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Do You Truly Love Sátan?
Iceland’s newest metal festival features a legendary comeback From June 6-8, the town of Stykkishólmur on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula hosts the first edition of Sátan, a brand new heavy metal music festival. I grabbed a coffee with Sátan organiser Gísli Sigmundsson…
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PHOTOS: Misþyrming X Muck At Húrra
On a semi-regular basis, we at the Grapevine host a concert series with Húrra in which we highlight some of the great bands that we frequently write about. Our last outing saw the much lauded black metal outfit Misþyrming team up with…
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Happening Tonight: Misþyrming X Muck
Belched straight from hell’s gut, Misþyrming leads a new wave of Icelandic black metal that is dark but not inaccessible, earning numerous accolades in the process, such as Surprise Of The Year from us at the Grapevine. They have also been selected…
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Rocking The Fuck Out To Celestine On A Thursday Night
It’s been three years since seminal Reykjavík metalcore band Celestine hung up their gloves after playing a final show in the late Faktorý. Since then the scene has changed, with new faces and new bands stepping up to fill the void. Much like…
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Premiere: Wacken Metal Battle Winners ITCOM’s Morbid Music Vid
Everyone’s favourite Icelandic noisecore peddlers, In The Company Of Men, are hard at work on their debut LP. To stoke our excitement, the group just released a video for the song “Nothing Left” — an acid-fuelled adventure involving beards, murders, cannibalism, and…
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Happening Tonight: Kontinuum & Muck
Kontinuum have been noted to possess that special something that unites both the kvlt metal elitists and pre-pubescent Dimma fanboys in celebration. Their atmospheric rock has all the heaviness of death metal, with the melancholy of art rock, and the energy of…
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Hardcore Band Muck Is Unrelenting And Uncompromising
Karl takes a bite out of his hot dog and laughs at Indriði for bringing vegetables to a barbeque. Loftur frets over there not being enough sauces and procures a beer from somewhere, while Ási and I work out the correct exchange rate between…
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Ascending//Descending
‘Ascending//Descending’ is the debut effort of Icelandic hardcore upstarts Icarus, which makes the mastery of the metallic hardcore genre displayed on the album all the more impressive. Every song is composed with a great sense of dynamics—the band switch between parts with…
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Some Loudness For Your Living Room
When life gives you lemons, you have a wicked house party with live performances! Or, wait, is that what you do when your landlord gives you notice because the house is being turned into (another) 101 hotel? That’s at least what occupants…
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Videos From The Edge – Muck Still On tour!!
It’s….. baaaaaack! After the success of their first video posting, we received another message (carried to us by a rabid crow) from those pesky scamps from MUCK. the message contained the good news that they’ve just made the latest instalment in their European tour video diary! In part…
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Postcards From the Edge – Goddamn Reykjavík!
Postcards From the Edge is our cheeky little Airwaves feature where bands who are currently on tour outside of Iceland, send us short tales of where they are and of the great shows they’re playing at. they also like to indulge in tales of rock and…
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The Hardcore Kid’s Guide To Reykjavík Sightseeing
By Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson often plays in bands, most notably Bisund, Stjörnukisi, I Adapt, Gavin Portland, Celestine and Hellvar. These days, though, he does less of that and spends more of his waking hours on his music/culture blog Halifax…