High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band`s name is best explained in an interview from Century Media Records website. Lazare states "Solefald is an old Norse word for sunset. We `stole` it from a painting by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen. His two paintings `Soleglad` and `Solefald` portrays the cycle of being, and we found it to be a very fitting idea for our band." Cornelius also states "`Solefald` means literally `the fall of the sun`, or just `sunset`; the way we spell it is Danish, from the 19th century."