Author: Bogi Bjarnason
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Out Of The Ashes: AK-Extreme 2011
On the high pass to Akureyri, a crashed 18-wheel truck foreshadows the mayhem to come. Friday afternoon is full of…
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Oddsskarð: The Park At The End Of The World
Momentum singer Hörður Ólafsson is gently chanting at me through my super-sized Sennheisers. His message is something regarding “holding back”,…
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Sódóma – Sunday
by Bogi Bjarnason, Þórður Ingi Jónsson, Florian Zühlke and Aðalsteinn Jörundsson
Photo by Hvalreki [For whatever reason, we had the hardest time getting people to review Sódóma that Sunday night. It…
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Sódóma – Saturday
Photos by Hvalreki. Here’s the extra short, totally mean review of the Drowned in Sound/SESAC night. The name Cynic Guru…
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Venue – Thursday
Photo by Morgan Levy At eight, the venue is as empty as one would expect at such an early hour….
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Morbidity And Contempt
The rise of Gone Postal within the Icelandic metal scene has been akin to something of a death metal juggernaut….
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Momentum: Fixation At Rest
On Fixation at Rest Momentum offer more athmosphere than all of the sky combined along with a dozen LSD tabs…
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Blastbeats Be Gone
Momentum want to welcome you to the genre of progressive doom. Never heard of the genre? Neither had I before…
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Mínus Return. Again.
The bill tonight is an odd one. Mínus have enlisted not a single metal or hardcore act to support them,…
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Pulling Teeth…
So, by some bizarre paradox it’s Friday the 13th and it’s as I’m riding a weird and monstrous cloud of…
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There Will Be Klink
At the point where Coalesce and Brutal converge, the almighty Klink prey mercilessly on aural assault aficinados of the most…
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The War On Drugs, The War On You
Short and to the point is the word. Here is some common sense: With an economic deathblow being dealt to…
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To Ride, Shoot Straight…
Entombed are holed up in their dressing room, busy rehearsing a stand-in bassist, as mainstay Nico Elgstrand had a baby…
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Top 5 Ski Areas In Iceland
1. Hlíðarfjall, Akureyri. With a high-speed quad and three tow lifts Hlíðarfjall may not be the biggest, but it’s certainly…
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The Eirikur Helgason Interview – You Might Not Know Him, But He’s Kinda Famous
Beginnings Eiríkur “Eiki” Helgason first drew the attention of the snowboarding community in 2003 with the release of the snowboard…
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Shorts, Beer-guts & Blastbeats
Owing to the fact that by some freak accident of nature the promoter managed to stick to the posted schedule,…
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Almost Snowboarding In Akureyri – Two Days Of Riding That Just Weren’t Meant To Be
My iPod is pink and ancient. Within it resides, among others, Steve Von Till. He is gently crooning at my…
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Celebrating Buckley
Jeff Buckley might have had the greatest set of lungs ever to grace this earth with a song. So, putting…
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Peddling Death Metal to the Gore Starved Masses
The Buffalo born, Tampa raised band Cannibal Corpse has long been a staple of the Death Metal genre. Their lyrics…
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Weight Issues and Gimmicks
I’m quietly kicking myself for not having paid attention to Celestine earlier. What tightness they might lack in the live…
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Scenes From a Dying Dream of Cuba
Coming out the door at Havana’s José Martí Airport, hygiene goes right out of the window as dirt, sweat and…