The Linear Scaffold

{{Infobox album | name = The Linear Scaffold | type = studio | artist = Solefald | cover = The Linear Scaffold cover.jpg | alt = | released = 12 July 1997 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Symphonic black metal, avant-garde metal | length = | label = Avantgarde | producer = Roald Råsberg | prev_title = Jernlov | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = Neonism | next_year = 1999 }}

'''''The Linear Scaffold''''' is the debut studio album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Solefald. It was released in 1997, through Avantgarde Records.

The cover art features Odd Nerdrum's 1986 painting ''Return of the Sun''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fermariello|first=Ugo|date=12 August 1997|url=http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/970812-kjent-12.html|title=Nerdrum-heavy|language=Norwegian|work=Dagbladet|accessdate=21 August 2016}}</ref>

== Track listing == *All Lyrics by Cornelius Jakhelln, except where noted. All Music by Solefald. # "Jernlov" – 3:48 (Jakhelln/Lazare Nedlund) # "Philosophical Revolt" – 5:45 # "Red View" – 5:20 (Jakhelln/Nedlund) # "Floating Magenta" – 1:42 (Jakhelln/Nedlund) # "The Macho Vehicle" – 5:00 # "Countryside Bohemians" – 5:33 # "Tequila Sunrise" – 4:17 # "When the Moon Is on the Wave" – 7:24 (lyrics from a poem written by Lord Byron)

== Critical reception == {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-linear-scaffold-mw0000671159 |title=The Linear Scaffold - Solefald : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic |last=York |first=William |work=AllMusic |accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref> | rev2 = Chronicles of Chaos | rev2score = 9/10<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-754 |title=CoC : Solefald - The Linear Scaffold : Review |last=Azevedo |first=Pedro |date=3 October 1998 |work=Chronicles of Chaos |accessdate=29 August 2012}}</ref> }}

AllMusic chose the album as an "album pick" in their retrospective review, commenting that the album "showed right off the bat that they were a band with their own sound and vision."<ref name="AllMusic"/> The album was featured on Terrorizer's "The Great Black Metal Albums Of All Time", with a number 30 showing. Reviewer James "Harry" Hinchliffe called it "a bold and wonderfully pretentious re-interpretation of BM, inspired as much by Sartre as Satan and careening dizzyingly between devastatingly concise black metal and poppy, blissed-out choruses."{{cn|date=March 2023}}

== Personnel == *As noted in liner notes<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1538874 Personnel as found at discogs]</ref> **Cornelius: Iron Law Screams, Linear Scaffold Strings, Bass **Lazare: Melovoice, Macrocosmic Keys, Tornado Beats

==Production== *Arranged by Solefald *Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Roald Råsberg *Mastered by Solefald & Morten Lund

== References ==

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