The Vintage Caravan

The Vintage Caravan
The Vintage Caravan at Wacken Open Air in 2014.
Background information
Origin	Álftanes, Iceland
Genres	Hard rock progressive rock blues rock psychedelic rock stoner rock
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Sena, Nuclear Blast, Napalm Records
Members	Óskar Logi Ágústsson Alexander Örn Númason Stefán Ari Stefánsson
Past members	Guðjón Reynisson[1] Halldór Gunnar Pálsson Páll Sólmundur H. Eydal

The Vintage Caravan are a rock band from Álftanes, Iceland. The band was formed in 2006 by Óskar Logi Ágústsson and Guðjón Reynisson before bassist Alexander Örn Númason joined after the first studio album. As of 2021, the band have released five studio albums and are currently signed with Napalm Records.

In 2006, 12 year-old school friends Óskar Logi Ágústsson (guitar and vocals) and Guðjón Reynisson (drums) formed the band. Serious work only began in 2009 and within two years the band self-published their eponymous first album.

In early 2012, the band signed a deal with Icelandic record label Sena ahead of work for their second album. Alexander Örn Númason joined shortly after on bass. A second album Voyage was released in 2014 initially by Sena. The band signed to Nuclear Blast shortly after the release of Voyage. This led to a Expand Your Mind music video produced and released by the German record label. The short film shows the psychedelic 'trips' the three members experience. As of July 2015, the video reached 400,000 hits on YouTube becoming the most viewed online song by the band. Nuclear Blast re-released Voyage to a much wider audience.^[2]

2014 saw the band playing at festivals such as Roadburn Festival, Wacken Open Air and Hard Rock Hell.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2015, the band announced on Facebook that drummer Guðjón Reynisson had left the band for personal reasons however still remained good friends with the remaining band members. In the same post, Stefán Ari was introduced to fans as the new drummer of the band. On 15 May 2015, Arrival was released with Nuclear Blast as the band's third studio album. This was the first record since the recent line-up change.^{[citation needed]}

The band's fourth studio album Gateways was released in 2018.^[3] Two years later the band signed with Napalm Records ahead of the release of the fifth album Monuments. Much like previous albums, Monuments received mostly positive reviews, with Loudersound in particular finishing their 4 out of 5 star review with the sentence 'The Vintage Caravan just get better and better.'^[4]

In many interviews, the band have confirmed they are good friends with fellow Nuclear Blast counterparts Blues Pills.^[5]

In 2014 following a tour of Europe, the band moved from Reykjavík, Iceland to Sønderborg, Denmark so that they would be nearer to their record label at the time Nuclear Blast.^[6]

According to Fred Thomas of AllMusic, the band complied within the genres of classic rock, proto (early) metal and progressive rock.^[7] Nuclear Blast however describe them as more psychedelic rock. The band themselves describes their style and sound as 'classic hard rock of the 60's and 70's with a powerful attitude and a modern twist'.^[8] The band's influences include Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Mastodon, Rush and Cream. The band explain that they love "hard hitting riff fueled music".

Óskar Logi Ágústsson

Alexander Örn Númason

Stefán Ari Stefánsson

Current members

• Óskar Logi Ágústsson – guitars, lead vocals (2006–present)
• Alexander Örn Númason – bass, backing vocals (2012–present)
• Stefán Ari Stefánsson – drums (2015–present)

Former members

• Guðjón Reynisson – drums (2006–2015)
• Halldór Gunnar Pálsson – bass (2006–2010)
• Páll Sólmundur H. Eydal – bass, backing vocals (2010–2012)

• The Vintage Caravan (2011) (self-released)
• Voyage (2014) (Sena)
• Arrival (2015) (Nuclear Blast)
• Gateways (2018) (Nuclear Blast)
• Monuments (2021) (Napalm Records)