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NorsePlay's VolvaHaus-inspired logo!

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To compliment the original logo vinyl cutout sticker on the driver's side of the NorsePlay-mobile , I recently commissioned a sticker for the passenger side! This more modern runic-based NorsePlay logo was inspired by the VolvaHaus music request entry , which I'd designed in 2020 CE for the front of a t-shirt. The trihorn is instead linearly styled into an "NP" monogram logo using a triple-intersected Elder Futhark Nauthiz  (ᚾ),  the letter N, and the top opening of the horns with  Pertho ( ᛈ), the letter P, which has been thought to represent a drinking vessel ,  or a gaming dice cup, all of which is apropos of NorsePlay. Plus the design happens to work as an abstract of pushrods and pistonheads to make for a great racing reference . The slim <1/32" lines made this sticker a challenge, but after much consultation they came out beautifully. [Orange, white, & red versions!] And as with our first sticker , NorsePlay would again like to raise its horn to Hea...

the musical subgenre of VolvaHaus!

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 ... welllll, we confess there is no such Heathen offshoot of Witch House -- NorsePlay just conjured it up. * Yet if we look at the horror -derived, experimental noise, ASCII-"rune" occulted, and shamanic facets of Witch House, one can already see resemblances in the spooky costumery of Heilung , the rune-inspired ritualistic music of Wardruna , some of the Viking Metal drive of Amon Amarth , and the dark theatrics of Norwegi an  Black Metal , it would make for a perfect cauldron of things just ready to emerge with a sound to match. Just draw the bows across the  kraviklyr, whisper some half-heard Voluspa , and then lay some dirty, grimey bass layers over it and we'd be across the Gjöll Bridge via your headphones already. And it just seems that the H alloweenery of Witch House gets its aesthetic skeleton from the ancient feelings summoned by Arch-Heathen  sacred trees filled with hung sacrifices , bogged bodies, hidden cart goddesses that to behold meant death , an...