ADDI TRYGGVASON
“THE BEATLES WERE PLAYING IN LEATHER AND CARRYING KNIVES”
of people talk about tape-trading networks, but I didn’t really get involved in that until around ’95 when Sólstafir formed. We’d make cassettes for our demos, which then made us dive into the underground pool to trade those cassettes and posters with fans and other musicians. But before all that, around ’88, I went to a friend’s and he’d – Reign In Bloodpest’ written on it in pencil, because he’d just recorded a copy of his cousin’s record. It’s funny, I still have it! The first thing that hit me was the guitar of – the riff is mindblowing and when that Tom Araya scream kicks in? Insane.
