Welcome to the new page and start for the label. The first release is already back from the plant and I will start taking orders later this week. It should be available at various distros /stores shortly and you can pick it up from the bands show at the Kanalrock festival, August 14th.

So what is this release then?? Well it’s the debut 7″ from the Oslo sludge punkers in Okkultokrati and their Knarkskog EP. This is a 4 track 7″ pressed in 200 copies in a collaboration with the bands own Ormeyngel label. For those who don’t know Okkultokrati, the band consist of members originating from the darkest alleys, thickest woods and highest mountains in Norway. Musically they are somewhere between Black Flag and Darkthrone.

Since the band did not want to go empty handed to their show in the woods of Notodden few weeks ago, the band made some covers for 30 copies where available at that show or through the band directly.

The great coverart and label logo are made by Sebastian Rusten.

Read more about what the guys in Okkultokrati are up to here.

The Oslo radio Radio Nova has a-listed the song Dopecradle from the Knarkskog EP.
Here is what they wrote about the song:
Oslobandet Okkultokrati slapp sin debut ”Knarkskog EP” 25. august. Bandet som har medlemmer fra bl.a Common Cause og Haust overøser deg med en klassisk miks av hardcore, pønk og svartmetall. ”Dopecradle” skifter fra å gå i et høyt hardcore-tempo til å roe ned til repetative gitarriff i black metal-stil. Uansett stilart er dette både melodiøst og rytmisk, med et nihilistisk tankesett som utgangspunkt for det aggressive uttrykket. Svart, er forøvrig ordet som kanskje best beskriver bandet som helhet. I tillegg til navn på bandmedlemmer som Black Death og Black Qvisling, referanser som Black Flag og Black Sabbath, fronter de Knarkskog EP med en heftig, syk og mørk covertegning. EP’en er ute på vinyl i bare 200 kopier!
-Ann Kristin

It’s a trap also wrote some words on the EP:
Okkultokrati share members with Haust and more than a slight resemblance soundwise, but they are definitely way more on the current pessimistic hardcore zeitgeist tip than the latter. Haust mix hardcore aggression with black metal nihilism, Okkultokrati are just aggro. If you dig on the contorted sounds of Sex Vid, Total Abuse, Cult Ritual or any other like-minded negative creeps (overused Brainbombs references are a surefire tip-off), you’ll probably dig this too, especially if you wish those bands had a heavier rhythmic integrity. The debut “Knarkskog EP” (free d/l here) won’t usurp “Communal living” as the subset standard-bearer, but it’s way better than some and bodes well for the future.