Falkenbach were originally conceived as a solo-project by Vratyas Vakyas and officially came into being with the ""Laeknishendr"" demo in 1995. When Falkenbach's second album ""... Magni blandinn ok megintiri... "" appeared in 1998 it offered a refined, matured and more melodic continuation of the blackened pagan metal style that took influences from both Bathory and the second wave of Nordic black metal, which the German multi-instrumentalist had established two years earlier on the debut full-length "" ""En their medh riki fara"" (1996). ""... Magni blandinn ok meginti-ri... "" is widely considered to be an important milestone of it's genre.
