Årabrot's Insanely Heavy New Album "Revenge"

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Anyone here into this brutal band from Norway??? I imagine there must be considering they’re friggin devastatingly heavy and bonkers. Infact for me personally they’re a breath of fresh air when it comes to new heavy guitar based music.

Anyway these dudes have a new album called “Revenge” and it’s friggin INSANE.

As a fan of heavy music YOU need it.

Below is the lowdown on this incredible band…

http://www.myspace.com/arabrot

Årabrot Bio

Arabrot is a Norwegian noise-rock band from Haugesund.
Arabrot is named after the city garbage disposal and the local authorities also
found it appropriate to place a school for troubled youths there.
The same way these garbage disposals are a yeasty oasis of scents and
liquids that through the years will mutate into indefinable masses,
Arabrot is a band that continuously develop into something more raw and
intriguing.

Since starting out in 2001 Arabrot’s main core has been Kjetil Nernes
(song writer, guitar and vocals) and Vidar Evensen (drums and visuals).
The last years also noise artist Stian Skagen has been a regular on-and-off
member of the band. Collaborating with producers such as Billy Anderson
(Melvins, Neurosis), Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh) and Steve Albini
(Nirvana, High on Fire) the band has released three full-length albums
and a grotesque bouquet of singles and EP’s. 2009 alone produced two
critically acclaimed EP’s, AbsoluteNegativism and I Rove, together with a
double LP with side project Nernes/Skagen and last but not least masterpiece
The Brother Seed. The latter earning lots of International attention and a
Norwegian Grammy nomination.

The stories surrounding Arabrot is many and we won’t waste time
summarize them all. But worthy of notice is Arabrot completing a
nine-day tour after vocalist Nernes blew his lung the first show.
Also that the same Nernes’ riff arm has steel implants after being
manhandled by police and dog.
Or that the band’s regular female roadie won a pissing contest with
David Yow of The Jesus Lizard. No, now we must stop.
Arabrot is about to represent for the young generation what
the sum of Melvins, Birthday Party and Swans was to the generation
before them; a source of pleasure from both auditory and moral excesses.
The band’s foundation is noise-rock, but has strong elements of
industrial music and noise.
In Arabrot there is also a dramatic component few other
bands in history possess:
histories are told and emotions are laid out in a way closer to the
compositional techniques of experimental film and theatre than
traditional song structure. Last but not least we’re drawn to the lyrics that
combine elements of two of the most stimulating works of human kind:
The Bible and Pornography.
In September 2010 double LP REVENGE is out on Fysisk Format.
A record best described as a final closure but at the same time the
beginning of a new era:
Arabrot’s revenge on music in general and Arabrot’s secret vendetta against
one special person…

Discography

Marionettes/Bogus Boogie 7”, Safe As Milk Rekords 2001
Rogues Gallery 12", Safe As Milk Rekords 2003
Proposing a Pact with Jesus CD, Norway Rat Records 2005
Moneyshot 7”, Norway Rat Records 2005
RepRep CD, Norway Rat Records 2006
HGSD 7", Norway Rat Records 2007
The Brother Seed CD, Norway Rat Records 2009
ABSOLUTENEGATIVISM EP, Fysisk Format 2009
I Rove EP, Fysisk Format 2009
The Brother Seed LP, Fysisk Format 2010
RepRep 2x12" LP, Urquinaona Records 2010
REVENGE 2x12” LP & CD, Fysisk Format 2010

The LP vinyl is a gatefold and comes with a free mp3 download code of the album by the way…

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Here’s a review from the Stool Pigeon mag which pretty much nails it…

Årabrot - Revenge
Fysisk Format

First of all, it should probably be said that this trio’s moniker, Årabrot, is not an attempt to snare Morrissey or Nick Griffin as fans but a reference to a notorious rubbish dump and special needs school on the outskirts of Haugesund, Norway, where the band formed. And secondly, even though this extraordinarily punishing rock group, often come with a black metal tag, their astounding album has very little in common with the output of, say, Mayhem or Xasthur. It is true that guitarist/singer Kjetil Nernes has a particularly necrotic vocal style that lies on the unconsecrated and desiccated ground between Alan Dubin (Khanate, Gnaw), David Yow (Jesus Lizard, Qui) and Zed (Police Academy, Police Academy 3: Back In Training). But like with the aforementioned Jesus Lizard and caustic Colorado war metal duo Cobalt, the rabid and blood-curdling howling is anchored in place by a deceptively sophisticated and metronomic rock backline.

