Scandinavian Leather

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Scandinavian Leather
Studio album by Turbonegro
Released	April 28, 2003
Recorded	Crystal Canyon, Oslo, November-December, 2002
Genre	Heavy Metal Hard rock Rock Punk Rock
Length	46:24
Label	Burning Heart Records
Producer	Knut Schreiner, Turbonegro
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone link
Turbonegro chronology
Love It to Deathpunk (2001) Scandinavian Leather (2003) Party Animals (2005)

Scandinavian Leather is an album by the Norwegian band Turbonegro that followed the band's reunion in 2002 and was released in April of 2003 on Burning Heart Records in Sweden, on Bitzcore Records in Germany, on JVC/Victor Records in Japan and on May 6, 2003 on Epitaph Records in the USA.

Contents 1 The sound 2 Track listing 3 Line-up 3.1 Band members 3.2 Additional musicians 4 Credits 5 Miscellanea 6 References

[edit] The sound

With Scandinavian Leather Turbonegro returned to the rock'n roll world as potent and powerful as never before. The album is essentially a continuation of the path beaten by its predecessor Apocalypse Dudes but it presents many more facettes to the sound known as 'deathpunk'. While the songwriting is reminiscent of the purity and simplicity of the Ramones, the sound is much more multi-layered and refined with ingredients such as pompous string arrangements, utterly harmonic backing vocals, unexpected leaps in frenetic arena rock as well as psychedelic undertones which results in the introduction of the new term "Rainbow Rock"^[1]: deathpunk with a pop sensibility if you will.

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Blizzard Of Flames" – 1:57
2. "Wipe It 'Til It Bleeds" – 3:43
3. "Gimme Some" – 3:11
4. "Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed" – 3:10
5. "Sell Your Body (To The Night)" – 4:29
6. "Remain Untamed" – 4:16
7. "Train Of Flesh" – 3:46
   • contains a prelude to "Fuck The World (F.T.W.)" at the end
8. "Fuck The World (F.T.W.)" – 4:12
9. "Locked Down" – 3:21
10. "I Want Everything" – 2:51
11. "Drenched In Blood (D.I.B.)" – 3:58
    • contains a prelude to "Le Saboteur" at the end
12. "Le Saboteur" – 2:56
13. "Ride With Us" – 4:34

All songs by Turbonegro.

[edit] Line-up

[edit] Band members

• Hank Von Helvete (Hans Erik Dyvik Husby) - Vocals
• Euroboy (Knut Schreiner) - Lead guitar
• Rune Rebellion (Rune Grønn) - Rhythm guitar
• Pål Pot Pamparius (Pål Bottger Kjærnes) - Keyboards, Saxophone and Percussion
• Happy-Tom (Thomas Seltzer) - Bass guitar
• Chris Summers (Christer Engen) - Drums

[edit] Additional musicians

• Krisvaag - Drums on "The Blizzard of Flames" arranged and performed with Chris Summers
• Ivar Winther - Flute on "Wipe It 'Til It Bleeds"
• Lars Horntvedt - String Arrangements with Euroboy
• Mariann Thomassen - Additional Backing Vocals on "Train of Flesh"
• Tomas Dahl - Additional Backing Vocals on "Drenched In Blood (D.I.B.)"
• Torgny Amdam - Additional Backing Vocals on "Ride With Us"

Cops on "The Blizzard of Flames" by Odd the God and Happy-Tom

[edit] Credits

• Joe Barresi - Mixing
• Stefan Boman - Engineer
• Sebastian Ludvigsen - Photography
• Anders Møller - Engineer
• Marius Bodin Larsen - Engineer
• Henke Jonsson - Mastering
• Knut Schreiner - Producer
• Turbonegro - Producer
• Klaus Voormann - Cover Art

[edit] Miscellanea

• The title is a nod to The Germs song "American Leather".
• The Japanese Edition contains bonus "Fuck The World (F.T.W.)" video track.
• The leather digipak CD edition comes with a bonus DVD that contains almost 40 minutes of footage from the res-erection tour and rehearsals & studio sessions for the new album.
• Bitzcore Records pressed a strictly limited 2,000 handnumbered copies of a super deluxe vinyl box edition. Some features: extra leather folder, triple-gate-folded thick cardboard cover, bonus 12" w/ previously unreleased extra track, 200g heavy vinyl, fan collage poster and more surprises.
• Bitzcore Records also pressed a white vinyl edition limited to 200 copies.
• During live performances of the song "Drenched in Blood" Hank pours buckets of fake blood on the audience members in the front rows.

[edit] References

v • d • e Turbonegro Current members Hank Von Helvete | Happy-Tom | Euroboy | Pål Pot Pamparius | Caddy Former members Harald Fossberg | Pål Erik Carlin | Vegard Heskestad | Bengt Calmeyer | Ole Martinsen | Anders Gerner | Carlos Churasco | Tor Kristien | Rune Rebellion | Chris Summers Albums Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives | Helta Skelta | Never Is Forever | Ass Cobra | Apocalypse Dudes | Scandinavian Leather | Party Animals | Retox Extended plays Turboloid | (He's a) Grunge Whore | Stinky Fingers | Flabby Sagging Flesh Live Darkness Forever! Compilations Love It To Deathpunk | Small Feces Tribute albums Alpha Motherfuckers: A Tribute to Turbonegro | A Lounge and Bossa Tribute to Turbonegro Related articles Euroboys | SCUM | Anal Gestapo