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Solefald
Origin Norway
Genre(s) Avant-garde metal
Black metal
Years active 1995 – Present
Label(s) Season of Mist
Century Media
Avantgarde Music
Associated acts Ásmegin
Age Of Silence
Böh
Borknagar
Carpathian Forest
Darling Divine
Grail
Sturmgeist
Vintersorg
Winds
Website http://www.solefald.org
Members
Cornelius Jakhelln
Lazare Nedland

Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Avant-garde metal or experimental metal is a subgenre of Heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative Avant-garde elements large-scale Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Season of Mist is a French Independent record label. Artists. Century Media Records (CMR is an independent rock Record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Avantgarde Music is an Italian Record label focusing on black and Doom metal artists Ásmegin is a Norwegian folk / Viking metal band formed in 1998. Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde Progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds. Borknagar is a progressive Black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian Black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990 Biography Beginnings In 2002 Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band Vintersorg (pronounced 'sɔrj; "Winter Sorrow" in English is a Swedish folk / viking Black metal band from Skellefteå Cornelius Jakhelln (born 1977 in Kristiansand) also known as Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian vocalist musician writer and poet Lars Are Nedland (born the May 13 1976 also known as Lazare, from Kristiansand Norway, is the Vocalist, Drummer and Keyboardist Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Avant-garde metal or experimental metal is a subgenre of Heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative Avant-garde elements large-scale Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Lars Are Nedland (born the May 13 1976 also known as Lazare, from Kristiansand Norway, is the Vocalist, Drummer and Keyboardist Cornelius Jakhelln (born 1977 in Kristiansand) also known as Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian vocalist musician writer and poet An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a type of Keyboard instrument. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The drum is a member of the percussion group technically classified as a Membranophone. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the The meaning of the band's name is best explained in an interview from Century Media Records website[1]. Century Media Records (CMR is an independent rock Record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Lazare states "Solefald is an old Norse word for sunset. We "stole" it from a painting by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. Theodor Severin Kittelsen ( April 27, 1857 – January 21, 1914) was a Norwegian Artist born in the coastal Town of His two paintings "Soleglad" and "Solefald" portrays the cycle of being, and we found it to be a very fitting idea for our band. " Cornelius also states ""Solefald" means literally "the fall of the sun", or just "sunset"; the way we spell it is Danish, from the 19th century. Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the "

Contents

Biography

Beginnings

Their first official rehearsal together was in 1995 with the song "When The Moon Is On The Wave. " They released their first, 5 song demo, entitled Jernlov (translated to Iron Law in English), in 1996. Jernlov was the band's most traditional black metal release, but the band had an experimental edge, incorporating Lazare's clean vocals and piano passages into the black metal formula. Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, They were one of the first bands in the black metal genre to incorporate new elements into the style, including a bag pipe passage in one song.

Linear Scaffold

The band was signed by the Milanese record label, Avantgarde Music, in 1996. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) In July 1997, the band released a follow up to their demo. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar This first full-length release was called, The Linear Scaffold. The album was an expansion of the style on the demo. The album had a better recording quality, and contained 8 songs, two of which had previously been on the demo, but were now re-written and re-recorded. The band incorporated sounds and techniques that had never been heard in black metal before, using hand claps along with choruses in the song "Philosophical Revolt", jazzy clean guitar passages, and shrieked vocals over piano pieces. The album also featured vocals in English and Norwegian including one song which was simply keyboard melody played along with Cornelius' Norwegian recitation of a poem he wrote ("Tequila Sunrise"). English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language When this album was released, the band coined the term "Red Music With Black Edges" to define themselves.

Touring

In 1998 the band began to adventure out of the studio and onto their first and only tour. The band toured Europe supporting symphonic metal band Haggard with gothic metal band Tristania. Symphonic metal or opera metal is a term used to describe Heavy metal music that has symphonic elements that is elements that sound similar to a Haggard is a German Symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. Tristania is Gothic metal band from Norway, formed in the end of 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Being a two-piece band, they employed the use of John Erik Jacobsen (aka Didrik von PanzerDanzer) on second guitar, who recently toured with, then joined, Cornelius' new band Sturmgeist. Drummer Tarald Lie and ex-Dimmu Borgir member Jens-Petter Sandvik on the bass completed Solefald's live line-up. Dimmu Borgir (ˌdɪmuːˈbɔːrɡɪr is a Symphonic black metal band from Norway. [2]

