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Glam-metal band
Turbonegro, formed in Oslo (Norway) in 1989 by Thomas Seltzer on bass,
Vegard Heskestad, Pal Bottger Kjaernes, Rune Gronn, Pal Erik Carlin and Carlos Churasco on drums, debuted with the single Route Zero (Straightjacket, 1990) and
the five-song EP Turboloid (Straightjacket, 1990).
Their first phase is documented by two albums,
Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives (Big Ball, 1992),
the manifesto of their brutal hardcore mixed with Stooges-style garage-rock,
and the anthology
Helter Skelter (Repulsion Records, 1993).
A new vocalist, Hans Erik Husby, joined in 1993. The new line-up released an EP,
Grunge Whore (1993), under the moniker Stierkampf, but then resumed their
original name for the next album, Never is Forever (1994), which,
together with the singles
Denim Demon (1995) and Bad Mongo (1995),
heralded their third and major phase.
They started a new career with Ass Cobra (Boomba, 1996) in the vein of an
offensive and borderline pornographic punk-rock.
Adding doses of glam-rock and hard rock, they made their album
Apocalypse Dudes (1998) palatable to the masses.
Songs like Rock Against Ass were the musical equivalent of a highschool
prank and showed the influence of
the New York Dolls
and the Dictators.
The Age Of Pamparius borrows from both the Who's We Won't Get Fooled Again and Cheap Trick's The Clock Strikes Ten.
Darkness Forever is a double-disc live album.
They disbanded but then
reformed and released Scandinavian Leather (Burning Heart, 2003) and
Party Animals (2005), the last two parts of the trilogy that began with
Apocalypse Dudes (1998).
Turbonegro returned every so few years with albums of
party hard-rock and glam-rock filled with juvenile offensive jokes:
Retox (2007),
Sexual Harassment (2012), with a new vocalist,
and
RocknRoll Machine (2018).
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