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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about
After yet another soft and festive December, delightfully strenuous January comes along.
Dark, cold, and solemn, with its endless weekdays and ever-increasing cost of living.
Resolutions shall be broken, and efforts will be in vain.
And we really need some music to accompany the hard work of failing. Luckily, the upstanding citizens of Bokassa are playing their part, and are set to release one final single from their upcoming album.
“The Ending Starts Today” is an upbeat little bugger, filled to the brim with fuzz and fast paced guitars. No other song will help you crash quite so hard into all the new challenges of this bright new year.
lyrics
Lyrics:
Bow down and take a knee
Cool off and lie for me
We all subdue, they have revenue, we all got something we want
Your truth, was never mine
Breathe deep, accept decline
I can't believe, what we won't achieve, we all got something we lost
The ending starts today
The revolution died at birth, we held our own for what it's worth
The ending starts today
The revolution died at birth, we held our own for what it's worth
Be all that you can't be
Our land, not for the free
But you and me, we're royalty, they all need someone to rule
Snowflake dystopia
Is our utopia
They won't adept, but they're all inept, we all need someone to serve
The ending starts today
The revolution died at birth, we held our own for what it's worth
The ending starts today
The revolution died at birth, we held our own for what it's worth
Tell on your neighbor, till the hangman is done
They must atone
Tell on your neighbor, till the hangman is gone
And save your own
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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