SÓLSTAFIR

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: ICE
Style: psychedelic progressive black metal rock

up to this, the miraculous sophomore full-length [2005] that has become a groundbreaking shift for infamous viking black metal supergroup from remote Iceland, they have been active for ten years, yet this challenging, innovative move towards sublime progressive post metal/rock has revealed completely different angle to them, with unbelievably smooth, chilling and persuading transition that even fans of the most ferocious direction have respect for, enriching the sound with atmospheric guitar layers, hypnotic rhythms, melancholic melodies and subtle psychedelic nuances - eclectic, genre-defining experience in seven parts literally starts a whole new artistic movement that evolves into eclectic experience that shatters stylistic boundaries; recent French gatefold sleeve double silver-marbled red vinyl edition with pro-printed lyric inner sleeves is limited to 750 units