The man in the video is Flosi Þorgeirsson, a legend in the Icelandic metal scene who is also a nurse and a historian. He has battled chronic depression his entire life, lived through tragedies and is a recovering alcoholic. Today he hosts a popular history podcast with a fellow metalhead, where he openly and honestly discusses his depression, and has brought the topic to the surface like few people have managed. This man has earned a life long respect from me. Beautiful video, beautiful song, beautiful and dark country
I lost my brother in car accident six years ago. Divorced four years ago. Half year later met the best woman in the world, connected with her by the music, exactly by the Lagnaetti of Solstafir. Half year ago was on their concert. Now I watching THIS. Emotions so much. Thank you.
Gniewko that means so much to hear, especially from you, who has experienced such loss and still been able to connect through these songs and images. I’m sorry about your brother, and thank you for putting your experiences out there for people to connect through.
God, I love Solstafir's music videos. They actually give a shit about cinematography, shooting at 24fps, and building on visual storytelling. It's like watching a short film with great music behind it.
DinoMosh we shot it in 4K, and then I scanned the entire video onto 35mm movie film before digitizing it, which gives it that nice, rich grain. Film will never die. 🤘🏼
I don't know how the hell I missed this video from one of my favourite bands, only finding it like 10 months later but this is so powerful and well made I always love your music.
@@malteadotas4 Right, but don't forget the director's work, Bowen Staines from Don't Panic FIlms, you can easily recognize his style and artistic process in each one of his videos. If you watch other Solstafir's videos that aren't directed by Bowen you can see it's quite different, (good too, but different). If you watch Fjara, Lágnætti and Bláfjall which are directed by Bowen you can see the same amazing artistic touch. So yeah, it is indeed Sólstafir's vision, but above all it is also the director's vision. Don't forget the filmmakers people :)
My favourite song by them. I remember Addi's speech before this song on tour with Myrkur. It made me tear up as person struggling with depression for years. He said it's about mental illness and how we can not comprehend struggles of our loved ones and friends that suffer even when they try to explain them to us. How the words can't explain some of the feelings they experience. Bláfjall means blue mountain though he several times called it black mountain - to better capture the meaning in english, I guess. The mountain of blackness inside. The void. If you have a chance go see them live. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. I fell in love with Dannish banshee Myrkur only to have my heart broken by antichristian Icelandic heathen bastards. :)
SAME!! Saw them the same tour, in Stockholm. Also cried like crazy during that song. I was at the front and cried during the entire set actually... Addi noticed. So when they were playing Goddess of the Ages, he jumped down to me and held me for quite a long while while I cried into his shoulder and he sang the lyrics. Such a wonderful person. He really sees *you*.
Got a chance to see them live in Moscow, Volta club'2018. God that was an amazing experience. The audience was as one, solid creature singing something they didn't clearly understand, tho it was deepest dive into the music and its atmosphere. I'm from Altay Mountains and I hope can visit the Iceland someday...
Yes, I had the honor of seeing them play at John Smith rock festival a few days ago. It was one of the best and most emotional concerts I've seen, and the best of that festival alongside Swallow the Sun.
Only the ones with deal with depression can understand each other. Saddly I suffer that ill and have to fight it every day . I felt comfortable reading your comment. Thanks
The force of the visuals and the sound of the song hits you so hard in the feels, you don't even want to understand the lyrics, because that would just distract you from your emotions.
Lyrics translation: Never saw death coming in your eyes Never saw anything but death, reflected on me It holds tight to me and don't let me go It keeps on I never saw it born in you Never saw it prowling to me It crawled to me like a scentless gas It crawled.. Oh, since I'm terrified Oh, since I'm rash Oh, since I'm tormented Awe takes charge Oh, since I became a man Oh, since courage grew in me I've pierced through the fear I've silenced death's call Never found sickness in you Never found a lack of spirit in you I'm crazy, driving on the gravel out into the emptiness Never saw death coming in your eyes Never saw anything but death, reflected on me It's beautiful to me, it mocks me Oh, so crafty I dreamed so often of rising from the rust In the fjord I beheld anew By the root of the mountains, and by the cure of the glacier And woke a second time Never saw death coming in your eyes Never saw anything but death, reflected on me It holds tight to me and don't let me go It keeps on
There was one show in Quebec that I really like. Throught the scenes you will see the characters struggling with distant memories or delusion of people reacting to their present reality. Basically it was like fighting ghosts, the vision of your girlfriend cheating on you, your family telling you they disprove your behaviors or event you wish could unfold differently. And... this is exactly like this. The series is called 19-2 for anyone curious. Easily the best one I can think of of the last decade. It is the french one, the original, not the English one.
