Two hundred miles north of the UK, the Faroe Islands sit amid icy waters, isolated from the rest of the world. With a population of only 54,000, they could be forgiven for not making a substantial contribution to heavy music, but Hamferð (and others) have repeatedly confounded expectations.
Their last album, Támsins Likam, was a revelation, its distinctive blend of crushing, melodic doom, austere melody and frostbitten atmospherics a powerfully vivid evocation of the windswept Faroese experience.
