Konkhra news: 2003

News Flash, Dec. 10th. Danishmetal.dk has nominated KONKHRA for best album of 2003. You can help us out by voting for Reality Check through this email: awards2003@danishmetal.dk. They have also nominated KIM for best guítarist, so you can vote for him as well. There are prices at stake, so include your full address. `m´ Thanks.

News Update Dec. 8th.
Konkhra on KNAC.COM "best of ´03" list: www.knac.com

News Flash. November 31st.
We play in Copenhagen on Saturday 6th December. There are tickets for sale via BILLETNET, it´s 90 DKK a pop.
This is the first update since the "tour" of Europe. We all want to thank everybody that showed up. And to the ones who´ve sent mails about missing us because of bad promotion: Sorry about that. It seemed like a good idea at the time...
And check the photo section for updates, there will be pictures from Israel as well as from the tour up in due time.
And by the way: Illnath have canceled their participation on the 6th in Copenhagen. We have confirmed another opener, which is Copenhagen based nu-metal combo: KINK. So it´s Kink, Corpus Mortale, and yours truly that night.

News Update Oct. 31st.
Tomorrow morning we will be leaving for the first European dates. They have been shuffled a bit, the dates are all set now. If there is a chance, I will post something from the road, to our web forum. Also, I´ll probably write up a tour report like this one from Israel:


Konkhra Tour Report, Israel Metalist Festival, 16th Oct., 2003. 1st show on our Reality Check Tour.

After confirming our involvement in this festival we did get some calls from family, asking us what we were thinking. In Denmark, nothing much happens, so if there is something happening in Israel, preferably a suicide bombing, it gets prime time on the news here, at 6, 7 and 10 spiced with blood and guts. Well, we were promised that this would be a walk in the park, and that security would be tight, with doubled checkpoints coming into the festival area.
Good enough for us, we packed our bags.

15th of October. Traveling
At the Copenhagen airport, we checked in to the Olympic Airways flight for Athens, with a smooth 8 hour layover before our connecting flight into Tel Aviv. The promoter and ourselves had been looking everywhere for better tickets
( especially the El Al tickets would be cool, because they equipped their commercial flights with a missile defense system), but due to some hanukka holiday everything was sold out. We got to Athens safe, and started
looking for ways to kill some time. Kim and myself hailed a cab, and went to the nearest city. ( The airport in Athens is about 1 hour drive from city center.) After 2 minutes we were stuck in traffic, and the driver started to speak. By god, the guys breath was unbelievable. What was supposed to be a 10-15 minutes ride down the road, to a little city with some restaurants, turned into an hour and a half in the gas chamber. Once we were there, we got out of the cab, and got some decent chow, returned to the airport and was bored for awhile...

Then we started seeing orthodox Jews gathering near the gate, and also a couple of tattooed long haired dudes, from either Ancient or Aborted,- the other bands from abroad that was playing the festival. A great contrast, and the looks on those orthodox faces were priceless, once they saw all of us get on their plane. 2 more hours of flying, and we landed in Tel Aviv. They park the planes out by the sea, and drive people into the airport in busses down there. We were waiting outside the plane for someone who´d fallen behind, and a Jewish lady kicked my briefcase from between my feet, only to turn and give me a look that spelled "donkey turd" or something. ( Orthodox Jews believe that they are Gods chosen people, which may explain their attitude towards us.)

At the passport control we were met by a VIP guide. He took us to the diplomat counter and we got to see some really confused looks on a couple of orthodox faces. We went through without a problem and was met by the festival organizer and his friends. Great people, all smiles and happy faces although they had to pick us up at 4 in the morning. We picked up our gear and went to the hotel in time for kosher breakfast. Crashed.

