MAJOR PARKINSON – release second single

Photo: Vanessa&MatthiasKirsch

Valesa – Chapter II: Viva the Apocalypse! finds Major Parkinson stepping out of the neon-lit dream of Velvet Prison and into something far more visceral. Recorded largely live, with the full band locked into the same room, the album surges with renewed physicality — youthful energy reborn, horns blazing, grooves twisting, and a raw immediacy crackling through every track.

Where Part I gazed into a retro-futuristic mirror-ball, Part II smashes it. This chapter becomes a mythology of showbiz seen from the outside: fame as fever dream, America as haunted carnival, utopia as slow-motion delusion. The album speaks from the vantage point of the observer rather than the participant — a Greek chorus watching the spectacle unravel with one eyebrow raised and a dark joke on their lips.

The first half basks in the grotesque glamour of celebrity culture, the unholy marriage of ambition and spectacle — an assertive display of pop music twisted into hitherto unknown shapes. Then, somewhere between a psychedelic desert mirage and the ghost of Timothy Leary whispering cosmic riddles, the ground gives way. The record fractures into a feverish descent: a trip to hell in a limousine, a comet falling in slow motion, a final act performed in a collapsing theatre.

But for all its chaos, Viva the Apocalypse! is strangely joyous. It’s fun, unhinged, alive — equal parts darkness and light. What you hear is a rock band at full tilt, dancing on the fault lines amidst the absurdity. And as a new installment in the ongoing Valesa saga, it points toward doors still waiting to be opened, leaving the world wider, stranger, and even more unpredictable than before.

Pre-order the album here: https://orcd.co/viva-the-apocalypse

Line-up: 
Jon Ivar KollbotnVocals – Lead Vocals
Eivind GammersvikGuitar – Bass Guitar
Lars Christian BjørknesKeyboards – Synthesizer
Øystein Bech-EriksenGuitar –  Electric Guitar
Sondre VelandPercussion  -Drums

https://majorparkinson.bandcamp.com/album/valesa-chapter-ii-viva-the-apocalypse