noplacetohide

On October 16 2005 noplacetohide's second album Zukunft was unleashed on the world. noplacetohide played four final shows that week to celebrate the long awaited release of the album, but few knew that this would also be noplacetohide's last shows ever. Four months earlier the band had agreed to split up, sick and tired of dealing with amateurish underground labels. The band had simply had enough. Business bullshit had drained the creative force from the band, and the band had long since stagnated due to its lacking media outlet. A 16 year uphill battle had taken its toll. However, determined not to fade away, the band decided to play those final shows and document all recorded material from their 16 year long "carreer". This meant the band once again had to dig deep in their pockets, as well as getting involved with the Italian Mafia, to finance the release of two full albums on CD and LP.
noplacetohide's debut album Vergangenheit has been long sold out and out of print. Originally released in 1995, the album received rave reviews all over, but it seemed that the metal labels of the world, still caught up in the black metal hysteria of the early nineties, were not yet ready for originality or individuality. Thrash metal was not trendy in the underground anymore. The self financed product met no interest from international labels or distributors. They simply did not know how to market a Norwegian band that hadn't jumped on the BM bandwagon, and consequently the band remained Norway's best kept secret, despite the critically acclaimed debut. The album only found its way to the most adventurous of metal fans.
To celebrate the ten years since the original release, the new version includes a full CD (titled "From the Remains") worth of extra material. The bonus CD includes all four demos the band made, as well as live version of unreleased songs, a remix by Martin Horntveth of Jaga Jazzist, and cover songs of Depeche Mode and Cloroform. That's 77 minutes of hard-to-find material that was for the most part originally released on cassettes and CDRs.
It is in other words high time the world gets to experience Vergangenheit. Now that people actually confess to liking thrash metal and progressive music again, the world seems better prepared for Vergangenheit than in 1995.