I'm a simple man. I see a Solstafir video, I click play and like and then I go to live in Iceland for two years. :-)) Also too bad for those two perfectly good cars, the producers must have wrecked their own cars? Poor fellows.
Icelandic people have the same accent as we Finnish when we speak english. Must have something to do with how we speak our own languages, which is "speak it as it is written". 😁
The productions is very clean, the video probably one of the best metal music videos and the music is very emotional. Love it. So much good metal coming from iceland!
Nice thought, but to be honest, it is ... I mean what is evil? I is an construction of emotion and antipathy. Emotion can lead to wrong doing or overreaction.
Really, can't believe how deep and intense such an History telling from the Video sequence alone could become...! - For a couple minutes, when I truly "connected" and realized what the H... was going on, I really FELT his pain, and felt compelled to shed tears of desperation (and had to struggle to overcome that), even while I've NEVER BEEN SOO ATTACHED TO ANY COUPLE I HAD, NOR HAD ANY CHILDREN! :O This Video truly is an AMAZING Production, both so deep and emotional it took less than a couple minutes to completely SHAKE an stoneheart guy like me. And even more with that Song... Song that, alone, always had shaken me, since I first heard it, looong before I even had a clue about it's Lyrics' meaning! Well... I have to really thank you for including that "blooper + behind the scenes" ending, 'cause that was the perfect antidote to allow me to come back to normal in no time. But the impression remained none the less, VERY DEEP in my Heart... Thanks Sólstafir...! :)
starting by smashing a coffin by from the top of a waterfall ---> then burn a grand piano -->> now destroying a mercedes --->> 2020? ...btw great video, as always fantastic scenography
It’s a very good thing that Mercedes is off the road haha. The transmission slipped back into neutral every time you’d accelerate, and there was a Limp Bizkit cd that was jammed in the CD player when we bought it, and the radio was broken too, so you couldn’t even turn it off hahah. ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ WHAAAT!
I just watched this video for the 5th or 6th time, and just now it hit me again. At 9:37, he is giving the ashes to the wind while the girl is next to him. When he releases ashes the next time at 10:05, he is alone....
Please don't use UA-cam to launch any more of my videos, in the future. I don't know if you guys monetized this particular video, or didn't think to DE-monetize it - but, those TWELVE commercial breaks (not even mentioning the video linking crap that covers the most important part of the video/the end of it), basically destroyed ALL OF THE WORK that we put into this video.. which was a fucking lot. Either demonetize it, or just let me and the guys launch any upcoming videos for Sólstafir, using a different platform. It's been several years, and this still REALLY infuriates me.
The man in the video is Flosi Þorgeirsson, a legend in the Icelandic metal scene who is also a nurse and a historian. He has battled chronic depression his entire life, lived through tragedies and is a recovering alcoholic. Today he hosts a popular history podcast with a fellow metalhead, where he openly and honestly discusses his depression, and has brought the topic to the surface like few people have managed. This man has earned a life long respect from me.
Beautiful video, beautiful song, beautiful and dark country
I lost my brother in car accident six years ago. Divorced four years ago. Half year later met the best woman in the world, connected with her by the music, exactly by the Lagnaetti of Solstafir. Half year ago was on their concert. Now I watching THIS. Emotions so much. Thank you.
Gniewko
@@dontpaniciceland you do amazing job, by adding another dimension to the music
Gniewko that means so much to hear, especially from you, who has experienced such loss and still been able to connect through these songs and images. I’m sorry about your brother, and thank you for putting your experiences out there for people to connect through.
nice
I wish you the best for the future, greetings from France ..
God, I love Solstafir's music videos. They actually give a shit about cinematography, shooting at 24fps, and building on visual storytelling. It's like watching a short film with great music behind it.
