Svartir Sandar

Occupation

• Aðalbjörn Tryggvason: guitar, vocals
• Sæþór Marius Sæþórsson: Guitar
• Svavar Austmann: Bass
• Guðmundur Óli Pálmason: Drums

Svartir Sandar ( Isl "black sands " ) is a 2011 double album, released by the Icelandic band Sólstafir.

Title list

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 about by Allmusic, where the album is rated four out of five points and musikreviews.de (14/ 15 points)

Svartir Sandar reached number 7 in the Icelandic and # 11 in the Finnish charts. Fjara reached # 1 on the Icelandic singles chart.

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 " the twilight of Pagan, post-rock, prog, psychedelic and Metal". Musikreviews.de says that it was not a question Metal in the classic sense and draws as a conclusion, that it is "the best non-metallic metal album of the year " the principal at Svartir Sandar.

According to drummer Guðmundur Óli Pálmason, although it is not a concept album; However, the sung at Icelandic texts have some kind of common thread of " a [r ] lost [n ] soul that wanders through a cold, black volcanic landscape, and is full of regret and even guilt from the past " is.

The artwork was designed by the Norwegian artist Kim Holm.