But until the promised spin-off on Netflix gets made, we may have to settle for something else. We're still mourning the fall of our favorite show while we guzzle mead from the hollowed-out skulls of our enemies, hoping the gods will pull Vikings from Valhalla so that we may feast our eyes upon Ragnar ( Travis Fimmel), Lagertha ( Katheryn Winnick), and Bjorn ( Alexander Ludwig) once again.

This list goes to 11.Alexander Ludwig and Travis Fimmel, Vikings Jonathan Hession/VikingsДЄfter more than eight years, History Channel's VikingsВ held its viking funeral in December of 2020, wrapping up six seasons and 89 episodes of entertaining plundering and pillaging. Spinal Tap, вЂњStonehengeвЂќ MORE NEWS: Prevea Health Ends Relationship With Aaron Rodgers The lyric speaks for itself: вЂњLongboats have been sighted and the evidence of war has begun.вЂќ This gem from 1979 feels far closer to the then cresting punk aesthetic, albeit with the usual 32nd-note guitar solos. Most of the songs on this list tilt toward the massively overblown, understandably. The Burzum frontman did hard time in jail for burning churches and murdering the guitarist from a fellow black metal band Mayhem, and has spoken out in favor of returning Europe to paganism and white nationalism. You might want to just set Varg VikernesвЂ™ personal, um, issues. Gee, think Valhalla was on metal artistsвЂ™ minds much? Sure this one starts with a whisper. Somewhere in the folds of this 1997 epic can be found the story of a bloodbath in Northumberland. Got some time to spare? Settle in for 16 minutesвЂ™ worth of history that has both got a good beat and you can thrash to it. READ MORE: 2 Shootings In Minneapolis Friday, 3 InjuredД®nslaved, вЂњ793 (The Battle of Lindisfarne)вЂќ вЂњWhen the winds of Valhalla run cold/Be sure that the blood will start to flow.вЂќ SKOL! Straight outta Stockholm, Heavy Load routinely dropped just that: one heavy load of crunching legacy metal packaged within gloriously kitschy swords-n-fjords album covers.ДЇor another dose of the familiar, you could do a lot worse (to use Minnesota parlance) than Black SabbathвЂ™s sweeping nod to the Nordic metal tradition. Black metal band King of Asgard have a fiercely devoted following, and even if you canвЂ™t understand the lyrics, you can still sort of hear why. You have to have at least one of their tunes in the mix. OK, the visuals above are a little less Asgard and a lot more Wicker Man, but Bathory have to be acknowledged as being pioneers of Viking metal. In fact, you could probably just put this song on a loop and call it a day, but letвЂ™s press on. This oneвЂ™s kind of a gimme, but cвЂ™mon! вЂњThe hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands/To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!вЂќ ThatвЂ™s just a tailgate party in a riff, right there. READ MORE: Armed Gang Men Open Gunfire On Tourists At Cancun Resort Disclaimer: Some of these songs have too much rock for one hand. Here are some of our favorite Vikings playlist selections, in no particular order.

They say music soothes the savage beast, but вЂњtheyвЂќ obviously never listened to some of the greatest songs that were ever written about (or at least have vague passing references) to Vikings and Norse mythology. If youвЂ™re feeling a little nervous about the Minnesota VikingsвЂ™ chances against the Arizona Cardinals this evening during Thursday Night Football - given the number of hits their D line has taken - maybe what you need is a fresh playlist to help you get amped up.

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