© James Christopher Monger /TiVo More info They may use familiar ingredients, but they're familiar for a reason. Kvelertak have the chops and the attitude, but best of all they have the songs, which is more than can be said about some of their contemporaries. Songs like "Spring Fra Livet," with its ratty, snarling verses and explosive, life-affirming chorus (sung with polyp-inducing viciousness by frontman Erlend Hjelvik), and the epic single "Bruane Brenn," which pairs the seismic crunch of Mastodon and the mad, melodic glee of fellow countrymen Kaizers Orchestra with a guitar breakdown that's pulled straight out of the Mutt Lange playbook, bristle with the feral and fantastic fatalism of youth, while desperately holding on to tried and true classic rock underpinnings for support. That said, Meir is hardly an exercise in camp, nor is it imbued with any kind of hipster irony. does, by taking all of the exclusivity out of it and shifting the focus to what decibel-shattering music is really about: partying. Kvelertak subvert the genre in the same way Andrew W.K. This isn't your black greasepaint-covered father's extreme Scandinavian metal. On 2013's Meir, the band's Roadrunner Records debut, the spirited, Stavanger-based six-piece doubles down (Meir = More) on their signature blend of thrash, black, power, death, and punk metal, offering up an 11-track tray of mead shots that leave the listener in happy little pieces. Norway's Kvelertak (Norwegian for "chokehold") turned heads, some of which went all the way around Linda Blair-style, with their 2010 eponymous debut, an extreme metal "fasterpiece" that took the genre to the mat, flipped it over on its belly, and went in for the tickle. The Gypsy-tinged quartet DeVotchKa were formed in Denver, CO by multi-instrumentalists Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion), Jeanie Schroder (sousaphone, bass), and percussionist Shawn King.
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Today, an original copy of Mys is a rare collector's item, coveted by the fans of Kaizers Orchestra.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. However, Ottesen decided to write songs in the same vein as "Bastard", and as a result, he and Geir created a new band, known as Kaizers Orchestra. However, the band quickly began to dissolve due to lack of gigs and success. However, after the release of Mys, Janove wrote a song called "Bastard", which had a very Tom Waits-esque sound to it, and for which the band utilized oil barrels as percussion. The band had to struggle to obtain any performance spots, and if one was available, the spectators were about 20, average. gnom's first, and only, release was Mys (1997), of which there were made 1000 copies, less than half of which were sold in the first year of its release. Janove and Geir were soon joined by Helge Risa on pump organ, and Rune Solheim on drums (the two would later continue on as members of Kaizers Orchestra) and Rolf Prestø, known as "Bestefar", (grandpa) on bass. Some of these songs wound up being recorded on the acoustic demo for the new band Janove and Geir started when they were together again, namely, gnom. HistoryĪfter Ottesen and Zahl's previous band, Blod Snått & Juling, dissolved, Janove joined the army, where he wrote some songs that were recorded on a demo (known to fans as Janoves Soloprosjekt). Despite being relatively obsolete on the Norwegian musical scene, it is an important part of the creation of Kaizers Orchestra. Gnom (gnome) was a Norwegian folk music band, the third band started by Janove Ottesen and Geir Zahl. They are notable for being among the first non-black metal Norwegian. Janove Ottesen Geir Zahl Helge Risa Rune Solheim Rolf Prestø Kaizers Orchestra was a Norwegian alternative rock band formed on 1 January 2000.
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