The most accurate description of Heilung I have ever seen was posted by another commenter in another reaction: “Heilung makes you homesick for somewhere you’ve never been and nostalgic for a life you’ve never lived”.

heilung is simply more than music... it touches your soul for healing. So their Name is perfect. Because Heilung is healing in german

Heilung is like this huge, elemental entity. Not just a group of people making music. I tell you, the first time I heard them, they sent me straight into a trance. The beat of the drums alone is hypnotic, then the breathy\growled male singer comes in and puff... Bye-bye brain. Even right now is hard for me to focus on the comment while also listening the song. They are otherworldly 5:57 Yep. My face right after listening to them.

This is one of those bands where you just want to close all your shades, dim the lights and sit back in your favorite chair and just listen.

Heilung lets us grow a yearning for a connection we've long since forgotten that we've lost.

The 'ei' in Heilung is pronouced as 'I' or 'eye'. It's like the German word for 'healing'. I knew of them but never listened to them, until I saw they were playing at this festival I was at. So the first experience I had was seeing this band live. 😱 Needless to say I was blown away.

if you want to see some of their live videos In Maidjan and Krigskaldr are both very good. Heilung is german for healing. I thought that might add a little perspective to their music.

Try some of their live performances, it is more like joining a ritual than seeing a concert.

This song is gorgeous.

I love the connection with nature in a tribal sense that Heilung ALWAYS presents in their music.

Heilung is a visceral, spiritual experience. When I hear their music... something inside awakens. Like a primal urge to find a life I once lived. To find the place where I belong (both past & present). They leave you shaken to the core and craving something unknown to you, and I love every second of it. Definitely got a new subscriber. Excited to see what comes next 💛

This song and video to me is all MOTHER. The child and the woman she turns in to is PURE strength and beauty. I listened to this song I think 5 times on repeat first time I heard it. I women was to have an anthem, this would be IT. I would love to see the video and listen to the REAL audio, not just an mp3 in a movie theatre. I want to be filled with it.

A fellow rain lover, how can one not love water pouring down from the heavens, its like magic and i can just never see it as an inconveinience. im not made of sugar so i wont melt, and wet clothes will dry.

Gotta love a band that uses an actual human femur as an instrument, lol. Loved their debut Castlefest performance. Easily one of the best live performances ever.

Every time I listen to Heilung it makes me want to build a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere and just melt into nature. I never know whether to be happy or excited or calm or sad when I listen to their music. If only I could properly articulate how this makes me feel. When you were speaking of walking without your shoes, I think that feeling you feel is a connection to the Earth. There's something about having that connection without anything artificial between that is special.

If you ever have opportunity to see them live DO SO!!! They will be releasing a new cd/video August 9th from their 2022 show at RedRocks Amphitheater in Colorado. I saw them on April 24 at Redrocks and it blew this 68 year old's mind!

Try group "EUZEN Metamorph from Castlefest 2015. You get absoulte beautful song by our Maria Franz of Heilung without the make-up und antlers. She ist gorgeous either way. Und ja. I think if one has close ancestory to Scandanvia or native Amerika there ist certain pull from musik like this. Anoana probably top 3 beautiful songs hear ever. Dank..

Man this song hits me in a emotional way... It always put me into tears... I don't know why... I think it gives me a feeling of freedom, like all my problems are washed away. That scene of the people aroud the fire under a moon eclipse makes me think how our lives are complicated and distracted from the good and simple things of life... The imagery of the birth also brings me the memories of my daughter being born in front of me, on my roon in my own house with me supporting my wife's labor... Great song, great band!

I have never felt inclined to leave a comment on any video before yours. I'm a very spiritual person and have been listening to Heilung for over a year now. I happened on them by accident on Spotify, and down the rabbit hole I tripped and I am SO happy that I did. I also was prone to closing my eyes and losing myself in the music, and the stories they told. It's very moving, very connecting. After seeing the Live last year, I can legitimately say that it changed me. It is a whole experience and I highly recommend anyone to go see them, at least once. It will move you. It will change you. And it will bring you back to your roots. Also; "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.", meaning the family you choose is stronger than the one you are born with. Blessings.

I love that you mentioned "blood is thicker than water," because the full quote actually supports what you believe. "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." ❤

In Wacken 2018 I only wanted to see Nightwish - but on this occasion I also got to know Heilung. An experience of a very special kind.