Expanding Individual Horizons

Starting in 1998 the two members started branching out into other musical endeavours, with Lazare performing the drums for the album Black Shining Leather by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest. Black Shining Leather is the debut Album by the Norwegian Black metal band Carpathian Forest. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian Black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990 Later, in July 1999, Cornelius did guest vocals for the gothic metal band Monumentum for the songs "Black And Violet", a cover of the Italian band Death SS, and "The Colour of Compassion". Death SS is an Italian heavy metal band Throughout their career they have played Thrash metal, early Black metal, and on more recent albums Industrial These recordings were released in 2004 on the Monumentum compilation album, Metastasi.

Neonism

In 1999, the band released their second full-length, entitled Neonism on September 24. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Neonism is the second full length album by Norwegian Post-Black Metal band Solefald. The album incorporated black metal, pop, classical music, punk, and progressive metal. Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music Progressive metal (often referred to simply as prog metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music which blends the powerful guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex The album also featured more vocal techniques from each member. Singing in English and French, Lazare brought back his clean vocals, but also introduced a new style, in the form of hollering. Cornelius still used his high pitched wails and shrieks and his lower grunting, but he also introduced a style of spoken word singing. The lyrics were unconventional for metal in general and black metal especially, dealing with socio-political issues and pop culture criticism in songs like "Backpacka Baba" and "CK II Chanel no. Chanel SA ʃəˈnɛɫ) is a Parisian fashion house created by Coco Chanel. 6". The album received mixed reviews, with some criticizing it for being too adventurous. The band even received a death threat from the USA from someone that considered the album an abomination to black metal. Others knocked it for its thin recording quality. The band stated that they used this quality because of the multi-layered song structures demanding a thinner sound to allow the many facets of the music to shine through. Another reasoning was that they wanted to use the recording style at the famed Sunlight Studios to achieve the "old school black metal" sound. Sunlight Studios is a Recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden. It has been a popular choice for Swedish Death metal bands such as Treblinka The album's recording was also plagued with problems, including a mixing board that literally started burning. The band coined the term "Radical Designer Rock 'n' Roll", for this release. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African [3]

Lazare Joins Borknagar

Following this album, the Solefald camp grew quiet for a little while. Lazare joined progressive/folk/black metal band Borknagar as keyboard player and back-up vocalist. Progressive metal (often referred to simply as prog metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music which blends the powerful guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex Folk metal is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Borknagar is a progressive Black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. In 2000, Borknagar released their first release with Lazare playing with them, Quintessence. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

Pills Against The Ageless Ills

In 2001, Solefald came together to release their third full-length. The new album, entitled Pills Against The Ageless Ills, was a concept album based on a fictitious tale written by Cornelius. Pills against the Ageless Ills is the third full-length album by Norwegian Avant-garde metal band Solefald. It tells the story of two brothers, Pornographer Cain and Philosopher Fuck, and the days before their deaths. Cain, a pornography director, is found guilty of the murder of Kurt Cobain. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20 1967 – c April 5 1994 was an American musician who served as lead singer, Guitarist, and songwriter for the Seattle Meanwhile, Fuck is exiled from the United States and dies in a hospital in Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Musically, Pills is more straightforward than Neonism. Pills against the Ageless Ills is the third full-length album by Norwegian Avant-garde metal band Solefald. The album features more prominent guitar, with the keys acting as an accent and background instrument much of the time. Whereas Neonism consisted of songs that would each have a variety of styles and genres within them, Pills has a variety of different style songs, each focusing individually on a certain style. The song "Hyperhuman" opens the album with black metal. The song "Pornographer Cain" has much more of a heavy, hard rock feel to it, until it breaks into a speedy techno beat. Hard rock (also referred to as heavy rock) is a variation of Rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and Psychedelic rock Techno is a form of Electronic dance music (EDM that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s The album continues along with various style shifts, ranging from black metal played in Solefald's particular style ("Charge Of Total Affect", "Hate Yourself"), to the punk rock songs similar to ones found on Neonism ("The U. S. A. Don't Exist"). Still holding to Solefald's signature though, there are signs of experimentation, including a drum and bass breakdown in "The U. S. A. Don't Exist", a grungy/Black Sabbath style guitar outro in "Fuck Talks", and a Surf Rock/1960's style bridge in "Charge Of Total Affect". Black Sabbath are an Surf rock is a style of music that originated in the USA that mixes elements of Surf music and Rock music, and partially due to the number of Mexican Events January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U Vocally, the band had made yet another change. Maintaining Lazare's style and getting rid of his hollering style singing, and keeping Cornelius' lower black metal grunting, "Pills" saw the addition of a less high pitched black metal shriek from Cornelius, as well as Cornelius' most common style of singing to date. This new vocal style is a throaty sounding form of vocals, similar to some gothic rock bands. This article is about the musical style of gothic rock For the goth scene in general see Goth subculture. This album, released on September 19 2001, was Solefald's first album released through the German record label Century Media. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Century Media Records (CMR is an independent rock Record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany,

