Haust shows in Oslo this weekend.

Friday 19th at THE VILLA with Obliteration, Kollowitz and other Fysisk Format acts. Starts at 20:00.

Saturday 20th at TILT. Haust play 21:30.


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Drugged SS

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wrote a great essay on what it means to be an aging punk in the new issue of "Nuts!", our local zine, a subject never too far from my mind as the age of my show-going peers gets progressively further away from my own. "I am happy to be alive here in Olympia which is still a thriving punk scene largely unconcerned with trends, careerism and marketability. I just hope the next generation of punks take it seriously. Because what we do can make a difference. We have the power to change things and our actions are connected to history and impact the future. Hopefully you won't all move to Portland or Brooklyn or whatever when your own punk rock mid like crisis at 20 or 25 or 30 or 35... because this is a cool town and it'd be rad if some of you stick around." Those words resonate with me; I was jaded in my early 20s, but I turned it around and turned my back on the city, on the pose, on false aspirations and all the other things that don't matter. It's a bit part of why I live where I do today. And that's why when I come across bands that share those same ideals, it gets my attention. This is the dark side of the same coin: "Drugged SS takes no part of the already established positive hardcore scene in the big cities... Drugged SS are from Setesdal and are going to stay in Setesdal." I can relate to that. I can also relate to the raw, ugly sounds they're making because while in many ways I am getting mellower as I get older, I am not getting complacent. Dark times, dark music.

Drugged SS are a new signing to Ormeyngel Records, the label run by the folks behind Okkultokrati and Haust. They are also the first band they've signed from outside their extended band family. A 6-song demo tape is in the works and will be out soon.

Stavanger show cancelled + Drugged SS

The OKKULTOKRATI show in Stavanger with REDD this weekend has unfortunately been canceled due to unforeseen problems. Shit sucks! Hopefully we can make it back there in the near future some other time.

In better news there is an exciting new band from our friends coming out of Setesdalen, Norway. They are called DRUGGED SS and they will be the first band besides ourselves to release something on our label Ormeyngel. DRUGGED SS have a six song demo tape off dark, frantic and pissed off hardcore that will be for sale via us in a few weeks time.


Check out a few songs from them here:
http://www.myspace.com/druggedss

And lastly, the OKKULTOKRATI "No Light For Mass" album is now slated for release may 17th via Fysisk Format on CD and on MC via Ormeyngel. We are currently talking to labels about the vinyl edition and the plan is to have everything ready at the same time. The artwork from Sebastian Rusten is almost finished and I will post it here soon when it's done, and let me tell you it's looking damn mighty!!

Now go destroy stuff!

the Haust/Next Life - split LP has arrived and is out now

Out now on Fysisk Format. Limited to 500 copies. Vinyl only. 4 songs by HAUST, 5 songs by NEXT LIFE. Read a review of it here. Both bands are playing together in the city of Halden this saturday (the 30th of january) and will have copies with them.

Alas there was no room for any lyric sheet to go with the packaging, but here is one anyway.

You can buy the split from Tiger now.
Listen to songs from it here:
http://www.myspace.com/fysiskformat
http://www.myspace.com/haust

New tracks from Okkultokrati and Haust.

Both Haust and Okkultokrati have new releases coming in the next months, and the internet gives you the chance to listen to a few tracks from these releases right now.

Head over to the label releasing all this madness at www.fysiskformat.no to listen to "On Mouth of Hells" from Okkultokrati's album "No Light for Mass" out March 23rd on CD.

Before the release of their second full lenght "Powers of Horror", Haust will be splitting 12 inches of vinyl with Next Life this winter. The track "Hearse" is streaming on their MySpace right now, and you can hear a second track entitled "Skate Rock" on Radio Nova 99.3 in Oslo or stream it from It's a Trap:

http://www.itsatrap.com/?n=32843

"Drop out of life with board in hand. Black Hole Crew, four bars tattoo."

Pictures from the Okkultokrati show at Garage, December 30th 2009.

Photos by Henrik Myrvold

Okkultokrati/Obliteration poster for the Garage show

Imagery and fonts aside, this show is going to be killer! Let the pagan rituals commence!