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Solefald is a Norwegian avant garde metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's name is best explained in an interview from Century Media Records website[1]. Lazare states "Solefald is an old norse word for sunset. We "stole" it from a painting by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. His two paintings "Soleglad" and "Solefald" portrays the cycle of being, and we found it to be a very fitting idea for our band." Cornelius also states ""Solefald" means literally "the fall of the sun", or just "sunset"; the way we spell it is Danish, from the 19th century."
Biography
Beginnings
Their first official rehearsal together was in 1995 with the song "When The Moon Is On The Wave." They released their first, 5 song demo, entitled Jernlov (translated to Iron Law in English), in 1996. Jernlov was the band's most traditional black metal release, but it was already quite evident that the band had an experimental edge, incorporating Lazare's choir like clean vocals and lush piano passages into the heavy and intense black metal formula. They were a rare breed of band, that was able to successfully fuse two opposing feelings of music, beauty and ambiance and intensity and rage. They were one of the first bands in the black metal world to incorporate bizarre new elements into the style, including a bag pipe passage in one song.
The Linear Scaffold
The band was signed by the Milanese record label, Avantgarde Music, in 1996. In July 1997, the band released a follow up to their demo. This first full-length release was called, The Linear Scaffold. The album was an expansion of the style on the demo. The album had a better recording quality, and contained 8 songs, two of which had previously been on the demo, but were now re-written and re-recorded. The songs were a rollercoaster of emotions and sounds, ranging from rage and desperation to calm and atmospheric music. The band incorporated strange and nearly taboo techniques in the black metal scene of the time as well, using hand claps along with choruses in the song "Philosophical Revolt", jazzy clean guitar passages, and intense shrieks over lush and peaceful piano pieces. The album also featured vocals in English and Norwegian including one song which was simply a lush, ambient keyboard melody played behind Cornelius' Norwegian recital of a poem he wrote ("Tequila Sunrise"). When this album was released, the band coined the term "Red Music With Black Edges" to define themselves.
Touring
In 1998 the band began to adventure out of the studio and onto their first and only tour. The band toured Europe supporting symphonic metal band Haggard with gothic metal band Tristania. Being a two-piece band, they employed the use of John Erik Jacobsen (aka Didrik von PanzerDanzer) on second guitar, who recently toured with, then joined, Cornelius' new band Sturmgeist. Drummer Tarald Lie and ex-Dimmu Borgir member Jens-Petter Sandvik on the bass completed Solefald's live line-up.
Expanding Individual Horizons
Starting in 1998 the two members started branching out into other musical endeavours, with Lazare performing the drums for the album Black Shining Leather by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest. Later, in July 1999, Cornelius did guest vocals for the gothic metal band Monumentum for the songs "Black And Violet", a cover of the Italian band Death SS, and "The Colour of Compassion". These recordings were released in 2004 on the Monumentum compilation album, Metastasi.
Neonism
In 1999, the band released their second full-length, entitled Neonism on September 24th. This album is considered to be the most experimental and off the wall Solefald album to date. Incorporating black metal, pop, classical music, punk, progressive metal, and trip hop, the album is a hotchpotch of styles and feelings. The many vocal capabilities of the two men came out of the woods work on this album as well. Singing in English and French, Lazare brought back his classic choir like vocals, but also introduced a new style, that is a form of aggressive, slam style hollering. Cornelius still used his inhumanly high pitched wails and shrieks and his lower black metal grunting, but he also introduced a new style for himself, a sort of monotone, fast paced, form of singing, that sounds like a robotic rap. The lyrics were extremely unconventional for metal in general and black metal especially (since traditional black metal lyrics are more relevant to the 13th century than the 20th), dealing with socio-political issues and pop culture criticism in songs like "Backpacka Baba" and "CK II Chanel no. 6". The album was hailed as a classic by many, but some criticized it for being too adventurous. The band even received a death threat from the USA from someone that considered the album an abomination to black metal. Others knocked it for its thin recording quality. The band stated that they used this quality because of the multi-layered song structures demanding a thinner sound to allow the many facets of the music to shine through. Another reasoning was that they wanted to use the recording style at the famed Sunlight Studios to achieve the "old school black metal" sound. The album's recording was also plagued with problems, including a mixing board that literally started burning. The band coined the term "Radical Designer Rock 'n' Roll", for this release.