16th, October. Hangar 11
The festival was the first of its kind in Israel. We got there by 8, scheduled to play around 1. Great venue on the sea port of Tel Aviv. Tight security, they went through our bags again, but noone seemed to have a problem with that. The crowd at the place was going nuts, and there was still 10 or 12 more local bands, before any of the imports could get to work. There was probably around 1500 people in the hangar, and they were the craziest crowd we´ve seen. They are sicker than the spaniards and Italians combined, and to us, that is really something. North European crowds are the stoners in comparison to the Mediterranean peoples, but Israelis are just plain nuts. We sat down and waited it out. 1 came and went. We asked when we would be playing and how much delay they were expecting. We were told that 3 would be realistic, and with a shuffle they turned it into reality. Aborted from Belgium put on their show, and they kicked ass. The crowd exploded. It was just a great pleasure to watch. 3:15, we are ready, the drums are changed and we could start. The crowd had been going since sometime in the afternoon and they still had some juices in them. We were a little troubled by some technical stuff, the right bassdrum kept scooting forward, and the toms were cut to three, so Joe had to change his patterns a bit. But for a first show on a tour, we had unbelievable response. Between every song, they chanted "Konkhra" from the top of their lungs. Goosebumps. The promoter was right when he promised us, "you ain´t seen nothing yet". These people have a more stressed everyday life, obviously, and they definitely blew some steam tonight. After the gig I talked to people at the show, and was surprised by some guys who had really taken our old record from ´95 to heart. "I grew up with those songs"; they told me, and they thanked us over and over for coming. Pretty good for a band that Kerrang´s Dom Lawson called "one of the best kept secrets of extreme metal" just last week, I thought with self-serving smile. The promoter told us nobody seems to want to go to Israel, especially American bands, so having a metal show with bands from abroad is really something special for them. (Fact: more people has died in traffic in Israel since it´s birth in ´47, than in ALL of the wars and suicide bombings combined. Less than 30.000 in total in more than 50 years. Off course there is a risk, but it is minimal. Any bands out there reading, you should look into going, check the metalist website our ours for e-mail contact, Ill pass you on to the promoter of the fest.). Anyway, we were exhausted and went to the hotel and got some sleep.

17th. Haifa
Woke up in time for lunch. There was a party planned 1 hour north in Haifa, a meet´n´greet with free drinks. In the evening Kim and I was driven the 100 clicks north and passed the MAXIM bar on the outskirts. This was the place
for the most recent suicide attack on civilians. Closed down, and with a great banner reading "we will always live together" in Hebrew across the front. Its owned by both Israelis and Arabs. Normal thinking people without the religious bug to far up their asses. Got to the party and hung out all night. Met some more really cool people. Seems that metalheads all around the globe are all down-to-earth and peaceful, we should maybe force-feed some Napalm Death or something to Arafat and Sharon and their likes ( Jerry Fallwell too, goddammit, and the neo-conservatist crew world wide, here´s some Nile for ya.) On the way back from the bar we stopped at MAXIM´s and met the owner, he was cleaning up the wreckage from the attack, that happened only 14 days ago. We were told the story and took some photos. A Reality Check indeed. Once back in my room at the hotel, sound asleep I was back at the bar. Heard the gunshots at the front as the security guy was killed brutally with 15-20 shots from a light handgun. A beautiful Muslim woman in her twenties runs through the only entrance (and exit!) towards me as people around me start screaming.. Woke up. Confused. Can not remember the last time I had a nightmare, but will surely remember this for one for a long time.

