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PIL & BUE (eng: Arrow & Bow) – GIVING IN: Let’s head north, way above the arctic circle in Norway. Pil & Bue’s album “You Have Chosen Darkness” is set for release on February 27 via their own Label and DIGER Distribution, offering a foretaste of their emotive, alternative rock, with the new single ‘Giving In’.

The tune has great momentum. This is music that should be played loud! It addresses doubt and fear, not as weaknesses, but as driving forces. It’s about acknowledging who you are, persevering through darkness, and never giving in. It’s about the great battle that goes on in the battlefields of the mind.

Stream the single: https://ffm.to/givingin-pilbue

BIO: Pil & Bue is a two-piece, consisting of Petter Carlsen (the arrow) and Goeran Johansen (the bow). Their philosophy is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. When they perform live, they sound like a full-blown band. “

The band’s raw and melodic music quickly struck a note with Hollywood director Tommy Wirkola, who included the Pil & Bue single “You Win Again” in his now cult-status movie “Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival January 2014.

Also, their single “Fire” from their second album “Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About The Future” is featured on the end credits of Wirkola’s Hollywood/Netflix blockbuster “What Happened To Monday” (2017).

Petter has collaborated with German post rockers Long Distance Calling as the singer on their 2016 album “Trips”. The band Weather Systems, involving Danny Cavanagh of Anathema, also features Petter Carlsen’s voice on their new album “Oceans Without a Shore” from 2024.

Their latest album “Special Agents” was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy in 2024.

Credits:
Music by Petter Carlsen & Goeran Johansen / Pil & Bue
Lyrics by Petter Carlsen
Produced by Ariel Joshua Sivertsen & Pil & Bue
Recorded at Kysten Studio, Tromsø, Norway, June 2025
Distribution: Diger Distro
P&C 2025 Petter Carlsen

ISRC:
Single “Giving in” (RADIO EDIT) – NOCUE2601071
Giving In – NOCUE2601070

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Raw, energetic, atmospheric, and dwelling; PIL & BUE tick all the boxes with their new album “Special Agents” that’s dedicated to the “everyday heroes” of our society.

After massive praise from fans and the media for their previous albums “Forget the past, Let’s Worry About the Future” (2016) and “The World is a Rabbit Hole” (2021) Pil & Bue release their most anticipated album to date “Special Agents” on February 24^th.

Listen to the album at https://orcd.co/specialagentspb

Pil & Bue comments on the album:
“We want to acknowledge people that include and take care of people around them.
We are watching the world, debating what we see, but also access the deep within ourselves in the search for purpose.
So, it is mainly a philosophizing album inspired by people like Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.

To a certain degree it is about detachment and becoming who you really are.
Our goal as human beings is to feel freedom and happiness, if so, just for a little while.
We still need more kindness and justice in the world.
And those themes will never leave our lyrics.
We are sick of war and profit.”

After their critically acclaimed third album “The World is a Rabbit Hole” (2021) Pil & Bue went back into Cederberg Studios in Kristiansand, Norway where they did the album to record “Special Agents” in known surroundings with people they trust.

Co-producer and mixer Christer André Cederberg comments;
“This album has it all! Raw energy, pure music joy, anger, sorrow, humor and hope.
It is heavy, punk, dynamic,beautiful, melancholic, and experimental!
What more can you ask for?

You can experience Pil & Bue live in Germany on the second leg of their EU tour alongside Long Distance Calling on the following dates:

14.03 Frankfurt, DE – Batschkapp
15.03 Cologne, DE – Kantine
16.03 Bielefeld, DE – Forum
17.03 Hanover DE – Musikzentrum
18.03 Hamburg, DE – Gruenspan
19.03 Berlin, DE -Festsaal Kreuzberg
21.03 Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz
22.03 Munich, DE – Backstage

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PIL & BUE are set to release their upcoming third album “Special Agents” on April 24th, via Indie Recordings. The album is dedicated to the “everyday heroes” of our society. Pre-save the album at https://orcd.co/specialagentspb

Furthermore the band has announced their European Spring tour 2023, joining Long Distance Calling on their EU tour on these following dates:

15.02 London – UK – Boston Music Room
16.02 Tilburg – NL – Hall of Fame
17.02 Trier, DE – Mergener Hof
18.02 Paris, FR – Backstage By The Mill
19.02 Aarau, CH – Kiff
14.03 Frankfurt, DE – Batschkapp
15.03 Cologne, DE – Kantine
16.03 Bielefeld, DE – Forum
17.03 Hanover DE – Musikzentrum
18.03 Hamburg, DE – Gruenspan
19.03 Berlin, DE -Festsaal Kreuzberg
21.03 Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz
22.03 Munich, DE – Backstage

After massive praise from fans and the media for their previous albums “Forget the past, Let’s Worry About the Future” (2016) and “The World is a Rabbit Hole” (2021) and sold out concerts all over Norway in 2022, “Special Agents” is perhaps their most anticipated album to date.

