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.
Single LP, black 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)
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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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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)
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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Garden of Heathen is a true heavy hitter. A melodically driven stoner punk track built up by hefty drums, smooth riffs and catchy lyrics, featuring Lou Koller from New York hardcore legends Sick Of It All on vocals.
Bokassa comment:
«Garden of Heathen is a fast, riffy and melodic stonerpunker with one of our best choruses. A band favourite and a perfect way to kickstart a new album. There’s just something about the explosiveness of the track that makes it a real banging tune in our opinion. The fact that, the legend that is, Lou Koller from Sick Of It All appears on the track is nothing short of epic in our minds!»
lyrics
Lyrics:
I read my future, that shit looked bleak
Threw myself out of a window, my cuts will heal the meek
I looked for answers, they gave me none. Read each transcript I could gather, until the morning son. I searched for something, someone to love. All around the world i traveled, disciples never showed
Pay no mind, cause I won't stay behind, i'm a first born sheppard, but an atheist, and you're no God of mine
I read my future, that shit looked bleak
Threw myself out of a window, my cuts will heal the meek
I searched for something, someone to love
All around the world i traveled, disciples never showed
I need a new delusion
I need a new delusion
I need a new delusion
I need a new delusion
Keep your Path, avoid confusion
Keep your Path, avoid confusion
Keep your Path, avoid confusion
Keep your Path, avoid confusion
Damn you all, fuck this collusion
Damn you all, fuck this collusion
Damn you all, fuck this collusion
Damn you all, fuck this collusion
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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