18th. Sightpeeing in Jerusalem
Got up around noon, after about 3 hours of sleep, and gave our promoter a call. He promised us a fieldtrip to Jerusalem today, and I wouldn´t miss that. A chance to go to the place where most of the religious tension is this world spill over the ancient city walls, like shit from a sucking calf. Got there late, around 5 in the afternoon. Passed hell on the way. Or the canyon that the Old Testament says is where the gate of Hell would be. Our guides told us there is really nothing there, so I was keen on getting a franchise setup with tee-shirt sales, ( My friend went to hell, and all he got me was this lousy shirt!) and a really cool looking gate. Maybe Giger could design it, and it would look really cool. Bet I could make ends meet that way while putting some humor into the religious tantrum. We parked outside the old city and met some inhabitants, who´d agreed to show us around. Great people, an American Jew who´d grown up in Pittsburgh, and a
girl who´d been studying history for years, with Jerusalem as her specialty. We went through the checkpoint and headed towards the Wailing Wall. There was about a thousand people there because of Shabby, ( the day when they
read the last page of the Old Testament and start over.) We went all the way up to the wall, where people were very engaged in praying and they kind of spooked me a little. Hard for me to understand how people can get so much
into any religion, but maybe especially one that says the world was created by God some 5000 years ago. They just repel any science that states an opposite. Just like diehard Catholics/Christians and Muslims do, by the way.
We filmed a little sequence from there, they look like they are banging. We will put some music to it, and have some orthodox bangers on our website. ( The wailing wall is the last remaining of the Salomon Temple, the Arabs
tore it down and built their Al Aksa Mosque on the site, wherefrom Muhammed went on his heavenly journey and saw Allah and came back with knowledge of the 5 pillars of Islam. They are actually on the same piece of land, and you
can´t piss on one of them without staining the other. And as for Christianity, the Via Dolorosa is the road that Jesus reportedly had to walk to Golgatha, cross on his back.( a couple of us actually did have to relieve ourselves while retrailing his path) At the end of the Via Dolorosa is the Church of the Grave. Its built on Golgatha and contains the site of the crucifixion, the cave from which he rose to heaven, the stone on which he was embalmed and so forth. You can even rent a wooden cross outside and walk the Via Dolorosa with it on your back! But as we got there they closed.
Damn, but there was a midnight service scheduled and we decided to return when they reopened. Killed the time at a restaurant and went back, only to be refused entry. But with some persuasion from our Israeli friends we were allowed in. (They told them we were Christian pilgrims or something.) Once inside, we were astonished with the whole thing. This is THE most sacred place for all Christians, and the nuns practically fornicate the embalming stone. Golgatha was marked with a silver plate where the cross once stood. We touched the rock and took some band photos. The rest of the church was impressive as well. We took it in for while and went back to Tel Aviv to catch our morning plane. Returned to Denmark safely from what was the experience of a lifetime.

Thanks to Oron and all our Israeli friends. `m´ to the Israeli crowd, you guys were unreal!

News Flash, Oct. 9th.
Konkhra hailed by UK metal mag KERRANG! 4k/5 "As ever, exceptional stuff."

Danish death metallers hit a career peak.
CONTINUALLY DOGGED by misfortune and scuppered plans, Konkhra have been one of extreme metal's best kept
secrets for years now. It's a testament to the persistence of frontman Anders Lundemark that the band
are still out there fighting for that elusive big break. Like all their albums to date, 'Reality Check'
proves that the band have a strong grasp of the metal zeitgeist and time has not dimmed Lundemark's knack
for writing accessible but utterly crushing riffs. Despite having lost their most famous collaborator,
former Death/Obituary man James Murphy, this latest Konkhra incarnation is the heaviest and tightest yet,
ensuring that songs like 'Warmonger' and 'Day Of The Dog' are consummate bursts of melodically astute death
metal. As ever, exceptional stuff. KKKK- Dom Lawson KERRANG

News Flash Oct. 1st
RC continues the world wide carpet bombing! First Reality Check review from Russia by Froster.ua 9/10

RC reviewed by Metalstorm.ee, 8.5/10. They seem happy that the Dutch (????) madmen returned...hehe.

News Update, Sept. 29th.
Konkhra featured as artist of the month on: www.thedarkesthours.com

News Update, sept. 23rd. 2003.
18 shows on upcoming tour of Europe confirmed. Check tour page for exact details. There are still 8 shows TBA, we will keep you posted as they get confirmed. The dates were shuffled a bit, and new cities added. Rome for instance, our first visit that far down the boot. Also the shows in Slovenia and Croatia were confirmed, which will be our first visit there.

