Hailing from Norway`s Sogndal region, Windir combined the vicious fury of black metal with Scandinavia`s risch folk music, history, and mythology. Masterminded in 1994 by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Terje "valfar" Bakken, Windir issued a couple of demos before debuting with 1997s Soknardalr, where Steingrim played drums and Steinarson provided vocals in Saognamaol dialect.
