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 of a two part saga. It was released on October 18, 2005. The band was quoted as saying "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...
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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 of a two part saga. It was released on October 18, 2005. The band was quoted as saying "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."
Both albums could be considered a play on how Solefald describe their music, being "RED music with BLACK edges".
Be welcome to my Icelandic Odyssey, warrior! I am Bragi the Skald, your host. As a poet, I wandered between the halls of Iceland, and sang the praise of chieftain kings and queens. Giving names to things and events is the task of the skald: 'SUN I CALL the burning wheel'! As a hungry wolf with an old man's teeth I endured the SURVIVAL OF THE OUTLAW, begging the gods of the North to come...
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