Urkraft

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Urkraft
Thyrfing Urkraft.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 2000
Recorded6–18 March 2000
Genre Viking metal
Length60:08
Label Hammerheart Records
Producer Tommy Tägtgren & Thyrfing
Thyrfing chronology
Valdr Galga
(1999)
Urkraft
(2000)
Vansinnesvisor
(2002)

Urkraft (English: Primordial Force) is the third album by Swedish viking metal band Thyrfing. It was released in 2000.

On some editions of the album, there is a bonus cover of "Over the Hills and Far Away" by rock musician Gary Moore.

Track listing

  1. "Mjölner" – 5:30
  2. "Dryckeskväde" (translation: "Drinking Poem") – 3:54
  3. "Sweoland Conqueror" – 6:30
  4. "Home Again" – 7:45
  5. "The Breaking of Serenity" – 4:28
  6. "Eldfärd" (translation: "Journey in Fire") – 1:39
  7. "Ways of a Parasite" – 4:39
  8. "Jord" (translation: "Earth") – 5:17
  9. "The Slumber of Yesteryears" – 3:48
  10. "Till Valfader Urgammal" (translation: "To Ancient Valfader") – 4:00
  11. "Urkraft" (translation: "Primordial Force") – 7:37
  12. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Gary Moore cover) – 5:01

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