Sólstafir stream brand 11-minute new song Akkeri

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Icelandic post-rockers Sólstafir have streamed a brand new song, the 11-minute long Akkir. It's the first new music to be released from the band's upcoming album Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love. You can listen to the song in full below.

“You can never foresee band magic,” explains vocalist Aðalbjörn Tryggvason. “The whole purpose of this is cooking up magic. And if you're cooking up magic with four or five weirdos, you can never foresee what's going to happen. You can't buy that. You have to live it or grow it.”

Sólstafir will release Endless Twilight of Codependent Love through Season Of Mist on November 6. The album was recorded at the Sundlaugin Studio (Iceland), where previous albums Svartir Sandar, Ótta and Berdreyminn were also recorded by producer Birgir Jón Birgisson (Sigur Rós, Alcest, Damien Rice).

The striking album artwork is taken from Johann Baptist Zwecker's 1864 watercolour of The Lady Of The Mountain.

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.