It does not matter how many times I hear this song, I cry every time. Heilung is incredible! They call their concerts Rituals, and they really are, you just feel it thru your whole body! I am also the kid that ran around in the woods and felt most at home in the forest. Sometimes even now I just go outside and sit under a tree in my yard and just vibe, lol. If you haven't seen it, I would recommend watching The Charismatic Voice's interview of Maria Franz, it's so cool! Elizabeth is trying so hard not to fangirl (but fails) , it's delightful. 😂🤣 BTW, the high note section where you said, "that's beautiful," and that point you went back to for your outro, is a call to Kulning, an old form of herding call native to Scandinavia. It can be heard over great distances and was used, I belive primarily by women, to call the herds home. :)

This song opesn a doorway to experience other energies, worlds, animism

3:28 this is a herding call used in sweden , probably norway aswell. My dad cried when i played him JonnaJintons "kulning" cause he said his grandma used to call the cows this way. - girl from sweden

Pure music bliss! Magic is real! This music is an awakening! It goes to your core and brings our ancestors closer to us!

Maria Franz also has another project. It's called "Euzen" and is also fantastic to listen to - and to see. Listen Metamorph..

In at 44 seconds... this never happens. More will be added as the video plays. ... Heilung is a band which can make music by scraping two flint shards together, stretching a hide over a bentwood frame. I've only listened to 5 or 6 of their songs, and this strikes me as making the most concessions to the modern ear. Some of the droning notes are the human voice, and some may be a highly eq'd instrument like a tagelharpa, but in this I hear either and organ or a mellotron-emulation. Oh, and their choice or reverb-sources is outstanding !! Often the reflections and sustain reach out past 2 seconds, which is beyond any plate I know of. And Maria Franz' bird calls, crow echoes and other woodland murmurs are delicious ear candy.

I felt the drums was like a beating heart, which fits perfectly for the video.

I look out of the windows of my city apartment after hearing this song, and it feels like I'm missing something fundamental. I know what you mean about the rain of the leaves. That scene made me wonder how we got so far away from these simple and profound moments. It all seems so pointless when we toil away for money selling what precious time we have left, while our beautiful planet dies by a million cuts. All to feed our need to consume and use and discard what's left in a vain attempt to fill that growing hollowness inside that will never be filled. This band and this song in particular is so profound and it resonates so strongly with a part of me that has been mostly dormant for as long as I remember.

It's great that you continue with the Heilung videos. Maybe try some of their live videos next? This band is not just music but a total experience. I saw them last year for the first time and it was truly an experience. A KZfaq video cannot give the feeling you get in a live experience. The band often performs in a dark space and uses lights and fog to create different situations on stage. They also use background performers, dancers, with the help of which they create different stories related to the lyrics of the song. And for example at the beginning of the concert, the band members first clean and sanctify the performance area. All in all, it was a really impressive performance and those low tones felt really strong in the body. An intense experience. Live performance, e.g. (from the band's own KZfaq channel) Heilung | LIFA - Krigsgaldr LIVE

I discovered Heilung when a clip from their Lifa concert at Castlefest popped up on youtube. Got weirded out at first and came back for another listen later on. That concert is a spiritual experience. Christopher and Maria also have a band called Songleiker. They almost never post new songs there, but one came out a couple years ago called Ulvetime. Worth a gander.

The best reaction to this band I ever heard was someone saying that Heilung had made them nostalgic for a millennium they didn't live in. Something very old here. It's like meat on a fire. Dark caveman shit.

They're amazing. I highly recommend their songs In maidjan and Othan, both live at Castlefast.

A child born during an eclipse supposedly has divine power's - thats the interpretations I had gotten . This has to be my most favorite by Heilung!!

I love listening to this song in the woods and becoming one with nature. This song definitely touches parts of you that you didn't realize needed it.

Stunning, both musically and visually. Quite simply, a masterpiece.

I'm going outside tonight so I can listen to this again. An experience

Welcome to the world of Heilung! Somehow- it takes you back to your roots- to another time. Hope you will react to many more Heilung! I just found you- but you are amazing! Dont forget to check out the band Wardruna. It also takes you back in time- the Nordic way. Greatings from Patrik in Sweden.

Heilung is German for healing, cure, and that's their entire objective. To heal people with their music deeply rooted in the nature. I wholeheartedly recommend, if you get a chance, to see them live. You of all people will appreciate being fully immersed in this raw energy coming from the whole group of people (audience included), from the wall of speakers.