Lazare Joins Borknagar
Following this album, the Solefald camp grew quiet for a little while. Lazare joined, progressive/folk/black metal band Borknagar as keyboard player and back-up vocalist. In 2000, Borknagar released their first release with Lazare playing with them, Quintessence.
Pills Against The Ageless Ills
In 2001, Solefald came together to release their third full-length. The new album, entitled Pills Against The Ageless Ills, was a concept album based on a fictitious tale written by Cornelius. It tells the story of two brothers, Pornographer Cain and Philosopher Fuck, and the days before their deaths. Cain, a pornography director, is found guilty of the murder of Kurt Cobain. Meanwhile, Fuck is exiled from the United States and dies in a hospital in Paris. Both brothers represent the similarities and differences between desire and remorse in human nature. Musically, Pills is much more straightforward than Neonism. The album is much more guitar heavy, relying on heavy riffs and angular, colorful guitar playing, with the keys acting as an accent and background instrument much of the time. Whereas Neonism consisted of songs that would each have a variety of styles and genres, Pills has a variety of different style songs, each focusing individually on a certain style. The song "Hyperhuman" opens the album with a blazing black metal assault, reminiscent of the opening song of The Linear Scaffold, "Jernlov". The song "Pornographer Cain" has much more of a heavy, hard rock feel to it, until it breaks into a speedy techno beat. The album continues along with various style shifts, ranging from black metal played in Solefald's particular style ("Charge Of Total Affect", "Hate Yourself"), to the rap style punk rock songs similar to ones found on Neonism ("The U.S.A. Don't Exist"). Still holding to Solefald's signature though, there are signs of random experimentation, including a drum and bass breakdown in "The U.S.A. Don't Exist", a grungy/Black Sabbath style guitar outro in "Fuck Talks, and a Surf Rock/1960's style progressive rock bridge in "Charge Of Total Affect". Vocally, the band had made yet another advance. Maintaining Lazare's classic style and getting rid of his slam style singing, and keeping Cornelius' lower black metal grunting, we saw the addition of a less high pitched black metal shriek from Cornelius, as well as Cornelius' most signature style of singing to date. This new vocal style is a throaty, brooding, sinister sounding form of vocals, similar to some gothic rock bands. This album, released on September 19th, 2001, was Solefald's first album released through the German record label Century Media.
In Harmonia Universali
The next Solefald endeavour came in 2003 with the full-length album In Harmonia Universali released on March 24th, 2003. This album was by far the most epic, sprawling Solefald album so far. The album contained 10 songs, with each song's lyrics devoted to various artists, philosophers, and deities. The lyrics are also sung in four languages on this album, English, Norwegian, French, and German. The incorporation of an authentic grand piano, a male choir, authentic Spanish classical acoustic guitar, violin, and saxophone. The music was extremely layered, consisting of composite riffs and angular, colorful leads from the guitars, swirling and beautiful hammond keyboard sections, and powerful and tight drumming. Every song on this album is an epic piece of art. Vocally, Lazare is more layered and choral sounding than ever before. His range has expanded and his voice is lush and beautiful. Cornelius sings solely with a deep, throaty, rough vocal style, similar to the style introduced on Pills, but more extreme and varied than on that album. His throat style ranges from brooding and melodic ("Mont Blanc Providence Crow"), to sinister ("Sonnenuntergang Im Weltraum"), to totally extreme and evil ("Epictetus & Irreversibility"). This was their last album released on Century Media.
Involvement In Other Bands
In 2003 Lazare continued expanding his involvement in other bands with his inclusion into the viking/folk/black band Ásmegin. His distinct clean singing adds a fantastic dimension to the band. In 2004 he joined the avant garde metal band Age Of Silence as singer and main lyricist, which includes members such as Andy Winter from the band Winds, and Hellhammer from such bands as Arcturus, Mayhem, Winds, and many many more. In early 2005, Cornelius released the first full-length album Meister Mephisto, through Season of Mist from his solo band, Sturmgeist, an experimental black/thrash metal band with industrial overtones. Lazare contributed back-up vocals on this release, along with vocalist Fuchs of Weimar's Die Apokalyptischen Reiter.
