Recorded with more than 40 microphones on the drums alone, Myrkur’s new single Touch My Love And Die sounds like a ritual caught on tape. The Danish artist released the dark, cinematic ballad on January 22, entering it into Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026, Denmark’s Eurovision selection competition. She’ll perform the track on February 14, competing for a spot at Eurovision 2026 in Vienna this May.
The song pulls together the various threads of Amalie Bruun’s work under the Myrkur name: black metal intensity, Scandinavian folk tradition, and film score grandeur. Recorded in Dolby Atmos during winter 2025 with producer Christopher Juul of Heilung, the track features cello, a girls’ choir, and ancient folk instruments alongside that heavily mic’d drum kit. Bruun describes it as a counterweight to AI-generated music and throwaway culture, a piece where “heart, soul, blood, and tears” went into both the recording and the performance. Lyrically, the song deals in gothic romance and the supernatural, a kiss of death that functions as warning and spell, with Bruun insisting the meaning stay open to interpretation.
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Myrkur has spent the past decade carving out singular territory between extremes. Her early albums M (2015) and Mareridt (2017) leaned into emotionally charged metal, while Folkesange (2020) and Spine (2023) found grounding in ancient ballads and mythology. In parallel, she’s worked extensively in film and television composition, scoring Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla and creating the soundtrack for Ragnarok at The Royal Danish Theatre. That cinematic sensibility runs through Touch My Love And Die, a track that prioritizes physical, human sound in an era dominated by speed and artifice.
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, Denmark’s long-running Eurovision qualifier, doesn’t typically traffic in the kind of darkness Myrkur trades in. But that’s precisely the point. Bruun isn’t trying to fit the mould. She’s bringing something that doesn’t belong, letting the shadows speak where pop gloss usually reigns. Whether Danish voters go for it remains to be seen, but the song exists as its own statement regardless of the outcome.
Portrait Photo By Julia Nikiforova
Live Photo By Steve Gerrard
