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OKKULTOKRATI ANNOUNCE EU-UK SPRING TOUR

January 28, 2017

OKKULTOKRATI ANNOUNCE EU-UK SPRING TOUR
  Norwegian mavericks Okkultokrati are hitting the road again in support of their inventive and addictive new album Raspberry Dawn (Sept 2016, Southern Lord), tour dates so far are listed below, with more to be announced…
OKKULTOKRATI
EU – UK spring tour 2017
21.03 Münster, DE – Gleis 22
22.03 Leipzig, DE – The Plaque
23.03 Wien, AT – DasBACH
24.03 Innsbruck, AT – p.m.k
25.03 Trieste, ITA – Tetris
26.03 Pescara, ITA – Scum
27.03 Bologna, ITA – Freakout Club
28.03 Umbertide, ITA – Cinema Metropolis Umbertide
29.03 Milano, ITA – Spazio Ligera
30.03 Lyon, FRA – Trokson
31.03 Rouen, FRA – Hipster cafe
01.04 Lille, FRA – 301 live club
02.04 Birmingham, UK – The Flapper
03.04 London, UK – Black Heart
05.04 Glasgow, UK – Audio Glasgow
06.04 Newcastle, UK – The Cluny
07.04 Antwerp, BE – Antwerp Music City
08.04 Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn
09.04 Kortijk, BE – The Pit’s – Bang Zoom Noise Produktions VZW
10.04 Bruxelles, BE – Magasin 4

Listings here, plus more dates to be announced!
  While paying homage to their native region’s 1990s black metal heritage, the cinematic synth/goth rock of the prior decade, and the raging early punk movement ahead of that, Okkultokrati still manages to create sincerely original and infectious music through every bar of Raspberry Dawn, resulting in a starkly raw and original sounding album.
WATCH THE VIDEOS FOR “MAGIC PEOPLE”, “RASPBERRY DAWN AND HIDDEN FUTURE
STREAM ALL OF RASPBERRY DAWN VIA BANDCAMP
  Raspberry Dawn is out now on CD, LP, and all digital platforms via the Southern Lord store.
“A genuine album of the year contender…Okkultokrati have blown all notions of what Scando-punk is clear across the Barents Sea. The caustic Hidden Future harks back to their roots, yet its the rousing Ocular Violence – which wouldn’t sound out of place on Killing Joke’s Brigher Than A Thousand Suns – that proves the real highlight in a LP full of them. Stunning.”
– METAL HAMMER (8/10)
“Like Venom meeting Warfare…Equally rocking and experimental – a rather brilliant balance to strike.” – ZERO TOLERANCE
“Commendably individual, and coated in a dirty film of fuzz.” – TERRORIZER
“Oscillating as it does between catchy belters and almost industrial garage rock anthems. And as every good record, it knows when to clock out, leaving no choice but to play it again.”
– IRON FIST
“…they’re offering up music that’s leagues away from anything they’ve produced before; they sound weird, wired and have totally reinvented themselves. Classic 70’s strings vibe with crusty sounding punk beats, married up to aggressive sounding vintage metal; as if that’s not enough to get your head around, the band then mix in throbbing pulsations of dark wave and razor sharp, psychedelic loops. Despite the plethora of influences at work here, each song feels effortless and strangely catchy. They are obviously playing from a place that has metal at its core, but work in a progressive edge that adds an air of acid tinged mayhem to the entire record, packing enough reverb to make your head spin… If you were to lock Ian Curtis, Robert Smith, Mat McNerney and Fenriz in a recording studio for 24 hours then this would likely be the musical fallout.” – AVE NOCTUM
“Raspberry Dawn carries such a manic energy and flamboyant disregard for what’s expected of it that it is arguably both the most interesting and defiantly punk rock statement the band has made thus far.” – THE QUIETUS

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