DinoMosh we shot it in 4K, and then I scanned the entire video onto 35mm movie film before digitizing it, which gives it that nice, rich grain. Film will never die. 🤘🏼
@@dontpaniciceland I'd love to see a behind-the-scenes of the filming process next time you shoot something for Sólstafir. :)
I don't know how the hell I missed this video from one of my favourite bands, only finding it like 10 months later but this is so powerful and well made I always love your music.
So glad that you enjoyed it, thanks for your very kind words:)
I've never seen such an amazing production. Season of Mist is really amazing on that, and the song is also incredible.
well Jesus, that's Sólstafir's vision, not Season of Mist's. Check out their other videos,. All of them are awesome.
@@malteadotas4 Surely going to check it out. This band is so different from everything I listen to, I really needed something new.
Their last two albums have been fantastic!
@@malteadotas4 Right, but don't forget the director's work, Bowen Staines from Don't Panic FIlms, you can easily recognize his style and artistic process in each one of his videos. If you watch other Solstafir's videos that aren't directed by Bowen you can see it's quite different, (good too, but different). If you watch Fjara, Lágnætti and Bláfjall which are directed by Bowen you can see the same amazing artistic touch. So yeah, it is indeed Sólstafir's vision, but above all it is also the director's vision. Don't forget the filmmakers people :)
@@Livintank absolutely. Thank you for mentioning it, that was a big big omission I made.
My favourite song by them. I remember Addi's speech before this song on tour with Myrkur. It made me tear up as person struggling with depression for years. He said it's about mental illness and how we can not comprehend struggles of our loved ones and friends that suffer even when they try to explain them to us. How the words can't explain some of the feelings they experience. Bláfjall means blue mountain though he several times called it black mountain - to better capture the meaning in english, I guess. The mountain of blackness inside. The void.
If you have a chance go see them live. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. I fell in love with Dannish banshee Myrkur only to have my heart broken by antichristian Icelandic heathen bastards. :)
SAME!! Saw them the same tour, in Stockholm. Also cried like crazy during that song. I was at the front and cried during the entire set actually... Addi noticed. So when they were playing Goddess of the Ages, he jumped down to me and held me for quite a long while while I cried into his shoulder and he sang the lyrics. Such a wonderful person. He really sees *you*.
Got a chance to see them live in Moscow, Volta club'2018. God that was an amazing experience. The audience was as one, solid creature singing something they didn't clearly understand, tho it was deepest dive into the music and its atmosphere. I'm from Altay Mountains and I hope can visit the Iceland someday...
Yeah.. Was fortunate to hear them live in Vilnius, Lithuania and say the same stuff about depression
Yes, I had the honor of seeing them play at John Smith rock festival a few days ago. It was one of the best and most emotional concerts I've seen, and the best of that festival alongside Swallow the Sun.
Only the ones with deal with depression can understand each other. Saddly I suffer that ill and have to fight it every day . I felt comfortable reading your comment. Thanks
Man, I'm so crying right now
Sólstafir, impeccable as always
I am crying.... but for the wrong reason.... why did Season of the Mist have to put 8 commercials in 1 song...
FROM ICELAND WITH ALL THE BEST WISHES... TO THE WORLD.
Tak!
My favorite song!!!
merci, juste merci pour tout
Okay I watched it like 4 times now, still crying every time.
everything is so perfect
Yeah..
Música bien hecha , fusión de corrientes , música elaborada , y no copiando a ninguna otra banda . bien hecho .....
The force of the visuals and the sound of the song hits you so hard in the feels, you don't even want to understand the lyrics, because that would just distract you from your emotions.
My thoughts exactly...! :O
Damn that closing shot. Not crying.
Love from Bulgaria 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬
Sólstafir mereces mas reconocimiento del que tienes, una de las mejores bandas para mi
muito bom
You've managed to warm my cold dead heart only to break it...this 12 minute video tells more of a story than any movie I've seen in the last decade
Lyrics translation:
Never saw death coming in your eyes
Never saw anything but death, reflected on me
It holds tight to me and don't let me go
It keeps on
I never saw it born in you
Never saw it prowling to me
It crawled to me like a scentless gas
It crawled..
