It's the End

Audience Participation

2012-01-28T13:17:00.000+01:00

Have you watched the trilogy yet? itstheendtv is the channel to subscribe to, leave comments etc. Happy absinthe weekend!

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The last video variation on the theme - "Sickness Onto Death Part 1".

2011-12-25T13:27:00.001+01:00

Due to an unstable butter supply and the recent demise of the stocky guy in the zhongshan suit, we had to delay the release of the final flick in our sickness-trilogy. But rejoice, cause 'tis the season for profound existential despair, so feast yer eyes on this unholy sacrifice from the wise men of It's the End.

YouTube quality:

Vimeo HD version:

New video and t-shirts?

2011-11-11T23:11:00.029+01:00

Yes indeed!

The date is 11.11.2011 and the time is 11:11 PM. We're releasing the first of three new music videos today! And then - as an added bonus - there are new t-shirts for you to buy, with a design made by Robert Høyem!

The t-shirts can be bought right here:
officialitstheendstore.spreadshirt.no

The video can be seen at YouTube:

... or at the sometimes slightly more stable video service named Vimeo. Play this one if you're interested in better streaming in Full HD.

It's the End is live

2011-07-07T20:58:00.000+02:00

Doing the sound check
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Our how-to-play-this-stuff-live experiment was successful! After some serious experimentation, re-arranging, and searching for the right rubber pants, we put together a live show that we are quite happy with. Using a four-person band line-up this show represents a different, stripped down and yet very true It's the End experience. A big thank you goes out to our audience of the evening in question. They willingly subjected themselves to our experiment, and they actually even paid good money for it. Will we repeat our experiments somewhere closer to where you live? Perhaps. Perhaps.

This year's summer has sort of arrived in Norway (just like it always sort of does). We'll try to make some sort of attempt at enjoying it while laying down the plans for the coming autumn. Until then, you should also try to have a great summer! Hope to see you out there later this year!

Merch and video(s) in the works

2011-05-20T17:17:00.000+02:00

Have you ever had a craving for a really sweet It's the End T-shirt? Or maybe some underpants bearing our name - a little something special to show off to that equally special someone in your life? Or have you been wishing for something else entirely? Please let us know! We'd really appreciate some feedback on this.

Nevertheless, the process of getting some proper It's the End merch to the marketplace has been kicked off last week, as we contracted a very talented Norwegian artist to do some work for us. As usual, more details will be served to you on this subject in the relatively near future.

The upcoming video(s) for an - as of yet - undisclosed track from our debut album, is(/are) currently still in the works. Behind the scenes photos from the shooting of this(/these) video(s) have been made available on Flickr, Facebook and our website. More such photos - and even videos - exist, and will be made available leading up to the release(s).

As we set out to make this(/these) video(s) we realized that we actually had a potential for creating more than just one single video, even when choosing to do the shooting of the whole thing over just one weekend. This was much thanks to the fantastic efforts of Kjell Ivar Lund, who worked for an unknown number of days just to get the set ready. Our time on the set was further reduced through the use of three cameras and just as many photographers. How many videos are we making then? We will let you know...

Kjell Ivar has since then completed some animation sequences, and the editing and post-production phase is getting closer to its end. The release date of the video(s) is(/are) still pending, however.

More news to follow in a little while. Until then; enjoy the remains of spring 2011 (if you're living on the northern hemisphere) and stay progressive (where ever you are)!

News on upcoming video(s)

2011-05-05T01:48:00.000+02:00

Slightly suicidal chicken
Originally uploaded by It's the End

You probably already figured out from our tweets and Facebook profile updates that we spent a few days recording some sort of a video, fairly aptly (or perhaps just randomly?) codenamed "Anti Climacus", a few weeks back. At the point in time when you're reading this, you may be asking yourself: "What the hell is this video about? And when the hell do I get to see it?"

Funny thing is that this post isn't going to answer any of those questions.

However, the photo that accompanies this post should give you a clue or two. We didn't want to leave you completely empty-handed and clueless.

