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IN THE WOODS… reveal the video clip ‘The Things You Shouldn’t Know’ as the next advance single taken from their forthcoming new album Otra. The seventh full-length of the Norwegian avant-garde metal band from the city of Kristiansand has been slated for release on April 11, 2025.

IN THE WOODS… comment on ‘The Things You Shouldn’t Know’: "This single is an 8 minute power display as we take a dive back in time to bring back certain elements of ‘what used to be’; and it also demonstrates how we take our roots seriously", guitarist and keyboard player Kåre André Sletteberg explains. "This track is a hard hitting melodic piece of art with smooth and beautiful vocal melodies blended with black metal elements on guitars. It’s stretching from the darkest corners of the forest into the melodic meadows of our dreams and nightmares. When this piece was completed, we knew that due to the many elements, dynamics, and feelings worked into the song, it was a more than worthy opener for the album. Doom!"

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Otra is a duo of two sisters. Recorded at their home in foggy Pacifica, CA, their debut album I’m Not That Way (out digitally on Feb 10, 2023 via Thirty Something Records) documents their journey as they learn to see themselves more clearly and exist outside of expectations. As the band ruminates on their purpose and sense of self, the tracks search for their own sonic identities – weaving and wandering erratically through a fogfest of hypnagogic synths, chaotic clarinets, haunting vocal stacks, crunchy guitars, and polyrhythmic earth.

Of the first single ‘Repercussion Concussion,’ the band says: “It’s a love song we wrote in September 2019 inspired by Beirut and Sigur Ros! It’s about the weird little moments that make up a relationship, and the resounding joy of learning to move through challenges together.”

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