APOPTYGMA BERZERK - Elektro-Rock aus Norwegen

NEUES (Neuigkeiten bleiben etwa ein Jahr im Kalender)

13.10.10 Der Indie-Versandhändler "InfraRot" bietet auf seiner Homepage XXL-Hörproben von den Songs der "Imagine There's No Lennon"-CD an. Die Hörproben haben eine gute Qualität und sind jeweils 90 Sekunden lang (dreimal so lang als üblich).

11.08.10 Hier die Titellisten von "No Lennon":

DVD

CD

01.07.10 Für den 22. Oktober 2010 ist geplant, die lang ersehnte Live-DVD & -CD zu veröffentlichen. Sie wird den Titel "Imagine There's No Lennon" tragen. Im Anschluss werden sich APOP wieder ihrer Tournee (in Deutschland mit Unheilig) widmen.

29.06.10 Das coole Label "Black Rain" veröffentlicht am 06. August 2010 eine feine Picture LP des 1996-er Meisterwerks 7 von Apoptygma Berzerk. Die Auflage ist auf 500 Stück limitiert.

09.06.10 APOPTYGMA BERZERK werden UNHEILIG auf deren "Grosse Freiheit II"-Jubiläumstour im Winter begleiten! Außerdem werden sie einige Headliner-Shows spielen! Die Tourtermine findet ihr hier auf dieser Seite.

07.03.10 Espen Ixtlan, der Hoffotograf von APOP, hat die Band auf ihrer ROCKET SCIENCE LIVE TOUR begleitet und besondere Momente in einem Bildband zusammengestellt. Man kann in das Buch auch einige Blicke werfen.

23.02.10 Die Planungen für die US-Tour im März sind weitgehend abgeschlossen. Möglicherweise werden APOP danach auch wieder durch Europa touren...

17.02.10 Heute wurden die Auftritte im März in den USA bestätigt. Das meiste konntet ihr hier schon vor einigen Tagen lesen.

13.02.10 Ein Auftritt in den USA kommt selten allein: In den nächsten Tagen werden weitere Konzerte bekanntgegeben, u.a. in Los Angeles.

29.01.10 Nach einigen Monaten, in denen es recht still um APOP war, kommt nun die Ankündigung, dass APOP Mitte März 2010 in Austin (Texas) auf dem "SXSW Music 2010" auftreten werden.

13.11.09 Seit heute kann die neue Single von APOP per Download gekauft werden!

Nach 10 Monaten gibt es somit endlich wieder etwas Neues aus dem Hause der norwegischen Elektrorocker! Das Management von APOP plant derzeit nicht, die Single auf CDs zu pressen: "We don’t know yet. People hardly buy any singles in the era of the iPod".

10.11.09 Von heute an bis Freitag sind Apoptygma Berzerk wieder in Deutschland für eine Art "Zugabe": Heute in Leipzig, morgen in Hameln und übermorgen in Duisburg. Und am Freitag, den 13. treten sie beim "Plage Noir Festival" auf - ab selbigem Tag soll die neue Single "Green Queen" verfügbar sein (siehe auch "Musicbox" unten auf dieser Seite).

In den DAC konnte der Song weiter nach oben steigen und ist nun auf Rang 5.

06.11.09 Endlich: Die langerwartete Single "Green Queen" soll nächsten Freitag veröffentlicht werden! Das wurde soeben per Newsletter mitgeteilt. Die Single soll eher eine Art EP (Extended Play) mit mehreren Remixen von "Green Queen" und "Apollo".

An diesem Tag spielen APOP auf dem Plage Noir Festival - vielleicht passt ja das Datum (Freitag, der 13.) zum im Hinblick auf die Pleite von GUN Records nicht ganz optimal verlaufenen Jahr...

Hier kann bereits in alle Songs der Single-EP hineingehört werden!

19.10.09 Am 11. November kommt Apoptygma Berzerk nach Hameln in die "Sumpfblume".

16.10.09 "Green Queen" ist diese Woche in die Deutschen Alternativen Charts eingestiegen (zzt. Platz 13). Damit rückt auch die bereits vor Monaten angekündigte Veröffentlichung der Single in greifbare Nähe.

MEINE FRAGEN AN STEPHAN GROTH (2007) Thanx to Per Aksel Lundgren

1 I would like to ask if he is able to say something about a new album, because I'm wondering what he could mean with "Phase 2", "End of the first phase..." or "Eject disc to enter second phase"...