An Icelandic Odyssey: Red For Fire
Later in the year 2005, the band travelled to Iceland, with funding from Tekstforfatterfondet, to write their next album. Originally planning to release one new album, the group wound up writing so much new material, they decided they would release two new albums. In a quote from the band it was stated "Solefald was experimenting when everybody was being true. Now that things are changing and that we've pushed the experiment quite far already, we wanted "Red For Fire + Black For Death" to be our attempts at being true. This will be a true Nordic Viking Metal album." This two part saga is the story written by Cornelius about Bragi, a Skald in Iceland. Bragi is the king's court poet, until he sleeps with the queen. When this is discovered, the queen lies and claims that Bragi raped her. Bragi is then forced to flee Reykjavík, because he be will killed for what he had supposedly done. The first album from this two part saga was released on October 14th, 2005, and was entitled Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1. This album deals with Bragi's internal struggles with keeping control over his sanity, and his qualms with the gods as he fights to survive in the wilderness. Vocally Lazare's vocals are lush and layered as always, with an almost bard like quality to his voice. Cornelius' voice has changed drastically. The majority of the album Cornelius has a raging, wolf like approach to black metal vocal styles, ranging from hideous shrieks, to raging growls and roars. He also incorporates his throat style singing to sound agonized and brooding at many times. His vocals have never been more intense. Musically the album is far from standard viking metal. The inclusion of a violin and cello handling most of Lazare's musical arrangements rather than a synthesizer, beautiful female vocals thanks to Aggie "Frost" Peterson, beautiful jazzy saxophone playing, tight and ever varied drumming, and angular, cold, bright, raw, and heavy guitar playing, makes the album epic, sweeping, layered, majestic, and intense.
Black For Death
The follow up to Red For Fire, entitled Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2, is set to release through Season Of Mist on November 13th, 1006 years after the Fall of Iceland.
Present And Future
Following shortly after this release, the two of them continue to release more music from other projects. Age Of Silence released a new three song EP entitled Complications - Trilogy Of Intricacy on October 11th, 2005 as a lead into their approaching second full-length. Cornelius is recording an experimental electronica album under the band name G.U.T. He is also writing the libretto for a contemporary opera telling a story from the pagan times of the North.
Not Just Musicians
Aside from music, Lazare is a newscaster for TVNorge, and Cornelius is an accomplished writer/poet, with many published writings including a tetralogy of poems entitled Quadra Natura. The third volume of this four-book collection, entitled Fagernorn. Quadra Natura 0111 was released on March 16 of 2006.
Discography
Studio releases
* The Linear Scaffold - Avantgarde Music (1997)
* Neonism - Avantgarde Music (1999)
* Pills Against The Ageless Ills - Century Media (2001)
* In Harmonia Universali - Century Media (2003)
* Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 - Season Of Mist (2005)
* Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2 - Season Of Mist (2006)
Demos
* Jernlov (demo) - Self-released (1996)
Band members
Current members
* Cornelius Jakhelln - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Sampling - (1995-)
* Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland - Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Organs, Drums - (1995-)
Former/live/session members
* John Erik Jacobsen a.k.a. Panzer (Sturmgeist) - live second guitar - (1998)
* Jens-Petter Sandvik - Live bass - (1998)
* Tarald Lie - Live drums - (1998)
* Silje Ulvevadet Dæhli - Violins on Pills - (2001)
* Kjetil Selvik - Saxaphone on In Harmonia and Red For Fire - (2003,2005)
* Kristian Krüger, Kjetil Selvik, and Sigurd Høye - Choir on In Harmonia - (2003)
* Aggie Frost Peterson - Vocals on Red For Fire - (2005)
* Jörmundur Ingi - Spoken word on Red For Fire - (2005)
* Sareeta (Ásmegin, Ram-Zet) - Violin on Red For Fire and Black For Death - (2005, 2006)
* Live Julianne Kostøl - Cello on Red For Fire and Black For Death - (2005, 2006)
* Kristoffer Rygg a.k.a. Garm a.k.a. Trickster G (Ulver, Head Control System, ex-Arcturus, ex-Borknagar) - Vocals on Black For Death - (2006)
- Solefald biography written for Wikipedia by Steve Wiener, then edited by the band
Friendly fire:
Cornelius Jakhelln's website
Cornelius' MySpace profile
Sturmgeist's MySpace profile
Lazare's MySpace profile
Borknagar's website
Trine and Kim, Solefald's court designers whose work adorn this very page

