PIL & BUE‘s (eng: Arrow & Bow) new album “You Have Chosen Darkness” was released on February 27 on Vinyl, Music Cassette, CD and through digital music platforms.
The album was recorded at Kysten Studio in Tromsø, together with co-producer, engineer and mixer Ariel Joshua Sivertsen. The album, consisting of seven tracks, is a journey through emotions. It speaks about the times we live in, and a feeling of overwhelmingness.
BIO: Pil & Bue is a two-piece, consisting of Petter Carlsen (the arrow) and Goeran Johansen (the bow).
Watch their latest video for the Track “222” via THIS LINK.Check out the VISIONS Premiere AT THIS LOCATION. In case you missed it: LISTEN TO the First Stunning Single “Giving in” Everywhere via THIS LINK
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
Tourdates at this point: 06.03 Alta – Iskald Festival 12.03 Tromsø – Blårock Kafé (utsolgt) 14.03 Narvik – Mørkholla (vinterfest uka) 19.03 Oslo – Parkteatret 10.04 Trondheim – Relentlessfest 11.04 Hamar – Sebs Hotel 14.05 Vadsø – Valo Rock (ikke annonsert) 05.06 Halden – Aladdin Scene 06.06 Kristiansund – Kulturfabrikken 27.06 Steinkjerfestivalen 10.07 Kristiansand – Måkeskrik 24.07 Harstad – Rockholm 20.08 Bristol – ArcTanGent 04.09 Bergen – High Voltage Rockfest
PIL & BUE (eng: Arrow & Bow). 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.
Watch the New Video for the Track “222” RIGHT HERE!
Comments the band:”This is a artwork creation video made by the artwork designer Remi Juliebø (Deformat)”
The track was premiered by Visions, check it out AT THIS LOCATION.
The album was recorded at Kysten Studio in Tromsø, together with co-producer, engineer and mixer Ariel Joshua Sivertsen. The album, consisting of seven tracks, is a journey through emotions. It speaks about the times we live in, and a feeling of overwhelmingness.
Pil & Bue is a two-piece, consisting of Petter Carlsen (the arrow) and Goeran Johansen (the bow).
Quick Facts & Highlights: The album will be available on Vinyl, Music Cassette, CD and through digital music platforms.
Recent Success: Their previous album, Special Agents, received a nomination for a Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen) in 2024.
Sound Profile: Described by Metal Hammer UK as “Sia fronting Gojira,” their style blends metal dynamics with pop-bordering melodies, drawing comparisons to Radiohead, Metallica, and Mars Volta.” a two-piece vastly more than the sum of their parts, their deeply invested fusion of metal and pop-bordering melodic dynamics is given emotional rocketfuel by Petter Carlsen’s unrestrained vocals.”
Film Credits: Director Tommy Wirkola has featured the band in major productions, including the “Dead Snow 2” soundtrack and the end credits of the Netflix blockbuster “What Happened to Monday”.
Collaborations: Vocalist Petter Carlsen has performed with Long Distance Calling as lead singer on their album Trips, and appeared on the 2024 Weather Systems album Oceans Without a Shore.
The band has toured with the german post rockers Long Distance Calling, as special guests.
Recently they opened for for the legendary norwefgan alternative rock band Seigmen at Sentrum Scene in Oslo and Støperiet in Tønsberg.
Won a voting contest to play at the largest festival in Norway; Tons of Rock. First up on the last day of the 2024 edition of the festival, in front of 10000 people.
Critically acclaimed for their live performances. Top score at the 2025 edition of Bukta Festival from the newspaper iTromsø.
Will perform at the 2026 edition of ArcTanGent
Tourdates at this point: 06.03. Alta – Iskald festival (Rabagast) 12.03. Tromsø – Blårock Café 14.03. Narvik – Mørkolla 19.03. Oslo – Parkteatret 10.04. Trondheim – Relentlessfest 27.06. Steinkjefestivalen 10.07. Kristiansand – Måkeskrik 24.07. Harstad – Rockholm 20.08. Bristol – ArcTanGent 04/05.09. Bergen – High Voltage Rockfest
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
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.
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
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 24th.
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 mixerChrister 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
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 mixerChrister 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.”
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.
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