Sólstafir show off stunning Icelandic scenery in video for new single “Blakkrakki”. Sólstafir will release their latest album “Hin helga kvöl” (“The Holy Suffering”) for new label Century Media in November 2024.
Icelandic post-rock/metal quartet Sólstafir have unveiled a captivating video for their latest single, “Blakkrakki”. The visual features the band performing atop a moving truck as it journeys through Iceland’s breathtaking summer landscapes.
“Blakkrakki” is the lead single from Sólstafir’s forthcoming album “Hin helga kvöl” (“The Holy Suffering”), set for release on November 8 via their new label, Century Media. This highly anticipated album will serve as the follow-up to 2020’s “Endless Twilight of Codependent Love”.
“Myself and the band initially had the idea for this music video four years ago – the guys are playing the song while standing on a flatbed trailer doing sixty miles per hour on a stretch of highway surrounded on all sides by one of the oldest lava flows in Iceland,” explains Bowen Staines, Director for Don’t Panic Films who created the video for Blakkrakki, which translates as ‘Black Dog’. “Blakkrakki was a blast to make, and we hope you have fun watching it, too”.
Sólstafir have also revealed plans for their European trek, the Nordic Descent Tour 2024, set for November and December. The 24-date tour will include performances in cities such as Brighton, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, and London, along with various other locations across Europe.
The quartet will be supported on their Nordic Descent Tour 2024 by Finnish experimental rockers Oranssi Pazuzu, Faroese doomsters Hamferð and Swedish post-rockers Helga.
Sólstafir Nordic Descent Tour 2024
Nov 13: NED Groningen Oosterpoort *
Nov 14: NED Nijmegen Doornroosje *
Nov 15: NED Maastricht Muziekgieterij *
Nov 16: BEL Brussels Botanique *
Nov 17: GER Bielefeld Forum *
Nov 19: FRA Lille Splendid *
Nov 20: UK Brighton Concorde 2 *
Nov 21: UK Manchester Club Academy *
Nov 22: IRE Dublin Opium *
Nov 23: UK Glasgow Queen Margaret Union *
Nov 24: UK London Electric Brixton *
Nov 26: FRA Paris La Machine Du Moulin Rouge #
Nov 27: FRA Rennes Antipode #
Nov 28: FRA Toulouse Metronum #
Nov 29: SPA Pamplona Totem #
Nov 30: SPA Madrid Sala Mon #
Dec 1: SPA Barcelona Razzmatazz 2 #
Dec 3: ITA Milano Alcatraz #
Dec 4: SWI Pratteln Z7 #
Dec 5: GER München Technikum #
Dec 6: AUT Vienna Simm City #
Dec 7: POL Warsaw Proxima #
Dec 8: GER Leipzig Täubchental #
Dec 9: GER Berlin Metropol #
* – dates with Hamferð
# – dates with Helga
