Carving an Icon is the debut album by the Norwegian extreme / gothic metal band Viper Solfa.

Almost a year after Viper Solfa have settled in Kristiansand, Norway, the band signed a contract with Massacre Records in 2014, after composing and rehearsing several songs.

[2] The recording and mixing were completed in Sound Suite Studio in Marseille, France with producer Terje Refsnes, who previously worked with groups of similar genres such as Trail of Tears, Tristania, Sirenia and Carpathian Forest among many.

[4][5] Former Tristania singer Vibeke Stene is one of the main songwriters for the song called Whispers and Storms.

[6] The cover art was created by renowned Brazilian graphic designer Marcelo Vasco, creator of the covers of bands such as Machine Head, Dimmu Borgir and Borknagar.