In Harmonia Universali

The next Solefald endeavour came in 2003 with the full-length album In Harmonia Universali released March 24, 2003. In Harmonia Universali is the fourth full-length album by Norwegian Avant-garde metal band Solefald, and their last under the Century Events 1401 - Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 - James VI of Scotland Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The album contained 10 songs, with each song's lyrics devoted to various artists, philosophers, and deities. The lyrics are also sung in four languages on this album, English, Norwegian, French, and German. They incorporated a Steinway grand piano, a male choir, authentic Spanish classical acoustic guitar, violin, and saxophone. The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical- bored transposing Musical instrument considered a member of the Woodwind The music was layered, consisting of composite riffs and leads from the guitars and hammond keyboard sections. This was their last album released on Century Media. Century Media Records (CMR is an independent rock Record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany,

Involvement In Other Bands

In 2003 Lazare continued expanding his involvement in other bands with his inclusion as clean singer into the viking/folk/black band Ásmegin. Viking metal is a subgenre of Heavy metal music characterised by its galloping pace keyboard-rich anthemic sound bleakness and dramatic emphasis on Norse mythology Folk metal is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Ásmegin is a Norwegian folk / Viking metal band formed in 1998. In 2004 he joined the avant-garde metal band Age Of Silence as singer and main lyricist, which includes members such as Andy Winter from the band Winds, and Hellhammer from such bands as Arcturus, Mayhem, Winds, and many many more. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Avant-garde metal or experimental metal is a subgenre of Heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative Avant-garde elements large-scale Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde Progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds. Jan Axel ‘Hellhammer’ Blomberg born August 2, 1969, is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning Heavy Metal Drummer from Arcturus was an Avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. Mayhem is a Black metal band formed during 1984 in Oslo Norway. In early 2005, Cornelius released the first full-length album Meister Mephisto, through Season of Mist from his solo band, Sturmgeist, an experimental black/thrash metal band with industrial overtones. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Meister Mephisto is the first full-length album by Norwegian experimental black / thrash band Sturmgeist, the then Season of Mist is a French Independent record label. Artists. Biography Beginnings In 2002 Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Thrash metal (sometimes referred to simply as thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression Industrial metal is a Musical genre that draws from Industrial music and heavy metal. Lazare contributed back-up vocals on this release, along with vocalist Fuchs of Weimar's Die Apokalyptischen Reiter. Weimar (ˈvaɪmaʁ is a City in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (Thüringen north of the Thüringer Wald, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a Weimar, Germany based heavy metal band signed to the Nuclear Blast label

An Icelandic Odyssey: Red For Fire/Black For Death

Later in the year 2005, the band travelled to Iceland, with funding from Tekstforfatterfondet, to write their next album. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( Originally planning to release one new album, the group wound up writing so much new material, they decided they would release two new albums. In a quote from the band it was stated "Solefald was experimenting when everybody was being true. Now that things are changing and that we've pushed the experiment quite far already, we wanted "Red For Fire + Black For Death" to be our attempts at being true. This will be a true Nordic Viking Metal album. " This two part saga is the story written by Cornelius about Bragi, a Skald in Iceland. Bragi is a Skaldic god in Norse mythology. Etymology Bragi is generally associated with bragr, the Norse word for Poetry The skald was a member of a group of Poets whose courtly poetry (Icelandic dróttkvæði) is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic Bragi is the king's court poet, until he sleeps with the queen. When this is discovered, the queen lies and claims that Bragi raped her. Bragi is then forced to flee Reykjavík, because he will be killed for what he had supposedly done. For the Greater Reykjavík Area see the Greater Reykjavík Area.