To record this album Pil & Bue went back into Cederberg Studios in Kristiansand, Norway where they also recorded “The World is a Rabbit Hole” and created this emotional and sonic rollercoaster of an album that is a tribute to all the everyday heroes out there.

Pil & Bue comments:
We want to acknowledge people that include and take care of people around them. It is a very philosophizing album, that to a certain degree comment on how we all seek detachment to become who we really are. All humans want to feel freedom and happiness, if so, just for a little while. We need more kindness and justice in the world. And those themes will never leave our lyrics.

Co-producer and mixer Christer André Cederberg comments;
“This album has it all! Raw energy, pure music joy, anger, sorrow, humor and hope. It is heavy, punk, dynamic,beautiful, melancholic, and experimental! What more can you ask for?”

ABOUT PIL & BUE
With one of the best vocalists from Norway, Petter Carlsen, on vocals and guitar, and Gøran Johansen slaying the drums, they are an explosion of hard rock.

With subtle, but pronounced references to artists like Placebo, Deftones, Sigur Rós, Anathema and Mars Volta, Pil & Bue delivers “Hard, gloomy & joyful music…” (Metal Hammer NO) based on topics like memories, childhood aspirations, use of imagination, video games, and the intriguing online rabbit holes.

The band´s raw and melodic music quickly struck a note with Hollywood director Tommy Wirkola who included the Pil & Bue single “You Win Again” in his now cult-status movie “Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival January 2014.

Also, their single “Fire” from their second album “Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About The Future” is featured on the end credits of Hollywood/Netflix blockbuster “What Happened To Monday” (2017).

Pil & Bue released their acclaimed third album The World is a Rabbit Hole in September 2021, an album which got rave reviews: 6/6 Scream Magazine (NO), 5/5 Metal´art (FR), 5/6 Norway Rock Magazine, 5 Altaposten, 7/10 Metalhammer UK og 11/15 from http://www.betreutesproggen.de.

PIL & BUE have released their third, and perhaps one of the most significant and unfaltering singles from their upcoming album Special Agents. Because Change Your Mind is a song about love, about the right to openly live with and love whoever you want, freely and without prejudice.

It is as reaction to the recurring theme of discrimination, prejudice, hatred, and violence people are faced with every day worldwide, simply because of what they identify as or who they have come to love. In 2023, we should have come so incredibly much further, that people still are not free to love who they love or be who they are, is devastatingly heartbreaking.

Pil & Bue comment:
“Love is love.
We find it infuriating that people are oppressed because of who they love, or who they are.
Change Your Mind is a song that allows love to be what love is; unconditional.”

Listen to the single here.

ABOUT PIL & BUE
With one of the best vocalists from Norway, Petter Carlsen, on vocals and guitar, and Gøran Johansen slaying the drums, they are an explosion of hard rock.

With subtle, but pronounced references to artists like Placebo, Deftones, Sigur Rós, Anathema and Mars Volta, Pil & Bue delivers “Hard, gloomy & joyful music…” (Metal Hammer NO) based on topics like memories, childhood aspirations, use of imagination, video games, and the intriguing online rabbit holes.

The band´s raw and melodic music quickly struck a note with Hollywood director Tommy Wirkola who included the Pil & Bue single “You Win Again” in his now cult-status movie “Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival January 2014.

Also, their single “Fire” from their second album “Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About The Future” is featured on the end credits of Hollywood/Netflix blockbuster “What Happened To Monday” (2017).

Pil & Bue released their acclaimed third album The World is a Rabbit Hole in September 2021, an album which got rave reviews: 6/6 Scream Magazine (NO), 5/5 Metal´art (FR), 5/6 Norway Rock Magazine, 5 Altaposten, 7/10 Metalhammer UK og 11/15 from www.betreutesproggen.de.

