| 14-11-08 | ALBUM RELEASE POSTPONED: The deadline is already broken because of delay at the pressing-factory. Therefore we have to postpone the release to the 5. January 2009. Pre-orders/listens are available from the Tiger-site , and CDON. | |||||
| VF24: We were recently interviewed by the local tv-station VF24. They also showed Next Life videoprojections, lights and a live clip! | ||||||
| ARTICLE IN TØNSBERGS BLAD: Feel free to read an article about Next Life in Tønsbergs Blad, in norwegian. There are many uncorrect sitiations and such, but what the heck... | ||||||
| 25-10-08 | THE LOST AGE: Now we have a release date for the next Next Life album! It will be released 24. November by the new norwegian hardcore label Fysisk Format who also release the bands Snöras, Manhatten Skyline, Kaospilot. The label is run by the legendary record-shop Tiger in Oslo, in which Hai spent most of his savings as a kid :) The cover art will be done by Are Mokkelbost who also did cover for Electric Violence. Visit Myspace for pre listenings :) | |||||
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| VERDENSTEATRET SHOWS: Hai has a role in the theater piece "Louder" by Verdensteatret, it will be shown in USA the following dates: Philadelphia Live Arts Festival 11. September, 22.00 hours 12. September, 22.00 hours 13. September, 22.00 hours NEW YORK SHOWSORK SHOWS Performance Space 122 |
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| SONIC VISTA: Hai is part of the "audio-bench"-project Sonic Vista. A bench located in Geoparken in Stavanger/Norway has a built-in headphone output from which the tunes will be played. We also put out the songs in the MEDIA-section. | ||||||
| RECORDING: The recording of our next release is finished and we can now move on to the next part of the process, which is to actually release it :) So get ready for The Lost Age by Next Life!!! | ||||||
| NEW SHOWS: Check the SHOWS section for upcoming shows this summer! | ||||||
| 06-03-08 | ARTE TELEVISION: Next Life, together with KILLL and Sunn O))) was featured in the TV program Tracks which is broadcasted through ARTE Television in France/Germany. | |||||
| 28-02-08 | NEW PRESS PHOTO: Thanks to our old dear friend Stian Evensen we now have a press-photo with the current line-up. Hi-resolution edition will be available soon. | |||||
| NATIONAL TV (NRK): The norwegian national broadcasting unit NRK was so kind to visit Next Life at our own office :) We got to demonstrate our auto-lights on Transformers figures and we answered various questions about SID-chip and 8-bits sound, among some other stuff. To be shown in the program "Lydverket" some time next month :) | ||||||
| INTERVIEW: We were recently interviewed by the student magazine IKON which will be published the next month. | ||||||
| 17-01-08 | A NEW PERFORMER: Trond Jensen A. K. A. TDS will from now on do samples and noise for Next Life, and most certanly he will bring some of his brilliant C64 programming into the project as audio and visuals :) Welcome to TDS! | |||||
| STAVANGER 2008: We had a great time playing at an opening event for Numusic 2008, greets and respect to the crowd! Here is an article in Stavanger Aftenblad where we were mentioned. We also did interview and live footage for the program Tracks, which will be broadcasted at ARTE Television (Germany/France) in about a month. If it does not suck too much we will probably make it available here too :) | ||||||
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| MUSICVIDEO: Hai and Erik Thon are currently working hard to create a animated motion picture for Next Life, which is really exiting as we have not yet done a "traditional" musicvideo! The song will be from our next album. It will probably be found on the internet once we are finished :) | ||||||
| 18-05-07 | NUMUSIC FESTIVAL 2007: Just got in touch with Martyn Reed and it seems we will be entering the Nummusic for the third year in a row :) This festival in south Norway has been a great pleasure every year, so this we consider as very great news. See SHOWS section for date. | |||||
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| 30-04-07 | FIRST GIG THIS YEAR!: We will play together with Leadershit (SPA), Lucky Malice, and our old friends Summon The Crows at Blitz 8. June. It will be alot of fun and it´s a gig to benefit RadioOrakel. | |||||
| NEW VIDEOS WITH LIGHTS: We videotaped some songs at our latest rehearsal as we are experimenting with automated lights! Many thanks to Erik Thon and Andreas Schille for helping us with cameras. You will find the videos in the MEDIA section. If you are interested in a multimedia freakshow with lights, just give us a call or write an e-mail. We are hereby very eager to play :) | ||||||
| LIVE RECORDING FROM TRANSMEDIALE 2006: Listen to a song that we performed at Club Transmediale last year with Katrine Bølstad on the vox! | ||||||
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| HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!: We wish all friends, fans and colleagues great luck and joy in the year of the metal pig! | ||||||
| EXHIBITION: Hai will be a part of the exhibition "How Imitations Get Cornered by the Real" at UKS. The picture above was taken from an earlier exhibition (2003), which in technical terms will be a little similiar to the piece at UKS. Free drinks for sure, and lots of fun at vernissage 2. March! | ||||||
| RECORD LABEL WITH SECOND PROJECT: Ah, this is great, TurboRaketti project by Hai and our technician Trond just signed to Disasterpeace´s new label (no name yet) for a CD release. Stay tuned for more information soon! | ||||||
| DEVELOPING LIVE SHOWS: We are having a temporary gig-break, just received long awaited equipment that will prevent us from doing boring shows. Yeah, at least it says so on the box :) the rest is a secret. | ||||||
| DEBUTS OF THE YEAR 2006: We were happy and surprised to see "Electric Violence" among the "debuts of the year" in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet. Hehe, Maybe we get a Nobel Prize for the next album as it will be at least ten times better! | ||||||
