The Lay Of Thrym
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The Lay of Thrym is the sixth full-length album by the Faroese
Viking
/folk metal
band Týr
. The name of the album comes from one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda
, called "Þrymskviða
", "The Lay of Thrym". The band revealed the name of the album along with its release date on their MySpace
page. The cover artwork is by Gyula Havancsák.
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
Viking
Viking metal
Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its galloping pace, keyboard-rich anthemic sound, bleakness and dramatic emphasis on lyrical themes of Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age...
/folk metal
Folk metal
Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...
band Týr
Týr (band)
Týr, , is a folk metal band from the Faroe Islands. Their subject matter revolves almost entirely around old Nordic lore, mythology, and history, taking their name from a Norse god of war. They signed a worldwide deal with Austria's Napalm Records in early 2006, while signed to the Faroese record...
. The name of the album comes from one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda
Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century...
, called "Þrymskviða
Þrymskviða
Þrymskviða is one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda...
", "The Lay of Thrym". The band revealed the name of the album along with its release date on their MySpace
MySpace
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page. The cover artwork is by Gyula Havancsák.
Track listing
Reception
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(2011) - 4 Stars. - "Their sixth full-length release The Lay of Thrym is full of epic and majestic elements of Faroese traditional music with Nordic pride."
- Metal Psalter (June 7, 2011) - 4 Stars. - "Týr has done a pretty good job of remaining consistent while working in a change to a faster sound, as evidenced by The Lay of Thyrm."
- Rockfreaks.net (2011) - 6.5/10 - "It is that absence of the complexity, and with it the heart, of Týr which now feels missing through these largely identikit, catchy-as-you-like power/folk metal numbers."
- Several weeks after its release, and for the first time in Týr's career, The Lay Of Thrym jumped from #31 to #1 on CMJ Loud Rock radio charts, it remained there for two weeks.