NEXT LIFE
THE LOST AGE

The seed to what would become Next Life was planted when songwriter Hai Nguyen Dinh, as a six-year old blew the speakers on the family TV while playing "Exploding Fist"on his Commondore 64. You can still hear this young love of transistor culture and digital storytelling in Next Life's sound, but today it is the evolutionary relationship between human and machines that is the main experiment. The most striking element of Next Life is the inspiration from computer-composers like Paul Norman (Forbidden Forest) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), but the uniqueness of the band Next Life is in their combination of transistor-music and the music they grew up with: The militant straight-edge hardcore of Earth Crisis, the political death-metal of Napalm Death and Assück and the avant-garde hardcore of bands like Man is the Bastard and InfestCategory. - "A celebration of high-class musicality and ass-kicking sounds. A must have album." 10/10 - Cuemix Magazine - "Never has Norway witnessed a band so hellbent on pushing you between two worlds of the extreme, black shadowy roots of metal and the total crack-up of modernization via pure electronic mediation" 9/10 – NöMusic.no