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About Danheim

Danheim is a Nordic Ritual/Viking inspired project from the Copenhagen-based Danish producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, a man with 8 years of experience in electronic and ambient music – focusing on Nordic Folk and Viking age inspired music with a certain Nordic authenticity or mood. Danheim’s music is often composed of ideas and stories based on the darker side of the Viking period, inspired or consisting of Nordic Mythology, old Danish folklore, and a vivid imagination.

Danheim hit 200 million streams across digital music platforms in 2021, obtained 450.000 subscribers on YouTube, and landed his music in the final season of the popular TV show Vikings in 2019.

Singer-songwriter Reidar Schæfer Olsen, (born in 1985, Brøndby, Denmark), transitioned to focus on music in the early 2000’s and has been composing music almost continuously ever since, alongside doing radio shows and starting the indie label Fimbul Records, which transitioned into the radio project “Fimbul Radio” in early 2020.

With a passion for songwriting running through his veins from an early age, Reidar Olsen’s Viking-inspired music and dark melodies have broadened the Nordic folk genre and inspired millions of listeners around the world, bringing them back in time with a blend of his imagination and creativity.