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"In Harmonia Universali is a code that cannot be cracked, a message in a bottle that refuses to come close to the shore, though you can’t help but watch it move back and forth, that great thing you’d build if you only knew how. Maddening as hell but impossible to leave alone." - Jedd Beaudoin, Sea Of Tranquillity.org
If ever there was a review that nailed the essence of an album, writer Jedd Beaudoin captured it in the above quote. Here's an update from the brilliant mind of vocalist/guitarist/bassist Cornelius Jakhelln on the sucess of the band's latest album, In Harmonia Universali, due out in North America on May 20th:
"Band news should mean good and not bad news. SOLEFALD have reaped largely enthusiastic reviews of the In Harmonia Universali album. The metalheads over and under the ground are as always the ones who support us first. In our cold native land Norway, the journalists are surprisingly slow when it comes to new (and not NU) metal. This means that reviews are rare, and the few reviews that are published in the national press are often more conservative in taste than the average piggy-wigged Tory. A brave exception was made by the national newspaper Aftenposten, who rated In Harmonia Universali 5 out of 6, and labelled the music 'art metal.' Except occurrences like these, only shockers such as the pighead-chopping Mayhem attract attention, and then usually entirely negative attention. The last thing we need as serious musicians and fans is to be thought of as perverts and lunatics and other kinds of crappy people. This is, alas, how mainstream media often describe metal musicians, and in some cases, we all agree, the musicians pretty much live up to those descriptions. The eye precedes the ear: and a gallon of blood won't make anybody love your music more.
Business: The young French-British director Tom Costigan is currently editing a video for the SOLEFALD track 'Mont Blanc Providence Crow,' featuring footage from Paris, Manchester, Bergen and Oslo. The video will be available on the SOLEFALD website. We also hope for space in different television programs. A right-thinking, well-meaning and generally wise Norwegian trust has also granted SOLEFALD a trip to Iceland in June, where we will write material for our fifth album: watch out for epic bizarrology of the old Norse kind."
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