Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Out Of The Ashes: AK-Extreme 2011

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On the high pass to Akureyri, a crashed 18-wheel truck foreshadows the mayhem to come. Friday afternoon is full of…

Oddsskarð: The Park At The End Of The World

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Momentum singer Hörður Ólafsson is gently chanting at me through my super-sized Sennheisers. His message is something regarding “holding back”,…

Sódóma – Sunday

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Photo by Hvalreki [For whatever reason, we had the hardest time getting people to review Sódóma that Sunday night. It…

Sódóma – Saturday

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Photos by Hvalreki. Here’s the extra short, totally mean review of the Drowned in Sound/SESAC night. The name Cynic Guru…

Venue – Thursday

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Photo by Morgan Levy At eight, the venue is as empty as one would expect at such an early hour….

Morbidity And Contempt

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The rise of Gone Postal within the Icelandic metal scene has been akin to something of a death metal juggernaut….

Momentum: Fixation At Rest

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On Fixation at Rest Momentum offer more athmosphere than all of the sky combined along with a dozen LSD tabs…

Blastbeats Be Gone

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Momentum want to welcome you to the genre of progressive doom. Never heard of the genre? Neither had I before…

Mínus Return. Again.

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The bill tonight is an odd one. Mínus have enlisted not a single metal or hardcore act to support them,…

Pulling Teeth…

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So, by some bizarre paradox it’s Friday the 13th and it’s as I’m riding a weird and monstrous cloud of…

There Will Be Klink

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At the point where Coalesce and Brutal converge, the almighty Klink prey mercilessly on aural assault aficinados of the most…

The War On Drugs, The War On You

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Short and to the point is the word. Here is some common sense: With an economic deathblow being dealt to…

To Ride, Shoot Straight…

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Entombed are holed up in their dressing room, busy rehearsing a stand-in bassist, as mainstay Nico Elgstrand had a baby…

Top 5 Ski Areas In Iceland

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1. Hlíðarfjall, Akureyri. With a high-speed quad and three tow lifts Hlíðarfjall may not be the biggest, but it’s certainly…

The Eirikur Helgason Interview – You Might Not Know Him, But He’s Kinda Famous

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Beginnings Eiríkur “Eiki” Helgason first drew the attention of the snowboarding community in 2003 with the release of the snowboard…

Shorts, Beer-guts & Blastbeats

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Owing to the fact that by some freak accident of nature the promoter managed to stick to the posted schedule,…

Almost Snowboarding In Akureyri – Two Days Of Riding That Just Weren’t Meant To Be

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My iPod is pink and ancient. Within it resides, among others, Steve Von Till.  He is gently crooning at my…

Celebrating Buckley

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Jeff Buckley might have had the greatest set of lungs ever to grace this earth with a song. So, putting…

Peddling Death Metal to the Gore Starved Masses

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The Buffalo born, Tampa raised band Cannibal Corpse has long been a staple of the Death Metal genre. Their lyrics…

Scenes From a Dying Dream of Cuba

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Coming out the door at Havana’s José Martí Airport, hygiene goes right out of the window as dirt, sweat and…

Weight Issues and Gimmicks

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I’m quietly kicking myself for not having paid attention to Celestine earlier. What tightness they might lack in the live…