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Soundtrack To The Plague: Become Prisoner To Auðn’s Waking Dream
The newest album by Auðn, ‘Vökudraumsins Fangi’ (‘Prisoner Of A Waking Dream’), ends on the line “Minning þess sem aldrei varð.” It means “Memory of what never existed.” Vökudraumsins Fangi by Auðn Eeriness encapsulated “It’s open to interpretation, but it’s the memory…
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Grapevine Playlist: Auðn, Magnús Jóhann, Countess Malaise & More!
It’s October 23rd, 2020, and you have no idea what to listen to. Thankfully, the Grapevine is here for your weekend tracks. Countess Malaise – That Bitch “I’m too hard. I’m too bad. I’m too sad… but I’ve always been that bitch.”…
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Iceland Goes To Eurosonic: Högni, Valdimar, aYia & More To Perform
Iceland has a strong presence at the top European music industry festival Eurosonic this year. Held in the Groningen in the Netherlands from January 17-20th, it’s an annual get together for people who work with music, from booking agents to record labels,…
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In The Black Midwinter: Auðn Album Release Show On Saturday
Feeling down in the perpetual Icelandic darkness? It’s time to get your black metal fix. To celebrate the release of their second album, Icelandic black metal band Auðn have a release show this Saturday at Iðnó, one of the oldest theatres in Reykjavík. Auðn…
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Beautiful Desolation: Enter The World Of Auðn
Auðn make beautiful black metal. There’s no other way to describe it. After bursting onto the scene in 2015, the band developed an almost instant devoted following. Their sound is unlike anything else in Iceland or abroad—despairing, bleak and grim, but still…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 3: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others just formed last month. In the remaining weeks before the festival we are sifting through them, ten at a time. We’re not…
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Welcome To The Circle – Meet The Men Behind Iceland’s Thriving Black Metal Scene
Hafsteinn Viðar, the man behind the solo black metal project Wormlust, requested that our interview take place at the Cathedral of Christ the King, preferably in the confessional. If the confessional was unavailable, he said, then we could perhaps walk together in…
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Andkristnihátíð Review: Giving Jesus The Finger Under A Pale Red Light
Andkristnihátíð, the Anti-Christian Festival, has been celebrated annually since the dawn of the century. Originally as an act of heathen protest against the concurrent 1,000 years of Christianity celebrations at Þingvellir, it has evolved into a celebration of black metal in all of…
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Happening Tonight: Anti-Christian Festival 2015
Iceland’s longest running metal festival, the Anti-Christian Festival, traces its roots all the way back to 2000 AD, when it was held to stick it to a nearby Christianity festival at Þingvellir—now it’s just sticking it to overly bland musical performances. This…
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Norðanpaunk 2015: A+ Merchants’ Freak-End
I experienced a number of things at Norðanpaunk that I never expected would happen at any festival, or much less any place, ever. I mean, have you ever witnessed a group of people drinking in a hot tub loudly imitating Silencer vocals, only to hear…
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Johanna Persson’s Favourite Live Photos Of Eistnaflug 2015
Iceland’s annual metal music fest, Eistnaflug, may be done and over with, but we at the Grapevine are neither done nor over it. Grapevine photographer Johanna Persson was busy snapping away through the whole festival, and she sent us an assortment of her favourite…
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Eistnaflug Thursday: Paint It Black
Thursday marked the first day of fabled metal-fest Eistnaflug, along with my first time attending. The sun shining bright, I put on my best Burzum shirt and got ready to headbang the day away. Auðn opened the festival promptly at 14:30. Maybe it was…
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Auðn
From the anguished beauty of the bittersweet melodies and the dark, atmospheric, aura, to the stellar sound production and the vicious throat-tearing vocal delivery, Auðn’s self-titled debut album is altogether flawless. Black metal has no right to be this beautiful. It is…
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METAL: At Wacken Metal Battle, ITCOM Crushed The Competition
Wacken Metal Battle, Iceland took place at Harpa Norðurljós on April 11, featuring performances by Aeterna, Röskun, Narthraal, In the Company of Men, Oni, Church House Creepers, Auðn, Ophidian I and The Vintage Caravan. After Aeterna opened the night like it was…