Rob Mules Records are happy to announce another Annual Rock Show 8th of May this year in Alta!
Line-up:
Deception
Phandrom
Feleth
Check out the Facebook event!
Rob Mules Records – Alta
Q&A with Me And You Va-Va-Voom
New album is set to drop from the Høyanger trio! In the wake of White Awaits (out in April) a new single will be out this Friday. It’s time to check out what’s going on in the MAYVVV camp.
Who are Me And You Va-Va-Voom, and what is the story behind your band name?
MAYVVV is a hard rock band from the west coast of Norway, Høyanger. We started playing together in the early cold winter of 2017. We released our debut album last year and this is the next chapter in MAYVVV’s life. On the first album our sound was a unique blend of 80s and 90s American and Norwegian hardcore with a good dose of the 90s alternative rock. Well, I guess we’re still in the same soundscape, but the direction is more uphill this time. As always, MAYVVV is delicious load crashing energy music!
Your album is titled White Awaits and consists of 8 tracks. In short, give a presentation of each track: how it came about, lyrics etc.
Well, every track is built on the same recipe; riffs, lyrics about pros and cons of deep rooted culture and attitude. The whole vibe on White Awaits is colored by two snow-poor winters we’ve been witnessing.
OnCue studio and Bjarte Johansen has mastered your album. What is the story behind it?
Bjarte has produced, mixed and mastered the album. As some of you may have noticed he plays in MAYVVV. Bjarte is second to none. OnCue studio is a studio Bjarte is running with a couple of dudes.
Tell us about the cover art? Who is Daniel Longfellow?
Daniel Longfellow is a great artist that we luckily can call a friend of ours. He lives in our hometown Høyanger but was born in Washington DC. He got his art education in California. He’s a talented and skillful artist. You should all go and check out his work. One of his last project was called Fjord Monster. Which is a cool project. Dan is the man!
What’s in store for Me And You Va-Va-Voom the coming year? Any tours planned?
MAYVVV will be playing shows and promoting the album. We will play at the local Easter rock show, and we will have a release show in Høyanger in April. We will then play a double show, one for the youth and one for the old rockers of Høyanger. Then we’re booking festivals and gigs. We are always writing riffs and lyrics – MAYVVV take no days off!
Can you tell us about your influences, bands you like?
MAYVVV draws a line in 1980. We can’t stand Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and those kind of bands. We are into the eighties metal like Metallica, Slayer, Twisted Sister, and hardcore bands like Bad Brains, Fugazi and Beastie Boys, plus alternative rock like Pixies, Jane’s Addiction, PJ Harvey and NIN. That plus everything in between sums up MAYVVV!
Alright! That’s all for now! Don’t forget to check out Me And You Va-Va-Voom on your preferred streaming outlet. And check out their mixtape below.
Cover art: Daniel Longfellow
Band photo: MAYVVV
MAYVVV – Ski Arena!
Me And You Va-Va-Voom to release new single ‘Ski Arena’! Album out in April.
Release date: 28 Feb 2020
Produced by Bjarte Johansen
Coverart by Daniel Longfellow
Me And You Va-Va-Voom Facebook
Annual Rock Show 21 March!
Bands: Sublime Eyes, Ohmwork, Stonebreakers and Desert State of Mind
Venue: Studenthuset Driv, Isbjørn Scene
Tickets and info: https://www.facebook.com/events/490361618332438/
Annual Rock Show!
This Saturday 5 Oct at Vaterland/Oslo. Doors 19 pm, concert 20 pm. Rob Mules DJ after show from midnight.
Bands are Haunted By Silhouettes, Autokarma, Ohmwork, Stonebreakers and Kvikksand.
Check out event here. Tickets at Tikkio.com.
New single from Razorbats!
‘White Trash Radio’ coming out on Rob Mules Records 11 October!
‘White Trash Radio’ is about faking a great exterior to the outside world. Every day! Such as sharing Facebook and Insta posts of your greatness during the holidays, while actually spending two weeks at a camp ground in jogging pants while grilling, drinking beer, watching ‘Allsang På Grensen’, bathing and cuddling!
Written by Kjetil F. Wevling
Produced by Razorbats
Coverart by Benjamin Liam Boyle
Check out more news at the Razorbats Facebook page.
The Last Day on Earth (single)!
Haunted By Silhouettes release title track as third and last single from their upcoming studio album The Last Day on Earth!
