{"product_id":"metalhead-soundtrack-lp-bluray-blood-red-vinyl-booklet-poster","title":"Metalhead (Soundtrack) [LP+Bluray] (Blood Red Vinyl Booklet Poster)","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePetur Ben - Metalhead (Soundtrack) [LP+Bluray] (Blood Red Vinyl Booklet Poster)\u003c\/h2\u003e\nCult film Metalhead's original soundtrack by Petur Ben out on vinyl in December\nThe 2013 Icelandic film Metalhead by Ragnar Bragason tells the story about a young girl,\nHera, in 1990s Iceland caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to\nstrike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own\nmusic. The film's highly praised soundtrack by Petur Ben will finally be available on vinyl for\nthe first time, accompanied with the film on Blu-ray and completed by a booklet and poster\nin December via Svart Records.\nPetur Ben reminisces his past with metal and the making of the soundtrack:\n\"My first compositional attempts happened in my teens when I was in a death metal band in\nthe early nineties. I was just fifteen, but I think in a way it gave me a real window into the\nfilm's time and scenery. In many ways I was like Hera. An isolated kid finding solace in\nmusic although her situation is rural, but I was in the middle of this scene in Reykjavik.\nBack then I had Entombed, Godflesh, Morbid Angel and a few other records on vinyl and the\nrest was just dubbed from my friends' albums to cassettes. In 2012 though when I wrote this\nmusic, I had just released my album God's Lonely Man. I was heavily influenced by drone\nmusic like Gerard Grisey and contemporary indie bands like Women and Swans. I was also\nlistening to The Doors, The Stooges and a whole lot of Velvet Underground, so basically\npsychedelic, kraut, drone stuff that we could call minimalistic rock music.\"\nTalking about Svarthamar, the film's most well-known song, Petur adds \"I wanted it to be\nvery tone centric but with hints of the Lydian mode that has this distinct Icelandic pagan folk\nsound. The story of this song cannot be told without mentioning the main reason for its\nsuccess, mainly Þorbjorg Helga's vocal delivery. She came in with Ragnar to my garage. I\nhanded her the SHURE SM 58 handheld microphone and a pair of headphones, and she just\nsang the living daylights out of that thing. I didn't have an extra pair of headphones for\nmyself or my director. We just stood there dumbstruck watching this gorgeous creature\nlament her brother and express the meaning of the impermanent, transient nature of\nhumanity, acapella in my acoustically dead garage. I still get chills thinking about it.\"\nThe director Ragnar Bragason comments on the legacy of the film:\n\"Metalhead had its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in\n2013. No film of mine has had a wider reach, it played numerous film festivals and was\nreleased in many countries. It soon reached cult status and a record number of illegal\ndownloads for an Icelandic film. Books have been written about it. Many musicians have\ncovered Petur's Svarthamar song and the web is filled with fan art from across the world.\nPeople even have Hera tattooed on their arms and legs! Years after release it's being shown\nhere and there from time to time. Still to this day I get messages from people all over the\nworld who have discovered Metalhead and want to discuss it and tell me how much Hera's\nstory means to them. That is the greatest reward.\"\n\nTracklist:\nSIDE A\n1. Svarthamar (Studio Version)\n2. Moving\n3. You Are Free\n4. Bless Baldur\n5. Death\n6. Brenna\n\nSIDE B\n1. Kirkja\n2. Steiktur Fiskur\n3. Traktor\n4. You Owe Me\n5. Von Heru\n6. Life Is Sick You Are Sick\n7. Svarthamar (Demo)","brand":"Petur Ben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62526675550538,"sku":"6430080238859","price":7.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/goldenspiraluk.com\/products\/metalhead-soundtrack-lp-bluray-blood-red-vinyl-booklet-poster","provider":"Golden Spiral Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}