Sólstafir – “Ótta” (Stereogum Premiere)

Like Ulver or Katatonia, Icelandic quartet Sólstafir began their career by putting an unusually textured, melodic spin on a traditional metal subgenre, and pretty aggressively evolved to a point where the textures and melody had mostly eclipsed the metal. At Sólstafir’s peak — their outstanding 2009 breakthrough, Köld — those elements clashed so violently that [...]

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