Other tour news: we are negotiating our shows in South Africa. More on this as we get confirmed. Greece: we are talking about shows there on Nov. 29th and 30th, Athens and Tessaloniki. At home, we are negotiating one more show on this first leg of the Reality Tour,- Aarhus, Voxhall on the 6th of December. ( just have to sort out the details...) But we can already confirm our appearance at next years Fuck The Commerce Festival in Germany.
So the goat is almost shaved. BUT: we would be happy to do more: if you want us to come by, let your local promoter/clubowner know, or get in touch, we will do our best to make it happen. `m´ up!
We also invite everyone to let us know what merch. You´d want us to bring this time, use the mailservice and drop us a line. The options are: Reality Check tee-shirts, with album cover/tourdates on the back. Plain Konkhra shirt, Dave McKean logo in white on front/tourdates on the back. Caps, embroidered logo/hotrod flames on visor. Plain black or grey, white logo. Knitted cap/hat with embroidered logo. Let us know if you want any long sleeves as well.
I think that's it for now, watch this space for updates....

News Flash, 22 Sept.
RC reviewed by Intromental.com 4.5/5. They would have given the album 5/5 if Anders had sung parts with A CLEAN VOICE!! hmmmm?

News Flash, Sept. 1st.
RC reviewed by Ancient Spirit: 9/10.
BW&BK has a special K feature up: A run down of all the songs on RC by Anders. Check it out !

News Flash, August 31st.
RC reviewed by Headbanger. hu 10/10. Can´t quote it, cuz it´s in hungarian.... Sorry..

News 25th of August.
RC awarded Album of the month by metal-reference.com. They have also done a feature interview:
"Drilling the jugular vein of historiography". Great interview, depth and intelligent questions, see here for yourself.

News Update, August 23rd.
We have confirmed the last support act on our european trek. HOMO IRATUS from Greece, will be joining the ranks and help spread some chaos around Europe in November. More info

News Update 22nd of August:
We are proud to announce our first ever performance in ISRAEL, Tel Aviv on October 16th as part of the Metalist Festival. This is the first show on our Reality Tour 2003 and very appropriate place to kick it off. More info
And take a look at our online shop, there is a couple of tee-shirt designs up for grabs....

News Flash, August 13th.
Our European Headlining Tour is coming up. METAL HAMMER agreed to sponsor the tour, and we have confirmed the following support acts: Illnath (DK) and Corpus Mortale (DK). Both are really cool debut acts, both are Danish, which is a great thing, this is probably the first full fledged extreme metal Euro tour with (this far) only Danish acts!!! There is space for one more band on the busses and we are talking to interested bands this week and will confirm the last support act soon. There is also some serious talk about going to South Africa pretty soon, if anything gets confirmed we will keep you posted. More info

News Flash, August 3rd. RC reviewed by The Darkest Hours. 85/100
"These guys are pioneers and are way better than many other bands with similar sound. Every fan of death/thrash should buy this record without hesitating! I love it!"

News August 1st: Blabbermouth.net reviewed Reality Check. They managed to give it 7/10. Lame review, nothing about the music. Check this out instead: www.metalprovider.com he listened to the record at least.

News Flash, July 26th. RC reviewed by Danishmetalpages.dk 5/6
"Finally a new album from one of the "ancient kings of Danish Death Metal."

Breaking News, July 24th.: Reality Check recieves top score in upcoming issue of METAL HAMMER (D) 6/7
"Sprich: Schlabbernde E-Saiten, Schleifstein-Riffs, Erdrutsch-Soli, Höllen-Groove und Monster-Growls in der Familienpackung." (We have to get someone to translate this one....)
Icing on the cake: Next issue of Metal Hammer will include a feature interview with your favorites Familienpackung.

News Flash July 16th. IF you are among the ones that have expressed a wish to see Konkhra crush at Roskilde Festival 2004, you can follow this link and make your request there!!

Another RC review:
Even when I went out I still hear the melody lines in the back of my head. - Vampire Magazine.

News Flash, July 15th. RC reviewed by Metal Observer 8/10
"They sound tighter and fresher than what the vast majority of modern bands can put together."

News Flash, July 14th. RC reviewed by metalius.de 8.5/10
Feature Interview coming up in next issue of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles.

News Flash, July 7th. An american review with interesting words...

