PTUR BEN – Metalhead (Original Soundtrack) [w/ Poster] – LP – Black Vinyl + Blu-ray [DEC 12]

LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl. Includes the film on Blu-ray, a booklet and a poster.

Cult film Metalheads Original Soundtrack by Ptur Ben out on vinyl in December. The 2013 Icelandic film Metalhead by Ragnar Bragason tells the story about a young girl, Hera, in 1990s Iceland caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music. The films highly praised soundtrack by Ptur Ben will finally be available on vinyl for the first time.

Ptur Ben reminisces his past with metal and the making of the soundtrack: My first compositional attempts happened in my teens when I was in a death metal band in the early nineties. I was just fifteen, but I think in a way it gave me a real window into the films time and scenery. In many ways I was like Hera. An isolated kid finding solace in music although her situation is rural, but I was in the middle of this scene in Reykjavik. Back then I had Entombed, Godflesh, Morbid Angel and a few other records on vinyl and the rest was just dubbed from my friends albums to cassettes. In 2012 though when I wrote this music, I had just released my album Gods Lonely Man. I was heavily influenced by drone music like Gerard Grisey and contemporary indie bands like Women and Swans. I was also listening to The Doors, The Stooges and a whole lot of Velvet Underground, so basically psychedelic, kraut, drone stuff that we could call minimalistic rock music. Talking about Svarthamar, the films most well-known song, Ptur adds I wanted it to be very tone centric but with hints of the Lydian mode that has this distinct Icelandic pagan folk sound”.

Tracklist:

A1. Svarthamar (Studio Version)
A2. Moving
A3. You Are Free
A4. Bless Baldur
A5. Death
A6. Brenna

B1. Kirkja
B2. Steiktur Fiskur
B3. Traktor
B4. You Owe Me
B5. Von Heru
B6. Life Is Sick You Are Sick
B7. Svarthamar (Demo)