Solefald - Discography (1997 - 2010)

Country: Norway
Genre: Avantgarde/Black Metal

My first years of university studies (back in 2000-2001) were full of experimentation in many senses. One of this experimentations came with the listening of "Neonism", Solefald's second album. Back then I always had the curiosity of getting me a copy of "The Linear Scaffold" from the mail-order catalogue from Century Media, but this never became a reality. "Neonism" came to me as one of those sick moves of fate in which something completely established in your life is crushed and a new something comes out of the ashes of what had been there before. The album is just "too" weird on the first listens. Nevertheless, and after countless hours of meticulous exploration, the album was "in". Nowadays and despite it's weirdness, it's one of my all-time favourites. Lazare (of Carpathian Forest and Borknagar fame) and Cornelius are like two chess players in a display of marvellous moves: their music is bizarre, fast, catchy, confronting. Their lyrics range from straight forward English to some German and French poetry. Aside from their musical career, Cornelius is a well known journalist in Norwegian newspapers and publishes independent works on philosophy, culture and philology. This academic and intellectual plus from the band members creates an additional and evident endeavour in their music: it's not just about writing cool music, is about making you think, wonder, question yourself. Music-wise, I'm still pretty premature in terms of exploring their newer material, but with "Neonism" having such a musical impact in my sonic experiences, I can almost blindly guarantee that the rest of the material will be as rebel and unorthodox as that first offering. Give it a listen, buy their music. We can't just let these guys walk away and not make another album. Period.

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