Over ten songs and 30 minutes, Bokassa is as diverse as ever on their new full length “All Out of Dreams”. The power trio offers everything from riffy stoner metal in "Bradford Death Squadron", almost progressive skatepunk in "No More Good Days", 45 seconds of metallic hardcore in "Everyone Fails In The End" to laid-back Izzy Stradlin bottle neck-riffing on the desert rocker “Gung Ho”. Not to mention the hooky and anthemic the title track. In other words, the band has not become less fond of mixing genres over the years!
In an age where everything sounds the same, it has also always been important to Bokassa that each record is sonically different from the previous one. Therefore, they have been very conscious of how this record should sound. Where, for example, the debut "Divide & Conquer" had a noisy soundscape and 2021's "Molotov Rocktail" had a more playful and bigger rock sound, "All Out Of Dreams" has a slightly more raw metallic sound. This can clearly be seen in the conscious choice to go for a snare drum sound that brings to mind 90s metal, rock and punk ala Clutch, Helmet, Therapy? or The Vandals' "Live Fast Diarrhea”, to name a few.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, BabyMetal, Madball, Sick Of It All, The Haunted) in Antfarm Studio in Denmark in June 2022. The band also has guest artists for the first time, in the form of Lou Koller from the NYHC legends Sick Of It All, and Aaron Beam from the stoner rockers Red Fang. It doesn't get much better when it comes to famous guests on an album, if you ask us!
Tracklist:
The Ending Starts Today
Garden of Heathen (feat. Lou Koller)
Straight Edgelord
All Out Of Dreams
Bradford Death Squadron (feat. Aaron Beam)
Let's Storm The Capitol
Everyone Fails In The End
Gung Ho
No More Good Days
Crush (All Heretics)
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Release date February 16th 2024.
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Over ten songs and 30 minutes, Bokassa is as diverse as ever on their new full length “All Out of Dreams”. The power trio offers everything from riffy stoner metal in "Bradford Death Squadron", almost progressive skatepunk in "No More Good Days", 45 seconds of metallic hardcore in "Everyone Fails In The End" to laid-back Izzy Stradlin bottle neck-riffing on the desert rocker “Gung Ho”. Not to mention the hooky and anthemic the title track. In other words, the band has not become less fond of mixing genres over the years!
In an age where everything sounds the same, it has also always been important to Bokassa that each record is sonically different from the previous one. Therefore, they have been very conscious of how this record should sound. Where, for example, the debut "Divide & Conquer" had a noisy soundscape and 2021's "Molotov Rocktail" had a more playful and bigger rock sound, "All Out Of Dreams" has a slightly more raw metallic sound. This can clearly be seen in the conscious choice to go for a snare drum sound that brings to mind 90s metal, rock and punk ala Clutch, Helmet, Therapy? or The Vandals' "Live Fast Diarrhea”, to name a few.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, BabyMetal, Madball, Sick Of It All, The Haunted) in Antfarm Studio in Denmark in June 2022. The band also has guest artists for the first time, in the form of Lou Koller from the NYHC legends Sick Of It All, and Aaron Beam from the stoner rockers Red Fang. It doesn't get much better when it comes to famous guests on an album, if you ask us!
Tracklist:
The Ending Starts Today
Garden of Heathen (feat. Lou Koller)
Straight Edgelord
All Out Of Dreams
Bradford Death Squadron (feat. Aaron Beam)
Let's Storm The Capitol
Everyone Fails In The End
Gung Ho
No More Good Days
Crush (All Heretics)
Includes unlimited streaming of All Out of Dreams
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Release date February 16th 2024.
Single LP, hot pink / magenta vinyl
Over ten songs and 30 minutes, Bokassa is as diverse as ever on their new full length “All Out of Dreams”. The power trio offers everything from riffy stoner metal in "Bradford Death Squadron", almost progressive skatepunk in "No More Good Days", 45 seconds of metallic hardcore in "Everyone Fails In The End" to laid-back Izzy Stradlin bottle neck-riffing on the desert rocker “Gung Ho”. Not to mention the hooky and anthemic the title track. In other words, the band has not become less fond of mixing genres over the years!
In an age where everything sounds the same, it has also always been important to Bokassa that each record is sonically different from the previous one. Therefore, they have been very conscious of how this record should sound. Where, for example, the debut "Divide & Conquer" had a noisy soundscape and 2021's "Molotov Rocktail" had a more playful and bigger rock sound, "All Out Of Dreams" has a slightly more raw metallic sound. This can clearly be seen in the conscious choice to go for a snare drum sound that brings to mind 90s metal, rock and punk ala Clutch, Helmet, Therapy? or The Vandals' "Live Fast Diarrhea”, to name a few.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, BabyMetal, Madball, Sick Of It All, The Haunted) in Antfarm Studio in Denmark in June 2022. The band also has guest artists for the first time, in the form of Lou Koller from the NYHC legends Sick Of It All, and Aaron Beam from the stoner rockers Red Fang. It doesn't get much better when it comes to famous guests on an album, if you ask us!
Tracklist:
The Ending Starts Today
Garden of Heathen (feat. Lou Koller)
Straight Edgelord
All Out Of Dreams
Bradford Death Squadron (feat. Aaron Beam)
Let's Storm The Capitol
Everyone Fails In The End
Gung Ho
No More Good Days
Crush (All Heretics)
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about
Norway’s wryest export BOKASSA are back and ready to drag you kicking and screaming into their dystopian future.
Raring to go, with their European trek with Therapy? kicking off today, BOKASSA have dropped another new single, the stoner punk anthem 'All Out Of Dreams' that's filled to the brim with attitude and frustrated, pissed-off pessimism!
BOKASSA elaborate, “When most things seem mediocre and most meetings feel like you're just regurgitating empty small talk, you might as well just avoid it all. So it’s a song about trying to avoid socialising with other people and meanwhile escaping into your own mind and hobbies, like gaming FX, as referenced in the 8-bit intro. Kind of a “voluntary loner anthem” if you will. A song for everyone who feels like Stan in the South Park episode "You're Getting Old”!”
lyrics
Lyrics:
Dressed up, everywhere to go, guess i'll just stay home, I've got nothing to show, no one I wanna know
Conversations rarely worth my while, seems like empty sentiments are back in style, I just put on a smile
So i'm fighting my demons with excalibur, and i'm not going back again, I got an AK47 and a battle vest on me, and here's hoping you'll be my friend
After all this might be the end
Keep walkin, nothing here to see, just a guy who once resembled me, last seen in a memory
Peace of mind when I'm left alone, by myself with my NOFX records on
When i'm by myself, when i'm on my own
When i'm by myself, loudly singing along
So i'm fighting my demons with excalibur, and i'm not going back again, I got an AK47 and a battle vest on me, and here's hoping you'll be my friend
After all this might be the end
And I can't stop this regression/depression
And I can't Control my strife, there's a feeling of content here, after all this was my life
credits
from All Out of Dreams,
track released October 5, 2023
Songwriters: Jørn Kaarstad & Eirik Losnegård
Mix/Master/Technician: Tue Madsen
Producer: Jørn Kaarstad
Bokassa:
Drums: Olav Dowkes
Vocal og guitar: Jørn Kaarstad
Bass: Bård Linga
Norwegian powertrio Bokassa fuses energetic and catchy punk
rock/hardcore with groovy stoner riffs and metal. Since their inception in 2013 the band has released 4 albums, played Hellfest, Wacken, Download and toured with Metallica, Mastodon, Therapy?, Zebrahead, Baroness, Judas Priest and Ghost!
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