Oh, since I'm terrified
Oh, since I'm rash
Oh, since I'm tormented
Awe takes charge
Oh, since I became a man
Oh, since courage grew in me
I've pierced through the fear
I've silenced death's call
Never found sickness in you
Never found a lack of spirit in you
I'm crazy, driving on the gravel out into the emptiness
Never saw death coming in your eyes
Never saw anything but death, reflected on me
It's beautiful to me, it mocks me
Oh, so crafty
I dreamed so often of rising from the rust
In the fjord I beheld anew
By the root of the mountains, and by the cure of the glacier
And woke a second time
Never saw death coming in your eyes
Never saw anything but death, reflected on me
It holds tight to me and don't let me go
It keeps on
Thank you 👍
Sincerest thanks
I wrote and directed this, and I didn't even know the translation until right this minute haha! Thanks for this! 😆🤘🏻
Love this Band, and their Amazing work!
Love from Amsterdam 2023🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
Saludos desde Chile
me encanta esta banda
esperando que vuelvan denuevo a nuestro pais.
This is a beautiful piece of art. The music ties together so well with the video, just perfect!
Strong composition
with Solstafir many do not understand a word of what they are saying, still you understand it all through the emotion in the voice.
There was one show in Quebec that I really like. Throught the scenes you will see the characters struggling with distant memories or delusion of people reacting to their present reality. Basically it was like fighting ghosts, the vision of your girlfriend cheating on you, your family telling you they disprove your behaviors or event you wish could unfold differently.
And... this is exactly like this.
The series is called 19-2 for anyone curious. Easily the best one I can think of of the last decade. It is the french one, the original, not the English one.
Eva Langley very interesting!
@@dontpaniciceland interesting
I'm a simple man. I see a Solstafir video, I click play and like and then I go to live in Iceland for two years. :-)) Also too bad for those two perfectly good cars, the producers must have wrecked their own cars? Poor fellows.
mountainheights no, we bought the Mercedes. The other was donated by a friend. :)
This is golden. This is what keeps my faith in music alive. Thank you so much Solstafir. ❤
That organ in the background!!!
From beginning to end I was totally blown away. Perfect!
Icelandic people have the same accent as we Finnish when we speak english. Must have something to do with how we speak our own languages, which is "speak it as it is written". 😁
Szuper zene ! koszonom szepen !
great song. great video. great band.
Love from keflavik 2023 July!!!🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸
What an intense Song..
And the best video I've ever seen, intensifying the song even more
Just fabulous and so emotional ...
Amazing.... Simply astonishingly amazing.
This song got right in to my heart and soul, just beautiful
The productions is very clean, the video probably one of the best metal music videos and the music is very emotional. Love it. So much good metal coming from iceland!
reginsson Iceland seems like the perfect backdrop for metal! Never even thought about it since discovering this amazing band minutes ago! 🤘
Desde Argentina... Muy buena música solstafir
Welcome from Norway to Iceland,we will bang this world to overcome all evil,Atle.
Nice thought, but to be honest, it is ... I mean what is evil? I is an construction of emotion and antipathy. Emotion can lead to wrong doing or overreaction.
WOW A MASTERPIECE
this is the most amazing 12 minutes i've ever watched
Está banda debe transpasar fronteras siempre me ha encantado 🤘🏻🇮🇸
How can you let the video and song be interrupted by ads? It’s destroying the art!
I know, and it fucking sucks. Completely destroyed all the work we put into it.
I can’t follow what’s going on in the video but somehow it still has me glued. Top quality video, same can be said about the song
Thank you for existing 🖤
I have never seen one man that left seeing this video with dry eyes.
Love from Malmo 2023 april!!!🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
The ads really destroy this
Thanks for including behind the scenes at the end :D Amazing video, thanks for it
Thank you....
10:38 Perrrkele!
I don't understand a word but the song and the video are amazing! Greetings from Germany
Wunderbar!
Although I don’t quite understand everything about the video it hit me right in the feels. Idk why am i crying
I ALMOST DID...! Even while I'm at my Office... :O
This music video tells more story than most of modern movies...
Wow. Just wow. I really wish you to guys keep going like this, thats all
Amazing
Amazing cinematography. Love the music and all the behind the scenes footage at the end is very cool too!! COngratz!
Thanks to this video I realized how much I like that song 😊 Good job, guys, I love it! ❤
I Love You for that answer till Soltasfir,try out new Immortality blast Raven black song,Atle from Norway.
