Haust/Next Life split sent to press

The upcoming Haust/Next Life split 12", the latter's first recordings with a live drummer I believe, has been finished and sent for pressing and will be out on Fysisk Format early next year.

Haust and Next Life to release split 12"

Fierce Norwegian acts Haust and Next Life will be releasing a split 12" via Fysisk Format before the end of the year.

Next Life turns 10, adds live drummer

It only took them 10 years, but Norwegian gamer/tech-metal act Next Life has added a live drummer to their lineup. Anders Hangård (NoPlaceToHide, Saprophyth) will take the stage with the band for the first time on July 16 at the Slottsfjell Festival in Tønsberg, Norway.

MP3: Next Life - Sol blade

Videos games are no longer the niche domain of freaks and geeks, but I think it's safe to say that video game music still is. Sure, groups like Desert Planet have their crossover appeal, but you know that when fans are showing up wearing their Power Gloves, you're dealing with a limited audience. It's a shame too because there's actually a lot of good acts taking bitpop-inspired music in new directions, such as Norway's Next Life. They've got a lot of glitchy thrash that makes Single Unit so great 'cept not quite so ADD-addled. Songs play out as long as they need to, even if they max out at 2:40 at their most loquacious. "Sol blade" is median territory; a mere 1:19, but chock full of ideas and plenty epic. The tails-end lead-in to the next track ("Antartic blade", should you be wondering) is a total cliffhanger too. I don't fit the target audience of someone who can jam to this stuff daily, but it's way fun and always brings a smile to my face when I do put it on.

Next Life - Sol blade

Sirius playlist week #11

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. Next Life - The decisive
02. TALK 1
03. Florence Valentin - Spring Ricco
04. Scraps of Tape - Bring the heavy
05. Slaraffenland - I'm a machine
06. TALK 2
07. PowerSolo - Pirates of the oblivion
08. Efterklang - Mirador
09. 18th Dye - Soft the hard way
10. Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band - Ten cities beyond
11. TALK 3
12. High Hats - The end
13. Samuraj Cities - Spoonful of talk
14. Jesper Norda - Gentle and slow with a new sharp edge
15. Division of Laura Lee - Violence is timeless
16. TALK 4
17. Kristofer Åström - Twentyseven
18. Turboweekend - Something or nothing
19. Dyno - Deliverance
20. Abcess Exil - Stormens öga
21. TALK 5
22. Ironville - The wild

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU, except for this week when it aired on Monday with a repeat on Tuesday (tonight). That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Next Life on tour

Upcoming tourdates for Norway's Next Life:

02/19 - Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf (GER)
02/20 - Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
02/21 - Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
02/22 - Westgermany, Berlin (GER)
02/23 - Chapeau Rouge, Prague (CZ)
02/26 - Cave, Genf (CH)
02/27 - Bad Bonn, Düdingen (CH)
02/28 - Hirscheneck, Basel (CH)
04/23 - Donau Festival, Krems an der Donau (AUS)

Fysisk Format has delayed the release of Next Life's new album "The lost age" to the first week of 2009.

I mentioned Fysisk Format's signing of Manhattan Skyline yesterday and now it looks like they also have a new release from the excellent act Next Life on the way in late November: http://fysiskformat.tigernet.no/ (right-hand column, at the bottom)

Norwegian noise/cut-up act Next Life has posted a brand new track for download: http://www.electricdungeon.org/03_Media.html

Norwegian noise/cut-up act Next Life has posted a ton of new stuff for download: http://www.electricdungeon.org/03_Media.html
Recommended for fans of stuff like Single Unit.

Not only is Next Life's new website online today, but their debut album "Electric violence" was just released as well via Cock Rock Disco, the label of renown noise artist Jason Forrest/Donna Summer. Listen to a sample clip: http://www.electricdungeon.org/NL%20media/NEXT%20LIFE%20the%20mirror.mp3

Download a preview from the new CD "Electric violence" from Next Life, a Vietnamese/Norwegian duo from Oslo, due out soon via Cock Rock Disco: http://www.b-o-r-g.org/borg_media/NEXT%20LIFE/NEXT%20LIFE%20the%20mirror.mp3
CRD is the label of renown cut-up artist Jason Forrest. Are Mokkelbost (Arm/Single Unit) did the cover art.