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The cold climate of Iceland is almost essential when explaining the uninitiated about a band such as Sólstafir. Ice-cold, extended metal symphonies of this caliber require loads of coldness and snowstorms to take shape.

The four-piece has in the course of four albums moved from following the metal textbook to leaving their very own tracks in the snow. Sólstafir combines crushingly heavy elements with symphonic sequences, which is reminiscent of post-rock and gives the music a cinematic rush to the stomach.

Sólstafir should end up as the metal scene's answer to Sigur Rós. Their music is just as ambitious, freethinking and frost-wrapped as the music by their fellow, more famous countrymen.

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