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Member Since: 11/1/2006
Band Website: solefald.no
Band Members:

Cornelius Jakhelln - Wolf Voices, Viking Axes
Lazare Nedland - Cold choirs, Keys & Orchestrations, Blizzard Beats
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SOON IT IS HERE: Solefald's long-awaited 10th- anniversary remix album "The Circular Drain" can now be preordered!

In the liner notes of "The Linear Scaffold" we audaciously announced a follow-up by the name "The Circular Drain". Now, ten years later, it is here, an anniversary album celebrating Solefald's first decade. It features the "Jernlov" demo from 1996, available on cd for the first time. Four songs of total screaming madness! 300 numbered tapes of the demo were printed in 1996. The demo sold out quickly and has been unavailable ever since, going for exorbitant sums at Ebay. "Jernlov" has now been remastered by Endre Kirkesola and sounds pretty damn necro! An example: If you thought the screams on "The Linear Scaffold" were intense, you ought to hear the demo...Furthermore, "The Circular Drain" includes remixes of several Solefald classics. Havoc Unit has remixed "Sun I Call" quite beautifully; The Bombs of Enduring Freedom has given "Survival of the Outlaw" the bigbeat aggression it needed; Newcomer Exorcise offers a breathtaking version of "Red for Fire + Black for Death"; Lazare has finally remixed his favourite track "Fluorescent" (he has been fantasising about that since we recorded "Neonism" in 1998); I have recorded a semi-unplugged version of "When The Moon Is On The Wave" as G.U.T. Check out the tracklist below for all the details.Here is how to preorder "The Circular Drain": Below you find a series of buttons that will take you to the PayPal site where you can pay with debit and credit cards as well as with bank transfers. As we are dealing with exclusive stuff here, I cannot give the albums away; but there are good discounts if you buy several copies. International shipping is included in the price. You can also order at the MySpace profile of Von Jackhelln Inhuman , where the G.U.T. album "My Only Drug Is Madness" is equally available.I send out the numbered copies of "The Circular Drain" in the order that they are bought. This means I will send cd number one to the first buyer; cd number two to the second buyer, and so forth. As of yet, we are early on and there is a good chance of getting an low number! Grab the chance and get your hands on this exclusive object! You have the option to get the album dedicated to you personally.The cd is a 6-page digipack designed by Trine Paulsen and Kim Sølve, who have done our last four releases. The front cover is a real surprise: It features the Theodor Kittelsen drawing that gave "Solefald" our name. With Kittelsen on board we are closer to the TNBM look than ever before!I will personally sign and number every cd by hand. Along with the cd I will also send you a hand-printed card from an old-fashioned Berlin typographer stating that you belong to the Solefald hardcore. Your red certificate will carry beautiful German gothic fonts, and I will add your name and the number of your cd by hand. The cds will be ready to ship by January 4th, 2008.Being number seven in our discography "The Circular Drain" is an official Solefald release. The remix album holds our usual professional standard when it comes to design and production (well, today the demo sounds pretty necro, although it was quite hi-fi back in 1996...) You will not find "The Circular Drain" in the shops anytime soon.If this isn't a damn good gift idea for Yule, I don't know what would be! Get Solefald remix albums for your friends and family. For your lover and your teacher. For your grandparents and your pet. When they realise just how exclusive this is they will love you forever. For all orders placed before Christmas I will send out a specially designed gift certificate you can print out and give to your loved ones.Now check out the new remixes by Exorcise and Havoc Unit!Here is the complete tracklist:JERNLOV - THE IRON LAWSolefald Demonstration Tape - 996 AF1. Motmenneske
2. Philosophical Revolt
3. Sivilisasjonens Slør - Ravnens Fall
4. When The Moon Is On The WaveTHE CIRCULAR DRAIN - DET SYKLISKE SLUKSolefald Remixes & Free Mixes5. Red For Fire + Black For Death - Exorcise
6. Survival Of Fhe Outlaw - The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom
7. Fluorescent (The Total Orchestra) - dj:!!j Lazare
8. Sun I Call - Havoc Unit
9. There Is Need - The Extreme Zweizz Fuckover
10. CK II Chanel no 6 - Half Sherman
11. A Motion Picture - Red Sector A
12. Bragi (Prayer Of A Son) - Havoc Unit
13. When The Moon Is On The Wave - G.U.T.The total playing time is approximately one hour.

