Viktor Ori is a well-known name on the Slovak alternative music scene. For many years he was the singer and guitarist of the band Shallov, which released its last album Coexist, Refrain in March 2023 on Weltschmerzen.

However, between 2023 and 2024, Shallov underwent a major musical, human and personal transformation, and due to a change in concept, genre and language, the band decided to start anew. The main creative and production force is Viktor Ori, under whose name and authorship the new work is created and will be performed.

“We are still working on the new album with Dušan Ori and Antonín Kropáček, besides that we have some interesting collaborations coming up. The album is created in cooperation with Jakub Hríbik and Jakub Spiszak from PULP studio. It will contain 10 tracks and should be released on November 1st under the title 'Lepsie nebolo nikdy dobre nebude'. It already represents the most serious project I've worked on so far,” says Viktor Ori.

The first single from the album is the song Vsetci sme v tom spolu. This is the first song in Ori's work that doesn't contain guitars at all. Instead, you'll hear dissonant synths, Antonín Kropáček's expressive drums, piano played by Kristína Smetanová, and all of this is further supported and enriched by strings and a rich musical arrangement contributed by Jakub Hríbik and Jakub Spiszak of PULP studio. The cover of the single depicts the theft of a cross from a church in Velké Šariš, which took place in November 2023.

Viktor says of the song: “The song is about what it seems to be about – revolutionary ideas that are shared by many and whose framework is reduced to the level of the individual in an individualistically interpreted world. But in addition to becoming the best and worst versions of ourselves, the revolution is also taken up by fascists. And we kind of hope that in time they will sort it out in their own bowels. I don't have good news, they won't. I dedicate it to all those who turn the instruments of their resistance against the wrong enemy – themselves.”

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