The Fanpage of the Icelandic band Hellvar

Friday, February 13, 2015

Hellvar in the UK - Rehearsal Photos

Alexandra is back !! Welcome in the UK, Alex

Monday, February 9, 2015

"Stop that noise" T-shirts

"Stop that noise" Hellvar T-shirts for sale on the UK Tour

Or on Tuesday 10. February @ LUCKY RECORDS, Geisladiskabúð Valda, 12 Tónar and in Smekkleysa Plötubúð.

Model Elvar
he's a model and he's looking good

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Hellvar Live @ Bar 11 on 6. February 2015

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Hellvar Live @ Islenski Rokkbarinn on 7. February 2015

Friday, January 30, 2015

Highway to Hellvar February 2015 UK Tour Dates - An Update

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Highway To Hellvar - The UK Support Gig in Gamli Gaukurinn, downtown Reykjavik on 24. January 2015

Hellvar @ Gamli Gaukurinn on Saturday 24. January 2015

Supporting bands are Hemúllinn, Börn and Saktmóðigur.

Hellvar on stage @ 00:00

Do not forget to sing Happy birthday for singer Heiða on 25. January

Free Admission - But please buy a t-shirt or the music of the bands

Vúhú!

Highway to Hellvar: The Way It Was and Is

Biography

Hellvar started in 2004 when the founding members Heiða Eiríksdóttir and Elvar Geir Sævarsson (Heiða + Elvar = Hellvar) moved to Berlin to study philosophy. Heiða had been a singer in the band Unun (the band of ex-Sugarcube Thor Eldon & Dr. Gunni) which released 2 albums: "Super Shiny Dreams" (1995, released in Iceland one year earlier as “æ") and "Ótta" (Almost morning, 1999), as well as an EP-album called “Bones” (1997).

Heiða made 2 solo-albums "Svarið" (The answer, 2000) and a Charles Bukowski-tribute entitled "Sun Fruit Grape Shine" (2003). Another album "tiufingurupptilguds" (2003) was made as Heiða & Heiðingjarnir (band members were Birgir Baldursson, Sverrir Ásmundsson & Elvar Geir Sævarsson). Material written for their rock band was rearranged for a drum machine.

Hellvar became a trio with Flosi Þorgeirsson as bass player, who plays in the famous Icelandic band HAM. First project was an art-installation called 'Hellvar – ekki Helvar', that took place in Keflavík’s SSV-gallery from December 2005 to January 2006, when Elvar, Heiða Flosi and a video-artist called Sunna Guðmundsdóttir transformed a gallery into a working recording studio/rehearsal space and lived there for 3 weeks, recording an experimental album to be released in 10 copies only.

Early 2007 Hellvar became a quartet: Flosi left the band, but child prodigy Alexandra joined on guitar and bass virtuoso Sverrir was added to the line-up. Together the two boys and two girls stirred up a cocktail from electro-indie to new-wave with a twist of lime. Debut album "Bat out of Hellvar" was released in the end of 2007 and was the first release on the new Icelandic record label Kimi Records. The band toured in the USA, Germany and China, and then started working on their next album, adding Ólafur Ingólfsson to the mix on live drums. The 2nd album "Stop that noise" was released on Kimi label in September 2011, and later that same year an acoustic version, "Noise that stopped" was recorded, picking the bands favourite songs from Bat out of Hellvar and Stop that noise. Around 200 limited edition home-made cds were made. Now Sverrir left the band because he moved with his family to Denmark and Haukur of the band Morðingjarnir (The Murderers) replaced him. Ólafur the drummer had to leave shortly after that and Birkir Fjalar Viðarson, of I Adapt and Bisund, drummed for a while inspiring Hellvar to become more of a noticeable full-on Rock-band.

Vocalist Aðalheiður Arna Björgvinsdóttir came to do some backings for while. She also has a solo project called Death of a Scoobafish. Baldur Sívertsen stood in for Alexandra when she was living in Belgium for a couple of months, and a bandmember of his, Andri Geir Árnason replaced Birkir, but Andri and Baldur had been together in Hljómsveitin Ég and Monterey, and Andri had been drumming for the legendary Geirfuglarnir.

In 2014 a lot of writing got done for the next album and by fall 2014 Alexandra moves to Sweden, and Haukur decides to concentrate on Morðingjarnir. Hellvar becomes a four-piece for a while, with Andri drumming, Heiða and Elvar playing guitars and doing vocals and Bogi Reynisson joining on bass. His most recent band has been Sushi Submarine but he was also in two legendary bands, Sororicide and Stjörnukisi. Genious-musician Hallvarður Ásgeirsson steps in to play guitars in the fall of 2014. Early 2015 the Icelandic and Swedish branches of Hellvar unite their kingdoms in United Kingdom, as a tour is booked in February.
An album is due later that year...
To be continued

Friday, January 9, 2015

Hellvar UK Tour February 2015 - An Update

Highway to Hellvar – UK-tour 2015:

13.02: The Beeswing - Kettering
14.02: The Labour Club – Northampton
17.02: Firebug – Leicester
19.02: Southern Belle in Fulham - London
20.02: Bedford Esquires – Bedford
21.02: The Old Market Inn - Kettering
23.02: Northampton Uni SU – Northampton
26.02: The Portland Arms – Cambridge
27.02: The Olde Red Lion – Northampton
28.02: The Ship Inn - Oundle

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Hellvar Live @ Dillon anno 2014: Free Download

Hellvar Live @ Rock Bar Dillon, downtown 101 Reykjavik, 2014

Free Music: Hellvar Live @ Dillon anno 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Hellvar UK Tour 2015

Hellvar goes to the UK

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Heiða's Christmas Cover: "Kalt á toppnum"

Heiða

Heiða Trúbador covering the song by Baggalútur & Svavar Pétursson
"Kalt á toppnum"

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Heiða & Elvar on stage @ Dori's benefit gig 26. November 2014

Dori has cancer, and all his friends and co-workers at the Þjóðleikhúsið/National Theatre just threw him an evening to raise money for the expensive hospital treatment.
Heiða Eiríks & Elvar on stage: