{"id":1335,"date":"2012-10-12T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2012-10-12T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:22:34","slug":"norska-frontman-talks-about-recent-us-tour-debut-album-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/10\/12\/norska-frontman-talks-about-recent-us-tour-debut-album-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Norska Frontman Talks About Recent US Tour &#038; Debut Album (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"norska2\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/album_reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/norska2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" \/>Portland, Oregon-based doom\/sludge metal band Norska released their self-titled debut album last year. Last month, it was issued on 12&#8243; vinyl by Brutal Panda Records, and to coincide with this release, they did a US West Coast run with Yob. Earlier today, on October 12th 2012, I had a chat with vocalist\/guitarist Jim Lowder to talk about the tour, the making of the album and the band&#8217;s future plans. Listen to the 16-minute conversation below, and visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/norska.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">norska.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/norskarock\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/norskarock<\/a><\/strong> for more info.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><object width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fnorska-in-depth-interview-with-jim-lowder%2F&amp;embed_uuid=3d88c0f8-6d93-474d-8cb9-dadc1d531090&amp;stylecolor=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fnorska-in-depth-interview-with-jim-lowder%2F&amp;embed_uuid=3d88c0f8-6d93-474d-8cb9-dadc1d531090&amp;stylecolor=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #02a0c7;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/norska-in-depth-interview-with-jim-lowder\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Norska: In-depth Interview With Jim Lowder<\/a><span> by <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Metalassault<\/a><span> on <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong> Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/album_reviews\/2012\/09\/20\/norska-self-titled-9-out-of-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Album review<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Portland, Oregon-based doom\/sludge metal band Norska released their self-titled debut album last year. Last month, it was issued on 12&#8243; vinyl by Brutal Panda Records, and to coincide with this release, they did a US West Coast run with Yob. Earlier today, on October 12th 2012, I had a chat with vocalist\/guitarist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/10\/12\/norska-frontman-talks-about-recent-us-tour-debut-album-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Norska Frontman Talks About Recent US Tour &#038; Debut Album (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}