News Flash, July 5th. If you ever wondered what Konkhra would have been like if we were playing with keyboards and programmed drumming only you can follow this link! It´s pretty hilarious....

News Flash June 25th. RC reviewed in next issue of the high profile german mag. Legacy. 12/15

News Flash, 24th, June.
On the 24th of June there will be a interview on NEW ROCKING SOUNDS where Anders talks about the new album and other stuff,- the interview is in english so everybody should check it out. They are also planning a competition so we donated 5 signed RC discs at their request, we don´t know the details: go to www.newrockingsounds.dk and see for yourself.

News Flash, June 18th. RC reviewed by Silentscreamzine.com 8/10
"Hot riffs in continuous evolution, a hellish rhythmical section, a tremendous punch in the face made of sound violence at its purest state. In short, the best release ever by Konkhra"

News Flash, June 17th.
The videoclip for "WARMONGER" is ready. It was directed by ANDERS KOCH (AQUA, MERCYFUL FATE) and we will feed this to any channel that´ll play it within the next weeks. See the video online here

I Danmark er der kun Boogie, og vi ved alle hvor meget vægt de lægger på mædl.... Vi sender den til dem og kan kun opfordre alle til gå ind og "ønske" KONKHRA "WARMONGER", den ser bedre ud på TV end streaming fra nettet, vi ved de har den.

News Flash, June 16th. We had a bundle of reviews all over now, and they all seem to be 7/10 or above. From now, we´ll only bother you with ones from countries not mentioned before or if they are special/high profile in some way or another.
Here´s a few:
Metalmaniacs.it 8/10, Inferno mag 8/10, Beyond Webzine 84/100.

News Flash, June 6th. Interviews coming up in next issues of Grindzone (I) and Metal Shock (I).

News Flash, June 6th. RC reviewed by Musicboom (I) 4/5

News Flash, June 3rd. RC Reviewed by www.rockmetalbands.com 100/100.
"What the band can plot in this CD is incredible.."

News Flash, June 2nd. RC reviewed by clonemetal.dk 4/5

News Flash, June 1st. RC reviewed on www.lordsofmetal.nl 80/100.

News Flash, May 31st. RC review on Noise web (F), 9.5/10
www.noiseweb

News Flash, May 29th. RC reviewed by norwegian mainstream site spot.no 5/6 "It´s pure pleasure!"

News Flash, May 26th. Well, thumbs up!! Reality Check reviewed by Heavyjam.dk 10/10.
"This is in-your-face DM, and I´ve fallen flat on my face for it"

News Flash, May 26th.
Reviews coming up at Blabbermouth.net ( US), Metalian, (F) There is also feature interviews coming up at Metalian (F), Metal Poisoning (DK), Heavymetal.dk, Danishmetal.dk and several interviews in danish radio: Radio SLR, Korsør radio, Radio XFM, Radio Gladsaxe. And on the updating note, our webpusher and Anders will be out from the 28th May through 16th of June, on vacationing in Rome. Interviews will be running throughout this period and a major update will be posted around the 17th.

News Flash, May 25th. Review in danish daily B.T. 5/6
" We are dealing with something as seldom as an outstanding scandinavian metal release, that isn´t swedish!"

New Flash may, 22nd.
It´s never too late to start listening!

Courtesy of Søren "Standart" Shjøtt.

News flash, May 21st.
Reality Check reviewed by Danishmetal.dk 5/6.
"Konkhra knows how to do it all, and they do it with "Reality Check", their best album in 6 years."
Interviews/reviews coming up at Metalitalia.com, Metal Heart and Terrorverlag Gbr , Germany.

News Flash, May 13th.
First german review is done... Blooddawn, 5/5. "5 Punkte für eine SEHR geile Scheibe, Pflichtkauf !" -Sebastard.
I guess you can translate that to: A very horny record, that you have to buy, hehe. Pretty Cool. Read it here ...

News Update May, 6th.
It´s time we unveil the correct answer to our competition: The first tour we did in Europe was with: Suffocation !
The Winners of our international competition are:

Pedro Quijada, Spain.
Stefan Johansson, Sweden.
Brian Williams, Rep. Ireland.
Nicolas A. Fleming, Argentina.
Rene Steenfeldt, Denmark.
The CDs are in the mail: Konkhratiolations!!!

