An Icelandic Odyssey

An Icelandic Odyssey
Studio album series by Solefald
Released	October 18, 2005 & November 24, 2006
Genre	Avant-garde black metal Viking metal
Length	54:20, 50:42
Label	Season of Mist
Producer	Solefald
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Solefald chronology
In Harmonia Universali (2003) An Icelandic Odyssey (2005-2006) Norrøn Livskunst (2010)

An Icelandic Odyssey is a two-part concept album series by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Solefald. The first part, Red for Fire, was released on October 18, 2005 while the second part, Black for Death, was released on November 24, 2006. The band was quoted as saying "Solefald was experimenting when everybody was being true. Now that things are changing and that we've pushed the experiment quite far already, we wanted "Red For Fire + Black For Death" to be our attempts at being true. This will be a true Nordic Viking Metal album."

Both albums could be considered a play on how Solefald describe their music, being "RED music with BLACK edges".

Red for Fire

Track listing

1. "Sun I Call" – 6:19
2. "Survival Of The Outlaw" – 6:37
3. "Where Birds Have Never Been" – 5:5
4. "Bragi (Instrumental)" – 1:18
5. "White Frost Queen" – 6:57
6. "There Is Need" – 5:53
7. "Prayer Of A Son (Poem)" – 1:47
8. "Crater Of The Valkyries" – 8:21
9. "Sea I Called" – 5:34
10. "Lokasenna" – 5:39

Guest Musicians & Friends of the House

• Aggie Frost Peterson: Vocals on 'Sun I Call' and 'White Frost Queen'.
• Sareeta (Ásmegin, Ram-Zet): Violin on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9.
• Live Julianne Kostøl: Cello on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9.
• Kjetil Selvik: Saxophone on 'Sun I Call'.
• Jörmundur Ingi: Voice on 'Lokasenna'.

Black for Death

Track listing

All tracks by Cornelius/Lazare

1. "Red for Fire + Black for Death" – 3:55
2. "Queen in the Bay of Smoke" – 5:34
3. "Silver Dwarf" – 3:23
4. "Underworld (Instrumental)" – 1:15
5. "Necrodyssey" – 3:47
6. "Allfathers" – 5:56
7. "Lokasenna Part 2" – 4:29
8. "Loki Trickster God" – 5:50
9. "Spoken to the End of All (Poem)" – 2:05
10. "Dark Waves Dying (Instrumental)" - 3:55
11. "Lokasenna Part 3" – 4:47
12. "Sagateller" - 5:45

Guest Musicians

• Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver, Head Control System, ex-Arcturus, ex-Borknagar): Vocals on 'Loki Trickster God'.
• Aggie Frost Peterson: Vocals on 'Loki Trickster God'.
• Sareeta (Ásmegin, Ram-Zet): Violin on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12.
• Live Julianne Kostøl: Cello on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 12.
• Kjetil Selvik: Saxophone on 'Underworld' and 'Dark Waves Dying'.
• Jörmundur Ingi: Voice on 'Lokasenna' compositions.

Instrumentation

• Cornelius (Sturmgeist) - Wolf voices, Viking axes, Sound effects
• Lazare (Borknagar, Age Of Silence, Ásmegin) - Cold choirs, Keys & orchestration, Blizzard beats

Notes

• The music in the song Loki Trickster God on Black For Death is the same as in White Frost Queen on Red For Fire. Loki Trickster God is shorter however, and the music is arranged differently in the second half of the song.