Merch and video(s) in the works

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)

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.

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

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

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.

Soon out of copies

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.

Proceding to the Progawards finals

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.

We're in the finals of Progawards.

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

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

It's the End nominated for a Progaward

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.

It's the End on iTunes

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!

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

Unleashing the music video on September 9

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!

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

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

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!

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

It's the End signs with Musea Records

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

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