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Norwegian grammy award-winning noise rock outfit Årabrot return with a new Heart EP which sees the eclectic duo of Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park leading us right into the band's heart of hearts. These songs come right off the back of last year's seminal Norwegian Gothic, which was described by main-songwriter Nernes as "an amalgamation of all of our influences," but also as "a good indication of what to come."Where the band's nineth studio album effectively marries the past and the future, the Heart EP is most of all about the present. Yes, these are four cover songs of tracks that find their origin in various stages of the band's career («Children of the Revolution» goes all the way back to the band's first recording session for their debut EP ), but they are also a radiant expression of where the band is now, with Nernes and his wife Karin Park as the dual creative spirits and driving forces behind Årabrot.Opening the incredible heart-shaped vinyl edition of this release is the enigmatic «Preludium» which superimposes the sensual moaning of a couple engaged in intercourse over the saintly sounds of a church organ. Here Årabrot lead us right into the holiest of holy, but also into the carnal heart of the band.What follows is an eclectic selection of four tracks that span across fifty years and across various genres of music, but for Nernes and Park it is no trouble to fit them right into their signature gothic-western desert noire sound. The combination of noise rock and 70s psychedelic rock works undeniably well and the result is a collection of songs that feels timeless yet deeply ingrained in the heart of our collective culture.In spite of 20 years of experience and nine studio albums, Årabrot remain one of the most criminally underrated bands on the planet, and the Heart EP is the living and throbbing proof of this fact. Kjetil Nernes is right up there with noise rock visionaries like Michael Gira (SWANS) and Jamie Stewart (XIU XIU), and the combination of his underrated musiciansh...

Årabrots`S 9th Full-Length Album Norwegian Gothic Sees The Band Collaborate With Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist), Cellist Jo Quail, Tomas Järmyr (Motorpsycho), Anders Moller (Turbonegro, Ulver) And Massimo Pupillo (Zu). A Stellar Production By Jaime Gomez Arellano (Black Eyed Peas, Paradise Lost, Hexvessel, Oranssi Pazusu) Makes This The Quintessential Årabrot Record, As Guitarist And Vocalist Kjetil Nernes Confirms:"Norwegian Gothic Is The Culmination Of Everything Årabrot Has Done Musically The Past 10 Years. It Is Not Only The Climax Of The Band So Far, But Also A Good Indication Of What To Come. It Is Basically An Amalgamation Of All Of Our Influences Here In The Church Where We Live. Musically It Is Inspired By All The Albums Of Our Record Collection And Thematically By The Books We Have In Our Shelves. More Specifically It Is Our Special Brand Of Rock'n'roll Music Mixed With Fin-De-Siecle Decadence, Surrealism And Even A Pinch Of Old German Philosophy To Boot."While The 20 Years History Of The Band Is A Story Of Change And Correlation, It Would Be Too Simple To Break This Creative Duality Down To The Stereotypical Dichotomy Of The Yin And The Yang_ And If One Attempted To Do So, It Would Turn Out To Be Quite Difficult To Determine Which Of These Forces Would Be Represented By Which Individual.A Chubby Child From A Christian Family, Growing Up In A Small Swedish Village And Years Spent In A Missionary School In Japan Made Karin Desperate To Break Away From Narrow Thinking. And She Used Her Only Advantages To Do So; Her Unique Voice And Personality. By The Age 15 She Had Moved Away From Home To Find Her Place In Music. After Studying At Stockholm Music Conservatory, A Norwegian Poet Took Her To Norway Where She Started Her Pop Career, This Was Followed By A Move To London To Write Songs, And Working As A Model.After Five Albums, A Few Grammys, Writing A Eurovision Entry For Norway And Hits For Other Artists And Performances With Lana Del Rey And David Bowie, Karin Returned To The Vil...

"The Revolution Will Come Soon. All This Will Be Destroyed. The World Must Be Destroyed. Amen. For Years I Have Been Waiting For Antonin Artaud's Mad Words To Catch Up With The Actual World And Thank God For The Virus - Here It Finally Is. This Is The World Must Be Destroyed."Originally Recorded During The `Who Do You Love' Sessions Back In 2017 - The Title Track Even Intended As Main Single But For Various Reason Ended Up As An Outtake (!) - These Songs Are Among My Personal Favourites From This Period. They Are All Inspired By Antonin Artaud's Insane Masterwork - His `Biography' Of Child Emperor Heliogabalus. Hallucinatory, Sadistic, Overly Sexual And Above All Just Completely Nutters.Produced By The Tall Man Himself And The Dark Diva Karin Park. Musicians Include Dana Schechter (Insect Ark/Swans), Andrew Liles (Current 93/Nurse With Wound) And Tubaist Kristoffer Lo (Highasakite / Motorpsycho). Greg Norman Recorded The Songs At Steve Albini's Electrical Audio Studios In Chicago. After 20 Years Of Doing Årabrot I Have Learnt One Important Thing: In Order To Rebuild It Must All Be Destroyed.'Norwegian Noise-Rockers Who Follow In The Footsteps Of Uncompromising Us Acts Such As Swan Andbig Black' - The Financial Times

The Norwegian grammy award winning band carry all the hallmarks of a sonic spectrum that has always been a wide and wild field of purposeful mismatches, a world of friction between the noisy, the disharmony and the tension, with rivalling moments of harmonic relief.But there is more than noise rock to Årabrot's formula, "I'm interested in feelings, either the very silent or the extremely noisy“, band leader Kjetil Nernes comments. 'I don't care about what's in between, the middle of the road isn't my thing. The bible fits really well with that. I'm using it thematically all of the time."It comes as no surprise that the singer and guitar player has established himself in a former church in the woods of Dalarna in rural Sweden, where he lives with his wife, piano player and singer Karin Park, and where his band now rehearses and records, surrounded by pianos, organs and hundreds of old bibles that the church left behind when the congregation stopped. The clerical environment has proven to be an excellent creative tapestry for a band whose lyrical focus orbits around sex, death and defiance.Kjetil Nernes has made his own first hand experience with the topics he sings about. He was diagnosed with malignant throat cancer in 2014, in the middle of a tour. Instead of heading in for surgery right away, the band finished a full European tour first, "Every night of that tour was like the last show ever“, Nernes comments, "It was really strange. When a doctor calls and says, 'you're terribly sick', it's surreal. You go into this phase where life is more vivid and more real, in a weird way. We've done so many shows through the years and sometimes it’s a little like going to the factory to do a job. But with an axe hanging over your head you perceive the world differently.“After successfully recovering from cancer, Årabrot are now stronger than ever. The band has collaborated with procuders like Billy Anderson and Steve Albini, and musicians like Ted Parsons (Killing Joke/Swans), Sunn O))))'s Stephen O’Malley, and Kvelertak's Erlend Hjelvik. They have composed music for silent movies like “Die Niebelungen” and “Doctor Caligari”, and have teamed up with The Quietus founder John Doran on his spoken word tour. Their previous full-length album “The Gospel”, was also named “Album of the Year” by The Quietus.Get yourself ready to face the big question, to be dropped in September: WHO DO YOU LOVE? 1. Maldoror's Love2. The Dome3. Warning4. Pygmalion5. Serpents6. Sinnerman7. Look Daggers8. A Sacrifice9. Sons And Daughters10. Uniform Of A Killer