By the way, being huge gadget freaks, we just couldn't keep ourselves from rewarding our equal minded fans with a little something extra. We just uploaded a small set of 3D photos that we took with a Nintendo 3DS while on the video location. So, if you got one of those things, download the images, transfer them to your very own 3DS and view them in their 3D splendor.

Here are the links to the 3DS photos:
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3

As for the final video (or was it videos?) that will be the result of all this, you will get to see it when it's all done. As of late, we've been resorting to locking up certain band members in tiny, dirty motel rooms in order to force them to do nothing but edit hours upon hours of goddamn video footage. The things we do for our fans...

If our efforts pay off, you'll get another post with more info fairly soon. Until then, well, do what ever you like.

A very Happy "It's the End of 2010" to you and you and you...

2010-12-31T15:59:00.001+01:00

Priam from Progressive Area wrote a very nice review in the very last few hours of 2010, and we feel that it's appropriate to share it with all you people out there, now that the year is coming to an end. Since it's written in the language of the French it's perfectly accompanied by a well chilled magnum bottle of Champagne and sauteed cuisses de grenouille (frog legs).

More seven stringed compositions are in the pressure cooker (Thanks Denis Papin) that will blow out its steam in 2011.

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今度は何？ペンネアラビアタはどう？

2010-09-20T20:59:00.000+02:00

We'd like to Thank butter, for being fatty and versatile. I mean, you can use it for almost any imaginable fucking thing known to man! We'd like to thank all those child laborers in the tHird world countries for making Excellent quality guitar strings, in spite of terrible working conditions. And those guys cutting down the world's dwindling forests in order to harVest wood for drum stIcks. You know, working out there in those terribly Damp rain forests. That's tough shit, you know! You can gEt all sorts of unknOwn diseases, and your mind can fragment and fall to tIny pieces from being isolated from people over long periods of time... And your bulldozer's roaring monster V12 engine can screw up, hundredS of fucking miles away from the local garage with diluted diesel fuel and fake Wunderbaums, yOu know! And then what you gonna do? Huh? What yoU gonna do? You'd have to pull out a Philips screeeewdriver, and get your hands dirty. The spoon in your swiss army knife ain'T gonna help you, that's for sure!

"and... but... also... a new car!" And a members' site. That's right! And it's still probably not too late to sign up. Maybe.

Kill those evil aliens!

2010-09-17T22:58:00.000+02:00

There's still a bit of red in there
Originally uploaded by It's the End

... "With whips and chains and hand grenades". Or maybe a chainsaw. Or utilize a used up roll of toilet paper in ways hitherto unbeknownst to man.

A new video and a members' site are being launched in less then three days! Ohmagod! There's hardly enough time to sign up using the box below!

Hangin' out in the new studio

2010-09-13T19:53:00.005+02:00

Spotlights. Are they really the most important feature of any studio?
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Drudge. Really? Is it really him? And if it really is him, does he really look better than ever?
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Smoke machine. This photo also does not really prove that we sometimes don't wear those stupid fuckin' masks. But are they really all that stupid? And why the hell do we waste time playing around with smoke machines? Shouldn't we be focusing on making some goddamn music?
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Our new studio is very, very close to actually being completely completed. In celebration of this, we did some celebrating last weekend. All fourteen members of It's the End were gathered in that same studio for the very first time, and the photos that accompany this blog post were taken to commemorate this event.

What secret clues do you think that they reveal?

Speaking of clues. At the moment of writing this, only one week is remaining until the countdown has counted down. So sign up to our mailing list! Sign up! Sign up now! We're launching a new video and a members' site simultaneously! Can you believe it? You can sign up using the box below.

Now, what's that goddamn countdown all about anyway?

2010-09-06T21:02:00.003+02:00

Less red
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Right about now that goddamn countdown at itstheend.com is stating that some imaginable thing is maybe not going to happen roughly two weeks from now. Are we trying to predict The End™, as so many crazy religious people have tried to do throughout known history? Are we just very fond of writing little pieces of JavaScript to annoy our fans? Are we going to make something publicly available for everyone to maybe not enjoy?

