Wardruna have established an enviable degree of dominance over the metal-inspired Norse folk-musical world during the course of the past ten years. The band’s music really taps into the Old Norse ...

Their audience is usually a suitably diverse crew of metalheads, silver-haired goths, fishermen’s friends folkies and more than the odd cosplaying Viking, as it was at the magnificent Symphony Hall.

Nevertheless, both the band and their fans’ patience was finally rewarded this week, as Einar Selvik’s seven-piece band of Norsemen and women came to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall for the first time.