Echoes and Dust Interview with Heri Joensen

Earlier this year Týr released their latest album Valkyrja, which was received very positively by us, describing it as “It is simply… perfect”. Andrew Rawlinson asked guitarist/vocalist Heri Joensen some questions about the band, influences and more.

(((o))): You formed in 1998, so first of all, how did the band originally meet?

Heri: Kári Streymoy and I casually bumped into each other in Copenhagen after moving there separately. We got together again to make a band, and soon after we asked Gunnar to join us. We all knew each other from playing in the same band in the Faeroes a few years earlier.