The third option seems the most likely, right?

We're also trying to annoy our fans with signing up on our mailing list these days. The fans that let themselves get duped into giving away their precious e-mail address will be rewarded with access to exclusive digital material.

Is nothing ever free? Not really.

Imaginary imagery

2010-08-30T21:12:00.006+02:00

All red
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Imaginary imagery. Unlike the imagination of Decartes and less in the tradition of Bombelli, and perhaps very far removed from the likes of Takahashi-san, we continue not to peruse certain or any elemental crumbs thereof. As of late we have not been working on any of it - having perhaps not focused hard enough on any lame excuses for not doing so - but thought we might maybe start to pick tings up from the proverbial ditch in the sulcus where it once may have been left behind.

If the lazy in you has not started spreading, you might want to know more about what we are not telling you. Why not sign up on our mailing list, and then maybe, just maybe, it will somehow be worth it.

Interview with avantgarde-metal.com - For real this time!

2010-08-20T02:15:00.000+02:00

We engaged in a little back-and-forth with Mr. Wanzek from avantgarde-metal.com over a period of time that probably would seem quite short to a closely shaved Buddhist monk, meditating feverishly and pondering the significance of short-person behavior in pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance and other highly ambient domains. Our analog hands hammering out digital streams of letters, exchanging mere fragments of what could seem to be ramblings of a semi-conscious mind, at increasingly longer intervals. Interspersed only by the loud banging on the invisible walls that envelop and inhibit the unconscious plane from crossing over to - or bleeding and seeping into, if you will - the oh so finite universe that less agreeable humans have defined for us to slowly crawl through the mud in.

The slightly perverted results can be read at leisure right here!

avantgarde-metal.com review... well, kind of...

2010-08-13T11:19:00.004+02:00

We've been blessed with quite a few reviews of our debut album "It's the End" over the last year but this one is really "It's the Endish". Thor Wanzek at avantgarde-metal.com caught us red-handed mixing our secret brew with the main ingredient and our not so secret love, absinthe. The progression of diminished chords was failing and the dark force was all over us again, seducing us into its lair of triads in the key of C. We were playing a pop song again...

It's the End - 2010

Bringing whores to Epileptic Gibbon

2010-08-03T21:33:00.001+02:00

Mr. Ian was kind enough to play our The Salesmen Are The Real Whores track on the 51st edition of the extremely excellent Epileptic Gibbon podcast music show, aptly entitled "Please Don't Feed The Animals". It seems somewhat relevant to quote the Norwegian band Ulver in this context, by asking: "What kind of animal are you?". Will you lend it your animal hearing organ, or will you not?

You can download the podcast by clicking right here!

On the cover of Tarkus Magazine

2010-07-06T01:23:00.002+02:00

On the cover of Tarkus Magazine
Originally uploaded by It's the End

We just did an interview with Tarkus Magazine. Not only were they kind enough to actually print all our absinthe laden answers - where we give away all our dirty little secrets - but they also used one of our photos for the cover! Visit Tarkus online or buy yourself a copy of the June issue for more info.

Teaser

2010-06-10T07:40:00.002+02:00

No, we did not record a cover of Yngwie Malmsteen's Teaser! Who would even dear to think what that would sound like... But we did upload a tiny little teaser video for the video that you're probably all waiting for right now! This will hopefully make the wait for the real thing seem shorter.

Soon out of copies

2010-06-04T21:15:00.023+02:00

Now, who's this guy? Huh? Huh?
Originally uploaded by It's the End

We can't really thank you, our fans, enough. What we thought would only be a family and weird friends thing, has turned out quite differently. The first batch of physical CDs is soon to be sold out! WTF? How did this happen? This is far beyond odd meters and superimposed quintuplets synchronized via CV in a barn somewhere to the left of Russia.

If you still haven't got your dirty little hands on your copy yet, maybe it's about time to do something about it? Huh? Huh? We'll start reprinting well before the CDs actually run out, so don't worry about not getting those same dirty little hands on that afore mentioned copy.