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| EXHIBITION: NL guitarist Hai contributed with a videopiece to the exhibition "Hit That Piece Of Ivory There" at Ny Musikk in Oslo. | ||||||
| BETONGSLOTTET: We played at preimerefest at Betongslottet in Oslo for the movie "Si Sedes Is" by Thomas Østbye. NL guitarist Hai also appears in the same movie as a lost composer speaking about freedom and money! | ||||||
| CONCERT AT BLÅ CANCELLED: The show at Blå in Oslo together with Ryfylket was cancelled, leaving Riga and Brüssel the last two NL dates this year. Ryfylket and Årabrot will play at Blå instead and we bet it will be fun :) | ||||||
| 21-09-06 | NEW ALBUM IN PROGRESS: Currently writing songs and doing test recordings for our next fullength album "Digital Eclipse" (working title). Get your ninja outfit ready! | |||||
| T-SHIRTS ARE HERE: We can now offer a product that actually is of any use :) next priority will be the Next Life cigarettes, and for this we desire a partner in the tobacco buisness. Anyway, Next Life T-shirts comes in red, blue and black, small and medium size. Will be sold at Tiger in Oslo and at our gigs of course. Thanks to Handmade Records and Elisabet from Nittedal. | ||||||
| USA TOUR CANCELLED: We are truly sad to announce that Next Life was turned down by the Norwgian Art Council and will not go to USA this fall. However, we would like to thank The Assdroids for their efforts trying to get us alææong. We promise to make it next year instead, even if we have to sell our corpses to satan or whatever. | ||||||
| SHOW IN BRUSSEL AND RIGA CONFIRMED: We will play in Riga/Latvia with Drumcorps the 7. December, and at the venue Halles in Brussel/Belgium 14. December. More shows to come in 2007! | ||||||
| MONO GIG MOVED: This show has been moved to 12. November instead of 26. | ||||||
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| NEW SECTION WITH GIG INFORMATION: From now on you can go the the SHOWS section to keep track of our future and past shows. | ||||||
| THE FEEDBACK: We are truly happy for the response we have got from various people on Myspace and Urørt. It adds very much to the reasons that we already have for doing Next Life. Greets and respect! | ||||||
| NEW EXCLUSIVE MP3: Added a new version of The Meat Office from Red End 7" to the MEDIA section. This was mainly recorded to test some new equipment , and is not scheduled for any release. Enjoy! | ||||||
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| JUST GOT HOME FROM DENMARK: Big thanks to Planet Rock, Niels Bötcher and 3rd-Tsunami for making these three shows possible. It was a great pleasure. And also thanks and respect to Ulf, Nadeem and Jacob at Pitstop in Kolding. | ||||||
| LIVE REVIEW: Read a live review of our show at the Spot Festival where we had a videoscreen of 12 metres in width! | ||||||
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UPCOMING SHOWS (will become a section soon): Plus, currently waiting for reply from the norwegian Kulturråd on our application for support, so we can go on US tour with The Assdroids in October/November. Fingers crossed to the max! |
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| EXHIBITION: NL guitarplayer Hai will contribute with a video/sculpture installation (Auto Krangel) on this year´s June Exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo. You are hereby invited to vernissage with (hopefully) free drinks and alot of fun on the 16. June! | ||||||
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| BEOYND THE SPIRITS: Trailer for PC/MAC game under development. See MEDIA section! | ||||||
| NEW SHOWS: We will play the 3. June at SPOT Festival in Aarhus in Denmark, plus working on shows at Loppen/Copenhagen and Pitstop/Kolding days before. | ||||||
| ASSÜCK TRIBUTE AND T-SHIRTS: Handmade Records have agreed to print Next Life T-Shirts in June, and will also release a 7" where we play songs by the legendary Assück! | ||||||
| NRK URØRT: Feel free to comment our stuff or leave a message at NRK Urørt or Myspace! | ||||||
| REVIEWS: Yay! Two more in the ABOUT section. | ||||||
| INTERVIEW: Most recent interview by Michael Mueck at Cuemix, also in the ABOUT section. | ||||||
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| MEDIA: Several new tracks and videos uploaded in the MEDIA section! | ||||||
| INTERVIEW: Dense were so kind as to ask us some questions, read the interview here. | ||||||
| MYSPACE: We´re there! Please visit at: www.myspace.com/next_life | ||||||
| METAL SLUG: The Metal Slug people decided to use the Next Life track Red Stone for a promotional video, sneak a peek here. | ||||||
| REVIEWS: Tons of reviews coming in, but many in German, Italian or French. If anyone with the skills would take on the task of translating these, we would really appreciate it. In fact, we give away a free copy of the Red End 7" for each of the languages, deal? Mail us if you´re interested. | ||||||
| CANCELLATION: We are sorry that the I.D.E.A.L concert in Nantes/France got cancelled because of strike amongst the SAS Airline employees in Norway. We would love to try again later! | ||||||
| UPCOMING SHOWS: Århus/Denmark - 3. June Blitz/Oslo - 9. June |
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| WEBSITE: First of all, the Next Life homepage is finally up! Thanks to Are Mokkelbost for helping out. | ||||||
| RELEASE: Finally, it´s out: Next Life´s full length debut Electric Violence! It´s released by www.cockrockdisco.com. Order it at your local shop or from Cargo! The reviews are starting to come in, check them out in the About section. | ||||||
| Here´s a teaser for you: The Mirror.mp3 | ||||||
| CONCERTS: Been busy the last few months playing concerts in Norway, Germany and Holland. Several more are coming up: | ||||||
| Galleri Schouberger in Asker/Norway 18th of March. ELECTRO2M6 in Zaragoza/Spain 22th of April. Landmark in Bergen/Norway 15th of April. Numusic festival in Stavanger/Norway September 2006. |
