Hellvar started in 2004 when founding members Heiða and Elvar moved to Berlin as philosophy students. Armed with an electric guitar and a drum machine the two philosophers were forced to book gigs as the student loans from Iceland were not giving them the financial security they were designed to do. Elvar describes the music of Hellvar as drum-machines and electric guitars. Heiða doesn’t want to describe it, and says: ,,Just come to a gig”. In early 2007 the band grew from a two piece to a quartet when child prodigy Alexandra was given guitar duties and the bass virtuoso Sverrir was added to the lineup. The band released their first album “Bat out of Hellvar” in the end of 2007 and has been touring Europe, America and Asia entertaining both the younger and older generations of the free mind. Hellvar is currently writing new stuff for a new album.
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