SÓLSTAFIR get signed (about time)

[Erik]

Sólstafir sign with Spikefarm Records. 22/04/2005
Sólstafir have signed with Spikefarm Records (a division of Spinefarm Records).
The band's debut release for the label can be expected to be released in December 2005.

for new album

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Will this mean that their other releases will be easier to find? Perhaps even re-released...?

If so, "Í Blóði og Anda", here I come!

 

[Erik]

Considering "Blódi" was re-released by Oskorei Music less than half a year ago (and Til Valhallar about a year ago,) I doubt that's necessary?

 

[Ellestin]

Big news! This will finally get them the acknowledgement of all those too lazy to go digging unsigned bands, however brilliant... Hopefully the re-release of "I Blodi og Anda" fits somewhere in the deal: this album so fucking good, full of hot-blooded hymns, bursting with testosterone and technically totally depraved! The 3-tracks of last year's promoCD shows their will to turn towards weird atmospheres of a polar kind. I think Enslaved way of evolving has touched them somehow and they're up to something quite ambitious!

 

[Erik]

Sólstafir is waaay better than Enslaved nowadays... They're progressing in a direction that's much more, eh, interesting.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Considering "Blódi" was re-released by Oskorei Music less than half a year ago (and Til Valhallar about a year ago,) I doubt that's necessary?

Me so stupid.

Just checked out their website and they don't accept credit cards, though!

 

[Erik]

BTW, if anyone is looking for "Til Valhallar" and "...Blódi..." reissues, both are available at for example Ledo Takas

 

[J.]

are their two albums hard to find? i think red stream has both available.

good news. I look forward to hearing it.

and yes, Solstafir>>>prog enslaved

 

[Ellestin]

Sólstafir is waaay better than Enslaved nowadays... They're progressing in a direction that's much more, eh, interesting.

Yes, I just meant to point out the hard-to-deny parallelism between their stylistic journeys of late

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

what are they???

 

[Demonspell]

Excellent news, that's one candidate for debut of the year...

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I just found an mp3 on my comp by them: "Myself the Visionary Head"

Interesting.

 

[J.]

what are they???

viking metal, and then they moved to progresive sounding black metal which surpasses Enslaved's last two efforts IMO.

the vocals take a while to tolerate and appreciate, but it's worth the effort.