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Arabrot

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Årabrot

Of Darkness And Light

Årabrot

Who Do You Love

The Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Årabrot’s The Gospel

Horns Up Ya Shitters! The Best Recent Metal Reviewed

Årabrot – Årabrot: Track By Track Review

Maus In The House! Oslo’s Oya Festival Reviewed

Arabrot

Solar Anus

By:Larm Live Special: We Hail Deathcrush & Frisk Frugt

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Music Downloads

A Policy Of Expansionism: Transcendent Metallers Ghold Interviewed

Every month the Quietus commissions brand new exclusive music for Sound + Vision subscribers. This month Ghold speak to Kez Whelan about the Singularity track 'EXACT REPULSE SUFFER'
A Quietus Interview

Moving Big Mountains: Årabrot’s Karin Park Interviewed

Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park decided recently to take Årabrot forward into a new era. Dannii Leivers met Karin to talk about how her glittering pop career is influencing their new album, Norwegian Gothic, which is streamed here in full. Årabrot portraits by Olle Lundin

A Quietus Interview

Untangling The Galaxy: AHRKH’s Alex Macarte Interviewed

On the release of a new solo album of “psychic entrainment”, GNOD member Alex Macarte speaks to Matthew Neale about sound healing, the origins of creativity, and the glory days of the Salford Mill
Music of the Month

Albums Of The Month: Music We’ve Loved This April

Årabrot, Vanishing Twin, Leather Party and Lena Willikens, Cardi B, Grouper and Mouse On Mars - just a few of our favourite albums (and tracks) from the past month

Albums of the Year so far

An Easy Extraction: The Top 100 Albums Of 2016 So Far

And here it is... the Quietus' favourite albums released between January 1 and June 30, 2016, as voted for by John Doran, Luke Turner, Karl Smith, Laurie Tuffrey and Christian Eede (with some assistance from Mat Colegate and Bobby Barry)
Black Sky Thinking

The Second Summer Of Hate: NOISE ROCK NOW!

Carrying on Noise Rock Week, Noel Gardner looks to the current day and constructs a fearsome primer for the fans of the sludgy, lo-fi, ear-disrespecting... and modern. GNOD portrait by Sam Huddlestone
Black Sky Thinking

Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks

It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning
Things I Have Learned

Kjetil Nernes Of Arabrot On Sex, Death & Living In A Church

As Arabrot release The Gospel, one of the albums of the year, his reverence Kjetil Nernes speaks to Luke Turner about the church that he calls home, and where his group record their thundering anthems to sex and death
Books

An English Trip: An Extract From Jolly Lad & Tour With Arabrot

John Doran is going on tour by mistake. He hopes this extract from his new book Jolly Lad will explain why. Author photographs courtesy of Al Overdrive & Jonny Mugwump
A Quietus Interview

Before Cease To Exist: Kjetil Nernes On Årabrot And Cancer

Mighty Matt Ridout talks to Kjetil Nernes - Norwegian esoteric gentleman of noise rock - about his brush with a "real and living hell"

Baker's Dozen

Kjetil’s On The Boil: Arabrot’s Favourite 13 LPs

As we gear up for a mighty basting at Desertfest, Arabrot main man Kjetil Nernes talks us through his 13 favourite albums
A Quietus Interview

Sautéed For Es And Whizz: Getting Fried With White Hills

Julian Marszalek speaks to stoner glam rock guitar wrangler Dave W and bass frequency provider Ego Sensation about shredding, pounding and frying your brains. Plus! The first watch of their new video for 'You Dream You See'
A Quietus Interview

A Hole In The Sky: Årabrot Interview And Mix

In Solar Anus, Årabrot have delivered one of the year's best albums. We met up with them to discuss the band’s history and to collect a brutal mix in advance of their Quietus Halloween gig on Monday
Black Sky Thinking

De Mysteriis Dom N.W.A: The Similarities Between Mayhem And Gangsta Rap

Tony F Wilson, a Croydon born Jamaican emigree to Oslo who loves hip hop, black metal and the avant garde, explains to John Doran why he thinks Mayhem and N.W.A. have a lot in common...
A Quietus Interview

Årabrot And Necromantic Norway: An In Extremis Special

The mighty Årabrot will be playing our Ja Ja Ja showcase at The Lexington on February 24. Adam Kennedy met with frontman Kjetil Nernes and Haust's Vebjørn Guttormsgaard Møllberg to ask all about necromantic rock in Norway

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