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reetings
and welcome to the official Glittertind website!
News:
10.07.08
The pre-production of seven songs for the upcoming album is complete. About five more songs will be pre-produced in July. The real production will start in August. Unfortunatly recording of folk-instruments, orchestras and choirs had to be be delayed until September and the mixing will take place in October/November. We are making some huge arrangements and we had to re-schedule the production to reach our quality mark for these recordings. A new temporary release-date is set to March 2009 and there will be no more delays after this.
Press-reviews:
"...When it comes to finding the right soundtrack
to a night of ale-fuelled mayhem, there are few styles of
music quite as naturally suited as folk metal. One listen
to one-man Norwegian project Glittertind will instantly make
you want to eat meat off the bone, casually get into a drunken
fight and possibly grow a huge beard as well, thanks to their
raucous Pogues-turned-up-to-11 sound. Madder than a donkey
on a trampoline and twice as ludicrous, this is also an incredible
amount of fun!"
Nick Ruskell - Kerrang! (4 out of 5 K's)
Metal
Hammer (July issue)
Score: 8 out of 10 points.
Stirring Scandinavian Viking punk
CELEBRATING 100 years of Norwegian independence
from the Swedish union, as well as 60 years of liberation
from German occupation, this mini album by folk metaller Torbjorn
Sandvik features a few originals plus several punked up versions
of traditional, Viking and patriotic Norwegian songs. Glittertind's
music is rootes in Clash-like-punk rock rather than Viking
metal, though there's overlap -not least in the cover art
by Finntroll's Skrymer. It's Sandvik's unique Pagan-socialist
take on Norwegian history - eye watering stirring stuff, particularty
'Norge i Rodt, Hvitt og Blått' - the thumping battle
march of the Norwegian partisans written by prisoners in the
Grini prison camp during World War II - like rock'n roll version
of 'La Marseillaise'. Makes you want to go out and bash a
Nazi.
Tommy Udo [8] - Metal Hammer
Terrorizer
(July issue)
Score: 8 out of 10 points.
What sets Glittertind apart from many
nationalist, 'heathen' Norse-pagan bands is the insightful
welding of authentic Norwegian folk to punk. What Torbjorn
Sandvik (the man behind Glittertind) understands is that folk
is first and foremost life affirming as opposed to hateful,
morbid, anti-social, suicidal and racist. It is also simple
and realistic - just like punk. How refreshing it is to witness
a patriot who is strong and healthy-spirited enough to oppose
the EU entity, yet wish for a 'united and peaceful Europe'.
How ideologically consistent the inclusion of songs against
Nazi occupation side by side with songs resisting older foreign
conquests of Norway. How uplifting and heroic this punk-folk
(and one Viking metal finale) is.
Avi Pitchon [8] - Terrorizer
"...Glittertind
quite simply, musically speaking anyway, rocks my world; the
blisteringly manic energy and melody tinged thrash/folk metal/punk
ranting is nothing short of joyous! Instantly memorable, raucously
moshable, pulverisingly frenetic... I fucking love this album!"
Simon Gausden - Powerplay Magazine
(10 out of 10 Powerpoints)
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