FALKENBACH were originally conceived as a solo-project by Vratyas Vakyas and officially came into being with the Læknishendr demo in 1995. When FALKENBACH's second album ...Magni blandinn ok megintíri... 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 megintíri... is widely considered to be an important milestone of its genre.