Transcendent Faroese artist Eivør has announced the next chapter in her remarkable musical journey.
Her new studio album Tungl will be released on October 16, with the title translating from Faroese to “moon”. Alongside the announcement, Eivør has unveiled the new song “Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden”, accompanied by a breathtaking video filmed in Svínadalur, Iceland, by director Krassasig, also known as Kristinn Arnar Sigurðsson.
Listen to “Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden” here:
https://eivor.bfan.link/drekafljod
Pre order Tungl here:
https://eivor.bfan.link/tungl
There are some artists who do not just release songs. They create worlds.
Eivør has long stood as one of those rare voices capable of pulling together folk tradition, electronic movement, cinematic atmosphere, raw emotion and something much older than language. Her music often feels tied to landscape, memory, body and spirit, and with Tungl, she appears to be stepping into another deeply instinctive and powerful space.
“Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden” is the next glimpse into that world.
The song follows previous single “Healer”, but where that track explored resilience, “Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden” moves toward awakening. It is a song about intuition, surrender, trust and reconnecting with the fierce force that lives inside all of us.
Speaking about the track, Eivør says:
“I’m excited to share my new song, Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden, with you.
The song is a tribute to the fierce, intuitive force that lives within us all. While my previous single, Healer, explored resilience, Dragon Maiden feels more like an awakening, a reminder of the power that has always been within you.”
The song began as a poem that had been sitting quietly in the back of Eivør’s mind for a long time. To complete it, she invited one of her favourite poetic minds, Marjun S. Kjelnæs, to help finish the words. The result is a piece that feels rooted in letting go, opening yourself to what life brings, and finding strength not through control, but through surrender.
Eivør recorded and produced the song with Tróndur Bogason and her band, aiming for something playful and danceable while still carrying an undercurrent of melancholy.
That contrast feels important.
“Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden” lives somewhere between movement and stillness, light and shadow, joy and grief. It has that rare emotional tension where the body wants to move, but the heart still feels the weight underneath.
Eivør explains:
“Dragon Maiden is about trusting your intuition, embracing uncertainty, and finding the courage to surrender to life’s unfolding. Sometimes the strongest thing we can do is stop trying to control everything and simply allow ourselves to be carried forward.”
That idea sits beautifully within the larger theme of Tungl.
The moon has always carried symbolism of cycles, reflection, mystery and transformation. With Eivør using the Faroese word for moon as the album’s title, there is already a sense that this record will move through shadow and light, through instinct and change, through the parts of ourselves that are often felt more than spoken.
The video for “Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden” brings that feeling into stunning visual form.
Filmed across two days in the landscape of Svínadalur, Iceland, the video was built around a rotating platform designed and constructed by director Krassasig specifically for the shoot. Eivør rehearsed with Icelandic choreographer Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir, learning to sing while spinning on the platform without losing control of the performance.
For Eivør, that physical experience became directly connected to the meaning of the song.
She says the movement felt almost like travelling through time, and that once she stopped trying to control it and surrendered to the motion, everything fell into place.
That is the kind of detail that makes this release feel so connected. The song is about surrender, and the video itself required surrender. Not just as an idea, but as a physical act.
Director Krassasig says the song immediately pulled him into a dreamlike world, and that he wanted the visuals to reflect the contrast between intimacy and immense force. Instead of relying heavily on visual effects, the team wanted something tangible that Eivør could physically inhabit.
The rotating platform became what he describes as a kind of spatial instrument, transforming movement and creating strange, disorienting body dynamics within the forest.
It is a perfect match for a song that seems to move between the mystical and the human.
Tungl will be available in multiple formats, including CD jewelcase, artist exclusive digipack, crystal clear vinyl, white and black marbled vinyl through Nuclear Blast and independent stores, and an artist exclusive transparent and black marbled vinyl edition with bonus 7 inch vinyl.
With “Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden”, Eivør continues to prove why her work feels so singular.
This is not just a new song from an upcoming album. It feels like another doorway into a world where folklore, instinct, movement, grief, strength and beauty all breathe together.
Tungl arrives October 16.
Pre-order Tungl here: https://eivor.bfan.link/tungl
