SIC: From the Middle of Nowhere

By Andreas Torneberg, Jan 22, 2010:
"SIC from Faeroe Islands just stand in front of the release of their second album, more angry and wild than their first production from 2007. In 2009 nominated for a Best Death Metal Award this band has the power to enrich the scene with a lot of energy and awesome metal. Eddie Jacobsen, founder and guitarist of the band, tells about plans, future, metal and life before death."

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www.stalker.cd 

Review of Týr's Album: By The Light Of The Norhtern Star

By Spirit-Of-Metal’s Vinrock666 , 9 Jan 2010:
"As strong of an album Tyr’s 2009 LP release “By the Light of the Northern Star” is, the greatest characteristic isn’t from their music but rather from the broadened scope of their subject matter."

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The Vinrock Review - Heavy Metal album reviews

The Faroes' Summer Music Festival G!

By Paul Sullivan -  Saturday 2 January 2010:
"Fancy something less commercial than Glasto or Benicàssim? Then try the Faroes' G! Festival, with its quirky bands and amazing setting."

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The Guardian

SIC talks Fighters They Bleed

Dec 2009:
"The Faroe Islands thrashers talk to Metal as Fuck about touring, playing, their influences, and, of course, their upcoming album Fighters They Bleed. Raw, massive, dirty, intense, powerful and in your face’ is how SIC guitarist Eddie Jacobsen describes their sound, promising this is especially true of their new stuff. "

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metalasfuck.net/zine/articles/2009/sic-talks-fighters-they-bleed

Primordial Sounds Of Lost Islands

By Marc Vincenz - sep 2009:
"It’s around 2.00 am the morning after the G! Festival, Faeroe Island’s mini-equivalent to Britain’s Glastonbury Music Festival. Here in a converted private home which acts as the festival’s backstage lounge, among record peddlers, producers, weathered studio musicians, avant-garde composers, singer-songwriters, Faeroe politicians (mostly those who think they’re in the know), we chew the proverbial whale blubber and do our utmost to clear what’s left in the bar."

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Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review - Music Category

On The Trail Of Teitur - The Biggest Pop Star In, Er, The Faroe Islands

By James McMahon,24 Aug 2009
"Somewhere in the Faroe Islands, about 15 miles taxi ride from the capital city of Torshavn - although the word ‘city’ has grand connotations Torshavn doesn’t really deliver on - down by the sea, next to a swarm of puffins, in a small rusty red house at the foot of a mountain and next to a horse that no one seems to know where it came from or where it goes at night, dwells this tiny nation's most significant contribution to popular music. His name is Teitur Lassen."

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NME Music Magazine - First For Music News

Slottsfjell Festival and G! Festival, reviews

By Huw Nesbitt, 30 Jul 2009:
British and American acts appeared at these remote Scandinavian festivals, but it was the high quality of the homegrown acts which stood out. Rating: both * * * *

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Telegraph > CULTURE > MUSIC > LIVE MUSIC REVIEWS

The End of the World

By Will Hodgkinson, Sunday 14 June 2009:
"The Faroe Islands, halfway to Iceland, has a tiny population with a huge appetite for fish, whale hunting and astonishing music. Will Hodgkinson meets the indie bands and folk singers - and the group that plays cement mixers."

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The Observer

Faroe Islands' Vibrant Music Scene

Sunday 14 June 2009:
Astonishing music from the islands' Eivor Palsdottir, Boys in a Band and Orka. Photographs by Murdo Macleod. Published in The Observer, (2:04 min - Opens in new window)

Watch and listen to an Audio Slideshow in The Observer

The G! Mini-Festival - Part One

By Stephen Brolan -  24 Jul 2008:
“Do you wanna go to the Faroe Islands?” is the question put to us by the Reverend Shooman, our ordained live editor. “Wow! The Pharoah Islands!” a geographically retarded Fly misspells in his thick head. “Maybe I could even pop over to the mainland and wake Tutankamun up while I’m there?”

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The-Fly.uk.co (Music Website)

The G! Mini-Festival - Part Two

By Stephen Brolan - 04 Aug 2008:
"At this time of year it doesn’t really get dark in the Faroe Islands. Because we’re so near the Arctic Circle, the paltry darkness we’re afforded tends to resemble a weird kind of twilight."

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The-Fly.uk.co (Music Website),

They Like To Mow Their Roofs, Occasionally

By Paul Sullivan - 8 May 2007:
DiS at the Faroe Islands' AME:  "It’s not the kind of place you’d expect to find a simmering music scene. But then again, everyone thought Iceland was just cod and volcanoes before The Sugarcubes landed in Europe and the States and started drawing everyone’s attention to the mini-revolution going on back home."

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Drowned in Sound

The In Sound From Way Out

By Paul Sullivan -  Monday July 9, 2007:
"A hive of home-grown music activity, the remote Faroe Islands are making a significant musical bid for international recognition. Paul Sullivan goes north to look behind the scenes."

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Music Week

A Festival Faroe Faroe Away

By Ben H. Murray - 12 July 2007:
"Benicassim is, like, soooo last year. We're off to tickle our G-spot at G! Festival in the Faroe Islands instead. Why don't you come with?"

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Virtual Festivals

Tales From The Faroe Islands

By Ben H. Murray - 18 July 2007:
"As hordes of Brits descend on Benicassim making it the adventure equivalent of Alton Towers, we concentrate on one of Europe's more unlikely festivals - the mystical G! Festival in the Faroe Islands. Follow our blog as we go where few knew existed."

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Virtual Festivals

The DiS-Review Of The G! festival

By Shain Shapiro - 25. July 2007:
"The Faeroe Islands are stunning, awash with treeless mountains, bright blue fjords, beautiful women and an air of relaxed simplicity. G! is a different kind of music festival – although the musicians comprise the key draw, the fact that I’m in a place built for postcards has me more in awe with my surroundings than any music coming from some stage or other."

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DiS - Drowned in Sound

Reviews of Boys In A Band's 24 Hour Black Diamond Train Tour

Articles about the Boys In A Band's Record Attempting  "Black Diamond Train" Tour playing 24 gigs around the Faroe Islands in 24 Hours  - the last one, the great finale, at the Mini G! festival in July 2008:

• www.guardian.co.uk
• www.nme.com
• www.clashmusic.com
• gaffa.dk
• www.dazeddigital.com
• www.guardian.co.uk/travel
• www.visir.is
• www.gbob.com
• www.lenta.ru

Rolling Stone's David Fricke About ORKA

Watch a YouTube video with an interview with David Fricke from the American music magazine Rolling Stone. Among other things he reviews the Faroese band ORKA. Fast forward to the golden minutes at 2:26 :)