Haust/Årabrot/Okkultokrati /// September shows in Norway

Årabrot are turning 10 years - Haust and Okkultokrati are trashing their birthday parties at these dates:

Sep 17 / Stavanger at Checkpoint Charlie
Sep 22 / Oslo at Blå
Sep 23 / Bergen at Hulen
Sep 24 / Kristiansand at På Hjørnet

Årabrot/Okkultokrati 12" split is out, and the new Årabrot album is out September 5th. All three bands performing each night.

missing/wanted

no successful contact has been made so far this year.

Ormeyngel update

Ormeyngel is slowly spreading. First up; the Ormeyngel Bandcamp is now up and running with all the recent releases collected in one place: http://ormeyngel.bandcamp.com/

The big news of course being that the entire BLACKEST WOODS tape is now available for free stream and download. A few copies are still left before it disappears into oblivion so get right on that here.

The WHITE JUICE tape is a little delayed but will be here eventually. It will certainly be worth the wait.
In the meanwhile, feast your eyes on this video of the recent WJ show at Last Train (shot by Kai Mauseth).



The seeds have been planted. Now feel the darkness grow.

OKKULTOKRATI/ÅRABROT/NEXT LIFE - PHOTOS

Photos from the triple release show in Oslo a few weeks ago. Taken by Glory Marie Hole.

Årabrot:






Next Life:





Okkultokrati:

Okkultokrati/Årabrot: Split LP - OUT NOW

Out right now! Two bands, brothers from different mothers sharing one release for the monumental first time. 7 songs in 32 minutes total. Recorded over two weekends this spring
in the Årabrot studios in Oslo with Stian Skagen recording and lurking in the wings. Årabrot do 4 totally possessed by evil punked out rock-hits while Okkultokrati has one short blaster, one sludgy banger and one monotonous whacked-out opus magnum closer up their sleeve.

Topics covered on this one: egomania, mental illness, sloganeering, being a slave, being a slaver and being God.

The release features staggering painted artwork on both outer and inner cover by Sebastian Rusten (too busy walking the 14 day trip to Jotunheimen to read this update). Glaciers, mushrooms and northern darkness all over.

Printed in 500 copies. 100 on clear red vinyl, the rest on ace of spades black. No CD version, no streaming, no download, no fun! (although a shitty rip leaked to the internet already, so I'm sure we'll share the songs here for free once the record has sold out just to kill that rip dead).

Copies are only sold in Norway so far. But will be available to the rest of the world from Cargo soon.

The strange trend of perplexing precipitation continues this week as Norway is blanketed in a purple haze of cyclamen snow. The source of the snow is still being speculated on, but the answer as to what it really is has shocked scientists as samples after the first snow drifts are being analyzed. Of course strange colored snow has hit Norway before, but never in the way this most recent fall has. Possible explanations have ranged from an ecological disaster of unknown origin to a supernatural origin. As with any out of the ordinary weather occurrence, many people take such incidents as indicators of the end of the world. Of course given the prevalence of bizarre weather conditions, it's hard to say if any one of them are the final harbinger of doom. For example, in September of 2009, Oslo turned red from a mysterious haze that blocked out the sun and turned the sky the color of blood. Several who woke up were confused and thought surely the apocalypse had come. Of course it was soon found that the city had been entirely obfuscated by a dust storm which whipped around them and caused delays as the dust storm descended, choking several citizens into wearing scarves or bandanas around their faces and leaving several planes grounded for hours. And speaking of Norway, several fish fell from the sky in Rjukan mere days ago, once again setting a trend for bizarre and unexplainable precipitation. Of course this newest one promises to take on a whole new level of weirdness as scientists scramble for an explanation. So it is through the lens of previous strange rainfalls in recent months that we take a look at this most recent snowfall. When people awoke on March ninth in Southern Norway, they discovered that the outside was completely covered in a thick flakey purple snow that had piled up on cars, roofs, city streets, and trees. After an initial moment of trepidation they went outside to investigate how widespread the snowfall was, and discovered that it was not merely in patches on certain areas, but rather covering vast areas, sometimes with only purple snow visible. Of course it wasn't just a deep purple, but also faded and lighter in some areas, while brown in others. The brown snow is indicative of what the source is according to several scientists who have posited that it comes from a dust storm. Climatologists have taken samples and studied the snowfall, and have concluded that the snow itself is as safe as other snow, but it's still not recommended to consume as it contains large quantities of dust which may or may not be healthy to consume. But where did purple dust come from? And how did it end up in Norway. According to climatologists, the source was likely a massive dust devil, or tornado which pulled purple dust and sand from Africa's Stavropol beaches. As the dust was pulled into the upper atmosphere by the forces, it eventually settled into clouds and was carried aloft by wind before sprinkling down over Norway.