Best regards,
Cornelius von Jackhelln

Berlin, December 6th, 1007 AF

THE LINEAR SCAFFOLD - THE CIRCULAR DRAINA decade has passed since we unleashed "The Linear Scaffold". Solefald's debut album imposed philosophical fury on a scene still engulfed in conceptual fog. We experimented when everybody else were busy being true. Now that experimentation is omnipresent in the genre we resume our initial stance:"Within these running minutes, time has been subdued by our passion, our desires — an expression thoroughly worked out by human mind and flesh. In terms of intensity and cruelty, the musical barbary remains the same. It has, however, obtained a new and more sophisticated vehicle: The Linear Scaffold - The Circular Drain."We dare state the following: History has proven us right. By now Solefald is the oldest band in the Avantgarde niche we set out to fill. With an unbroken succession of albums we have taken possession of Red. Forever challenging sectarian dogma we stay hungry.Critics have called us fruitcakes and eggheadbangers. We agree. We think of our songs as Baroque paintings with several layers of meaning. The apparent chaos of rivaling layers is what constitutes the Solefald sound. We named it: Red Music With Black Edges. Radical Designer Rock'n'Roll. Extreme Epic Metal.As a duo Solefald incarnate all the ego and will of a philharmonic orchestra. Miraculously, we dovetail as composers and musicians. The gods out there know something about miracles. We believe in them because we know.We never expected to be around ten years later. But here we are, with unfinished symphonies to come. At The European Academy of Extreme Music Science your two mad professors set sail for the future with undiminished lust for exploration.Solefald thank the fanatics for their decade-long loyalty and support. This is all for you.Stay true!Lazare and Cornelius

THE MACHO VEHICLE
Sex from backyards - porches Out - into chambers - arenas Parliaments of men Broadcasted boysWe fell off the macho vehicle As batons from the scientific rev Lost their bastille in paris 68Paternity dyed red World pornography fallNo floor for the colossus No divine divan - On words to rest -No more soil Sown with peasant liesBurden carried by One

