The Gasölines
Though hurtling and bash-fisted, these severe minutes are also possessed of appeal familiar to brave ravers who dimly recall club episodes, midsommer midnight, or arena frenzies. People were killed by Morten Nilsen's guitar solo - and they're still grinning.
Video: "(I'm Not) Your Mirror"
Long Lasting Train
Full Speed to Nowhere (2014 - 2016)
(Fucking North Pole Records)
Desperately search though they will, the fearful will locate no refuge. Instead, and from all around, sheer racket of the finest kind ravishes eardrums with unstoppable velocity, as blasts from amplifiers connected to city-leveling machinery of unknown scientific genesis communicate the surliness and bellicosity that churn in every outsider-by-choice's crimson.
Recommended: "Total Blackout," "SPIT," "Recovery Rox," "Ratz," "Echoes of Death," "Obey the Grey," "Vaporized Brain," "Death Proof," "Black Book," "Whiskey Business," "Out of Jail...Goodnight World"
Videos: "Total Blackout" "Black Book" "Whiskey Business" "Out of Jail...Goodnight World"
Long Lasting Train
Death Proof four-track EP
(Fucking North Pole Records)
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Stop signs are mowed into 2D by Norwegian apostles of graffitied wrath. Songs hurtle like missiles, their shrapnel bursts hacking at normies too dumb to turn tail when these sorts stalk across stages. Metal-boned mayhem at speeds beyond measure.
Months ahead may usher surprises...
Recommended: "Death Proof," "Out of Jail," "Vaporized Brain," "Echoes of Death"
Videos: "Death Proof" "Echoes of Death"
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The Promdates & Long Lasting Train
Jugend Punx two-track single
(Fucking North Pole Records)
A stomping-good pair of bedlamic onrushes, in coarse, bellowed manners that recall nights when stagefront swarms of spikey-topped battlers bashed gleefully. Chords can kill, you know.
(First issued as a physical single in 2015, a digital version is now most accessible.)
Videos: "Nightmare" (The Promdates) "SPIT II (mun)" (Long Lasting Train)
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Emmie Lee
"Pin-up Cowgirl" single
(Self-issued)
"I'm just a Country girl with a Rockabilly heart," is the plain-folks identification offered winkingly, by this skirt-snapper with tones of pearly lustre. As surely as Emmie Lee can plate-up melodies that slink arms about listeners, and the ace musicos accompanying m'lady put up comfortable reeling that hints at burly capacity, so too does she prove herself bang on, philosophically: "You don't have to fit in or change your world / just do what you love and let your soul be heard!" Truer words were never spake, pardner.
The Gasölines
Helldorado
(Speed Club Records)
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A reviewer at Germany's Zepher's Odem wrote: "As the band themselves announced, they hadn't intended to create anything innovative. They simply plugged in, cranked up the amps, and played Rock'n'Roll. Loud, dirty, and exhilarating." Nowhere is it scrawled that music must turn virgin sod in order to merit moon-bathed bacchanalia. New wrinkles can certainly be intriguing. But much can be said for knowing what lies ahead. Health care personnel do not recommend this Norwegian Punk-packed Metal for the timid - one reason is that it may well blow innocent ears to shrapnel. Were the PMRC yet in operation, they'd have contrived a warning label by now. Comes in digital, CD, and variously-hued vinyl formats.
Recommended: "Riding Shotgun," "Dead Man's Hand," "Bucking the Tiger," "Ace in the Hole," "Death Rider," "A-Bomb Pinup," "Speed Trap"
Videos: "Riding Shotgun" "Ace in the Hole" "A-Bomb Pinup" "Speed Trap"
The Vossa Rebels
Live at Rockefeller
(Kvarts)
Each June, Voss, Norway hosts the Ekstremsportveko extreme-sports fest. Local-boys-made-gone Vossa Rebels qualify as "extreme Rockabilly." The trio write like masters, play like demons, and are so of the wildcat sound you'd suppose it supercharges their surging crimson. And by the time they've covered globally mourned, tattooed rocker Nick Curran, you've already given up the geetus.
Recommended: "A Little Confused," "Psycho," "As Good as It Gets," "Strapless Dress," "California Sun," "Like a Rocket"
Videos: "A Little Confused" "Strapless Dress" "Like a Rocket"
Hot Rod T
Please Do Not Go EP
(What?! Records)
The leisurely range is where these Norwegian boppers can most often be located; that's the pace at which they ply good 'ol boy jukebox tunery. They've recorded crisp versions of smoldering numbers from their earlier live repertoire. Songs collected here are only available digitally at this writing, though vinyl incarnations are anticipated.
Recommended: "Please Do Not Go," "Voodoo Girl," "Nowhere In Sight," "I Like It"
Video: "Nowhere In Sight"
