Between 1996 and 2000, Maelifell changed its sound and styles several times; in other words, the project evolved.  One can hear, from the extremely primitive tracks marked by a great technical poverty to the very constructed compositions (on Eternity or Rois d'Ici-bas) using synthesizers as well as samples or acoustic instruments, what can seem a logical progression of the band, from a total amateurism to a certain level of competence, and from an ultra-naïve style to something more "adult".

Since 2017, when we started working together again, this logic no longer makes any sense. So much so that it would be relevant, in the absolute sense, to secretly record albums until we die, and then have someone put them online, all at once, without any indication of when. Because we are indeed out of time; out of any idea of progression vs. regression, or evolution vs. stagnation.

We record without the slightest premeditation what comes into our heads, what comes out of itself, under the effect of inspiration, chance, the specificities of the material used that day... It can sound like any of our old periods, or like something absolutely new to us.

Still owning all the material used from Demo 96 to Rois d'Ici-bas via La Peste, and having extended our studio to include analogue synthesizers, 16 and 8 bit samplers, various folk instruments, we are able to revisit all the styles we have practised, extending our music to other ambiances, other genres. "What exactly will be the style of the next Maelifell release" is a meaningless question because we have reached our own kind of eternity.