SPEED INCREASED TO SCAFFOLD
A sotto voce song for the soprano singer Whose tyrannical arias won’t cease to linger Bob’s out there- none of us play cool Classmates in a haunted school Agent Dale Cooper won’t take you any higher C’mon li’l boy ‘n play with the fire Surrounded by the presence of the absent teacher Both knowing silence as the music of the future Surrendered at the serpent’s burning gates of fear If you think that this is hell- the truth‘s in there The world situation calls for evacuation We wait in the dark for the next ejaculation Your black finger nails clasp the candelabra Turn the light on I see the abracadabra Naomi does the catwalk even when it snows Male photographers so envious it shows The stage their temple their trampoline to trance Trampled and turned by the transvestite’s dance It’s not Naomi- it’s the Marlboro Man If you want to run I understand The night dies on a daily basis The solar orbit doesn’t disturb my ekstasis Searching for knowledge in the spirit of Tintin Alone on a plain with Plato and Plotin My forehead bronzed by the Lamborghini moon I’m out of my night tomorrow at noon Lead the suntan astray kick the cancer away I’ll kill my ego on a hidden highway Invoke the big silence on this small disc Trespasser listener on your own risk Outside of our chords and choirs of the sublime Reality is nothing but a heartbeat in time Outside of the bass and the blitzing blastbeat A massive vacuum whose ambition’s complete All-sound without sound booming all around All-sound without sound booming all around Enjoy the years of work in these minutes of movement You evolve in our improvement With a linear scaffold still to fulfill I exercise a style of radical will Accelerate the ratioplane past the sound barrier To accomplish the bang the whole of my career Masculine motorcar Technowork sublime Be beaten or compete this is the last heat The Tiger Sky’s jaws break the neck of Time Speed increased to scaffold Silence be complete

THE USA DON'T EXIST
A collage of scraps of rock and rap lyrics, film punchlines, newspaper clips, conversations in the subway and occasional intrapersonal thoughts, compiled by Fuck on one of his brighter days.C: Out of the seven classic arts Rhetoric rises to bust the charts The master of agony invites you to the Forum Louder than Romanum’s decadent decorum The bell booms GO! The centurion rhymes Heroically racing for blood-hungry times Close to the edge he resists their push Pure strength saves him from the greedy rush The race has a goal though very few know where Mostly officers on the ground and satellites in the air The star-spangled racers speed into house and home Today the Americans try to recreate RomeL: Leaves flicker across the boulevard Way down I see my old retard He said "Ello ma feren, want a nice place to go? I fix booze girls burgers floorshow!"(The old retard tells me: "Come with me you ain't nothing to lose!" I refuse the offer I cannot refuse He hears my no scratches his beard When Beelzie runs a nightclub times are weird)C: I deny the existence of the USA Just a fat film with too much to sayL: The USA don't exist The USA don't exist The USA don't exist Again I'm pissedC: I deny the existence of the USA Just a fat film with too much to sayL: The USA don't exist The USA don't exist The USA don't exist Again I'm pissedC: Jim is alone and afraid of '67 The summer of love never returned from heaven The hippies slowly died at the Heartbreak Hotel Where the Peyote Poet reinvented hell Fifteen years later he returned as a YAP Just to make sure that life was still crap Down and in need of the drugs that made the fun He soberly declared I need money and a gunL: Fifteen years later he returned as a YAPC: I deny the existence of the USA Just a fat film with a bit too much to sayL: The USA don't exist The USA don't exist The USA don't exist Again I'm pissedC: Pornographer Cain haunts from the dead Sews up Madame with a waxed red thread The wanderer has found himself a home Madame hangs as doll in his sexodrome It's a man's world and he has seen the need For yet another man to do the dirty deed In Rock 'n' Rollywood our guy's at work Pushing love shit to some fellow human jerkL: It is a man's world and he has seen the needC: I deny the existence of the USA Just a fat film with too much to sayL & C: The USA don't exist The USA don't exist The USA don't exist Again I'm pissed

SEA I CALLED
Sun I called burning wheel Sword I called wolf of steelStar I called sword of light Rune I called sign in stoneMan I called tree that thinks Earth I called grave of menGods I called not of earth Sky I called home of godsSea I called flock of waves Ship I called horse at seaMount I called giant dead Wind I called Midgard's breathLife I called kiss of gods Fire I called wrath of lifeLove I called lust for more Child I called made of loveName I called eternal life Worth I called what lives onKing I called head of men Queen I called pride of kingDream I called what is not Time I called Odin's dreamWorld I called Yggdrasill Death I called end of all