STP: Hello Sherlock Holmes, good question!
The whole ”phase” thing is about the different phases of Apop (sound/style/concept and image wise) WTE being end of phase 1, Sonic Diary being end of phase 2.
The new studio album that we are currently working on (which is going to be awesome by the way) will belong to the 3rd phase.
The history of Apop has many chapters, and the band has gone thru many phases, but there is more to it than what I just explained…a few more albums and it will be easier to see the whole picture, keep looking for clues ;-).

2 I would like to ask what he thinks about the fact that his CDs always become so expensive and rare.

STP: It’s cool! I’m a record collector myself, and own several expensive and rare records.
Unfortunately we never got around to release much stuff on vinyl, but we are at the moment working on putting out some very limited edition records on vinyl. You guys on the forum will be the first to know as soon as they are ready for release.

3 I think the Harmonizer is one of his best albums but he said the he had gone through difficult times and tried to be positive. I think this is pretty hard and I want him to know that I respect the way he got out of his problems a lot!

STP: Forcing yourself to be positive when all you want is to be negative and destructive is quite hard, but it makes you a better person and solves your problems in a good way.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.... What a cliché, but it’s so true!

MEINE FRAGEN AN STEPHAN GROTH [2009] Thanx to Renzo

It was a disaster, that’s all I can say. Usually how it works is that when you put out an album, you have in advance done a lot of promotion. Both online, but also for newspapers, radio, TV. You spend tons of money on photo shoots, making videos, booking tours, printing posters, to create a whole promotional package that you do some months in advance before the release. But when the record is out and you go on tour, that’s when the big blow comes in. So when we were on the previous album, on the “You And Me” album, we put out “In This Together” as a single, and we went on tour, and then we put out “Shine On” when everybody was talking about Apop, when everybody was going to the concerts, and we were all over the magazines, and in TV, all the radios, then we put out “Shine On”, and everyone was interested and into it and bought the single, and we had a Top 10 hit. That was done during the tour. So when we started the tour now, after one week, I can’t remember if it was the first week or the second week of the tour, the company went bankrupt, and no more promotion was done. So it was a huge disaster and the main reason it didn’t succeed as well as the previous album. Sales-wise the whole industry is going down the drain, so you’re automatically selling less albums now than what you did three years ago, even Depeche Mode do that or Rolling Stones. But we were about to check in with a huge campaign and a whole promotion stunt, and all of sudden our main source went down, so our whole internet connection went down. Our main website, apoptygmaberzerk.de hasn’t been updated and been dead since that day when they just pulled the plug. So no promotion was done, nothing happened, so it was probably the biggest disaster in Apop history. What we did was that we ended up going out on a tour that was extremely successful; we’ve played sold-out almost the whole way. And we went to Russia and had some really cool gigs there, we went on a tour in the UK. And because we tour so much and played on some really cool festivals and so on, we still managed to pull it off, you know. It worked out but it could’ve been so much bigger, and so much better. So thanks to MySpace, Facebook, and all the fans that have been doing their things online, it all worked out in a way, but it could’ve been way, way better, to put it that way. Again, I think from a financial point of view, it was a huge disaster, but from a personal view I put out the best album I’ve ever done, with the best melodies, the best lyrics. We did the best tour we’ve ever done, we played with really huge bands, and we got hookups in all directions, and I’m actually quite happy with the outcome, but with the financial thing it didn’t turn out very well. Here in Norway we have the band, me being in charge of that, and we have our management in Germany, and we have our management in England, and then we have the record company. It’s those four things that is the driving motor behind whatever happens in Apop lab, to put it that way. So we lost one wheel of the car, and it was the most important, for that promo thing it was the main wheel on that car that we lost. Unfortunately it’s not only Apop who are suffering in the industry; it’s all over the line, worldwide. It’s very tragic and of course we still have the records available for downloads, both legal and illegal. The internet being the main reason for the record industry going down ended up being the media who "saved" this release...

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16.11.05 Hamburg - Markthalle
17.11.05 Mainz  - KUZ
18.11.05 München - New Backstage
19.11.05 Dresden - Strasse E
20.11.05 Berlin - Columbia Halle
22.11.05 Köln - Live Music Hall
23.11.05 Dortmund - Soundgarden
24.11.05 Herford - X
25.11.05 Hannover - Capitol
26.11.05 Stockholm - Tinitus Festival

06.06.06 Stuttgart  - LKA Longhorn
07.06.06 Heidelberg - Karlstorbahnhof
08.06.06 Paderborn - Uni Open Air
11.06.06 Duisburg - Pulp
16.06.06 Salzwedel - Parkfest
28.06.06 Dresden - Campus-Party

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