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Next Life - Charlies 28.5.09

Pictures from the Next Life + Snöras concert at Charlies Bar 28.5.09 is out:

Next Life pictures

Snöras pictures

Next Life + Snöras

Snöras – Mosaic Devours (Plague Waters)

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Next Life – Sol Blade (The Lost Age)

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Even if we’re in Kristiansand, we all should know a little bit about Snöras already; Yngve Hilmo and Marius Ergo from Lukestar’s noisy project, and one of an exclusive batch of bands signed to the new, hard sounding label Fysisk Format run by the guys at Tiger in Oslo. Snöras gets all thumbs up from everyone who rightfully appreciates the renewal of norwegian hardcore. Initially they were to take the trip with their labelmates in Haust, but for a miscellany of reasons that didn’t happen.

Thus: Enter Hai Nguyen Dinh and Tormod Christensen in Next Life, and their complex and aggressive 8bit deathmetal crossover, who we need to get better aquainted with before gig:

(translated from norwegian)

One wonders: What’s the youth years like for people sitting at home programming tracks in Commodore 64 assembler?
Both Trond and I have spent most of our childhood in front of a computer. We met each other at a so-called copyparty, where programmers, musicians, animators etc met and made “demos,” a sort of music video spread globally by floppy-disks in snail mail. And at the copyparty, of course. Apart from that it’s been mostly punk-concerts, wrestling neo nazis in Tønsberg and some skateboarding

How come you travel with the wusses in Snöras. Them rock-heads don’t even bring a CD-player to the show
We think their music’s nice, and they seem like really nice people. We’re all for technology obviously, but the important things for us is passion and the need to create something new, and on that we have a bond with Snöras

You were signed to Jason Forrests label Cock Rock Disco, but moved to Fysisk Format. The story there?
Even if Next Life is mainly electronic, we’ve always felt like a rockband. CRD promotes electronic music while FF is into rock. We felt it’d be interesting to experience the difference

CRD called you “Gameboy Deathmetal.” What other nicknames have been thrown after you?
Amiga Hardcore, Fremtidspunk, Electro Violence, Art-rock, Elektro-prog, progmetal. And here are some tags from last.fm: 200bpm, 8-bit metal, breakcore, chiptune, crust, digimetal, digital hardcore, electro electronic, electroviolence, experimental, fast, grindcore, hardcore, instrumental, klangwald, math, metal, nintendo-metal, nintendocore, noise, noise madness, noise metal, norwegian hardcore, rock, samples, should pay attention, super fucking ultra awesome, synth, synth power.

“World Map,” “Battle Tactics,” “Warp”… how do you decide on your song titles?
The titles are often inspired by scenes in computer games, sometimes from games we know, and a lot of the times just scenes popping up in our heads because we’ve been gaming a lot. But it’s also important for us that the titles mean something to the listener apart from references. We try to choose titles and themes with a certain ambiguity and/or parallells to real life.

“Sol Blade” is on the spillBall.com playlist this week. How did that song come to be?
I was making music for a test-scene in a kung-fu RPG-game and suddenly discovered a break I haven’t used too much before. Not much later that became the start of Sol Blade, and the rest wrote itself while sitting by my computer wearing my guitar, as it often does. This was in 2005

The gurus Paul Norman (Forbidden Forest) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) are named as your favourites. Bet you have a top ten-list with game tunes between yourselves too? Please share!

Okay! Here’s our favourites list (in no specific order):

Recommended warmup for concert: A trip by The High Voltage SID Collection where you can harvest a big heap of c64-songs to be played on your SIDPlayer (look at the bottom of the hvsc-page). Alternatively shop a remix-album or two from c64audio.com.

Most of the Next Life-reviews are in norwegian, but we found an english one in 10/10 i cuemix magazine – “A must have”, and also some words from Jenny Hval aka Rockettothesky on one of their 2008 performances:

“The show is a complete experience in the logics of seasickness: sickly colours, precise visuals, and this put to life through extremely precise, wild, innovative and hard-hitting music. It is as if a computer game has gone evil, taken elements from black metal and turned the volume up to way beyond maximum. I feel invaded, completely lost in the magic of this violence. No wonder people tend to throw up if they get too drunk before the band starts playing. Hard-hitting artwork will do that to you, even if it’s disguised as a band…”

Love Of Everything

The headline for thursday’s “Kråga LIVE på Charlies”-concert is “raw adult lyrics with toy keyboards and nursery rhymes + post-hardcore, electronic puppet theatre and randomness.” More specifically Love Of Everything from Chicago + Kid Ikarus from Berlin.

It’s Love of Everything who have the whole all over Europe tour-thingy going here, a tour you can read lots more about on their tour blog:

www.loveundereverything.blogspot.com

But even with this plethora of documentation, we still felt like exchanging a couple of words before the Kristiansand leg. As follows:

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Bungalow Ranchstyle - Foto: Kolbjørn Ursin

Bungalow Ranchstyle – “Feng Shui”:

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Thursday Bungalow Ranchstyle invade Charlies. You’ll get desperate garagerock with members from Cato Salsa Experience, Fairfuck and Gjerstad Funk og Fiskarlag. Even if they’re still a pretty new act, BR have already played Øya, Oslo Live Festival and by:Larm. Soon also Kristiansand. We’ve had a small chat to warm up:

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Sigh & Explode (Extract from video "The Van Gogh Sky Shrinks the City")

Sigh & Explode are playing at På Hjørnet saturday, so I’ve exchanged a few words with Tobias Gausemel Backe (guitar/vocals) from the gang labelled “the closest thing to extreme sports in norwegian rock:”

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