News Flash, May 5th.
A couple of reviews have been done.
NRG, Denmark 5/6.
"Reality Check offers extremely well played death metal of the highest caliber".

Metalized, Denmark 9/10.
"Konkhra takes no prisoners and destroys everything and everybody with their well-executed death-thrash
of high international standard. The boys have created a potential classic with Reality Check".

News Flash, May 3rd.
Due to reasons beyond our control the promised shows in Germany this month is CANCELED.
We are currently looking into touring Europe incl. Germany in October, so watch this space for updates...

News Flash, 22. April.
We have some competitions running, if you´re Danish, there is one going down at www.danishmetal.dk
It´s in Danish so don´t bother if you don´t speak the language.
There is also an international competition starting NOW, all you have to do is answer this simple question:

What was the name of the band Konkhra supported on their first European Tour in 1994 ?

Send the correct answer and your address to konkhra@konkhra.com, and if
you´re lucky you´ll receive the brand new CD by mail right around the release date.
The competition is running until May, 6th.

News, April 17th. 2003
Just to fill you in, we had some little setbacks with the mass production of our forthcoming opus " Reality Check",
but now it should be fixed and the finished CD´s are on their way to the shops, as well as reviewers world wide.
The release dates are still set,- unless we get postponed for promotional reasons, watch this space for details.
New distribution in Sweden: Sound Pollution will carry the album to our metalloving neighboring country.
And as you know a couple of "lucky" members of the press have been force fed a cd-r copy of the album, Borivoj Krgin of Blabbermouth.net was one, and Steffen Jungersen of our national newspaper B.T. is one of the others....
here is what he had to say:
STEFFEN JUNGERSEN, Danish daily B.T.:
"An absolutely roaring return to form from the Danish metalforce known as Konkhra.
It may be 2003 but fuck nu metal - it was never really "nu" anyway - and revel in some REAL metal.
Because Konkhras new material is exactly that: REAL metal like it's supposed to be. And more importantly;
it's Konkhra like they're supposed to be - raw, thrilling, tight and monstrous.
Do you still yearn for Sepultura ca. "Arise" or early Machine Head?
Well, yearn no more 'cause Konkhra has answered your prayers."


News Flash, March 26th.
We have done three interviews this week, for Ancient Ceremonies, Portugal.
NRG, Denmark, & MM Magazine, Russia.

News Flash, March, 25th.
First shows after our fifth album release confirmed: Hannover and Berlin on the 23th and 24th of May, 2003.
Support on these german shows will be Hatesphere + local support. More info
We are also looking into doing a European tour from September, plans are being made as we speak,
so watch this space for details.

News Flash, March 7th.
There has been some revision of our site, and alot has been waxed and shineda bit,
so snoop around, you just might catch something you haven´t seen ( or heard...!!) before,- artwork from the upcoming album release for instance. And check under audio for an mp3 of the track "Grapes Of Wrath",
taken from the upcoming album...

News Flash, March 6th.
Advertising for European Magazines full page, check them here...

"Reality Check" was recorded at KONKHRA frontman Anders Lundemark's own Starstruck Studio and is the group's first since their split with longtime label Diehard Records. A video for "Warmonger" was recently filmed and will be serviced to various video outlets during the coming weeks.

