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Solefald | |
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 Cornelius Jakhelln during Solefald's performance at Ragnarök Festival 2013. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Norway |
| Genres | Avant-garde metal, black metal, post-metal, industrial metal |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Indie Recordings, Season of Mist, Century Media, Avantgarde Music |
| Members | Cornelius Jakhelln Lazare Nedland |
| Website | http://www.solefald.no |
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Nedland singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Jakhelln singing and playing guitar and bass. The duo experiment with a wide array of musical styles, frequently work on other projects, and rarely perform live under the Solefald name, leading them to describe themselves as "two stubborn goats pretending to be a band."[1] According to the duo, their name is an Old Norse word for "sunset," taken from one of Theodor Kittelsen's paintings[2] illustrating a poem of the same name by Theodor Caspari, published in the 1901 book Vintereventyr.[3]
- ^ "SOLEFALD: Avant Norse Folk Duo Unleashes Norrønasongen!". SwitchBitch Noise. 2014-11-19. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- ^ "Century Media Germany - 2004 - An Interview With Solefald". 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-03-09.
Lazare: Solefald is an old norse word for sunset. We "stole" it from a painting by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. His two paintings "Soleglad" and "Solefald" portrays the cycle of being, and we found it to be a very fitting idea for our band. Cornelius: "Solefald" means literally "the fall of the sun", or just "sunset"; the way we spell it is Danish, from the 19th century, but in Icelandic and Old Norse you find the name with the spelling "solarfall", meaning the same.
- ^ Caspari, Theodor (1901). Vintereventyr. Christiania (Oslo): T. O. Brogger. pp. 34–35.