Heilung announce biggest Irish headliner to date at 3Arena

Experimental folk band Heilung have announced their biggest ever Irish show to date with a performance at 3Arena, Dublin on April 17 2025.

Tickets to see the  group will be priced from €70.70 inclusive. The tickets will go on sale at 9am this Thursday, June 20 at 9am via Ticketmaster.

Since their inception in 2014, the Heilung collective has been inspired by texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron Age, and Viking Age.

The band have described their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe".

Heilung tour will see the group perform from their latest LP, 2022's Drif.

Unlike the group's previous offerings that centered around prehistoric northern Europe, album number four will explore other great rudimentary civilisations outside of Europe.

“All the songs on ‘Drif’ have their own stories,” adds HEILUNG throat singer and one of the band’s three composers, Kai Uwe Faust says.

"Each has its place and sense of belonging, with inspiration not only from Northern Europe, but from the ancient great civilisations,” explains the band.

“Centrally important concepts, still in extensive use today, like the number Zero and all the mathematical universes deriving from it, the use of iron and the general concept of settling all originate from traditional high civilisations outside the north and still fundamentally changing our ancestor’s world".

“With singing these primordial songs we want to give tribute to these cultures, reconnect to the beginnings and remember that we all, from East to West, from past to present, are connected through the exchange of ideas and inspiring each other.”

Heilung's instrumentation makes use of  authentic and archaic instrumentation from rattles and ritual bells to human bones and throat singing, all producer by founding member Christopher Juul.