Þrumuvagninn [Thrumuvagninn] "Þrumuvagninn" 1982

At the end of the summer, Sigurður Reynisson had taken over the drums from Ólaf, and with that there was no one left from the original band, and therefore it was natural that the band adopted another name - Þrumuvagninn. And since this heavy metal version of the band released the single Þrumuvagninn, it is natural that the album also follows the name of the band.Þrumuvagninn first appeared under that name at the beginning of September, and subsequently the band played quite a bit in the city's social centers in the fall and elsewhere, in fact, and received extremely mixed reviews. Whether it was because of that or something else, the band took a bit of a break around Christmas and the end of the year 1981-82, but in February they reappeared with a new drummer, Eyjólf Jónsson, the brother of guitarist Einar...
...Þrumuvagninn became quite prominent in concerts for a while, played several times at SATT evenings and also at a birthday celebration on the occasion of FÍH's fiftieth anniversary in the spring, and actually appears on a double album that was released in that context.
Around the same time, word got out that they were expecting an album from Þrumuvagnin, but the band had then signed a record deal with Stein. Recordings began in Hljóðrita in Hafnarfjörður in March under the direction of singer Eiðs Arnar, who also wrote all the songs and lyrics. At the beginning, it had been planned to record a five-song album, but when the publisher Steinar Berg heard the result, he decided to fill the LP, which later contained nine songs, and is of course considered the first heavy rock LP to be released in Iceland.
The album was released in the summer and bore the band's name. It received fair reviews in the magazine Samúel, Helgarpóstinum and Jens Guðmundsson's Poppbók, and good reviews in Morgunblaðin and Þjóðwillin. The album was widely compared to the music of Led Zeppelin, and not least Eiðs Arnar's singing with Robert Plant, and that stamp stuck with the singer for a long time. - Helgi J
trax:
01 Þrumuvagninn 02 Þitt Er Valið 03 Lítill Hitler? 04 Sjálfsbjörg 05 Í Tilefni Kvennaárs 06 Ekki Er Allt Sem Sýnist 07 Að Vera Öðruvísi 08 Hundamania 09 Dauði Baldurs
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