SOLEFALD: Going After A 'Purer, More Focused Sound'

July 17, 2003

Norway's SOLEFALD are presently in Iceland writing material for their fifth full-length album, tentatively due in early 2004 through Century Media Records. "Composition has been going great, in a more classic Black Metal 1993-ish style...," the band write on their official web site. "Much of the material is now written, it sounds unmistakably like SOLEFALD.

"Iceland has everything we wanted to get: Great barren landscapes, volcanoes, hot springs, sea, viking history, sagas and of course a good deal of brennivin (Icelandic booze)!

"The result of actually going to a site like Iceland to write Nordic/Viking music is a purer, more focused sound. This might be bad news for the fraction of SOLEFALD fans that love [1999's] 'Neonism' and hate [1997's] 'The Linear Scaffold'… For the people more into the '…Scaffold' and our 'Jernlov' demo (Iron Law, 1996),the new songs should hit and fit pretty well.

"During our stay we have witnessed the schizophrenic Icelandic weather, with rain one minute and sunshine the next. We have also been to a Viking festival and seen authentically dressed Vikings, swordfights, arts and crafts such as silverwork and tailoring, and there are rumours of a blot taking place this week - a blot is a sacrifice to the Norse gods in the Asatru pantheon, usually taking place in a natural setting. Our trip to Iceland is thus in all ways a return to our roots, both when it comes to music (BATHORY, DARKTHRONE, ENSLAVED and IMMORTAL feature prominently in our CD collection for the trip) and history —the new album will actually tell about a destiny of the Viking age, but fear not: the music that goes with it has taken command over the story in the old SOLEFALD way."

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