PESTKRONIKENE

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present JORDSJO''''s highly anticipated new
album, Pestkronikene, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
JORDSJO released their first tape in 2015. With the fourth tape, 2017''''s Jord, the band got a
wider audience outside their native Norway and subsequently released full-lengths on such
labels as Karisma, Pancromatic, and Apollon. The band works as a duo in the studio, but for
the last eight years, they have played live as a quintet. JORDSJO are led by multiinstrumentalist Hakon Oftung, who has been a part of Oslo''''s psychedelic, progressive, and
heavy rock undergrounds for many years, and has played in Black Magic, Tusmorke, The
Chronicles of Father Robin, Wobbler, Zenon, and labelmates FLIGHT to mention but a few.
He''''s joined by longtime companion and childhood friend Kristian Froland, who plays drums
and percussion, and also produced and mixed Pestkronikene.
Pestkronikene is a part of JORDSJO''''s 10-year anniversary, and their ninth release overall. The
record started out as a compilation of studio outtakes from 2020-2025, but then took on a
form of its own, with the songs linked together thematically. Lyrically, those themes reflect
war, upheaval, the fall of kings and the rise of a new dawn, and cults and sects. Sonically,
Pestkronikene encapsulates the JORDSJO experience as well as extends beyond it. Mythical
and magickal, the album honors the band''''s background in hard rock and heavy metal, and
combines this with their own analog and organic blend of progressive / psychedelic folk
rock. To say that band and record, both in general, blend '''70s heavy rock like Deep Purple,
Rush, and Ashbury with the progressive landscapes of Gentle Giant, Host, and Landberk
somewhat undersells JORDSJO''''s particular headspace. The soothingly otherworldly
atmosphere sounds incredibly era-authentic but, more so, exists in a parallel universe worth
revisiting over and over again; truly, new details and vistas open up with each spin, even with
the soundfield being lushly Spartan. To make that anniversary all the sweeter, JORDSJO are
here joined by a few amazing guests: Jon Henriksen from Black Magic, Kristian Valbo from
Obliteration / Aura Noir, and Andreas Prestmo and Lars Fredrik Froislie from Wobbler. Sonic
alchemy, Pestkronikene is.
Succinct yet deceptively expansive at just 36 minutes, Pestkronikene is a generous feast of
fantastical, extra-dimensional exploration. While not 'heavy" in the usual DYING VICTIMS
sense, JORDSJO honor the old ways ' handmade, honest, even heroic.