From Bible studies to mummified warriors, Nordic tattoos and shamanism – inside the unique world of Heilung’s vocalist Kai Uwe Faust

Trent Reznor remembers being given 'shamanish advice' by David Bowie when Nine Inch Nails were touring with the pop-rock icon and Reznor was at the height of his addiction issues

Björk will soon release her new album bastards, a collection of remixes of songs from her 2011 studio LP Biophilia. And now she’s also given us a video for the Biophilia track “Mutual Core,” which builds from shamanistic swirl to IDM insanity. In the video, we see Björk, buried to her waist in sand, singing [...]

As the story goes… This band Rage Peace was huge on the eve of the apocalypse. They made a sort of incantory, tribal music with a cosmic boogie feel, which you can hear throughout their celebrated Top 10 hit “So Destroyed.” Since the world has withered and burned, Brooklyn-based shaman-pop troupe Prince Rama has tak...

Over five releases, the raga-intoning, Hindu-mystic enthusiasts (and Stereogum40 alum) Prince Rama have honed a droning, modal sort of shambolic rock that hews toward the celebratory, incantory, shamanistic, etc. On their next album, the Brooklyn-based group promise an expanded palette of genre tags — “cosmic disco, motorcycl...