Hardt Regn is the third studio album

Studio album

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 by Norwegian

Norway

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 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 group Skambankt

Skambankt

This article is about the band. For the self-titled album, see Skambankt .Skambankt is a Norwegian hard rock band from Klepp, just south of Stavanger. They play a mixture of classic rock'n'roll, punk and hardrock in the tradition of bands like Motörhead, AC/DC, Sex Pistols, Ramones and The Stooges...

. It was released on January 26, 2009.

The first single from the album, "Malin" was released on the band's MySpace

MySpace

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 account and several digital music stores in October 2008.

Background

After the release of their 2007 album Eliksir

Eliksir

Eliksir is the second studio album by Norwegian Hard rock band Skambankt. The first single "Tyster" received a decent amount of radio airplay, and it entered the Norwegian album charts on 8th place the week after its release. A video was made to promote the record's second single "Dynasti"...

, which scored pretty good reviews and reached No. 8 on the Norwegian album charts, Skambankt toured for most of the year. At the end of the year, the band's frontman Ted Winters

Terje Winterstø Røthing

Terje Winterstø Røthing is a Norwegian musician, playing guitar in two rock bands.Terje joined a band named Kaizers Orchestra a little while after the band started in 2000, but he had also participated on the projects the different bandmembers had before those times...

 joined up with the other band he is a member of, Kaizers Orchestra

Kaizers Orchestra

Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian alternative rock group formed on January 1, 2000. The two leading members, vocalist Janove Ottesen and guitarist Geir Zahl, had known each other for years, and first played together in a band called Blod, Snått & Juling in 1989.Kaizers Orchestra are notable for...

, to record their new album Maskineri

Maskineri

Maskineri is the fourth studio album by Norwegian alternative rock group Kaizers Orchestra, released on February 18, 2008. Recorded and mixed during November and December 2007, the album was released on the independent label Petroleum Records in Norway on February 18, 2008 and on Sony BMG in...

. Skambankt announced that the band would take a break and the members would pursue separate projects until the fall of 2008.

Recording

Reports of a new album in the works first surfaced sometime in mid-2008, on their now defunct website. No further information surfaced before September that year, when the band stated on their MySpace that they were indeed going back to the studio to record their third album in Bekk Studio, Nærland, Norway. The recording sessions started on September 9 and finished on September 27. Some recording also took place inside a church in the area near the studio, due to its "interesting acoustic qualities."

Release

Shortly after the end of the recording sessions, the first single, "Malin", was released on their MySpace account and as a digital single in several digital audio webstores. The song was originally supposed to be featured on Eliksir, but it was ultimately cut. Some other track titles like "Løgnprofitør" and "Vår Bør" were announced somewhere around the same time. In December 2008, the band released a video preview of the album on YouTube.

In January 2009, the band got together to shoot a video for the track "O Dessverre". The video was directed by Stian Kristiansen, the director of the popular Norwegian film The Man Who Loved Yngve.

Later the same month, the band released the entire album on MySpace for previewing purposes. On January 26, the album was released on iTunes as well as Norwegian music retailers, both on regular CD and vinyl.

Track listing

Lyrics for all songs are in the Norwegian language

Norwegian language

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1. Vår Bør (Our Burden) - 3:40
2. Kom Hell (Come Luck) - 3:45
3. Løgnprofitør (Profiteer of Lies) - 3:23
4. Det Tar Tid (It Takes Time) - 3:50
5. O Dessverre (Oh Sadly) - 3:51
6. Feil (Wrong) - 3:52
7. Trygge Rammer (Safe Boundaries) - 3:39
8. Slukk Meg (For Eg Brenner) (Put Me Out [Because I Am Burning]) - 2:37
9. Malin (Malin) - 3:32
10. Når Du Ber Din Nød (When You Beg For Your Life) - 4:04
11. Tanker Som Mareritt (Thoughts Like Nightmares) - 4:18