This newsflash could recently be read at Blabbermouth.net, and its just about right. However there are little things we feel we should elaborate a bit: we signed a licensing deal with CODE666, and that means that we also release under our own Chopshop Records at the same time, as well as on code666. We have talked to a number of labels for quite some time, some of whom are very BIG and KNOWN. But they offered shit money and we felt like we were going to be dealt with as every other newly signed act. That´s why we choose this solution, we are in charge, we get paid, and we were feeling good about being the topselling band on Diehard, and with a little luck we will do the same for CODE666 and CHOPSHOP. The distribution for our record is already better than ever in the past: we hit South Korea, Japan, Israel, Canada and several other countries directly for the first time with this record... ( and as mentioned we will have a mail-order service from our site, so everybody everywhere will be able to put their hands on a copy.... and that´s a promise guys, we will send them off ourselves goddammit!!!)
The artwork is currently in the making: we´ve seen the first tries, and with a little more work we should have the cover ready within a short period of time. Expect something very different from our past covers, this one is just mean and ugly... we still have to set a release date for this fifth record of ours. Watch this space for details.
Oh, and we had to turn down the Aaborg Metal Festival in Denmark once again: the money offered would just barely cover our trip to the other side of the country ( again...?).
( we might love to play our metal, but it just has to make sense you know?)

News Feb. 12th.
Here´s a list of our distribution and countries so far:
watch this space for details of the RELEASE DATE, coming soon...

Nordic Metal in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Audioglobe in Italy
SPV in Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
Shellshock in UK
Megamusica in Portugal
Unholycross in Spain
Adipocere in France
Bertus in Benelux
The End in USA
Eternal Shadows in Greece
Agonia in Poland
Beauty Of Pain in Romania
Wizard in Bulgaria
Metal Age in Czech and Slovakia
Buy Hard in South Korea
THA, Worldchaos in Japan
Spectrum in Canada
Raven in Israel

Watch this space for updates: we are currently looking into licensing to TURKEY and POLAND.

IF you are from a country that's not on the list, you can BUY the record directly from us on our site, well hidden cash in envelope + posting and you´ll have it by the end of the week. THIS service will be active soon,
and will also offer new merchandising... Prices and details will be up a.s.a.p.
By the way: owner and founder of NORDIC METAL, Mika, heard the record and had this to say:
KONKHRA is back, and they´re ready to claim the throne as death metal kings of Europe.
Now all we have to do is get some reviews in germany.


News Feb. 1st.
We are going to sign a deal this coming week. we have recieved several offers but this looks like it is the best way for us to put out this fifth album of ours. We are getting more wide spread distribution than we used to in the past. As soon as the deal is signed we will print a full list of countries that the record will hit directly. We expect a release date in April or May. This means that any touring activity will be pushed to the fall...except maybe a release party performance in a small bar in Copenhagen...and the performance on fuck the commerce festival...

News update 20. Jan:
WE got a comment from one of metals most renowned journalists: Borivoj Krgin ...

"In this day and age when extreme music has seemingly had every original
idea exhausted and repeatedly rehashed, it is refreshing to hear a band that
is still able to take familiar elements and mix them up to create something
that is both mind-numbingly uncompromising and musically exciting.
'Reality Check' is an exercise in precision-like brutal thrash/death metal that
pummels the listener into submission while containing enough dynamics to
prevent it from coming across like a mere copy of what's come before it --
an impressive feat that, with the proper support, should righfully establish
KONKHRA as the one of the forerunners of the genre." -- Borivoj Krgin,
BLABBERMOUTH.NET, January 2003

News January 13th. :
We filmed the video. It was cold and we suffered plenty for the art. The editing will be done within the next 10 days, and well premiere it on the site. There´s new photos on the front page, all shots from the video shoot. yihaa.

News Update 5th. Jan :
Happy new year. We are ready to film the video for "Warmonger", the song is about a German soldier freezing to death and since its cold as fuck and there´s snow we'll be filming it outside. Probably Friday10th of January.
The editing isn´t planned yet but will happen shortly after. We are also about 2 weeks from revealing the label situation. We´ve been turned down by 5-6 labels world wide, and have interest from a handful as well.
Thanks to everybody that took the time to even answer, the rest of you can go f... yourselves. ( thats about 40 or so, that didn´t answer yet...)
About the video. We tried to get the Church Of The Savior as setting, and they actually were interested: Then they asked for a copy of the lyrics of the song and they turned us down because it wasn´t Christian enough. I aint satanic either? But because we aint Stryper we can´t get the church setting for the video. Sucks.
But what's planned now is just as cool. Will be a great clip for sure...
Be sure to come back within a couple of weeks, the video will of course premiere on this website ...


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