D.D.E.

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  D.D.E.

  A chart-topping, award-winning Norwegian rock band best known for songs most people in Norway knows, along with the bands lively concert performances. D.D.E. made their album debut in 1993 and broke through to mainstream success in 1995 with their third album, the live recording "Det è D.D.E.". Founded in 1992 in Namsos, Norway. Bjarne Brøndbo (vocals, accordion), Frode Viken (guitar, died in 2018), Arnt Egil Rånes (guitar), Eivind Berre (bass), Bård Jørgen Iversen (keyboards), Eskil Brøndbo (drums), Terje Tranaas (keyboards, 1992-2002), Daniel Viken (guitar, replaced his father in 2018). The band made its album debut in 1993 with Rai-Rai, followed by Rai 2 in 1994. The band's third album, the live recording Det è D.D.E. (1995), was a breakout hit, steadily rising to number two on the Norwegian albums chart and charting for a whopping 47 weeks overall. The follow-up album, Det Går Likar No (1996), a studio effort, capitalized on the band's newfound fan base and topped the Norwegian charts for eight weeks. Like its predecessor, it charted for nearly a year's time. In acknowledgement of D.D.E.'s breakout success in 1995-1996 with Det è D.D.E. and Det Går Likar No, the band was awarded a Spellemannprisen in 1996. Practically all of D.D.E.'s subsequent album releases were Top Five hits, several of them chart-toppers, including Ohwææææh!!! (1998), Vi Ska Fæst - Aill' Mot Aill' (2001), and No Går Det Så Det Suse (2007).

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  Dumdum Boys

  DumDum Boys started up in the late 1970s as a punk band under the name Wannskrækk. Wannskrækk released one of the most sought-after Norwegian punk seven inches called "Faen kuler treffer aldri riktig" in 1981, the year after the Wannskrækk 12" was released. Wannskrækk moved on and reinvented themselves with a new name and a somewhat new sound in 1985.

  This shift invoked the beginning of one of the greatest success stories in Norwegian rock ever. The new name, DumDum Boys, was taken from a song on the album "The Idiot" by Iggy Pop. Their debut album, Blodig Alvor (na na na na na), is still regarded as one of the classic albums in Norwegian rock. The same is said for their following 1989 album, Splitter Pine. They are still the only band that have won "Spellemannsprisens Rock Category" (the Norwegian version of "Grammy Awards") three times in a row.

  Third album Pstereo fulfilled the trilogy of award-winning LP's, including the two others mentioned above. The song "Splitter Pine" is one of the most well known rock-singles in the history of Norwegian rock. Since then, bass player Persi Iveland has been replaced by Aslak Dørum, who now is the song-writer alongside rock legend and guitarist Kjartan Kristiansen. Kristiansen is one of the most respected song-writers in Norway, especially because of his well written and important lyrics, sung by frontman Prepple Houmb. Sola Johnsen is still the drummer and has been that since the late 70's. He's released a solo-ep called "Verdens Beste Trommis" ("Worlds Greatest Drummer"), as a tribute to Led Zeppelin hero John Bonham.

  After a seven year hiatus, they had a very successful tour in Norway during the summer of 2004. They went back into the studio in 2005 and released their critically acclaimed new album "Gravitasjon" in March 2006. "Gravitasjon" showed that DumDum Boys is still a band influenced by the punk rock scene. The band is now planning a giant summer tour in Norway and it is expected that all concerts will be sold-out.

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  SKAAR

  SKAAR invites to a powerful journey in several shades of rock. This towering wall of melancholic noise started to come together when the classical voice of Karla Lesley Jaeger invited fellow musicians to join her secret project while at university in Bergen, Norway. In her words, this developed into something “magical and mystical”. Fate smiled on the collective, and soon their band evolved into the current line-up. Moving towards alternative pop rock, the new material is intensively catchy and beautifully mesmerising. The debut album Feed Me to the Stars was recorded in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian), and released 15th February 2019. "Anthemic riffs and haunting vocals – the Nordic band’s material sounds like the more feral B-sides of ‘OK Computer’-era Radiohead" --- NME "SKAAR sit somewhere between modern indie or alternative bands and the experimental or post-rock worlds. The tension between these two axes is felt on catchy tunes such as opener Beautiful War and Winter Tale, which recall Mew to some degree, another group who brilliantly fuse atmospheric leftfield antics with widescreen indie rock. (...) With other bands like Bent Knee also fusing art-rock with math- and post-rock atmospherics, SKAAR are in good company, and hold their own." --- Prog Magazine