Glittertind is a "one-mans project" where Torbjørn Sandvik is the featuring artist. The name "Glittertind" has been adopted from the name of one of the highest mountains in the mountain range"Jotunheimen" in Norway. "Jotunheimen" is a beautiful, majestetic and very mystic mountain range.

Torbjørn is a eighteen year old(born 1985) nature lover from Norway. The music he makes is nature romantic and national romantic. Often it has folktunes in it. Some songs are elder folkmelodies which have been turned into a bit more "modernized" sound. The lyrics are also often about historical occurences, like on the album "Evige Asatro" where the maintheme is the christianization of Norway.

Glittertind is not a band which claims that "everything was so much nicer before". But if you want to understand the future and the world we are living in, you"ve got to understand the past. And in times of globalization the issue of knowing your culture is maybe more important than ever.

Modern national romantic music, music concerning heathen beliefs as well as nature romantic music, have many times been connected with racism. Glittertind is not a political band and does NOT support this kind of opinions or behavior.

The influences of Glittertind is mainly folkmusic, punk, metal, hardrock, but of course also old national romantic art, tales and traditions from Scandinavia...

(Source: Official Site)