Oooh, Heilung. Ace. Saw them February of this year and they knocked my socks off : )

I soo much like your reaction to this. Can I just add som points that are important in seeing this? The most important being that the child is born under an eclipse 0:56 (seen in background several times). According to previking believs they had very special gifts: hamnskifte (= the ability to change appearance), age shift, talking to animals, and healing as in when she heals the bird. The previking time and it's religion (more animistic than polyteistic) in nordic countries is much more female oriented than the religion in the later years (viking gods like Tor and Oden with all the everpresent masculinity... ) The language (proto-norse) they use is only partially known and therefore reconstructed (in part reposted from another reaction)

I’m gonna go see him this summer in Arkansas I can’t wait to go. I love them.

An amazing creative band, I have listened to several songs and they keep the haunting Walhalla dream alive.🧙‍♂🧝‍♂🧚🧜‍♂🧞

Great reaction...Anoana is amazing...this band is amazing...

I've heard of Heilung but never listened to them before. For some reason I thought there were a metal band even before seeing them on this channel. Another band with a very similar sound and vibe is Wardruna. They preform Scandinavian folk music. Many or maybe all of their instruments are crafted using only materials and techniques that would have been available to their ancestors hundreds of years ago. I'll link a video of a song called Healing Mountain (English translation). It has English subtitles. I'm not sure what language the lyrics are written in. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKuZra6ev9K5cas.html

I think I've seen most of the heilung reactions on KZfaq, and I can say that your two reactions were without a doubt the best, you're so authentic, so sincere, you've won another write my friend, please react a: heilung lifa in maidjan

Ths group mesmerizes me. And, some nights, when I cannot sleep, this is the music I listen to, because it calms me so.

I love Heilung. It just takes me away while I'm listening to it. Away from modern life, away from the daily crap. And even when I'm listening to it in my livingroom, I feel at one with nature and times that were more pure and raw. 'Norupo' is another great song with a music video. I believe it was their first music video. Norupo is probably my favorite of Heilung, but it's hard to have a favorite.

You feel natures soul when you go barefoot and Heilung make that connection deeper.try put them on while you walk in nature you will feel it in your very core

Omnia is amazing! Enchanting, wild, and spellbound are 3 ways of explaining how this band makes me feel.

Heilung can move you to so many different emotions with their music. Anoana almost always makes me tear up; it's that beautiful a song. I often listen to their first performance, Lifa when I'm working in my smithy, but when this track cues up I always take a break and just breathe for a minute. I can't even put into words how much I love this music or all of the powerful feelings it brings up in me.

Heilung are touring the States this Fall. Apparently, an experience like no other. I'll be attending my first 'Ritual' and I'm really looking forward to it. Love your reactions, keep it up.

You might want to try the Hu Band and 'Wolf Totem' - Mongolian throat singing (sort of) but with a metal vibe - like Heilung but much further East ;)

If you're curious about the theme of the song... Birthing a child during an eclipse is a special event in Old Norse culture - the child is thought to have a special relationship with animals, assuming their form and giving life to the dead. The drum beating ceremony during the eclipse is a warning to two Nordic wolves that would chase the Sun and moon. If the wolf, Skoll, caught the Sun or if the wolf, Mani, caught the moon during solar or lunar eclipses, it was thought to be a sign that Ragnarok approached (The End Times in a nutshell). The drums served as a means to scare the wolves off and away from ever catching the Sun or moon. The language is proto-Nordic - it's real Old Norse as written in the Poetic Edda and various artifacts found during that era with such writing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda

I saw them live earlier this year , just phenomenal

Hi there, so glad u discovered heilung, I discovered them by chance 2 years ago, and their music just transcended me, I was going through a break up of a 20yr marriage at the time, and they helped me a lot, their music touched my soul and healed my heart. And they still help me to this day, may I suggest you watching their first ever live concert called lifa, it's on youtube and it is quite amazing...and could you react to a video of theirs called fylijas ear. I'm new to your channel and love your reactions...what you said in both heilung reactions rang true..keep up the good work...

You guys I’m from Cincinnati, Ohio. We should all get together and go see them

Also, my sincere thanks for what you said at the end about people in our lives, etc. Especially about blood not being so important. Took me more than 40 years to learn that lesson before I said farewell for good to my family. I have a small but loving family now and I treasure it so much because it's real, and I feel love from them instead of.. I can't really elaborate fully about the past without delving too deep for my own good. But thank you, I heard you and I appreciate the strength your words will give me next time I feel worthless and guilty about being alive. Because you took the time to say those words, I'm a happier person today. So, thank you. From the heart.

