Line #34 Music/Myrkur


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/myrkur.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Amalie Bruun, the mastermind]]
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4	'''Myrkur''' (''MIR-k(y)ur'', Icelandic for "darkness") is a project founded in 2014 by Danish singer[=/=]composer[=/=]multi-instrumentalist Amalie Bruun, described as what Music/{{Enya}} or Music/LanaDelRey would sound like as a BlackMetal artist. The project was supposed to be an AnonymousBand but [[StreisandEffect the media were quick to pry]] after her first release and discovered that Myrkur was really a [[OneManBand one-woman band]], much to both the fascination and dismay of the genre's BrokenBase.
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6	Nonetheless, the project carried on, releasing several singles and two studio albums to critical acclaim, and toured around the world alongside the likes of Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/{{Epica}}, and Music/{{Opeth}}.
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8	!!Discography
9	* ''Myrkur'' (2014, demo)
10	* ''M'' (2016)
11	* ''Mausoleum'' (2016, live)
12	* ''Mareridt'' (2017)
13	* ''Folkesange'' (2020)
14	* ''Spine'' (2023)
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16	!Tropes:
17	* AnonymousBand: Subverted from the moment her first ever song "Nattens barn" came out in 2014, as media were in a frenzy to find out the woman behind those ridiculously good HarshVocals.
18	* BloodFromTheMouth: The video for "Ulvinde".
19	* CoverVersion: Apart from folk songs, she's covered Music/{{Bathory}}'s "Song to Hall Up High" in ''Mausoleum''.
20	* CulturedBadass: Apart from black metal and folk music, Amalie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfIwamYVPWw has professed her love]] for classical music and "horror pop", among other things.
21	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The video for "Juniper". Also LeFilmArtistique.
22	* FaceOnTheCover: ''Mareridt'', as opposed to just a silhouette in ''M''.
23	* FolkMetal: The Scandinavian variety.
24	* GothicMetal: The likes of "Shadows of Silence" and "Juniper".
25	* GenreMashup: Nordic folk mixed with black or sometimes gothic metal and ambient.
26	* GenreRoulette: Sometimes BlackMetal, sometimes dark ambient, sometimes Nordic folk, sometimes [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs dark ambient Nordic folk]]...
27	* GratuitousFrench: The line ''je suis votre amour'' in "Crown".
28	* GrimUpNorth: If a woman can singlehandedly embody this trope, it's Myrkur.
29	* LastNoteNightmare: "Onde Børn". Couple that with the video where you see Amalie beside a burning M.
30	* LighterAndSofter: Her upcoming album is more focused on her folk side.
31	* MetalScream: A hellishly throat-busting but commanding type 3 to boot.
32	* MultilingualSong: Quite a few songs in ''Mareridt'' switch between Danish and English and at one point, French.
33	* Myth/NorseMythology: Apart from making it obvious in "Skaði", Myrkur loves Nordic fairytales and folklore as well.
34	* NatureLover: In spades. Amalie likes to be filmed singing and sometimes playing her instruments in the great outdoors. Justified as according to her interview with [[http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/07/16/meet-myrkur/ Metalsucks,]] "nature is a big part of the reason BlackMetal even exists."
35	* NorseByNorsewest: She's a Dane with an Icelandic alias [[SerialEscalation who sings in her native tongue as well as Swedish and plays a style of music popularized in Norway, if not the rest of Scandinavia]]. And her logo is the runic letter M. ''How much more Nordic can you get?!''
36	** PhenotypeStereotype: Just look at the page image!
37	* [[OneManBand One-Woman Band]]: Amalie plays guitars, bass, piano, violin, nyckelharpa, just about everything EXCEPT a drum kit.
38	* OneWomanWail: Kulning, an ancient Swedish herding call. Most prominent in the TitleTrack[=/=]AlbumIntroTrack to ''Mareridt''.
39	* RedOniBlueOni: Blue against Music/{{Burzum}}'s red.
40	* SceneryPorn: Every single location where "Ulvinde" was shot.
41	* SelfBackingVocalist: Part of her one-woman band shtick.
42	* SelfTitledAlbum: Self-titled demo.
43	* ShakyCam: "Bonden og Kragen".
44	* SopranoAndGravel: Amalie contrasts her haunting MetalScream with a soprano as ethereal as Music/{{Jonsi}}'s countertenor in Music/SigurRos.
45	* TheStoic: Amalie often looks either tranquil or slightly annoyed.
46	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: She gives off this vibe at certain points in the "Ulvinde" video and, though her face remains visible, the ''Mareridt'' album art.
47	* TwoGirlsToATeam: Chelsea Wolfe joins Myrkur in "Funeral".
48	* JustForFun/XMeetsY: The official Myrkur website describes ''Mareridt'' as Music/KingDiamond's ''Them'' marrying Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake''.
49	** Fans like to describe Myrkur in general as [[Music/LanaDelRey "Lana del]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Wraith"]] or Music/{{Enya}} meets Music/{{Burzum}}.

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