Solefald - Waves over Valhalla (An Icelandic Odyssey Part 3)

«Me eig dykk, og me meiner ålvor/ Me kann få dykk i tale med motorsagi» («We own you, and we mean business / We can make you talk with our chainsaw») the song «Eukalyptustreet» from the new Solefald album Norrøn livskunst («Norse art of living») proudly exclaims. For the Oslo/Berlin-based avant/black eggheadbanging duo it has always been clear that false modesty means no fun; The band's track record does not only contain the promo-prostitute-claim that they are the only band in metal with good taste (demonstrated through song titles such as «Buy My Sperm» and «The USA Don't Exist»), but also a desire to play True Norwegian Black Metal with saxophone, Hammond organ, prog riffs, poetry reading, electronic beats, screaming and yawning vocals as well as vocal harmonies in the vein of Simon & Garfunkel. For those who did not know: It's not all fun and games when two stubborn goats pretend to be a band.

With Norrøn livskunst, Solefald looks to the early 1900-century Norway, when a young nation zealously engaged in exploring its cultural roots. Writers, painters and composers rediscovered Norse mythology, the Edda and the sagas. Houses and buildings were designed in the Norse «dragon style» and decorated with medieval motifs. Sports clubs were named after Norse deities, and Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla had a natural place in every home. Explorers went out to conquer the most inhospitable regions of the world. Some of that same madness is underlying in black metal: When others hunt for fame and fast money, leave it to the Norwegians to colonise frozen continents and old cemeteries. As Cornelius Jakhelln's saga novel The Fall of the Gods states: «They called it evil. They called it True Norwegian Black Metal».


Line-up:
Lazare - Vocals, synth, electronic beats, drums and percussion
Cornelius - Vocals, guitar and bass


Official myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/solefaldofficial

Lyrics:

As the last god on Earth I ask for a whisky
The floodwave took it all life up here is risky
What can I tell you the giants pulled us under
A sky-high tsunami black walls of thunder

My Third Valhalla was splintered by the waves
I knew at heart no bloody magic saves
In solitude divine I mourn the greatest loss
The golden world of gods everything that was

Creator Destroyer I am Allfather again
The nine worlds went under except for number ten
One for Being Yggdrasil in my hand
Zero for the lifeless Nothingness' land

I curse the Norns that weave the Vital Code
Life both good and evil to rise and to erode
Cells feed on matter feeds on cells feed on matter
If a body is to grow it needs another one to shatter

Life requires Death to seep through the pores of Time
A mytholife like Sisyphos that continues to climb
It menas that no life is pure not even my own
Also Odin's veins are host to a giant's seed sown

So what I create 'twill have a twofold nature
The Twilight of the Gods was not an erasure
What hurts the most is that if I kill the enemy
His essence still lurks deep down within me

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• waves
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• valhalla
• norron
• livskunst
• teddygibbin

[glacierise]

When you start a song with: 'As the last god on Earth I ask for a whisky/

The floodwave took it all life up here is risky' it's pretty hard to screw it up :D

[666caldix666]

Awesome awesome awesome.

[Faithkrusher]

@nicomoore16

NOTHING like Nightwish. Fuck that Disney inspired pop band.

[nicomoore16]

@Seeker52 Kinda operatic at parts, and just brutally awesome! :)

[Seeker52]

@nicomoore16 In what ways? :-))

[mag8dalena8]

great music!

[nicomoore16]

A bit like nightwish :)

[EddieEssence]

hmmm.. it's more an Metal Opera..

with a little bit Black influences...

[windswept23]

wow, great Teddy!!!