In fact, since their gripping but flawed UK debut (The Brotherseed), Årabrot have finally nailed a sound (also captured on the peerless ‘I Rove’ EP) that is both unique and adrenalising. The spirit of Event Horizon-strength psychedelia summoned up by ‘I Rove’ is revisited on ‘The Dolorous Years’, which takes the blueprint of The Birthday Party and stretches it far beyond breaking point. Likewise on ‘The Primrose Path’ — an ashen-faced romantic revenge song — grips early Shellac by the hair of the crown and smashes its face into the pavement repetitively until it breaks apart into gore. Shorter songs such as ‘The Most Sophisticated Form Of Revenge’ take a (moderately) less violent approach melding the Germanic metal pulse of Loop and the strafing, atonal guitars of Unsane.

Basically, if you’ve ever read Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life and thought, “Why do we never get bands like this anymore?” then Årabrot are for you.

John Doran

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It seems Prongs is sleeping on the heaviest slab of wax to emerge for some time??

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I really enjoyed it.

The vocals were a bit iffy tho… at least they were unique. I’m sure I’ll come to like them for what they are soon. They were just a little hard to get used to at first. Same applies, for example, to Attila’s vocals on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, and now I love those, so this will probably be similar.

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I really enjoyed it.

The vocals were a bit iffy tho… at least they were unique. I’m sure I’ll come to like them for what they are soon. They were just a little hard to get used to at first. Same applies, for example, to Attila’s vocals on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, and now I love those, so this will probably be similar.

Takes a few listens before the album gets hold of you…but boy the album is one nasty slab.

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Still sleeping on this…I guess folk have been too wrapped up in the new Swans & Killing Joke LP.

Get it together dudes!!!

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I gave it a shot and really didn’t like the vocals. Everything else sounded cool though, perhaps I’ll give it another spin. I don’t know how some of you guys find the time to listen to all this music though!

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This sounds really intriguing. I’ll give it a listen soon (tomoorow?) before I see Swans (!!!)

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How can you not like vocals with this description???

“It is true that guitarist/singer Kjetil Nernes has a particularly necrotic vocal style that lies on the unconsecrated and desiccated ground between Alan Dubin (Khanate, Gnaw), David Yow (Jesus Lizard, Qui) and Zed (Police Academy, Police Academy 3: Back In Training). But like with the aforementioned Jesus Lizard and caustic Colorado war metal duo Cobalt, the rabid and blood-curdling howling is anchored in place by a deceptively sophisticated and metronomic rock backline.”

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I actually dig the guy’s voice, in a bizarro way, but I can see why it would turn people off. They sound a bit like an unholy hybrid between Oxbow and Killdozer which is a good thing.

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When the album first kicks off he sounds a tiny bit like Zack De La Rocha…

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The beginning of Garland Presents sounds very similar to the TV songs guitar riff. I’m sure it isn’t intentional. That’s the problem with heavy guitar music is most of the riffs and phrases have been played a million times by a million different bands.

But yeah gave the band another spin and there’s just too many screaming vocals. Maybe I’m getting old but it just doesn’t grab me anymore.

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But yeah gave the band another spin and there’s just too many screaming vocals. Maybe I’m getting old but it just doesn’t grab me anymore.

I was worried the album would be all screaming vocals…thankfully a lot of it is not.

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How can you not like vocals with this description???

“It is true that guitarist/singer Kjetil Nernes has a particularly necrotic vocal style that lies on the unconsecrated and desiccated ground between Alan Dubin (Khanate, Gnaw), David Yow (Jesus Lizard, Qui) and Zed (Police Academy, Police Academy 3: Back In Training). But like with the aforementioned Jesus Lizard and caustic Colorado war metal duo Cobalt, the rabid and blood-curdling howling is anchored in place by a deceptively sophisticated and metronomic rock backline.”

That is an excellent, accurate and hilarious description.

They’ve grown on me now, but I still like Dubin’s vox more. Even if he does sound like Dr Rockzo a lot of the time.

Btw, be a gent and chuck up another download of the whole album.

You know you want to.

Pleeease