As we are approaching winter and darkness lingers in every corner of the North, PIL & BUE – the modest duo with the massive sound, is set to release yet another colossal single.

You are the Universe a is a fierce and powerful rock track, with strong melody lines, powerful drums, and hefty guitars.

It is both catchy and convincing and is truly a song that allows you to let go of all the heavy loads and just breath and live in the moment for a wonderful and enforcing 4 min.

Pil & Bue comments:
“Every now and then, everything just feels perfect.
Your, or our, entire existence. It may be for just a glimpse, of some wonderful yet powerful seconds.
But right then, you are the universe”

Listen to the single here: https://orcd.co/youaretheuniverse

ABOUT PIL & BUE

With one of the best vocalists from Norway, Petter Carlsen, on vocals and guitar, and Gøran Johansen slaying the drums, they are an explosion of hard rock.

With subtle, but pronounced references to artists like Placebo, Deftones, Sigur Rós, Anathema and Mars Volta, Pil & Bue delivers “Hard, gloomy & joyful music…” (Metal Hammer NO) based on topics like memories, childhood aspirations, use of imagination, video games, and the intriguing online rabbit holes.

The band´s raw and melodic music quickly struck a note with Hollywood director Tommy Wirkola who included the Pil & Bue single “You Win Again” in his now cult-status movie “Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival January 2014.

Also, their single “Fire” from their second album “Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About The Future” is featured on the end credits of Hollywood/Netflix blockbuster “What Happened To Monday” (2017).

Pil & Bue released their acclaimed third album The World is a Rabbit Hole in September 2021, an album which got rave reviews: 6/6 Scream Magazine (NO), 5/5 Metal´art (FR), 5/6 Norway Rock Magazine, 5 Altaposten, 7/10 Metalhammer UK og 11/15 from www.betreutesproggen.de.

PIL & BUE consist of:
Petter Carlsen
Gøran Johansen

PIL & BUE are a fierce duo from the very North. With one of the best vocalists from Norway, Petter Carlsen, on vocals and guitar, and Gøran Johansen slaying the drums, they are an explosion of hard rock.

Today, September 27th the vigorous and resolute band, that has been touring consistently since the release of The World is a Rabbit Hole, is ready to release even more music!

This time Pil & Bue generously gift their fans with nothing less than a double single featuring two wonderfully emotive, yet energetic tracks: Special Agents and Never Stop (part 1).

Listen here: https://orcd.co/specialagents

These are two quite different, yet undeniably linked tracks.
Special Agents is a powerful and impactful track celebrating the people who make positive changes in your life, while Never Stop (Part 1) is a softer and more slow-paced song that urges you to look within yourself and appreciate the world around you.

Where Special Agents barges in on you like an unstoppable, yet vulnerable force of nature, Never Stop (Part 1) hits like a mild and comforting breeze.

Both songs are about recognizing that we are in this world together – that people as social beings, through love and understanding, hold the key that can turn our world into a better place.

The band comments:
Special Agents is a song about one or more people who bind the world together a little more, who make reality a little safer, more inclusive, and easier to relate to.

Never Stop (Part 1) is a philosophical and atmospheric song that takes its time.
It transformed our rehearsal space into a world it felt nice to be a part of. It is about pursuing what gives life meaning. If you have a calling, follow it, no matter what.”

ABOUT PIL & BUE
With subtle, but pronounced references to artists like Placebo, Deftones, Sigur Rós, Anathema and Mars Volta, Pil & Bue delivers “Hard, gloomy & joyful music…” (Metal Hammer NO) based on topics like memories, childhood aspirations, use of imagination, video games, and the intriguing online rabbit holes.

The band´s raw and melodic music quickly struck a note with Hollywood director Tommy Wirkola who included the Pil & Bue single “You Win Again” in his now cult-status movie “Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival January 2014.

Also, their single “Fire” from their second album “Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About The Future” is featured on the end credits of Hollywood/Netflix blockbuster “What Happened To Monday” (2017).

Pil & Bue released their acclaimed third album The World is a Rabbit Hole in September 2021, an album which got rave reviews: 6/6 Scream Magazine (NO), 5/5 Metal´art (FR), 5/6 Norway Rock Magazine, 5  Altaposten, 7/10 Metalhammer UK og 11/15 from www.betreutesproggen.de