We're almost done making the very last video in the overly exciting, cheap and poorly animated Progawards trilogy. We'll get back to you very soon with a date for its release.

It's really all about using Absinthe in revised string theory. Well, kind of.

New video slightly delayed

2010-06-03T16:32:00.000+02:00

Hello, boys and girls!

We're keeping ourselves insanely busy these days, and as a consequence we were not able to complete our latest video in time to meet our own deadline. No cause for alarm, perspiration and/or hyperventilation, though, as it's very near its completion. We just need time to make the final edits. You'll get to see it very soon! We promise.

It's the End, winners of Progawards 2009

2010-02-27T23:59:00.011+01:00

Paper cut
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Dear boys and girls, all the mundane members of It's the End are assembled today to celebrate winning the Progawards' "Best Debut Record 2009"! This international award was perhaps somewhat unexpected, although entirely predictable by evolved string theory. Several quarts of absinthe have been consumed, and not only root canals have been cleaned, according to a Swedish reviewer. Somewhere to the south we can see off-tossed pope-strangling madness, and people cannot trust their lawyers or spouses at this point. Expect detailed photographic documentation of this "pardy-hardy-event" to show up on the web in the following days and weeks.

Arigatou gozaimasu

Proceding to the Progawards finals

2010-02-24T07:55:00.000+01:00

We're in the finals, boys and girls. Why not celebrate it with another video, that gives our fans a sorely sought-after quick peek into our secret laboratory. This video was shot in the dark lair, in the annex of our Secret Quarters. Enjoy!

Do root canals get cleaned? Yes, they do.

Great reviews from around the globe

2010-02-20T01:54:00.005+01:00

Tarantula
Originally uploaded by It's the End

We just found some new reviews on the world wide web, or the Internet as some of you call it.

The first one comes from Prog-Nose. It's an E-Zine from Belgium. They do reward us with 7/10. Thank you guys! Enjoy the read.

The second review comes from Mexico. Manticornio.com is the site. Our knowledge of Spanish is limited to Babelfish's wizardry, however, and Mr. Babel is not always spot on. But the 9/10 says it all for us, so Salud! Check it out in Spanish.

Photo: Kjell Ivar Lund

We're in the finals of Progawards.

2010-02-16T00:34:00.011+01:00

Roughly three members 3
Originally uploaded by It's the End

The guys and girls behind Progawards have now upgraded us to the finals, which is a very kind thing of them to do. We have no idea how this will end now. The winner will be announced late February.

We teamed up with the great Mr. Lund (kjellivarlund.com) last weekend and tried the combination of guns, a chainsaw, a very hairy spider and a photo shoot. We're overly excited about the result. The resulting photos and some behind the scenes pics can be found at our Flickr page.

Giving thanks for the Progawards nomination

2010-02-09T11:54:00.000+01:00

We just made a video to celebrate our Progawards nomination. Check it out!

It's the End nominated for a Progaward

2010-02-06T19:57:00.001+01:00

The guys and gals behind Progawards have been kind enough to nominate us! Our debut album has been nominated in the category "Best Debut Record". An ever so slight cause for a celebration on our part. Hope you'll join us - in spirit, at the very least.

Our new website is here!

2010-02-06T19:09:00.000+01:00

We've been sick of our old website for some time and decided to make a new one. The old one was almost entirely made using Adobe Flex, and was a hassle to maintain and update. The new one is much simpler and allows us to update it much more easily. We're continuing the development, so don't be shy about giving us feedback and general comments on the new design and added content!

-Retch

It's the End on iTunes

2009-11-12T20:18:00.001+01:00

Our album can finally be downloaded from iTunes! Just follow the iTunes links from iLike. If you don't want to download our album from iTunes as MP3 files, you can also download our album in lossless FLAC form from Mindawn.com. Enjoy!

-Retch

The video for Internal Combustion is out now!

