The wait is over. After the very successful release of their self-titled debut album via Steamhammer in 2012, and after countless club and festival shows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France, Nitrogods are back with a beast of an album. A new trailer can be found below.

​In times of increasing digital anonymity and alleged germfree perfection, the rock’n’roll trio Nitrogods from Hanover and Stuttgart has opted for the second time in succession for a more arduous but in the long term artistically more satisfying path. Mind you, their songs don’t fulfil such criteria as absolute tonal purity, musical integrity and clinical sterility - quite the opposite: their second studio recording, Rats And Rumours, was consciously recorded in a studio featuring analogue technology, in which phenomena such as having to change reels and regularly clean recording heads are part and parcel of the day-to-day routine.

 

 

“That’s first and foremost a question of attitude and of course fun, because we’re die-hard vintage fans and really enjoyed every single second we spent recording on a venerable 24-track recorder,” guitarist Henny Wolter explains. “Of course this kind of production is much more complex and laborious because you can’t just move whole passages around using the copy & paste function, you really have to be able to play the whole song. Every time you mess up, you have to start all over again. And that’s what makes this kind of production such an exciting challenge, and what you get at the end of the day is real rock’n’roll sound.”

Rats And Rumours will be released on October 20th within Europe, and on October 17th in Germany. The album will be available in three different formats:

- Limited Edition Digipak containing two bonus tracks and a live DVD
- Jewelcase CD
- Vinyl LP in gatefold cover, limited edition, 180gr. vinyl, 15-track CD version (incl. the two bonus tracks) and poster

 

 

Tracklistings:

Jewelcase:

"Rats & Rumours"
"Got Pride"
"Irish Honey"
"Automobile"
"Damn Right (They Call It Rock´N Roll)"
"Nothing But Trouble"
"Back Home"
"Dirty Old Man"
"Ramblin' Broke"
"BMW"
"Lite Bite"
"Nitrogods"
"Whiskey Supernova"

Limited Edition Digipak:

"Rats & Rumours"
"Got Pride"
"Irish Honey"
"Automobile"
"Damn Right (They Call It Rock´N Roll)"
"Nothing But Trouble"
"Back Home"
"Dirty Old Man"
"Ramblin´ Broke"
"BMW"
"Lite Bite"
"Nitrogods"
"Whiskey Supernova"

Bonus Tracks:

"Black Car Driving Man" (Live)

"Whiskey Wonderland" (Acoustic)

Bonus DVD Content:

- 9 live songs filmed at Heathen Rock Festival 2014 – duration 45 minutes

LP Version (The CD contains the two bonus tracks from digipak version):

"Rats & Rumours"
"Got Pride"
"Irish Honey"
"Automobile"
"Damn Right (They Call It Rock´N Roll)"
"Nothing But Trouble"
"Back Home"
"Dirty Old Man"
"Ramblin´ Broke"
"BMW"
"Lite Bite"
"Nitrogods"
"Whiskey Supernova"

 

 

Nitrogods live itinerary can be found at this location.