With every new release Solstafir fans don’t really know what to expect: in their fifth full-length is a banjo sound that gets immediately impregnated in your brain. “Ótta” will be release via Season of Mist on the 29th of August and is available for pre-order via the label’s online shop.
The new album will be promoted in an upcoming European tour this autumn:
10 Nov 14 Antwerp (BE) Trix
11 Nov 14 Rotterdam (NL) Baroeg
12 Nov 14 Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje
13 Nov 14 Bielefeld (DE) Forum
14 Nov 14 Berlin (DE) K17
15 Nov 14 Wangels (DE) Weißenhäuser Strand (Metal Hammer Paradise)
17 Nov 14 Warszawa (PL) Hydrozagadka
18 Nov 14 Wien (AT) Viper Room
19 Nov 14 Budapest (HU) Dürer Kert
21 Nov 14 Graz (AT) Explosiv
22 Nov 14 Innsbruck (AT) Weekender Club
SÓLSTAFIR have furthermore confirmed additional festival shows:
09 Jul 14 Neskaupsstaður (IS) Eistnaflug (Special pre-festival show)
10 Jul 14 Neskaupsstaður (IS) Eistnaflug
07 Aug 14 Schlotheim (DE) Party.San Open Air
09 Aug 14 Leeuwarden (NL) Into the Grave
SÓLSTAFIR have furthermore confirmed additional festival shows:
07 Aug 14 Schlotheim (DE) Party.San Open Air
08 Aug 14 Gävle (SE) Getaway Rock Festival
09 Aug 14 Leeuwarden (NL) Into the Grave
20 Sep 14 Helsinki (FI) UNIONI FESTIVAALI
Biography
SÓLSTAFIR have come a long way. Their musical journey started in sounds as pitch black as the volcanic ashes of their Icelandic home in the year 1994 and continuously meandered into something ‘different’. The band’s latest releases “Masterpiece of Bitterness” (2005) and “Köld” (2009) already gained high acclaim from critics and fans alike for their unique mixture of dark Metal, psychedelic phases and eerily rocking groove. Now the quartets burgeoning creativity has been bubbling up like a hot geyser unleashing their breathtaking double album “Svartir Sandar”, which takes the metamorphosis of these individualists close to perfection.
This masterpiece comes with a red hot passion like glowing magma and emotionality as stormy as the wild Northern Atlantic. Aðalbjörn Tryggvason’s gritty vocals grind the soul like an Icelandic gravel field and still carry the dark melancholy of a Nordic winter night. One moment the strings soar like raging flames, the next they spiral with hypnotic force to the capturing pounding of drum and bass. Although there is a tendency of the first part “Andvari” to tend towards the psychedelic, while the second half “Gola” reveals a more rocking outlook, both belong together and never fail to amaze, astonish and surprise. What began with SÓLSTAFIR’s promising 1996 EP “Til Valhallar” and their album debut “I Blodi Og Anda” (2002) now explodes into a mind blowing climax. Ride this volcano with Iceland’s gnarled and twisted cowboys of Rock and Metal!
Enjoy one of the band’s most famous tracks!