10 years have passed.
Is the anxiety less, the shoulders lowered or the kicks softer?
By no means whatsoever!
The world is still attacked with sharpened claws, mesmerizing melodies, and harsh lyrics.
Bands change, and packaging has been replaced, but Tromsø’s proud sons still deliver a refined combo of salty, raw, and unrestrained rock.
Painted with contrasts like only the polar night, freezing cold, and eternal summer nights can carve out.
On April 24th they released “Bindingstid På Livstid” (eng: Subscription for a Lifetime). A song about the time that has passed, but also the things that have remained.
LÜT: “The song is about having friends, family, (band members in our case) or people in your life in general that you can be away from for a long time, but be right back where you left off when you see them again. Just like no time has passed at all, even at times if you had an argument last time and ended on bad terms. But in the bigger picture, with all big or small temporary fallouts aside, you just know that you have a lifetime commitment to each other and will have to deal with them for both good and bad times until the very end. And that’s kind of beautiful.”
Listen to the single here: https://orcd.co/bindingstid
The year is 2014, and the Tromsø-based band that eventually gets the name LÜT sees its inception in hermetically sealed boys’ rooms where hormones and teenage anxiety flowed freely. The result is sharp and distinctive rock, capturing fans from both the underground and the mainstream.
Fast forward to 2024, and LÜT has played at Summer Breeze (DE), Motocultor (FR), Spot Festival (DK), by:Larm, Slottsfjell, Bukta, Malakoff, Trondheim Calling, Vinje Rock, and Tons Of Rock.
LÜT has been nominated for Best Newcomer at the Norwegian Grammys (2017) and P3 Gull (2017) awards.
They received praise from Lars Ulrich (Metallica) on his podcast “It’s Electric.”
Their album “Mersmak” from 2021 received a 5/6 rating in Rolling Stone Magazine, leading them to support Germany’s big heroes DIE ÄRZTE on a stadium tour in front of 80,000 people in 2022, and then for Skambankt on their farewell tour in Norway in 2022.
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