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I wish more people get to know bands like this. This metal band from Iceland exists for about 15 years, but even on ebay its not so easy to get their albums. Kold, the last one, is just perfect - I believe - one of the greatest achievments of 2009! Of course, you need to have wider perspective on metal music to appreciate Kold. It's hard to classify it, it's impossible to put on one shelf. Sometimes it sounds like harder type of rock music, sometimes it sounds like black metal, sometimes it sounds like stoner metal. The music is atmospheric - that's the best way to describe it. Its heavy and fast, but it's more about flow than structure. It is also very emotional, sometimes even ritualistic. It does sometime sound like more progressive, atmospheric black metal, but music of Solstafi never gets close to mysticism loved so much by black metal philosophers. Sigur Ros, another band from Iceland, comes first to my mind when you try to describe the atmosphere of Kold. Of course, I talk here more of sensibility, feeling that you get from music but not the direct comparison of sound type. The songs on the album are long, they flow and float, the evolve and get you. The motive of the song is simple and repetative, but still you can't get off. The tempo changes from time to time, the intensivness of voice change along, but it never sound boring or too long. The music is energetic, soft, heavy and very emotional at the same time. Very very good band that created a very very good album. Check it!Read full review