2009-09-09T18:09:00.002+02:00

We promised you the video for Internal Combustion, and here it is! :-)

Unleashing the music video on September 9

2009-09-05T20:06:00.001+02:00

The music video for Internal Combustion will be made available on the Web at 9:00 PM CET on September 9 2009! The video will be made available right here on MySpace, itstheend.com, YouTube and various other sites.

-Retch

The music video for Internal Combustion is done!

2009-08-31T20:05:00.001+02:00

For the past few weeks (more or less) we have been working on a really psychedelic music video for the track on our debut album entitled "Internal Combustion". The production method has been very weird, unusual and untraditional - just like It's the End itself. The video is now done and had its premiere on a private release party this Saturday. The people at the party seemed to like the fruits of our labor, and we hope the rest of the world will join them in their sentiments (the weird parts of the world, anyway). We will make it available on the web quite soon. So stay up-to-date!

-Retch

It's the End in the Mindawn top 5

2009-07-29T20:02:00.001+02:00

The It's the End album has been downloaded enough to be in the top five of Mindawn's most downloaded albums! You can download it too! Right here!

-Retch

The It's the End album can now be downloaded from Mindawn.com

2009-07-24T20:00:00.001+02:00

The It's the End album can now be downloaded in its entirety from www.mindawn.com as OGG og lossless FLAC! Head on over there if you haven't already picked up the CD!

-Retch

The It's the End album is out NOW!

2009-07-01T19:58:00.001+02:00

Yes, it is finally out and can be picked up from Musea's website this very minute! Head on over there right now!

Our debut album has been released on Musea Records! With a length dangerously close to 80 minutes, it has been quite a time-consuming and ambitious undertaking.

The self-titled album features twelve tracks packed with our characteristic musical maximalism. Each individual track has been given its own particular sound and arrangement, to suit the various musical styles and to give the whole album a very unique and varied feel. In this sense, the album is truly progressive.

-Retch

New website launced!

2009-05-30T19:57:00.001+02:00

We finally got around to launch our new website today! Go check it out over at www.itstheend.com!

-Retch

It's the End signs with Musea Records

2009-05-08T19:53:00.001+02:00

We just resently signed with the French label Musea Records. Right now, it looks like they will be bringing you our self-titled, dangerously-close-to-eighty-minutes-long debut album in and around the month of June this year. More news to follow very soon! :-)

- Retch

New song excerpts uploaded to MySpace

2008-07-10T19:46:00.000+02:00

Out-takes from the following songs have just been uploaded to our MySpace profile:

The Sickness onto Death Part 2
Inverted Implicitness
Drake's Equation

The excerpts have not been made from the final version of the album master, but are parts of something that we have named the "MP3 master", a special master that has been tailored to complement (in lack of a better word) the sonic imperfections of the MP3 format. The additional compression that MySpace applies to all uploaded MP3 files makes this tailoring even more necessary.

- Retch

It's the End

Audience Participation

The last video variation on the theme - "Sickness Onto Death Part 1".

More videos?

New video and t-shirts?

It's the End is live

Merch and video(s) in the works

News on upcoming video(s)

A very Happy "It's the End of 2010" to you and you and you...

今度は何？ペンネアラビアタはどう？

Kill those evil aliens!

Hangin' out in the new studio

Now, what's that goddamn countdown all about anyway?

Imaginary imagery

Interview with avantgarde-metal.com - For real this time!

avantgarde-metal.com review... well, kind of...

Bringing whores to Epileptic Gibbon

On the cover of Tarkus Magazine

Teaser

Soon out of copies

New video slightly delayed

It's the End, winners of Progawards 2009

Proceding to the Progawards finals

Great reviews from around the globe

We're in the finals of Progawards.

Giving thanks for the Progawards nomination

It's the End nominated for a Progaward

Our new website is here!

It's the End on iTunes

The video for Internal Combustion is out now!

Unleashing the music video on September 9

The music video for Internal Combustion is done!

It's the End in the Mindawn top 5

The It's the End album can now be downloaded from Mindawn.com

The It's the End album is out NOW!

New website launced!

It's the End signs with Musea Records

New song excerpts uploaded to MySpace