Svartir Sandar
Svartir Sandar | ||||
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Studio album from Sólstafir | ||||
Publication |
October 14, 2011 |
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Label (s) | Season of Mist | |||
Format (s) |
Double CD |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
77:29 |
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occupation |
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Aðalbjörn Tryggvason, Fredrik Reinedahl |
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Svartir Sandar (Isl. "Black Sands" ) is a 2011 released double album by the Icelandic band Sólstafir .
Track list
- Andvari
- Ljós í stormi - 11:35
- Fjara - 6:39
- Þín orð - 6:20
- Sjúki skugginn - 5:07
- Era - 4:53
- Kukl - 5:08
- Gola
- Melrakkablús - 9:58
- Draumfari - 3:40
- Stinningskaldi - 1:15
- Stormfari - 3:37
- Svartir sandar - 8:21
- Djákninn - 10:51
reception
The album received mostly good reviews, including the title "Album of the Month" by the German music magazine Metal Hammer . Other positive reviews come from Allmusic , where the album was rated four out of five points, and musikreviews.de (14/15 points)
Svartir Sandar reached number 7 in the Icelandic and number 11 in the Finnish charts. Fjara reached number 1 on the Icelandic single charts.
Recording and style
The album was recorded in a recording studio in a former swimming pool near Reykjavík .
The style of the album is described by Metal Hammer as " Twilight of Pagan , Post Rock , Prog , Psychedelic and Metal ". Musikreviews.de speaks of the fact that it is not metal in the classical sense and concludes that Svartir Sandar is " the best non-metallic metal album of the year ".
According to drummer Guðmundur Óli Pálmason it is not a concept album ; however, the lyrics sung in Icelandic have a kind of common thread that is about "a lost soul wandering through a cold, black volcanic landscape, full of regrets and even feelings of guilt from the past" .
The artwork comes from the Norwegian artist Kim Holm.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album of the month Sólstafir 6 Stars Svartir Sandar metal-hammer.de
- ↑ Svartir Sandar at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Sólstafir: Svartir Sandar (Review) musikreviews.de
- ↑ Sólstafir ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. icelandairwaves.is
- ↑ a b c Interview with Guðmundur Óli Pálmason about Svartir Sandar ( memento of the original from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. metal.de