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 springin 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.
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. |
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