Female empowerment meets Mongolian mysticism in "Where the Mountain Women Sing," a genre-bending ... "Growing up with the ...

In the Mongolian tradition, shamans use rituals and trance states to communicate with the dead or spiritual beings. Although the players don’t claim to be shamans, the pounding “Shoog, Shoog,” one of ...

(Julia Duin/Religion News Service via AP) (RNS) — An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The ... one of their early songs, is the shamanic call to ancestral spirits.