Sometimes he sounds a lot like Roger Waters, especially on the closing track, "Djakninn." ![]() Aðalbjörn Tryggvason's vocals are slighty harsh, but more just shouting, except where he chooses to uses clean singing, which brings to mind the "Viking" label. The songs are looong, many parts repeated to produce a hypnotic atmosphere. The whole album has a real vintage, 70's feel, especially in the sound of the guitars, which eschew power chords and chugging in favour of open strummed chords and haunting melodies. And indeed, much of Svartir Sandar can hardly be labelled metal, apart from the percussive nature of music and the distorted guitars. The songs are long, droning, and enhanced by pianos, choirs, and samples (to name a few), but at the very core of it all stand four talented Icelanders with a penchant for pushing the envelope. Imagine if Primordial, Pink Floyd, and Enslaved got stranded in the North Atlantic with a couple bags of magic mushrooms, weed and a bit of alcohol.you'd get something akin to Svantir Sandar. No, Solstafir is a real anomaly, not only in the realm of metal, but in the universe of music. The tag "Viking metal" just doesn't cut it with this multiheaded mutant, a strange hybrid never meant for mainstream consumption, even though some of the clear vocals recall Scandinavian folk melodies. ![]() The Icelandic music scene as a whole is filled with odd music, and Solstafir is no exception to this.
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