I was thrilled to see that you gave Heilung another shot (and that it was Anoana)! I personally thought that this video or the live one of Krigsgaldr would've given you a better initial impression of them than Norupo. I LOVED your reaction to Anoana!! How you relate to it, how it made you feel, what you shared... That's why so many ppl love them - their sound just resonates in a mysterious and beautiful way. If you can catch them live, you'll be in for an unforgettable experience! I loved them so much last year that I'm seeing them twice this October. Which I almost can't afford lol.

what your feeling is a connection to the old ways, traditions of nature which mankind across the globe followed for tens of thousands of years before organised religion swept the world. Heilung offer you a brief moment to reconnect to Gaia (mother earth),...... remember how good that feels.

As you said, more comfort in this one. Idk why, but when listening i got an image of my Swedish grandfather, smoking his long, handmade, seafoam pipe, sitting by the river with a fire. I'm quite sure none of this actually happened, that's just the visual i got from this. Amazing song, TY Cosmic ❤ & ✌️

Gotta watch the In Maidjan live performance, Maria's gonna knock your socks off.

I came across this video by chance, I have been loving this song for a long time because I feel like it heals me, (curiously Heilung means healing) I had exactly the same reaction as you when I heard it for the first time... Listening to your message at the end, it helped me very much... I am currently going through a breakup with someone who precisely let me fall and your words were the precise ones that made me feel better and with more hope, infinite thanks wherever you are!

Heilung, showing people ancient european heritage in music form. Connecting us to the Mother and the Father. To ourselves.

Really enjoying Heilung!

Another one that might evoke something: Blackshape with "ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL" It's classified as "post-mathcore"

nice to see your start on this journey. i believe ur gonna not the same on the end of this journey. nature calls and most of the people that listen to heilung calls back

Some similar bands to check out: Kalandra, Faun, Aurora, and Wardruna Another group with a different spiritual vibe would be Light of Babylon

Seems like every child is precious.

Jam this band at work and will do it again when I go back to my regular department lol

Hey, watched your two videos on Heilung and I love watching people experiencing this group for the first time. The way they combine beautiful hand made instruments and their voices, especially Maria Franz(The woman that you were a bit freaked out about in Norupo (which Norupo is actually an acronym) the first two letters throughout spell out the origin of the song. No - Nordic Ru - Rune Po- Poem Awoana is the story of an ancient and powerful shaman, born under the eclipse(which in Nordic Culture, were believed to bestow abilities on the child, be it shapeshifting, age, etc.) I've been listening to heilung for a little over three months now. Each one of their songs resonates with me in different ways. I listen to Norupo and Hamrer Hippyer(An actual healing incantation) and it helps with the nagging pain of my spinal injury. While I'd recommend you sit and listen to all their pieces, there's a few that I think really stand out and you should make a reaction. 1. In Maidjan(Live, LIFA castlefest) 2. Krigsgaldr(Live, LIFA castlefest) 3. Svanrand 4. Traust(Highly recommended since you liked the calming nature of Norupo and Awoana 5. Othan(Live, LIFA, castlefest) 6. Tenet 7. Alfadhirhaiti (Live, LIFA, castlefest 8. Fylgija Futhorck( Live, LIFA?(maybe)? You can find all of them on their KZfaq channel. Live on! "Remember, that we all are brothers All people, beasts,trees,stone and wind We all descend from the one great being That was always there Before people lived and named it Before the first seed sprouted"

Så vakker sang! ᛊᚲᛟᛚ

This song never fails to bring me to tears.

A powerful song.

Being a practising Pagan for 45 years Heilung and wardrunda speaks to my soul . The way you speak you are A Child Of GAIA( a child of Earth). It sounds like your Wings have been Fixed. great content Brother. TRANSLATION FOR ANOANA Ashill's realm, power has been inherited; high power Riches are divided, over the land of fires Ashill's realm, power has been lost; ancestral lordship Riches are divided, over the land of fires Powerful lands, over the land of fires The great land of power, over the land of fires Powerful lands, over the land of fires The great land of power, over the land of fires On horseback, over the land of waters On horseback, over the seas Sun's ray, over the sky's cloud Sky's great light, over the Earth's expanse Heaven's high hall, raised on a hill God's abode, never to crumble At night, a river flows A powerful day comes after night Sun's fiery wheel brighter than the stars All night, the day's light In the east the sun shines Before the day's end And at noon, in the west The sun sets down Ashill's realm, power has been inherited; high power Riches are divided, over the land of fires Ashill's realm, power has been lost; ancestral lordship Riches are divided, over the land of fires Powerful lands, over the land of fires The great land of power, over the land of fires Powerful lands, over the land of fires The great land of power, over the land of fires

You should listen to In Maidjan by them as well. It’s honestly probably my favorite song by them

I like your reaction to these guys, they are indeed an experience .

