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There are very moments in life, whether it be that of an individual or a wider entity such as a band, that can and could be described as “defining”. For Heri Joensen, founder, frontman and main creative force behind Viking metallians Týr it could be argued that one such moment – a musical epiphany, if you want – came when he made the decision to team with the symphony orchestra of his native Faroe Islands and discovered that he could, indeed, team his love of both classical music and folk metal into a glorious, homogeneous, symbiotic singular entity, which now has resulted in, almost five years of traumatic labour later, not only the band’s most ambitious and bravest album but also its most declarative, most cohesive and most cogent to date, as Monk now argues…