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Solar Anus is the fifth album by Norwegian noise rock act Arabrot. Their previous album, REVENGE from 2010, marked the "end of an era and the beginning of something new". While the first four Arabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius of the past has come into light.

All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini’s stripped down approach to recording fit well with Arabrot’s arrangements, consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone guitar. After finishing the main recordings Arabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.

The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Arabrot is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in man. In songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Kjetil Nernes’ own words:
Gold indicates the sun as we hail Bataille’s take on the subject of abjection. Solar Anus betokened the Golden Calf - juxtaposed between utmost evil and greater sanctity. Such as the eternal radiance of heaven or the egregious iniquities of the abyss. Or the alchemist of The Holy Mountain converting faeces into gold.

Solar Anus’s eight tracks is Arabrot playing their purest, wildest, ugliest rocknroll. Even the tiniest ears in mother earth’s soil will open like flowers to the sun.
Solar Anus is the first album of the new Arabrot and the fiftieth release on Fysisk Format
Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Electrical Audio Studio A, Chicago, Il, March & May 2011.
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service June 2011. Cover artwork and design by Transgressive Productions. Songs by K. Nernes. Arranged and structured by Arabrot

Solar Anus is out September 2011 on CD, vinyl with download codes and as digital virus on Fysisk Format

European tour November/December 2011

Årabrot Biography, 2010
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Årabrot is a Norwegian noise-rock band from Haugesund, Norway.

Årabrot is named after the city garbage disposal and the local authorities also found it appropriate to place a school for troubled youths there.

In the same way these garbage disposals are a yeasty oasis of scents and liquids that through the years will mutate into indefinable masses, Årabrot is a band that continuously develops into something more raw and intriguing.

Since starting out in 2001, Årabrot’s main core has been Kjetil Nernes (songwriter, guitar and vocals) and Vidar Evensen (drums and visuals), and in recent years 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 EPs. 2009 alone produced two critically acclaimed Eps’ ‘AbsoluteNegativism’ and ‘I Rove’, together with a double LP with side project Nernes/Skagen, and last but not least the masterpiece ‘The Brother Seed’, the latter earning lots of international attention and a Norwegian Grammy nomination. 

The stories surrounding Årabrot are many and we won’t waste time summarising them all, but worthy of notice is Årabrot completing a nine-day tour after vocalist Nernes blew his lung the first show, and that 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.

Årabrot is about to represent for this 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 Årabrot there is also a dramatic component few other bands in history possess: histories are told and emotions are laid out in a way that’s closer to the compositional techniques of experimental film and theatre than traditional song structure. Last but not least they are drawn to the lyrics that combine elements of two of the most stimulating works of human kind: The Bible and Pornography.

In September 2010, Årabrot’s double LP ‘Revenge’ will be released on Fysisk Format. A record best described as a final closure but at the same time the beginning of a new era: Årabrot’s revenge on music in general and their secret vendetta against one special person...


Instrumentation
K:N - Vocals, Baritone Guitar
V:E - Drums

Discography
"Marionettes/Bogus Boogie" 7"
Safe As Milk Rekords 2001

"Rogues Gallery" 12"
Safe As Milk Rekords 2003

"The Moneyshot" 7"
Norway Rat Records 2005

"Proposing a pact with Jesus" CD
Norway Rat Records 2005

"Rep.Rep" CD
Norway Rat Records 2006
Single & video - Fumble Finger

"HGSD" 7"
Norway Rat Records 2007

"The Brother Seed" CD
Norway Rat Records 2009
Single - Holes/Fake Dimitri

Arabrot/concept virus - "AbsoluteNegativism" EP
Norway Rat Records 2009

I Rove EP
Fysisk Format 2009

The Brother Seed LP
Fysisk Format 2010

RepRep 2x12 LP
Urquinaona Records 2010

REVENGE Cd+2x12 LP
Fysisk Format 2010

The Wretched Child/Ruby Flux 7"
Norway Rat Records 2010

Årabrot/Okkultokrati - split 12"
Fysisk Format 2011

Madonna Was a Whore 7"
Norway Rat Records 2011

Solar Anus Cd/LP
Fysisk Format 2011

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