The debut album from this band from Iceland.
The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars and vocals.
Numerous guests added guitars, piano, keyboards and vocals on some tracks.
This band has so far released eight studio albums and I am reviewing them in this blog during the fall.
Next to Sigur Ros, this band has been regarded as this century's second biggest eclectic music band from Iceland. Solstafir has their roots in black metal and post-metal though.
This one hour long album does indeed starts out as a pretty primitive black metal album. Early 1990s black metal from both Finland and Norway springs to mind.
The vocals is black metal screams. The music is fast and furious.
The music then broadens out and the soundscape becomes bigger. We are now entering the cold and desolate post-black metal landscape. There are some clean and female vocals here and some melodies too.
The result is indeed a post-black metal album and a decent one too. I get the feeling that my journey through their albums will be an interesting journey, indeed.
2 points
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