen to, a subgenre that uses the roots of the past to foresee its future.

[Our inventive √ΘL√ɅHɅ∐S photo collage used a background “Völva” photo by Jim O’Connor of model Theresa LaFerriere Crebs, a Witch House text generator, and some digital handiwork using PhotoScape X. {* Yeah, we're NorsePlay, that's what we do.}]

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Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology, field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.