[2] One of these demos was "Overdrive", which surfaced online on the Iceland Airwaves 2001 official website,[citation needed] and later became "Overdriver", the opening track on their first studio album.
For this album, Björnsson, Kristjánsson and Finnsson were joined by guitarist Hákon Aðalsteinsson, bassist Ester Bíbí Ásgeirsdóttir and drummer Björn Viktorsson.
[4] Although it was distributed in Denmark by the Reykjavik- and Copenhagen-based independent label 12 Tónar, Taste the Blood of Singapore Sling was not licensed for release in the United States.
That same year, Singapore Sling appeared in Screaming Masterpiece, a documentary film about the Icelandic music scene.
Aðalsteinsson left to form The Third Sound,[5] who later participated in Björnsson's now-defunct Vebeth collective of Icelandic music artists.
8mm Muzik managed a European record release tour to promote the album, with venues located in Germany, France, Benelux, Denmark, Austria, Italy and Czech Republic.
With "Never Forever" (2011), Singapore Sling began a collaboration with London-based label Fuzz Club Records.
In 2012, the band played Austin Psych Fest (now renamed Levitation), and by the end of the year, they toured Europe as headliners for Fuzz Club's Reverb Conspiracy Tour, hitting Europe's main capital cities with the Lucid Dream (from the UK) and Wall of Death (from France).
[6] His sister, Anna Margrét Björnsson (of Two Step Horror), sang on both albums; she had previously guested on earlier Singapore Sling releases.
While Björnsson is the sole official member,[10] as well as the primary musician on the band's recordings, the live lineup has changed from its original incarnation, and as of November 2015, consists of: