Solefald: New Album Imminent 2010-11-08 by Trey STAFF | 13 Comments | Oslo/Berlin-based avant/black eggheadbanging duo, Solefald, will release their first album in four years on November 15th through Indie Recordings. The album is called Norron Livskunst.
Lars "Lazare" Nedland had this to say about his band's upcoming album:
Solefald has always had a free relation to genre aesthetics and conventions, which has given us a lot of fun, a death threat, and eight albums we're proud of. While we take our music very seriously, we have always had the ability to take two steps back to see both ourselves and the genre from the outside. This has given room for satire and a healthy dose of self-irony. Moreover, it has made our genre-juggling smoother and more seamless over the years. 'Norron Livskunst' shows a band that has been through many a musical experiment and all kinds of genre-stretching exercises. It's black metal and rock, eighties pop and jungle, seriousness and humor in perfect union, even if the base is still the (black) metal, we started off with as a band
Press Release: Quote:
Me eig dykk, og me meiner ålvor/ Me kann få dykk i tale med motorsagi" ("We own you, and we mean business / We can make you talk with our chainsaw") the song "Eukalyptustreet" from the new SOLEFALD album, "Norrøn Livskunst" ("Norse Art Of Living") proudly exclaims. For the Oslo/Berlin-based avant/black eggheadbanging duo it has always been clear that false modesty means no fun; the band's track record does not only contain the promo-prostitute-claim that they are the only band in metal with good taste (demonstrated through song titles such as "Buy My Sperm" and "The USA Don't Exist"), but also a desire to play "true norwegian black metal" with saxophone, Hammond organ, prog riffs, poetry reading, electronic beats, screaming and yawning vocals as well as vocal harmonies in the vein of SIMON & GARFUNKEL. For those who did not know: It's not all fun and games when two stubborn goats pretend to be a band.
With "Norrøn Livskunst", SOLEFALD looks to the early 1900-century Norway, when a young nation zealously engaged in exploring its cultural roots. Writers, painters and composers rediscovered Norse mythology, the Edda and the sagas. Houses and buildings were designed in the Norse "dragon style" and decorated with medieval motifs. Sports clubs were named after Norse deities, and Snorri Sturluson's "Heimskringla" had a natural place in every home. Explorers went out to conquer the most inhospitable regions of the world. Some of that same madness is underlying in black metal: When others hunt for fame and fast money, leave it to the Norwegians to colonise frozen continents and old cemeteries. As Cornelius Jakhelln's saga novel "The Fall Of The Gods" states: "They called it evil. They called it True Norwegian Black Metal."
SOLEFALD has, since its inception in 1995, been somewhat of a secret reserved for lovers of progressive and hard music. The Icelandic odyssey "Red for Fire + Black for Death" (for which the band was nominated to an Norwegian Alarm Award in 2006) saw the contribution of vocalists Kristoffer G. Rygg (ULVER) and Aggie Frost Peterson. As their seventh studio album, "Norrøn Livskunst", summarizes SOLEFALD's career with lyrical presence and epic substance. Agnete Kjølsrud (DJERV, ex-ANIMAL ALPHA) graces the song "Tittentattenteksti" with wonderfully hysterical vocals, while Vangelis Labrakis (MENCEA) gives SOLEFALD their first real guitar solo on "Raudedauden". To top it all off, Endre Kirkesola has mixed the album with nearly a ton of electronics of obscure origins.
The SOLEFALD crew are strange animals in the black metal flock. None of the members have been to prison — yet. Cornelius (Jakhelln, also active as STURMGEIST) is an author — in 2007 he won Bonnier Cappelens Great Nordic Novel Competition. Since then he has published a children's book, a collection of poetry and the crime novel "Voguesville", where the alcoholic herring gull King investigates a satanic freemason murder. The song "Blackabilly / Stridsljod" on "Norrøn Livskunst" is dedicated to King and his blackabilly band CHILIHEAD. In October Jakhelln will release the poetry collection "Trisyn" through the Norwegian publishing house Samlaget. This collection will be thematically and linguistically linked to "Norrøn Livskunst", as both the poetry collection and the album are written in an archaic form of Norwegian, called høgnorsk, Olav H. Hauge's romantic poem "Song Til Stormen" included.
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I can't fucking wait. Also, the press release for this album (quoted here) is worth reading.
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One of the worst metal bands in existence.
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yeah, but they're one of the best polka/black/jungle bands in existence.
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I take my music a little bit more seriously I guess. Still preparing my raping review for Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2.
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Well, that album was too serious. It had a few good songs, but a lot of pretentious crap. Bring it.
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I can't wait hahahahaha.
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I'm looking forward to it. Have you ever heard their first album, The Linear Scaffold? I can't see how you could hate that particular album.
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Will be checking this band out.
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"It's black metal and rock, eighties pop and jungle, seriousness and humor in perfect union, even if the base is still the (black) metal, we started off with as a band"
Sounds like it will be shit
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I was disappointed with the Icelandic Odyssey albums, but their older material rules, especially The Linear Scaffold.
Hopefully this will be really good.
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The Linear Scaffold and Neonism are fantastic. Will check this out.
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I'm looking forward to it. Have you ever heard their first album, The Linear Scaffold?
Still pretty bad stuff.
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I'm greatly looking forward to this.
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