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Norway’s wryest export BOKASSA welcomes the new year by dropping possibly their most sardonic single yet. After touring with Therapy? right up to the Christmas festivities, BOKASSA barely pauses for breath, ricocheting into 2024 with the release of bold new single “The Ending Starts Today.”

BOKASSA states:
“What better than to start 2024 with a brand new “demotivational poster” in song form? Why not accept failure already, instead of clinging on to that last bit of hope? Say no more, friend! Bokassa’s here with a rifftastic new barnburner that will fulfill all your pessimistic needs for the new year!”

Listen to the single at https://orcd.co/theending-bokassa

The track is taken from their upcoming, new album All Out Of Dreams, due out February 16th via Indie Recordings.

The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, BabyMetal, Madball, Sick Of It All, The Haunted) in Antfarm Studio in Denmark in June 2022.
The band also has guest artists for the first time, in the form of Lou Koller from the NYHC legends Sick Of It All and Aaron Beam from the stoner rockers Red Fang!

BOKASSA about “All Out of Dreams”:
“All Out Of Dreams is an album where the feeling of resignation is present on several of the album’s tracks. Whether it deals with one’s own failures, maybe you feel the system failed you, perhaps because of failed government policies, or that you’ve just given up on it all.

The common denominator is that everyone you encounter, or hear from in the lyrics have lost hope, which is something the album’s title – All Out Of Dreams – alludes to.

The name of the album could also be seen as a direct reference to our own career, and the dream of owning our own private island in the Pacific. Unfortunately the masses have yet to develop good taste in music, so that dream is rather non-existent at this time.”

Norwegian tour dates:
24.02.2024 – NidaRock, Trondheim
08.03.2024 – Lillesand Rockeklubb
09.03.2024 – Arendal Kulturhus
22.03.2024 – Ovenpaa, Karmøy
23.03.2024 – Bryne, Hvelvet
05.04.2024 – Drammen, Kometen
06.04.2024 – Energimølla, Kongsberg
12.04.2024 – Hulen, Bergen
13.04.2024 – TOU, Stavanger
19.04.2024 – Artilleriverkstedet, Horten
20.04.2024 – Aladdin, Halden
26.04.2024 – Hamar Kulturhus, Hamar
27.04.2024 – RIP, Porsgrunn UTSOLGT

Festival dates:
26.06.2024 – Resurrection Fest, ES
29.06.2024 – Tons Of Rock, NO
26.07.2024 – SørøyRocken, NO
03.08.2024 – Wacken Open Air, DE
10.08.2024 – Elbriot Festival, DE
15.08.2024 – Reload Festival, DE
17.08.2024 – Summer Breeze Festival DE

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