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The icelandic band Lazyblood (Letiblóð)is a brandnew duet with Valdimar Jóhannsson and Erna Ómarsdóttir. The music is described as an electronic metal opera with some strong theatrical  and physical input, some touch of disco and innovative headbanging. We will promise you that every single audience member will go home with a smile on their face and warmth in their hearts.Possibly a life saving experince.


Erna Ómarsdóttir is a performer and a choreographer. In Lazyblood she sings, screams,grunts,howls, headbangs and plays the preachermanlady.

Valdimar Jóhannsson is a muscian and a composer for theatre and dance. He also plays with and composes for the fantastic icelandic punk band Reykjavik. In Lazyblood he plays electronics, keyboard and sings.

www.ernaomarsdottir.com
www.myspace.com/lazybloodtheband



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The Lazyblood concert at the bar Boston in Reykjavík was characterized by raw power, but also poetic depth. Erna Ómarsdóttir's singing was both violent and fragile, a strange mixture of childlike innocence and beastly frenzy. There was something incredible about this music and its performance - strange beauty that one rarely comes across. I want more!

Jónas Sen
( a music critic for the Icelandic Morgunbladit and a colloborator of BJORK on the Volta tour)
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I was at Lazyblood’s first show. I know a lot of people might pretend to have been there as the years progress, but I want to document it now and forever: I was at Lazyblood’s first ever show.
Those present at Boston that night will surely remember it for years to come. One has to assume that from judging by their dropped jaws and stunned faces throughout the 45-minute performance.
Lazyblood moved in for the kill, and tore us to pieces.
Lazyblood deconstructs the Madonna/Spice Girls/Spears/GaGa/ notions of post-sexual girl power, Lazyblood chews up convention with conviction, and spits out a torn carcass of forged preconceptions and decaying knowledge. Lazyblood is a beast of a carnivore of a musical outfit. It will tear you to pieces.
A Lazyblood performance is invigorating, life-affirming, unsettling, thick, spiritual, meaty and wholly lovely.
Sincerely,
Haukur S. Magnússon

Editor // The Reykjavík Grapevine
haukur@grapevine.is
Tel. (+354) 695-8158 / (+354) 540-3602
May 29, 2010
Mosfellsbær, Iceland
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The performance opened with the entrance of a giant, twitching, two- masked figure,
caped in a shimmering, golden cloak, and absorbing the
attention and energy of the space, like an alien making its first landing
on Earth. The costume was about as low-tech as one from a retro Doctor
Who episode, but the movement and power that was erupting from with-in the cloak was explosive and primal. Our introduction to this golden
beast was short as the human forms, hidden beneath, were released and
revealed to be two figures, one male and one female. The long-haired
male took to his Apple Mac and microKorg keyboard, and the volatile
female grabbed the microphone and dominated centre-stage. The 15–20
minutes that followed was an unclassifiable merge of dance, drama and
theatre – all compacted within the form of a rock band. With Valdimar
Jóhannsson steering the sound through an electronic storm of electro-
punk, metal, glam rock and Nordic folk, Erna Ómarsdottir sculpted and
ruptured the world she and Jóhannsson were building together with a
body like a tornado in a music box, and a voice that danced between tones of the
Northern Lights and the sound of a mother dragon protecting her young.

Alexander Roberts , Total theater magazin ,spring 2010
volume 22 issue 01
totaltheater.org.uk - Various


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They are currently working on their first album which will be released in the end of this year

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The 2 members of Lazyblood just recently started their carrier as a band together but their dance and theater productions have been touring all over Europe for the past few years.
Their specialty is a mixture of unique head-banging and screaming technique. They thrust out something that can be described as electronically distorted metal opera which leaves the audience with a smile on their face and warmth in their hearts and is possibly a life altering experience.