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Artist......: Vafurlogi
Album.......: Gneisti af eldi Gu├░s
Year........: 2026
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: NoEvDiA
Language....: Icelandic
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 1041kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 7 tracks
Playtime....: 00:48:51
Size........: 362.7 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-06-26
S.Date......: 2026-06-19
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/bzy9n1qrvwshd
01. Af heilagri heift 6:48
02. Þegar rykið sest 6:45
03. Vafurlogi 5:24
04. A├░ handan 6:27
05. Vitjun 6:26
06. Úr himinsölum 7:08
07. Earthly vestiges 9:53
Vafurlogi returns with "Gneisti af eldi Gu├░s", the
band's second full-length. While the debut, "Í vökulli
áþján", emerged from a short frenzy of inspiration,
"Gneisti af eldi Gu├░s" reaches further back into the
project's genesis. The album gathers compositions dating
as far back as 2007: dormant works left to smolder,
mutate, and take their final shape over the years,
painstakingly crafted into a sophisticated work of
majestically melodic black metal.
What emerges is the true soul of Vafurlogi - a record
charged with the fervor of bygone eras while retaining a
force far beyond nostalgia. By turns darkly sinister and
soaring into celestial reaches, the album remains
evocative and lyrical throughout. Drawing from the
melodic black metal of the 1990s, as well as the renewed
zeal of the orthodox movement that followed, "Gneisti af
eldi Gu├░s" channels this lineage into a work of grand,
engulfing atmosphere and triumphant immediacy.
Thematically, the album upholds Vafurlogi's core tenet
of exploring man's relationship with the sacred in an
existential sense, an ode to the elusive flickering
flame that illuminates and eviscerates. The chiaroscuro
cover artwork by Void Revelations and Heresie Studio
reflects this thematic and musical interplay between
darkness and light, that which is hidden and that which
is revealed.
Recorded with Stephen Lockhart at Studio Emissary,
"Gneisti af eldi Gu├░s" bears the conviction of music
that has survived its own long incubation. Its
production, rich in spirit yet devoid of excess, grants
the songs the space to burn with both clarity and
ancient force. This is the hidden foundation of
Vafurlogi brought forth at last: blazing, majestic, and
unbound by time.