It's the End

It's the End, winners of Progawards 2009

2010-02-27T23:59:00.004+01:00

Paper cut
Originally uploaded by It's the End

Dear boys and girls, all the mundane members of It's the End are assembled today to celebrate winning the Progawards' "Best Debut Record 2009"! This international award was perhaps somewhat unexpected, although entirely predictable by evolved string theory. Several quarts of absinthe have been consumed, and not only root canals have been cleaned, according to a Swedish reviewer. Somewhere to the south we can see off-tossed pope-strangling madness, and people cannot trust their lawyers or spouses at this point. Expect detailed photographic documentation of this "pardy-hardy-event" to show up on the web in the following days and weeks.

Arigatou gozaimasu

Proceding to the Progawards finals

2010-02-24T07:55:00.000+01:00

We're in the finals, boys and girls. Why not celebrate it with another video, that gives our fans a sorely sought-after quick peek into our secret laboratory. This video was shot in the dark lair, in the annex of our Secret Quarters. Enjoy!

Do root canals get cleaned? Yes, they do.

Great reviews from around the globe

2010-02-20T01:54:00.003+01:00

Tarantula
Originally uploaded by It's the End

We just found some new reviews on the world wide web, or the Internet as some of you call it.

The first one comes from Prog-Nose. It's an E-Zine from Belgium. They do reward us with 7/10. Thank you guys! Enjoy the read.

The second review comes from Mexico. Manticornio.com is the site. Our knowledge of Spanish is limited to Babelfish's wizardry, however, and Mr. Babel is not always spot on. But the 9/10 says it all for us, so Salud! Check it out in Spanish.

Photo: Kjell Ivar Lund

We're in the finals of Progawards.

2010-02-16T00:34:00.007+01:00

Roughly three members 3
Originally uploaded by It's the End

The guys and girls behind Progawards have now upgraded us to the finals, which is a very kind thing of them to do. We have no idea how this will end now. The winner will be announced late February.

We teamed up with the great Mr. Lund (kjellivarlund.com) last weekend and tried the combination of guns, a chainsaw, a very hairy spider and a photo shoot. We're overly excited about the result. The resulting photos and some behind the scenes pics can be found at our Flickr page.

Giving thanks for the Progawards nomination

2010-02-09T11:54:00.000+01:00

We just made a video to celebrate our Progawards nomination. Check it out!

It's the End nominated for a Progaward

2010-02-06T19:57:00.001+01:00

The guys and gals behind Progawards have been kind enough to nominate us! Our debut album has been nominated in the category "Best Debut Record". An ever so slight cause for a celebration on our part. Hope you'll join us - in spirit, at the very least.

Our new website is here!

2010-02-06T19:09:00.000+01:00

We've been sick of our old website for some time and decided to make a new one. The old one was almost entirely made using Adobe Flex, and was a hassle to maintain and update. The new one is much simpler and allows us to update it much more easily. We're continuing the development, so don't be shy about giving us feedback and general comments on the new design and added content!

-Retch

It's the End on iTunes

2009-11-12T20:18:00.001+01:00

Our album can finally be downloaded from iTunes! Just follow the iTunes links from iLike. If you don't want to download our album from iTunes as MP3 files, you can also download our album in lossless FLAC form from Mindawn.com. Enjoy!

-Retch

The video for Internal Combustion is out now!

2009-09-09T18:09:00.002+02:00

We promised you the video for Internal Combustion, and here it is! :-)

Unleashing the music video on September 9

2009-09-05T20:06:00.001+02:00

The music video for Internal Combustion will be made available on the Web at 9:00 PM CET on September 9 2009! The video will be made available right here on MySpace, itstheend.com, YouTube and various other sites.

-Retch

The music video for Internal Combustion is done!

2009-08-31T20:05:00.001+02:00

For the past few weeks (more or less) we have been working on a really psychedelic music video for the track on our debut album entitled "Internal Combustion". The production method has been very weird, unusual and untraditional - just like It's the End itself. The video is now done and had its premiere on a private release party this Saturday. The people at the party seemed to like the fruits of our labor, and we hope the rest of the world will join them in their sentiments (the weird parts of the world, anyway). We will make it available on the web quite soon. So stay up-to-date!

-Retch

It's the End in the Mindawn top 5

2009-07-29T20:02:00.001+02:00

The It's the End album has been downloaded enough to be in the top five of Mindawn's most downloaded albums! You can download it too! Right here!

-Retch

The It's the End album can now be downloaded from Mindawn.com

2009-07-24T20:00:00.001+02:00

The It's the End album can now be downloaded in its entirety from www.mindawn.com as OGG og lossless FLAC! Head on over there if you haven't already picked up the CD!

-Retch

The It's the End album is out NOW!

2009-07-01T19:58:00.001+02:00

Yes, it is finally out and can be picked up from Musea's website this very minute! Head on over there right now!

Our debut album has been released on Musea Records! With a length dangerously close to 80 minutes, it has been quite a time-consuming and ambitious undertaking.

The self-titled album features twelve tracks packed with our characteristic musical maximalism. Each individual track has been given its own particular sound and arrangement, to suit the various musical styles and to give the whole album a very unique and varied feel. In this sense, the album is truly progressive.

-Retch

New website launced!

2009-05-30T19:57:00.001+02:00

We finally got around to launch our new website today! Go check it out over at www.itstheend.com!

-Retch

It's the End signs with Musea Records

2009-05-08T19:53:00.001+02:00

We just resently signed with the French label Musea Records. Right now, it looks like they will be bringing you our self-titled, dangerously-close-to-eighty-minutes-long debut album in and around the month of June this year. More news to follow very soon! :-)

- Retch

New song excerpts uploaded to MySpace

2008-07-10T19:46:00.000+02:00

Out-takes from the following songs have just been uploaded to our MySpace profile:

The Sickness onto Death Part 2
Inverted Implicitness
Drake's Equation

The excerpts have not been made from the final version of the album master, but are parts of something that we have named the "MP3 master", a special master that has been tailored to complement (in lack of a better word) the sonic imperfections of the MP3 format. The additional compression that MySpace applies to all uploaded MP3 files makes this tailoring even more necessary.

- Retch