This Sect

Party Like It’s 1939 on Elm Street

thissect — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:27:33 +0000

We’ll be playing our last gig in 2011 with the poptastic Deaf Phonetics at Oslo’s legendary Elm Street Rock Cafe.

Sound of MU

thissect — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:18:04 +0000

This Sect wants to get intimate with you at the very intimate Sound of Mu (Oslo). Get crushed on November 30, 2000 hrs.

We want YOU at Sound of Mu!

thissect — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:49:05 +0000

Back from the Undead

thissect — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:32:07 +0000

So you think survivalists don't survive. Duh!

Just when you thought about joining the Old Order Mennonites, your favorite sectists emerge from the woods to rock out in public!

On Wednesday October 5th, This Sect will “perform” on a “stage” for the first time in three long years when Gorak leads the masses into ecstasy at MIR (Oslo), 2100 hrs.

This will also be the baptism of fire for the newest subject in our fold, Olaek of the Murder Mystery notoriety. Doubly axes to the maxx!

Make sure to listen to the ruffly mixed brand new tune Make Shit Shine before the sermon commences, for a high quality experience.

We count on you for a pleasant and/or memorable evening!

Spotify My Love

thissect — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:10:38 +0000

We just by chance discovered that our Distress Signals EP now is available on Spotify. We’re working on getting our other releases up/out/in there too, but in the meantime, enjoy some mean time.

Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to Spotify my love

Hoping, praying
For you to Spotify my love

Ol’ Red Eyes

thissect — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0000

Enjoy this vintage 4 second video clip of a strangely red-eyed Gorak singing “Dead Guy on the Stereo”, somewhere in Bergen. The photographer claimed to be into the “portrait” school of video. “Landscape is so 1939, dude” he commented, before leaving to pursue an art house career in Slovenia.

We got it goin’ on

thissect — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:44:22 +0000

Yeah! This Sect hit the studio this weekend and we saw that it was good! With the help of recording tech Gunnar Kjellsby and co-producer Ragnar from Herostratos, we completed the recording of 4 tracks for our debut album:

It’s Not You, It’s Them
Life of Truth Crime
Calligraphy with a Brick
Make Shit Shine

We’re planning on another studio session before 2009 is history. Now we’re really excited to hear som raw mixes!

Check out some more pics from the studio on our Flickr page.

Prelude to Album

thissect — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:31:41 +0000

This weekend, This Sect is entering the studio to start recording what will become our first full-length album! As of now we got about 10 songs ready for recording, and will hopefully get 2 or 3 nailed down in this first session.

If everything goes according to plan, we will have several studio sessions this fall and winter, with a release in spring 2010. But, as always when there’s sectists involved, people may disappear and all kinds of nifty stuff might get conjured up. We’ll keep you up to date, and possibly post some raw mixes along the way.

In the meantime, enjoy some pause music:

With Arms Wide Broken

thissect — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:46:00 +0000

You probably haven’t heard from This Sect in quite a while. Don’t worry, it’s not due to your growing paranoia and consequent isolation, but the simple fact that our guitarist Tomak broke his left arm.

The accident actually happened a couple of months back, but as Tomak is a Swede guy he chose to enroll in a very experimental new form of fracture treatment. As you can see in the picture, the medical trial involved plastering his entirebody to heal the broken limb. We don’t know the scientific theories behind this (the doctor mumbled something about “healing through frustration”), but the fact remains that it took Tomak’s arm almost twice as long as normal to heal.

A bit frustrating for the rest of the band, as we had to let him set up his annoying Casio Rapman for band practice. Believe us, there’s nothing worse than a man in body cast flopping his broken arm on that “scratch disc“.

But all this is in the past now. Tomak is free from the cast and has shaved off his goatee. We have started to practice on a regular basis again and have actually churned out a few secty new tunes. This Sect hopes you’re still a sectist by heart and we promise to keep you up to date and musically satisfied in the time to come!

Yesterday’s crap is today’s art

thissect — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:21:00 +0000

“Bored Teenagers” at Galleri Tonne is an exhibition of subcultural images from 1979-83, by punk rock “historian”/legend Tryge Mathiesen. He wrote “Tre grep og sannheten” (Three Chords and the Truth), the only book out there on the birth of punk in Norway.

The out-of-focus and overexposed photos featured at the exhibit reveal crazy party moments from when punk rock was an infant child in remote little Norway.

See the Buzzcocks backstage at Club 7 in ’79, lots of drunk local punks, Norwegian punk pioneers Hærverk gigging in Stockholm, Einstürzende Neubauten’s live debut in Oslo and plenty of other shady stuff.

In addition, there’s also the paintings based on unpublished amateur photos from Sex Pistols’ infamous concert at Oslo’s Pingvin Club, in the summer of ’77.

This Sect is both humbled and excited to play at the opening of the exhibit, on August 23rd, 14:00 o’clock SHARP. The exhibit lasts until until September the 7th.

Also: See the Facebook event for more info, and read this nice article.