SAGATELLER
O father of truth and marvellous lies Ignorance the dragon never dies In the Midgard of men they call you sagateller In the Asgard of gods they call you dragonkiller Red words for black thoughts, you cannot be blamed No name is a secret, no secret is unnamed The sagas you tell mankind teach them about fate Songs and legends from times of love and hate When the words of Odin's art resound through the horn Heros and Giants of the ancient epics are reborn In the Midgard of men they call you sagateller In the Asgard of gods they call you dragonkiller Skald: The eyes of the universe, the witness of time Heart and head tied together in rhythm and rhyme The fury of enemies the madness of the young There is no thing in the world that is not in your song Under the silver of a thousand moons The book of your life was written with runes Would you know the future of your kin How White Christ and Black Death were going to win The Icelanders who hungered the Norwegians who died Before the doors of Hel, they had their strength tried Remember the hardships the toil they went through Remember the hardships the battles they lived through Our blood hails the North pagan Vikings stay true Red for Fire + Black for Death Our blood hails the North pagan Vikings stay true The Icelanders who hungered the Norwegians who died Before the doors of Hel, they had their strength tried Remember the hardships the battles they lived through Our blood hails the North pagan Vikings stay true Sagateller Dragonkiller O father of truth and marvellous lies Ignorance the dragon that never dies The Icelanders who hungered the Norwegians who died Before the doors of Hel, they had their strength tried Red for Fire + Black for Death Our blood hails the North pagan Vikings stay true
Record Label: Season of Mist
Type of Label: Indie

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Solefald News - Digital Distribution - Rome again

I have just returned from Oslo, where I promoted my new children's book "Rikke gidder ikke!". The campaign went down well and the book received attention from a number of media. National newspapers VG...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

Book Launch Party Tomorrow Night in Oslo

My new children´s book Rikke gidder ikke! is out this week. The title means something a little nicer than "Rikke doesn´t give a f*** about anything anymore!" and tells the story of a little girl who a...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:49:00 PST

New Photos and Remix

Today I added a new remix of our song "Survival of the Outlaw" by The Bombs of Enduring Freedom. MS offers limited space for track info, hence fitting in the somewhat lengthy project name in the title...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:43:00 PST

New Photos and Remix

Today I added a new remix of our song "Survival of the Outlaw" by The Bombs of Enduring Freedom. MS offers limited space for track info, hence fitting in the somewhat lengthy project name in the title...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:49:00 PST

The Circular Drain Is Out Now

I have just shipped the first hundreds of "The Circular Drain", those of you who have ordered it ought to receive it soon, depending on where you live. Deutsche Post is usually fast and reliable. The ...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:24:00 PST

The Circular Drain - One Week Late

First of all let me wish you a Happy New Year, with all the best life has to offer. Love, poetry, wine, food and music!I hate to start 2008 with bad news, but, it is my sad duty: The CD manufacturer h...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:54:00 PST

Ebay

From time to time I browse Ebay for Solefald stuff. I possess everything released under our name, I believe, except for the cassette version of "Neonism". If anyone out there has it I am willing to bu...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:54:00 PST

Fan Mail

This landed in the inbox today: "Solefald is like the red in the sky before sunset,leaving me full of anticipation waiting to see what horrorsthe cold night will bring."Pas mal !Cornelius ...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:45:00 PST

Turning 30 Today

At last the dreaded, but still welcome, day is here: August 31st of Odin's own year 1007 (check out Solefald's Icelandic Odyssey if you are confused about my idiosyncratic calendar!), which is also my...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:48:00 PST

English/French/German Translation of "Yggdraliv"

Today I signed a contract with my German publisher IP Verlag in Berlin for the translation of my poetry book "Yggdraliv. Quadra Natura 0011". The book, my second, tells the creation of a new pagan wor...
Posted by SOLEFALD on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:41:00 PST