Nøkken + The Grim

Primal neofolk band hailing from Austin, Texas. Nøkken + The Grim is the call of ancient spirits for humankind to remember the forgotten song of nature, the animality, the beauty, the brutality. It is music for the wild and untamed. Nøkken, the Norse spirit of horses and water, is joined by Ajatar, the Finnish dragoness, and Peryton, once the Magyar white stag, now black with soot.

Their soundscapes evoke a time in which the human embodied its primal, animal nature, summoned through hypnotic beats and virtuosic instrumentals. These wild spirits channel many styles of music and folkloric traditions into surreal and intense staging with costumes and animal masks, evocative of older shamanistic pathways and drawing heavily from Nøkken's Magyar and Norse heritage.