Release date: 6 September 2019
Coverart: Stian Hoel Fossen
Produced by Haunted By Silhouettes
Check out more news at the Haunted By Silhouettes Facebook page.
‘Gangrene’ by Deception
Deception release fifth and last single from the album Epidemic (out 20 Sep). ‘Gangrene’ is one, if not the heaviest song ever written by the death metal quartet from Stavanger/Norway.
Release date: 30 Aug 2019
Coverart by Jobert Mello at Sledgehammer Graphix
Deception Facebook
Let’s Rock the Boat!
Stonebreakers release second single! ‘Let’s Rock the Boat’ hails from the upcoming debut album It’s All About Rock n’ Roll (coming out 27 Sep).
This new track will make you wanna groove, drink copious amounts of beer and have a good time. It’s a powder keg rock-song with callbacks all the way back to Chuck Berry. Awesome guitar riffs, belting vocals and a solid groove guarantees a good time that should go well with a beer. ‘Let’s Rock the Boat’ is a party starter, and a good indication of what’s in store for the full album.
Release date: 30 Aug 2019
Produced by Ellery Daines
Artwork by Svein-Gunnar Johansen
Stonebreakers Facebook
Q&A with Ohmwork
We have conducted an interview with drummer and bassist from Ohmwork, Børge Bendiksen and Helge Nyrud. Ohmwork are on the verge of releasing their fourth album HorrorWorks on Rob Mules Records. A concept album that’ll be out Friday the 13th of September. Listen up!
Who are Ohmwork, and what is the story behind your band name?
Helge: I actually stole the name from GZR (a Geezer Butler album). It was short and it appealed to me at once. We had a long list of names and we landed eventually on Ohmwork (hope Geezer doesn’t read this…).
Børge: Ohmwork is a power trio. We have played together for seven years, and soon we will have four albums to our name.
You will release a single titled ‘Sleep Killing’ 16 August, tell us about it.
Børge: ‘Sleep Killing’ is the first and only single from our upcoming album.
Helge: It’s a song that Anders crafted from some old riffs we had from way back, if I remember correctly.
The album HorrorWorks will follow a month later (out 13 September). What can we expect?
Helge: Well, hopefully a band that’s evolving. We try to be better and keep things fresh. If you listen back to back to Storm Season and HorrorWorks, you will hear something has happened. We are not the same band in 2019 that we were in 2014.
Børge: The new album is a bit heaver than Alyssa Drone, I think. It’s been two years of great progression. Anders and Helge have come up with great riffs, and Anders has done an awesome job on the lyrics. The recording went smoothly and I think we have made a good album.
Yngvar Mehus has co-produced, mixed and mastered your album, what is the story behind it?
Helge: Yngvar has been with us since ShadowTech (2015). He’s got to know us, and he knows how we want to sound. So, we got an understanding between us in a way. He comes up with alternative ways to do things, like: “Are you sure you wanna play it like that? How about just keep it simpler, straight forward like this?” So, that’s how he kinda got a producer role. He is heavily involved in the album. Not just the guy who is tracking us.
Børge: This is the fourth time we work with Yngvar (ShadowTech, Mother City EP, Alyssa Drone and HorrorWorks). We really enjoy working with him in the studio. He understands how this style of music should sound like, and how we want Ohmwork to sound like. A great guy to work with!
Tell us about the cover art?
Helge: Made by Vegard Laupstad, the same guy behind the artwork of ShadowTech, which was great! He has done an incredible work on HorrorWorks too!
What’s in store for Ohmwork the next couple of months?
Børge: We will release a single this month. Around this time we will prepare and rehears a setlist for gigs in September-October. Among them a concert at Kulturhuset in Tromso 28 September.
Helge: Gonna be some gigs of course. Northern Norway, Trondheim and Oslo.
Talking about sound and style, tell us about your influences, bands you like?
Børge: I have been a fan of hard rock since I heard Thin Lizzy on tape when I was six years old. So, I like any hard rock/metal band from Thin Lizzy to Pantera. Drummers that have influenced me are Scott Travis, Brian Downey and Mikkey Dee.
Helge: 70’s and early 80′ always seem to suit us. But we try to make it sound “these days”.
Live photo by Hans Petter Skog & studio photos by Yngvar Mehus
Listen to Ohmwork’s mixtape below – a diverse and powerful stack of great rockers!