Norway’s Beaten to Death have been upending grindcore tropes since 2010 and are about to offer up more clean guitars, buzzsaw bass, blasting drums over stripped, raped and strangled borderline indie rock riffs for the fourth time on Agronomicon. The album continues the band’s unique and polarizing grindcore thrust and is backed by both irreverent cover art and one of the most hilarious promo photos we’ve seen in ages.
Today, we present a stream of the track “Livet Tar, Og Livet Tar” of which guitarist Tommy has the following to say:
“‘Livet tar, og livet tar’ translates to ‘Life taketh, and life taketh.’ As with most of our songs, the ‘lyrics’ usually start (and end) with a cool title. This time around we actually wrote lyrics for the entire album – and we printed the lyrics! Ballsy. So, ‘Livet tar…’ is about the one way downhill roller coaster that is life. Just a couple of weeks in a random man’s life, starting off getting a rare disease, then losing his job, losing his social security, his girlfriend before getting cancer. I know, it’s not deep, but what do you expect from a song one minute long? We’re not Kjell fucking Hallbing, either! It’s actually the first song we wrote for this record and the only one to be written outside of rehearsals. It’s one of the noisier tracks on the record. I quite like it.”
Agronomicon is released on December 24th, which goes further to show how few fucks these dudes give, on Mas-Kina Recordings.
