Author: Bogi Bjarnason
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…
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”,…
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…
Sódóma – Saturday
Photos by Hvalreki. Here’s the extra short, totally mean review of the Drowned in Sound/SESAC night. The name Cynic Guru…
Venue – Thursday
Photo by Morgan Levy At eight, the venue is as empty as one would expect at such an early hour….
Morbidity And Contempt
The rise of Gone Postal within the Icelandic metal scene has been akin to something of a death metal juggernaut….
Momentum: Fixation At Rest
On Fixation at Rest Momentum offer more athmosphere than all of the sky combined along with a dozen LSD tabs…
Blastbeats Be Gone
Momentum want to welcome you to the genre of progressive doom. Never heard of the genre? Neither had I before…
Mínus Return. Again.
The bill tonight is an odd one. Mínus have enlisted not a single metal or hardcore act to support them,…
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…
There Will Be Klink
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
Short and to the point is the word. Here is some common sense: With an economic deathblow being dealt to…
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…
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…
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…
Shorts, Beer-guts & Blastbeats
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
My iPod is pink and ancient. Within it resides, among others, Steve Von Till. He is gently crooning at my…
Celebrating Buckley
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
The Buffalo born, Tampa raised band Cannibal Corpse has long been a staple of the Death Metal genre. Their lyrics…
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…
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…