Easter egg: There is the painting used in the first Solstafir album in one of the shots.
Can you give me a timestamp or a hint? I can't find it.
@@Swoerm 5:20
Ohh!!!! Genail!!! Awesome!
Отлично!
Love this!
Really, can't believe how deep and intense such an History telling from the Video sequence alone could become...! - For a couple minutes, when I truly "connected" and realized what the H... was going on, I really FELT his pain, and felt compelled to shed tears of desperation (and had to struggle to overcome that), even while I've NEVER BEEN SOO ATTACHED TO ANY COUPLE I HAD, NOR HAD ANY CHILDREN! :O
This Video truly is an AMAZING Production, both so deep and emotional it took less than a couple minutes to completely SHAKE an stoneheart guy like me. And even more with that Song... Song that, alone, always had shaken me, since I first heard it, looong before I even had a clue about it's Lyrics' meaning!
Well... I have to really thank you for including that "blooper + behind the scenes" ending, 'cause that was the perfect antidote to allow me to come back to normal in no time. But the impression remained none the less, VERY DEEP in my Heart...
Thanks Sólstafir...! :)
Amazing as ever!!!!!
grandios
Wow! I love it
05:19 Masterpiece of Bitterness..
Thank you for this video and the music - and also for the bloopers of the car crash. :oD
Inquietante ... Desgarradora
отлично....ай молодцы...не знаю про что поют но кайф...
Love from Suomi Oulu Finland 02.11.2024-11.12.2024🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮God Bless Suomi Oulu 2024-2028🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
Как всегда, высочайший уровень
Beautiful.... but a big middlefinger to YT for interrupting this video with 2 add blocks. SHAME!!!
Love from Suomi 0ulu Finland 17.10.2024-29.11.2024🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮God Bless Suomi Oulu 2024-2028🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
Powerful stuff! Well done with the video... and the song is of course amazing. A definite favorite of mine on Berdreyminn.
starting by smashing a coffin by from the top of a waterfall ---> then burn a grand piano -->> now destroying a mercedes --->> 2020? ...btw great video, as always fantastic scenography
That looks like a 2003-2005 E Class W211 chassis
@@WarHammer1911A1 seems as they earned some more money than before the last few years :-/
@@WarHammer1911A1 W210, not W211.
It’s a very good thing that Mercedes is off the road haha. The transmission slipped back into neutral every time you’d accelerate, and there was a Limp Bizkit cd that was jammed in the CD player when we bought it, and the radio was broken too, so you couldn’t even turn it off hahah. ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ WHAAAT!
❤️❤️❤️
Welp that was one of the saddest videos ive ever seen. such an emotional song.
10/10
cry after cry
i love this guys ✌️😉🤘
amazing song!
Мистично
I sense Fields of the Nephilim here...Icelandic "Endemoniada". Gothic Crypt approves.
I just watched this video for the 5th or 6th time, and just now it hit me again. At 9:37, he is giving the ashes to the wind while the girl is next to him. When he releases ashes the next time at 10:05, he is alone....
9:51 that chord is tragic
Why is this video full of ads omg
That’s all UA-cam’s fault - they absolutely murdered this video release for me after all the work I put into it.
This a Very Emotional Song, i have goosebumps listening to the final part.
Потрясающая Работа)))
My favorite band and biggest inspiration!
10/10.
i am shocked
Sandor Clegane? :D Awesome song
Hah man :D
🤘👹🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤘👹Zajebiste granie super super.
OMG 🖤
Hermosa canción y en especial su vídeo
Dymatecno argentino acá! Mi amor por Solstafir no tiene límites.
Yo!!
Yo :)
@@stephaniecortes2669 Excelente temazzo 🤟🏼 saludos desde México
Excellent
Please don't use UA-cam to launch any more of my videos, in the future. I don't know if you guys monetized this particular video, or didn't think to DE-monetize it - but, those TWELVE commercial breaks (not even mentioning the video linking crap that covers the most important part of the video/the end of it), basically destroyed ALL OF THE WORK that we put into this video.. which was a fucking lot. Either demonetize it, or just let me and the guys launch any upcoming videos for Sólstafir, using a different platform. It's been several years, and this still REALLY infuriates me.
Wow