OSLO, Norway & NEW YORK (Burning
Heart Records/ Abacus Recordings) - Abacus Recordings is proud to announce the release of TURBONEGRO's sixth album, Party Animals, in North
America on August 23, 2005. Poised to unleash their newest opus upon the masses, TURBONEGRO's dark, beautiful, catchy and dangerous punk rock epic is perhaps the best full-on rock album you'll ever fall in love with.
Produced lovingly by TURBONEGRO and Steve McDonald (The White Stripes, Beck, Redd Kross), the new album sees the band perfecting their mixture of punk, 70's era stadium rock, and glam rock a la
David Bowie. 'We've got 11 hits, all of them beautifully negative switchblade serenades," says guitarist Euroboy.
'Spewing forth from deep within Norway's frozen north - though visually the product of some wholly unholy Village People / Judas Priest alliance - these self-styled deathpunk practitioners have certainly stamped down hard on the effects pedal marked 'glam' this time around.'
- Manchester Evening News
'For Turbonegro fans the band is not just a band. It is almost a religion.'
- MTV Europe
'If Turbonegro's last album, 2003's Scandinavian Leather, saw them stage a guns-blazing assault on the rock mainstream, Party Animals finds these denim-clad Norwegian punks loading up the cannon.'
- Amazon
'Norway's greatest export since... um... OK, Norway's greatest export...'
- CMJ
Having rocked the punk scene in Oslo since the late eighties, TURBONEGRO has developed into one of the world's biggest underground rock bands. Having released classic albums such as Ass Cobra and Apocalypse Dudes, TURBONEGRO's cult-like status was cemented when they released their album Scandinavian Leather last year. 'Most rock n' roll bands start as a riot but end up as a parody.
We started up as a parody but ended up as a revolution,' said bassist Happy-Tom about their seminal position in the whole grand scheme of things - not just music, but damn it, the universe as well.
Packed with more powerchords than the 70s, bigger balls than the last three decades of punk and metal, and fiercely epic songwriting intact, Party Animals packs quite a heady wallop. With the razor-sharp searing 'Death from Above' and pounding apocalyptic 'Final Warning' (featuring backing vocals by former QOTSA's Nick Olivera), this album continues in TURBONEGRO's savage fashion, but ups the ante. The frenetic 'Wasted Again' features Black Flag/Circle Jerks original vocalist Keith Morris who's mere presence instantly adds to the cool quotient.
Licensed from Burning Heart Records, Abacus Recordings' U.S. version of Party Animals will include a bonus DVD of behind-the-scenes footage. Clearly an unstoppable punk-rock juggernaut, TURBONEGRO aims to hit the States later this year to prove like their album title, they truly are PARTY ANIMALS!
