Lots of huge news concerning OKKULTOKRATI. We have a new album coming out on Fysisk Format, home to such great bands as Obliteration, Haust, Årabrot and a bunch of others. The album will be named "NO LIGHT FOR MASS" and will feature 9-10 songs of certified blistering, heavy and black rock'n'roll. Topics will be about war, death, destruction, astral travelling, UFO-sightings, merging of minds, aura-photograhpy, negative space and other mindbending, thoughtcrushing, life-defying shit. Artwork will be by the always excellent Sebastian Rusten and this crap will blow you heads clean off. Looks like it will be out by early/mid-february 2010. Vinyl and tape versions planned to come out too.
Also LE GHAST is now our new bass player, taking over the reigns of the late great VIRGIN TAKER, who will be missed. But don't worry LE GHAST will be bringing the attitude necessary to play in OKKULTO. Our first show with the new line up will be with Kolbotn death-thrashers Obliteration on the 30th of december at Garage in Oslo as a part of Tiger's Juleblot. So don't fucking miss out on that.
The Okkultokrati T-shirts we promised are on their way too and should be available in a week or so and will be available on the Juleblot.
There is a bunch of other stuff in the works as well so stay posted for more to come. Black hails!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Haust in Bergen saturday 28th of November 2009
pictures by Eirik Lande:
and more pictures by: Glenn-Eugen Ellingsen
and more pictures by: Glenn-Eugen Ellingsen
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Haust/ Next Life - split LP in the works
All tracks have been recorded (Next Life now with a live drummer) and it is being shipped off to the pressing plant any day now and will be out on Fysisk Format on a 12-inch early next year. Artwork to be posted here later.
Track List as follows:
HAUST
01: Hearse
02: Skate Rock
03: A Final Effort
04: The Unholy Family
NEXT LIFE
01: Anti Matter
02: Battle Tactics
03: Crystalline
04: Paladin Warrior
05: Sol Blade
The two bands also played together recently. Here are some pics by Svein Strømmen from that evening.
And here is a review from that very show (in norwegian).
Track List as follows:
HAUST
01: Hearse
02: Skate Rock
03: A Final Effort
04: The Unholy Family
NEXT LIFE
01: Anti Matter
02: Battle Tactics
03: Crystalline
04: Paladin Warrior
05: Sol Blade
The two bands also played together recently. Here are some pics by Svein Strømmen from that evening.
And here is a review from that very show (in norwegian).
Monday, September 28, 2009
Aversionline
The mighty Aversionline did a review of the Knarkskog 7":
"Following their now out of print seven-song demo tape, "Knarkskog" is the first proper release from Oslo, Norway's Okkultokrati, as well as the debut release for the label, Lilla Himmel. Cranking out four songs in a very succinct six minutes, expect a peculiar blend of frantic hardcore/punk with sick vocals and plenty of chaotic dissonance and "skronk"-laden riffing that has an unusual noise rock sort of aesthetic to it – especially in terms of the spacious textures utilized by the recording. The band has referred to their approach as "True Norwegian Metaphysical Atheist Black 'n' Roll", while the label loosely defines it as "somewhere between Black Flag and Darkthrone". Me? I have no fuckin' clue, but there's a killer sense of energy throughout, so I don't give a shit what you'd call it. It's totally great, and the band deserves all the attention they may well receive."
Link
Be sure to check out the other reviews on that blog as well.
http://www.aversionline.com
"Following their now out of print seven-song demo tape, "Knarkskog" is the first proper release from Oslo, Norway's Okkultokrati, as well as the debut release for the label, Lilla Himmel. Cranking out four songs in a very succinct six minutes, expect a peculiar blend of frantic hardcore/punk with sick vocals and plenty of chaotic dissonance and "skronk"-laden riffing that has an unusual noise rock sort of aesthetic to it – especially in terms of the spacious textures utilized by the recording. The band has referred to their approach as "True Norwegian Metaphysical Atheist Black 'n' Roll", while the label loosely defines it as "somewhere between Black Flag and Darkthrone". Me? I have no fuckin' clue, but there's a killer sense of energy throughout, so I don't give a shit what you'd call it. It's totally great, and the band deserves all the attention they may well receive."
Link
Be sure to check out the other reviews on that blog as well.
http://www.aversionline.com
Friday, September 11, 2009
Okkultomerch
Our first shirt is soon to be launched into the void. Made by our fifth member Sebastian Rusten.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Musings about Knarkskog
It's A Trap wrote some nice things about us. They compare us to some cool current bands which we aren't really inspired by, but that are flattering none the less. They also heard some intriguing similarities to Brainbombs that we were unaware of, but Brainbombs are excellent so who cares."Okkultokrati share members with Haust and more than a slight resemblance soundwise, but they are definitely way more on the current pessimistic hardcore zeitgeist tip than the latter. Haust mix hardcore aggression with black metal nihilism, Okkultokrati are just aggro. If you dig on the contorted sounds of Sex Vid, Total Abuse, Cult Ritual or any other like-minded negative creeps (overused Brainbombs references are a surefire tip-off), you'll probably dig this too, especially if you wish those bands had a heavier rhythmic integrity. The debut "Knarkskog EP" (free d/l here) won't usurp "Communal living" as the subset standard-bearer, but it's way better than some and bodes well for the future."
Read it here
"Dopecradle" was A-listed by Radio Nova and they had this to say about it:
"Oslobandet Okkultokrati slapp sin debut ”Knarkskog EP” 25. august. Bandet som har medlemmer fra bl.a Common Cause og Haust overøser deg med en klassisk miks av hardcore, pønk og svartmetall. ”Dopecradle” skifter fra å gå i et høyt hardcore-tempo til å roe ned til repetative gitarriff i black metal-stil. Uansett stilart, er dette både melodiøst og rytmisk, med et nihilistisk tankesett som utgangspunkt for det aggressive uttrykket. Svart, er forøvrig ordet som kanskje best beskriver bandet som helhet. I tillegg til navn på bandmedlemmer som Black Death og Black Qvisling, referanser som Black Flag og Black Sabbath, fronter de Knarkskog EP med en heftig, syk og mørk covertegning. (EP’en er ute på vinyl i bare 200 kopier!) "
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