 | Solefald Norron Livskunst
3.8
excellent
| Ranking: #146 for 2010 | |
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| 4.2 excellent | Trey STAFF | November 16th 10 |
If you recognize the name Lars "Lazare" Nedland, it's most likely due to his contribution to Borknagar where he plays keyboards and shares vocal duties. Borknagar wasn't his first band, though. Lars and his buddy, Cornelius Jakhelln, have been playing in Solefald since 1995. While every album is different, overall they like to mess with the black metal formula by adding rock, folk, prog, samples... basically whatever they feel like throwing into the pot, bouncing back and forth between ultra serious tracks and straight black metal weirdness that would give Arcturus a run for their money. Norron Livskunst is a totally comprehensive album that effortlessly encompasses Solefald's entire history by using their good ideas, ignoring the elements that have never really worked, and delivering a collection of their strongest material to date. It's a career-defining album that should thrill any current fan of the band and frustrate anybody that wants their metal totally serious. This will make anyone that takes their music too seriously a bit uneasy, and for that it's awesome.
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| 2.5 average | lifter | June 2nd 12 |
Don't get me wrong, there are moments (and a song or two) on here that I really quite enjoy, but this is the kind of album that's listened to a few times then disappears from one's mental radar for months or years. I've felt pretty much the same about every Solefald album, I guess, yet have somehow, much to own surprise, managed to collect them all.
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| 3.0 good | Babyss | November 16th 10 |
This is nice but that's it. Sth is seriously missing. For very good avantgarde black I would prefer the latest albums from Vulture industries or Transcending Bizarre
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| 2.0 poor | HSThomas | November 15th 10 |
This is sad really. There are some seriously good elements. The songs themselves are well-written and Lazare's rasps are brilliant, hell even the polka elements work at points but the damn clean vocals and the excessive electronica elements drown the songs in camp and cheese. Solefald are known for the humourous take on their own music at points but they also knew restraint in their excess. Here though it's like listening to the Gestapo perform YMCA. Seriously bad.
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| 4.0 excellent | kx8 | June 18th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Spag | January 1st 21 |
| 4.5 superb | ariich | September 15th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Awake88 | February 9th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | hsb | November 14th 17 |
| 2.5 average | adios | November 5th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Elynna | April 14th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | cozzy | November 25th 16 |
| 2.5 average | mursu | July 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | November 1st 15 |
| 3.5 great | sprgv | October 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Steev | August 29th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kruppe | August 19th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hati | July 18th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ulshad | July 3rd 13 |
| 3.5 great | OllieS | April 24th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | vkristi | January 16th 13 |
| 3.0 good | pride | December 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Feels | July 23rd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | ppW | November 17th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Wolfe | June 6th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | 32left | May 28th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ev0ken | April 25th 11 |
| 3.5 great | 37er00 | March 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ameypv | January 11th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Kriss | December 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | avestin | November 27th 10 |
| 3.0 good | alsid | November 26th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skjorte | November 25th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | netromo | November 21st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryce | November 21st 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Mikanoz | November 19th 10 |
| 4.3 superb | Ryan P STAFF | November 18th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Voivod STAFF | November 18th 10 |
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