Solstafir

Roadburn 2022 will take place on April 21st – 24th in Tilburg (NL) at different venues! (Poster artwork by Valreza Collective) Last year the organizers set up an incredible streaming experience with Roadburn Redux – a virtual version of the festival with live streamming, recordings, interviews, chat and online hangouts that still managed to provide [...]

It’s that time of the year again! Since 2020 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. So here they are, the choices for the best releases of this past year in the opinion of one of our writers [...]

It’s that time of the year again! Since 2020 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. So here they are, the choices for the best releases of this past year in the opinion of one of our writers [...]

It’s that time of the year again! Since 2020 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. In this atypical year, where we were pretty much deprived of live shows, music was still a faithful companion and a way [...]

The enigmatic Icelanders of ÁRSTÍÐIR are now releasing a new video for the track ‘Lover’ taken from the band’s latest album ‘Nivalis’. ÁRSTÍÐIR comment on the video: “When making an album the simplest songs can often prove to be the most captivating ones in the end, and Lover is one of those little gems that [...]

Under The Doom 2018: A summary of all our failures For the unaware, Under The Doom is a two-day festival dedicated to the darkest trends within metal: doom metal, black metal, avantgarde, gothic, ambient and post-metal join hands to form a chain that, year after year, has been reinforced with names of ever-increasing caliber. Held [...]

We’re just a week away from one of Portugal’s most exciting year-end extreme music fests, Under The Doom. A celebration that started 6 years ago and that immediately generated a steady pilgrimage to both RCA Club and the LAV (Lisboa Ao Vivo) showroom with good reason: fixtures like Samael, Lacuna Coil, Ahab, Saturnus, Forgotten Tomb, [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

“Móðurástin” will be out on October 27th via Prophecy Productions. Icelandic act Katla. is named in tribute to one of Iceland’s greatest active volcanos, Katla. The project features ex-Sólstafir drummer Guðmundur Óli Pálmason and Einar Eldur Thorberg Guðmundsson (Fortíð, Potentiam) who is a singer/multi-instrumentalist. In the meantime, the band announced that their debut album “Móðurástin” is finished and [...]

Islandic group SÓLSTAFIR have a new video for their track “Midaftann”, which can be seen bellow. This song is part of their most recent record, “Ótta”, released last year, via Season Of Mist. [...]

Guðmundur Óli Pálmason, now ex-drummer of Iceland’s icons Sólstafir has released a public statement about his departure from the band. You can read it below and keep up with any updates at this location. Statement about my forced absence from Sólstafir “When I woke up on the morning of 20. January and looked at my [...]

Porto’s well known Hard Club, received the most recent Sólstafir tour. Accompanied by Indie Rock group Esben and the Witch and extreme Progressive Metal band Obsidian Kingdom, we were assured to experience some pretty intense moments. Originally from Spain, OBSIDIAN KINGDOM came onstage first, started their show in front of a not so full room, [...]

The mythical french metal fest, Hellfest Open Air will happen on the 20, 21 and 22nd of June 2014. The following bands have been announced so far: Emperor; Trivium; Death (Death to all tour); Watain; Carcass, Hatebreed; Iced Earth; 1349; Annihilator; Behemoth; Brutality Will Prevail; Conan; Crowbar; Dagoba; Dordeduh; Downfall of Gaia; Downset; Dozer; Equilibrium; [...]