Press:

“Born and brought up in Kongsberg in the Eighties, Jonas Christiansen put his original band SLAVIA on hiatus and moved to Oslo to concentrate on Moonfog Productions‘ newly-signed band DISIPLIN in 2003. While their self-titled debut album quickly shot them onto the national and international stratosphere through their contagious, mid-tempo riffs intermittently layered around chilly black metal blast beats, it was their second album, “Anti-Life”, that saw the Norwegian ensemble truly owning their musical skills”
Metalshock Finland

“It was previously reported that some of black metal's elite are set to appear at a special benefit concert for SLAVIA founder and frontman Jonas R. Christiansen (ex-DISIPLIN) who had been suffering from cancer. Sadly, the benefit concert will now be a memorial show.”
Bravewords.com

“On November 18, members of several high-profile Norwegian metal bands, including DARKTHRONE, SATYRICON and TAAKE, will take part in a live show called "Algir - Stttekonsert For Jonas R. Christiansen", at Bergen's prime rock venue, Garage, to raise awareness of colon cancer. In addition, HELHEIM, GRAVDAL and SLAVIA themselves will perform at the event that was originally intended to be a fund-raising concert, but will now go ahead as a memorial show for Christiansen.”
Blabbermouth.net

“SLAVIA vocalist Jonas Christiansen was found dead in his apartment early this morning (Thursday, November 17) after battling colon cancer for the past few months. He was 31 years old.”
Blistering Metal News

“DARKTHRONE, SATYRICON, TAAKE Members Come Together For JONAS R. CHRISTIANSEN”
Blabbermouth.net

“SHINING’s NIKLAS KVARFORTH has joined the list of musicians and bands who will appear at a special Benefit Concert for SLAVIA founder and front man JONAS R. CHRISTIANSEN (ex-DISIPLIN) who is suffering from cancer”
Loucifer - Luciferspeaks.com

“Slavia var en litt merkelig opplevelse. En lang intro og en lang outro med 4 låter imellom. Innimellom rocket det godt av dem, selv om det var lett å høre at dette bandet ikke hadde øvd sammen i mer enn en øving. Det var nok de roligere partiene de slet mest med, for når tempoet ble skrudd opp, låt det mye bedre. Lørdags ettermiddag er sannsynligvis den verste tiden for et band å få liv i publikum på Inferno, og slik var det også i år. Det var knapt ei sjel som rørte på seg til tross for mange oppfordringer fra Jonas. Det kan ikke være særlig morsomt å spille når det er slik.”
Rune Grande - Inferno Festival - Day 4

“Chunky, bludgeoning riffs thrash and grind along, even opening out into majestic march-to-battle riffs that remind me of Graveland or Iuvenes. The vocals are a glass-gargling assault of blasphemy and hatred. And what lifts this completely above the ordinary is the complete fearlessness of the songwriting, closing out "The Blasphemic Art" with an a cappella rendition of a traditional marching song, or elsewhere segueing into Chopin's "Funeral March" or even a brief swirl of middle-eastern music - it seems nonsensical, but every choice makes complete sense in the place where it arises. It's the hallmark of mastery is what it is, of a composer who knows what he's doing and doesn't care what anyone else thinks. But this is not some kind of weird experimental album - far from it - this is some of the dirtiest, ugliest, Hell-blasting Black Metal you will ever hear. Absolutely killer. 5/5”
Sargon the Terrible - Review of Slavia - Strength and Vision (5/5)

“It is not an album that one picks out the "hit single" and ignores the rest of!!!! Anyway, an extremely cool classical intro savagely erupts into the first track, which melds into an amusing/disturbing outro of WW2-era marching music along with vague dialogue. There are many highlights throughout, and many different approaches to black metal, though all sounding like the same band is performing them, rather than having a disjointed schizophrenic feel to it. The pace of the album demonstrates a nice variety, though for the most part it is rather fast. And don't forget those bludgeoning, memorable riffs! The overall impression one gets is of a very thick, buzzing blanket of razor sharp drillbits burrowing into the brain, and what more could you want from a metal release?”
Ghastlylugosi - Crrrrunchy! - 89%

"Black metal as a whole is an egregiously polarizing genre, but that doesn't inhibit Slavia from the occasional resourceful flash of hookiness. For example, "The Blasphemic[sic] Art" begins as a simple-minded blackened thrash number, but half way through, the focus shifts to anthematic interaction between trem picking and an array of serpentine leads -- like a shamelessly top-heavy fusion of Urgehal at their most crusty and Taake at their most epic, but with a singular purpose to inflict a battering expression of stoicism upon anyone fortunate enough to hear it. Listening to songs like this reminds me of why I like black metal in the first place; at its best, no matter how flecked it is with morbid realism or childish fantasy, there is a fanatical pride behind it all that embodies the acceptance of power as the morality of higher humans."
Travis - Slavia - Strength and Vision (8/10)

“...and Slavia have settled for a more deliberately abrasive tone and looser style. The abrogation of melody and reverb result in an album that is harder to get into, as it has to be listened to quite closely in order to truly appreciate its nuances and not just seem as a pile of unadulterated and distorted noise. Slavia has not lost his liking for classical bombast, but in addition to the two samples present (including "Marche Funebre" -- a Chopin piece which is definitely overused, yet never loses its capacity to move), there are also some World War II samples and even some Middle Eastern melodies! Several songs have been re-recorded or recycled from the _GiES_ demo, namely "Divided by Three" and "Triolum Repens", the album's acoustic closer. Another worthy addition to Drakkar's roster, and a long overdue debut by Slavia. 8/10”
Quentin Kalis - CoC - Slavia - Strength and Vision

“SLAVIA was initially a one-man project from Bergen, Norway and have quite a few demos and EPs to their name. Members from other Black Metal bands such as TAAKE and GLORIOR BELLI have since joined ranks to produce an album that bleeds Black Metal, but with a few interesting twists thrown in. SLAVIA plays pretty straight forward Black Metal - the style you’d expect from a band from Bergen, but with touches of Thrash mixed in here and there. It is not all at full pace either, a few slower, almost Doom-like passages emerge, but it never lasts very long before the furious pounding starts up again and the epic Black Metal riffing take over. The overall production is good, not to clear as to betray its heritage, but clear enough to hear most of what is being played. It is at times an enjoyable album..."”
Jean Pierre - Slavia - Strength And Vision (7/10) - Norway - 2007