Årabrot announce new album ‘Norwegian Gothic’
ÅRABROT have announced a new album!
The upcoming album, titled Norwegian Gothic, is the brand new full-length effort from the Norwegian noise rock band and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Pelagic Records. The upcoming album comes hot on the heels of the band’s surprise new EP, The World Must Be Destroyed, which dropped last Friday.
The upcoming album was produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano [BLACK EYED PEAS, PARADISE LOST, HEXVESSEL, ORANSSI PAZUZU] and sees the band collaborate with Lars Horntveth [JAGA JAZZIST], cellist Jo Quail, Tomas Järmyr [MOTORPSYCHO], Anders Møller [TURBONEGRO, ULVER] and Massimo Pupillo [ZU].
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist and vocalist Kjetil Nernes says, “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.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; The Lie. Speaking about the new song, Kjetil adds, “The Lie is a rock song. The Lie is not about telling a lie. It is about living a lie. No wonder, I spent months reading philosopher Theodor Adorno when writing The Lie. We lived in an apartment in Oslo with a friend and my memories of this specific time are very vivid. The weather, the smell, what we were cooking, what music we were listening to… Even the dirty floors. Less than a year later our friend died in a terrible boat accident. It all became part of something bigger.”
Listen to The Lie here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
1. Carnival of Love
2. The Rule of Silence
3. Feel It On
4. The Lie
5. The Crows
6. Kinks of the Heart
7. Hailstones For Rain
8. The Voice
9. Hallucinational
10. (This Is) The Night
11. Hard Love
12. Impact Heavily onto the Concrete
13. Hounds of Heaven
14. Deadlock
15. The Moon Is Dead
16. You’re Not That Special
Norwegian Gothic is set for release on April 9th via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders are available and can be purchased here.
For more information on ÅRABROT like their official page on Facebook.
