Hjerteslag (Fullt Band) på Checkpoint Charlie

Ever since its inception in Bergen's underground milieu, Hjerteslag has been one of the country's very best and most popular rock bands. With vocalist Robert Eidevik's unmistakable and unique songwriter and text signature at the bottom, the band has been the leading provider of melodic, noisy and street poetic music in Norwegian.

With the comeback album "Tyvens Dagbok" and the subsequent tour in autumn 2022, Hjerteslag regained its position as one of the country's leading rock bands.At the same time, frontman Robert Eidevik entered what he himself describes as a new phase of his life where he took to reflecting on life far more than before, and retrieving old stories from his upbringing. Like a whirlwind, he wrote song after song, and suddenly another Hjerteslag record was ready, at record speed.

On Betonglandskap, Robert has built a text universe around growing up between concrete blocks in a slightly tired and loud drab town outside Bergen. The lyrics are based on own experiences and reflections, but are also stories that others can recognize themselves in. In the songs there is also a desire to give a voice to those who are on the outside of society. To those struggling in the streets, and to the fight against addiction and mental illness.There are stories about finding one's place alone in the world, trapped in all its otherness.

Betonglandskap was released on 23 February 2024 on Fysisk Format, just before Hjerteslag's Norwegian tour started with a sold-out release concert at Parkteatret in Oslo.