Video for Haust - Anti Reproductive

And just when you thought Okkultokrati had it going on in the On Mouth of Hells video then Haust comes along and one-ups everything. Or as It's A trap says:

"Buried by billions of unique snowflakes of hate." The visual is just as vile as the music and I wouldn't have it any other way. Anti-life, anti-reproductive: a sign of the times. Take a look around, things are only going to get worse. Thus "Powers of horror" is my #1 album of the year -- you will not hear a band with a darker, more bleak and negative outlook than Haust, they are the pioneers of the new dystopia.

Made by Fredrik Hana and his crew at BLÆST. Crank it to 11.

HAUST - ANTI-REPRODUCTIVE from BLÆST on Vimeo.

Video for Okkultokrati - On Mouth of Hells

Shot by Sebastian Rusten and Gaute Springgard. Edited by Gaute Springgard.

Okkultokrati - On Mouth Of Hells from Gaute Springgard on Vimeo.

Haust - Powers of Horror CD Out now!!

Yes the Haust - Powers of Horror CD is out now on Fysisk Format. Vinyl should be here in a few days. This second album is even more relentless and chaotic than the first one and with a bigger, heavier and more punchy sound while still shredding and screeching in all the right places. It's the stuff of bad dreams, broken spirits and doomed souls. Dark, dark shit.

Also keep your eyes peeled for a music-video made for the gut-wrenching, killer song Anti-Reproductive. It will be posted here shortly.

The first reviews are already ticking in. Musikknyheter.no gives it a whopping 8/10 and calls it "An ugly necessity".

The two biggest newspapers in the country disagree completely. Aftenposten is overwhelmed and gives it 5 out of 6 calling it "an even darker album than their first one", while VG drops the ball and limps in with a 3/6.

Puls calls them "the successors to Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon!" (That's pretty funny).

Groove hails it as album of the week with a score of 6/7

While Dagsavisen had this to say:

Listen to the entire album here on Wimp.

Tabloid ramblings of madmen and truthtellers

One of Norways biggest tabloid newspapers, the always terrible, consistently incompetent and journalistically challenged publication, Dagbladet has finally gotten one thing right. Reviewer Torgrim Øyre, mister Big Kahuna behind the Hole In Sky Festival himself, rolled the dice for Okkultokrati's No Light For Mass album to 5 out of 6 and called it "An encyclopedia of dirty metal" and a "fully commited record with a lot on its mind".

Read the whole thing HERE (in Norwegian)


Aftenpostens Harald Fossberg writes:
Okkultokrati - Har gitt ut årets tøffeste plate – hittil. De kaller det nekrosludge, hvilket betyr blodstenkt, blytung hardcoremetalpunk med seige drag.

Oslo shows coming up

School's out, England is getting ready to win the World Cup, and to kick start the summer in Oslo, the Black Hole Crew will play some shows during the next days.

Haust and Okkultokrati will both play the Fysisk Format show in the Garage Backyard on Saturday the 5th of June. The show is FREE.
18:30 Redd
19:30 Eskatol
20:30 Okkultokrati
21:30 Manhattan Skyline
22:30 Haust
23:30 Kollwitz
More info here.

On June 9th, Okkultokrati will play a special show, providing a soundtrack to the Kenneth Anger film Lucifer Rising at Unge Kunstneres Samfund. This performance is a part of an exhibition displayed from June 4th to 12th featuring works from the newly graduated students from the Art Academy in Tromø. This Wednesday will feature selected film screenings from 17:00, all movies selected by Haust vocalist Vebjørn Guttormsgaard Møllberg. For more information on the other events at this exhibition, click here.



Prior to both these shows, Oslo Hardcore Haters Problems will play a show at Humla/Hausmania Friday the 4th of June. Problems shows don't happen that often, so don't miss out.

Haust - Powers of Horror CD/LP pre-order up now

It's been two years coming since the band's last full-lenght Ride The Relapse but June 7th Haust's new album is finally out. Powers of Horror is released both on CD and LP by true weirdo aficionados Fysisk Format this time too and features artwork by Peter-John de Villiers and the following 13 gutter scraping hits:

01 Cold Comfort
02 Anti-Reproductive
03 Skate Rock
04 Pointing And Laughing
05 I Dont Know Jack
06 Deep Green
07 The Abyss
08 Nekromantik Norway
09 I Stand Alone
10 Shit Hit
11 Unknown Mess
12 Eaten Alive
13 Vomiting

Listen to Anti-Reproductive, Skate Rock and The Abyss and pre-order here:
LP: http://tigernet.no/shop/release.php?code=128454
CD: http://tigernet.no/shop/release.php?code=128453

Tape version will be out on Ormeyngel a few weeks after the CD.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hardcore miscelate con il black metal primitivo

Some Italian black metal dude reviewed the Okkultokrati - Knarkskog 7" rather thoroughly and Google Translator makes it quite an amusing read. From what I understand, he is amazed by the many riffs of Black Race, Verminscum is proves himself excellent behind the drum kit, but lacks some variation, and the screams of Black Quisling are "great good". The record itself also lacks some variation, but is worth 6 out of 10.

Have a look yourself and decide whether or not you wanna buy the repress when it comes out sometime this year.