Except they do pretend that, for some value of “pretend,” at least implicitly, with the whole “historical re-enactment” shtick they have going on. Heilung describes itself as “amplified history.” Wardruna talk about “creating” “ancient Norse” music traditions. The way they talk about it acknowledges, at least on some level, that they’re basically modern “world music” bands, so they are certainly aware that they’re doing “ancient music” in roughly the same way Gwar are aliens, but the casual observer doesn’t necessarily get that.
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