Announce New Album, "Solar Anus," Out September 13th on Fysisk Format
Norse Gods of Noise Rock's Fifth Album is Produced by Steve Albini, Marks 50th Release for Label
Norse Gods of Noise Rock's Fifth Album is Produced by Steve Albini, Marks 50th Release for Label
Stream new track "Madonna Was A Whore" exclusively @ Stereogum!
"...a lurching mix of sweaty, industrialized Jesus Lizard and Arab On Radar-isms vomited by Kjetil Nernes, a dude with a squeaky, evil, oddball Alice Donut voice that rollicks and taunts perfectly within the junkyard he, Vidar Evensen, and occasionally Stian Skagen create." - Stereogum
"I like it very much when bands don’t sound like any other band. So while I’m sure Årabrot’s influences lie somewhere and that their wonky, visceral, dirty brand of metal wasn’t created in a vacuum, their sound sure is new to me. I especially dig the Mustaine-meets-poisonous-rat snarl of vocalist Kjetil Nernes, the perfect complement to the sewer-infested sounds of Årabrot’s music." - MetalSucks
"...the stuff nightmares are made of. Årabrot make no attempts to ease up on their listeners, just a brief chance to gaze and reflect on the bruises they inflict before the pummeling starts again. It's ugly and disturbing, and it's guaranteed to set your pulse racing. If only more records could be so uncompromising." - Treble
"...their rumbling, jagged guitar and pummeling, semi-tribal drumming are all equal parts Unsane, Jesus Lizard, and Knut... This is an album for people who like their rock to rock, but in the ugliest, meanest way possible." - AllMusic
Solar Anus is the fifth album by Norwegian noise rock act Årabrot. Their previous album, REVENGE from 2010, marked the "end of an era and the beginning of something new." While the first four Årabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius of the past has come into light.
All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini’s stripped down approach to recording fit well with Årabrot’s arrangements, consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone guitar. After finishing the main recordings Årabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.
The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Årabrot is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in man. In songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Nernes’ own words: "Gold indicates the sun as we hail Bataille’s take on the subject of abjection. Solar Anus betokened the Golden Calf - juxtaposed between utmost evil and greater sanctity. Such as the eternal radiance of heaven or the egregious iniquities of the abyss. Or the alchemist of The Holy Mountain converting faeces into gold."
Solar Anus’ eight tracks is Årabrot playing their purest, wildest, ugliest rockn'roll. Even the tiniest ears in mother earth’s soil will open like flowers to the sun. Solar Anus is the first album of the new Årabrot and the fiftieth release on Fysisk Format.
Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Electrical Audio Studio A, Chicago, Il, March & May 2011. Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service June 2011. Cover artwork and design by Transgressive Productions. Songs by K. Nernes. Arranged and structured by Årabrot
"...a lurching mix of sweaty, industrialized Jesus Lizard and Arab On Radar-isms vomited by Kjetil Nernes, a dude with a squeaky, evil, oddball Alice Donut voice that rollicks and taunts perfectly within the junkyard he, Vidar Evensen, and occasionally Stian Skagen create." - Stereogum
"I like it very much when bands don’t sound like any other band. So while I’m sure Årabrot’s influences lie somewhere and that their wonky, visceral, dirty brand of metal wasn’t created in a vacuum, their sound sure is new to me. I especially dig the Mustaine-meets-poisonous-rat snarl of vocalist Kjetil Nernes, the perfect complement to the sewer-infested sounds of Årabrot’s music." - MetalSucks
"...the stuff nightmares are made of. Årabrot make no attempts to ease up on their listeners, just a brief chance to gaze and reflect on the bruises they inflict before the pummeling starts again. It's ugly and disturbing, and it's guaranteed to set your pulse racing. If only more records could be so uncompromising." - Treble
"...their rumbling, jagged guitar and pummeling, semi-tribal drumming are all equal parts Unsane, Jesus Lizard, and Knut... This is an album for people who like their rock to rock, but in the ugliest, meanest way possible." - AllMusic
Solar Anus is the fifth album by Norwegian noise rock act Årabrot. Their previous album, REVENGE from 2010, marked the "end of an era and the beginning of something new." While the first four Årabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius of the past has come into light.
All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini’s stripped down approach to recording fit well with Årabrot’s arrangements, consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone guitar. After finishing the main recordings Årabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.
The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Årabrot is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in man. In songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Nernes’ own words: "Gold indicates the sun as we hail Bataille’s take on the subject of abjection. Solar Anus betokened the Golden Calf - juxtaposed between utmost evil and greater sanctity. Such as the eternal radiance of heaven or the egregious iniquities of the abyss. Or the alchemist of The Holy Mountain converting faeces into gold."
Solar Anus’ eight tracks is Årabrot playing their purest, wildest, ugliest rockn'roll. Even the tiniest ears in mother earth’s soil will open like flowers to the sun. Solar Anus is the first album of the new Årabrot and the fiftieth release on Fysisk Format.
Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Electrical Audio Studio A, Chicago, Il, March & May 2011. Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service June 2011. Cover artwork and design by Transgressive Productions. Songs by K. Nernes. Arranged and structured by Årabrot
European tour begins November 2011!
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