An interview with Valfreya
An interview with Valfreya
What inspired the name of the band? What are your influences?
The name of the band comes from two of Norse mythology’s iconic things mashed them together: Valhalla and Freya, the goddess.
Our influences as a band are Wintersun, Ensiferum, Dimmu Borgir, SepticFlesh, Brymir, classical and folk/celtic music, etc.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
We like to exchange ideas and mix and match our different influences to create something as unique as we can, mostly using Guitar Pro. Collaboration is a lot of fun and takes us to places we never thought we’d go.
For the lyrical themes, we mostly talk about Norse mythology and Vikings.
How do you approach songwriting? Are there any themes that you are keen to explore when you start off?
We like to exchange ideas and mix and match our different influences to create something as unique as we can, mostly using Guitar Pro. Collaboration is a lot of fun and takes us to places we never thought we’d go.
For the lyrical themes, we mostly talk about Norse mythology and Vikings.
Why do you write the sort of music that you do?
We simply write the music that we love!
How do you decide what songs to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
We usually choose the songs that people like to hear and know the most, like our singles, to play live. For the rest of the set, we adapt depending on the other bands that we play with or simply the ones we practiced the most at this time.
Most of our songs were composed ready for a live setting, so there’s not much transposition needed. Recently, we added a violin to our line-up so of course we had to adapt our older songs to this new instrument.
How do you decide what songs to perform live and how do you transpose them into that live setting?
We usually choose the songs that people like to hear and know the most, like our singles, to play live. For the rest of the set, we adapt depending on the other bands that we play with or simply the ones we practiced the most at this time.
Most of our songs were composed ready for a live setting, so there’s not much transposition needed. Recently, we added a violin to our line-up so of course we had to adapt our older songs to this new instrument.
What plans do you have for the future?
We are currently writing our 3rd album, and we’re putting almost all our efforts on this during this coronavirus pandemic.