The festival's name means " testicular flight" and is a pun on the name of ("
sparks
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* Sparks, Kansas
*Sparks, Kentucky
*Sparks, Maryland
* Sparks, Nebraska
*Sparks, Nevada
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History
The first festival began in August 2005 as a small, one-day party for a few Icelandic bands.
In 2017 the number of attendees was 2000–2500.
The line up usually consists of 30–40 bands, most of which are Icelandic. Some non-Icelandic bands that have performed at the festival are At The Gates (SE),
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Biography
Secrets of the Moon were founded in 1995.Triptykon (CHE), (NL) and Cephalic Carnage (US). A few domestic bands that have often performed at the festival include Auðn,
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Kontinuum
Kontinuum is an Icelandic rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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Eistnaflug's home, Neskaupstaður, Iceland (population 1400), is a little town located on the Norðfjörður fjord in the municipality of Fjarðabyggð on the eastern coast of Iceland which is 700 km away from Reykjavík.
Eistnaflug's motto is ("No behaving like a jerk"). There has never been a report of a physical or sexual assault at the festival, a track record that is often compared to the much worse faring
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2015–2019 headliners
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Immolation
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Marduk
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Opeth
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Akercocke
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Perturbator
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Primordial
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