Red For Fire

The first album from this two part saga was released on October 14, 2005, and was entitled Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1. Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 is the fifth full-length album by Norwegian Avant-garde metal band Solefald and the first half This album deals with Bragi's internal struggles with keeping control over his sanity, and his qualms with the gods as he fights to survive in the wilderness. The album featured the inclusion of a violin and cello handling most of Lazare's musical arrangements rather than a synthesizer, female vocals thanks to Aggie "Frost" Peterson, and jazzy saxophone playing. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ

Black For Death

The follow up to Red For Fire, entitled Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2, was released through Season Of Mist on November 13, 2006. Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 is the fifth full-length album by Norwegian Avant-garde metal band Solefald and the first half Black for Death An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2 is the sixth full-length album by Norwegian Avant-garde metal band Solefald and the second Season of Mist is a French Independent record label. Artists. Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The album featured Kristoffer Rygg of Ulver on guest vocals. Kristoffer Rygg ( September 9, 1976) also known as Garm, Trickster G Ulver ( Norwegian for “ wolves ” is a multi-disciplinary musical trio from Norway. It was announced on March 28th on Solefald's official Myspace page that the band and Season of Mist had parted ways. [4]

Parting Ways with Season Of Mist

As is common with artists, Solefald decided to part ways with their label Season Of Mist. Cornelius issued the following statement on March 28, 2007:

I hereby inform our esteemed fanatici that Solefald have ended the collaboration with Season of Mist. Both parts emerge whole, healthy and happy from the split-up. Long-term Solefald connoisseurs will notice how a two-album dialectic seems to appear through our discography; two first albums with Avantgarde, third and fourth albums with Century Media, then the Icelandic Odyssey with Season of Mist. We have already entered discussion with another record label. Any interested labels out there can still get in touch, albeit fast.
Red for Fire + Black for Death

Cornelius

Present And Future

Following shortly after the release of Black For Death, Cornelius and Lazare continue to release more music from other projects. Age Of Silence released a new three song EP entitled Complications - Trilogy Of Intricacy on October 11, 2005 as a lead into their approaching second full-length. Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde Progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds. Complications - Trilogy Of Intricacy is an EP by the Norwegian avant-garde Progressive metal band Age of Silence. Cornelius released his second Sturmgeist album entitled Über. Biography Beginnings In 2002 Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band Über is the second full-length album by Norwegian experimental black / thrash band Sturmgeist. He is also recording an experimental electronica album under the band name G. U. T. . He is also writing the libretto for a contemporary opera telling a story from the pagan times of the North. A libretto is the text used in an extended Musical work such as an Opera, Operetta, Masque, sacred or secular Oratorio and Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller rustic" is a word used to refer to various religions and religious beliefs from across the world

Not Just Musicians

Aside from music, Lazare is a newscaster for TVNorge, and Cornelius is an accomplished writer/poet, with many published writings including a tetralogy of poems entitled Quadra Natura. TVNorge (originally abbreviated TVN, now just abbreviated N in the logos i The third volume of this four-book collection, entitled Fagernorn. Quadra Natura 0111 was published on March 16 of 2006. Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Discography

Studio releases

Demos

Band members

Current members

Former/live/session members

References

  1. ^ "Century Media Germany - 2004 - An Interview With Solefald" 2004
  2. ^ "folk.uio.no - Images from the Haggard/Tristania/Solefald tour 98"
  3. ^ "Avantegarde Music - Neonism album page"
  4. ^ "News Update - March 2007 - Season change" March 28, 2007. Ulver ( Norwegian for “ wolves ” is a multi-disciplinary musical trio from Norway. Head Control System is a cross-national groove rock/metal band featuring Portuguese Daniel Cardoso (ex- Sirius and ex- and Norwegian Kristoffer Rygg Arcturus was an Avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. Borknagar is a progressive Black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

See also

External links

Official pages

Record labels

Solefald on music databases

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