Your first listen I think you were feeling uneasy because your ancient inner soul was being awakened...I had the same experience the first time I listened to them.

What you described as far as walking around barefoot is called earthing.

Thought of an artist that I think you will relate to: Eivor, doing Trodlabundin. Live version

Thank you for reacting to this And thank you so much for saying what you said here at the end. 9:40 Really important for me to hear

Love this song, gives me goosebumps every time i hear it. You need to listen to Trollabundin by Eivør Pálsdóttir too, she has a beautiful voice 😊

Great reaction! Every time i hear this song, i find it to be very soothing and calming.

I fell in love with this band instantly on my first time listening to them ❤ Their music holds a certain magic to it we all forgot as time went by and we evolved into this fast pace and chaotic world we now live in... When I listen to them, I lean back and close my eyes and its like I'm lying there in the grass like the girl in the video - I can feel the power of nature and the sun above and the ground below me 😌 I also love rain, the sound of it soothes me, and, just like music, brings out raw emotions that I bottled up inside and it helps so much 😖 And sometimes I, too, just go out in the heaviest rain as it even helps me to feel my body again, when I get this numbness inside from my mind shutting down 👍

Primeval !

so difficult to collect my thoughts....I am amazed, frightened, hopeful, feeling mortal, wanting to pray to some deity........I believe these are the emotions Maria and the band hope to elicit from the audience.........I can imagine these are EXACTLY the sounds made by pre-Christian Norse shaman, priests and warriors......I believe the language is a proto-Germanic ( or Scandinavian ) dialect.....note that the ritual takes place under an eclipse in the sky.......I like to think the ending shows Anoana merging with the ox in a perpetuation of nature in the circle of life....they make their costumes and instruments.........

This music video made me cry when i saw it❤ very beautiful and hit me hard, also you should react to skald a song called Rùn

I have loved this song since I first heard it, it is the song of nature and new life, totally beautiful and very moving (to me at least) Totally mesmerising and magical. Big love Bro

Aoana means 'Protector'. They are specially chosen guardians of the Viking Celtics. One born like this under this 'Auspice Moon', especially in the manner she was born, makes her a powerful guardian of the wilds, but she had to contend with her rival, womanhood, represented by the Water Buffalo. She was born a type of Seelie Nymph, and her story spans across time, called across the ages by the female singer, and answered in 'Pips', resonations of sound in time and space, calling that very power. I could so a scene by scene breakdown, if you'd like, but look upon it as the birth and life of a Guardian of all that is woman, a Hart, and her trials of nature in becoming a woman. Then you'll really see the strength of this song.

its all about the cirkle off life you are born in to nature you play cheerfully in to your adulthod then you give birth to a child when that child have lerned the same you have no shame in leaving this world by meeting your creator knowing you have done your part off life and made sure the knowleadge and traditions has been past on to the next generation. the cirkle off life like it has been for 1000snts off years. in the scandinavian countrys we still have beleaves about how life is ment to be lived and enjoyed and endet :)

I think you can only understand the "Soul" of this Song, if you understand Mother Nature!🥰

Blood is willing to shed in defence

Did you notice the eclipse when the baby was born, then again another eclipse on the night before the ending?

ANOANA means approximately, mother nature or sweet mother nature. The child is born during an eclipse, thus it is endowed by Mother Nature with special abilities. She can mentally see into the future and past, she can also give life back, at least that's what the known traditions say. The end of the video I can also only guess. At the end we see a second eclipse, probably she has to give her gift back to Mother Nature now and the aurochs seems to be her totem.

welcome on the ancient path of asatru brother.....

Blood is thicker than water is not The full quote the full Quote is the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb literally knowing the exact opposite of how people use it it is saying that your chosen friends are more important than your family

thangs u gods Rain i am so stupid

You should react to in maidjan next drin their First life Performance. This ist for me the best Song in my opinion😊

In german, "ei" is pronounced like "ai" like how you say "i" in "like" So its like "hai-loong" 😊

This music is soul medicine