Pláhnetan

Pláhnetan was an Icelandic rock band formed in the spring of 1993 after singer Stefán Hilmarsson, Ingólfur Guðjónsson and Sigurður Gröndal wrote several songs for Stefán's forthcoming solo album, but the group got along so well that they decided to continue composing and even form a new band with that material under Stefán's management. The name Pláhnetan is a game-word, since the word pláneta means planet, but with the addition of the h, the ending part formed is hneta, which mean nut. Therefore, its name could be translated as the planut. In those days Stefán and bassist Friðrik Sturluson were in the band Sálin hans Jóns míns while Ingólfur Guðjónsson and Sigurður Gröndal had quit their band Loðin Rotta, so they called drummer Ingólfur Sigurðsson, who up to that moment had been playing in bands like Síðan Skein Sól and Rauðir Fletir. The band contacted Steinar Berg Ísleifsson, the owner of label Skífan and got a record deal, which allowed them to release their debut album in June the same year under the title of Speis, a work which dealt with the concept of space and got good reviews by the critics. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pláhnetan) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)