The Nordic music scene

Norwegian CRONOS TITAN started in 1995 by my former record pusher and his friend. Their debut album BRIDES OF CHRIST came out in 1995. I know of three albums and a few singles. These guys are a bit under the radar and hard to keep track of.

Norwegian band VELVET BELLY are a five-piece group, but started as a trio in 1989. Six albums 1992-2003. From their 4th album THE LANDING:

Norwegian band RAGA ROCKERS started in 1982, and their first album came out in 1983. They were inactive as a band 2000-2007. They have released 12 studio albums up until 2010, and have had a pretty big domestic following. This is a live performance from 2010, a song from their 9th album RAGA ROCKERS, released before their break:


And here is the title track from their 10th

Norwegian band VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING only released one album, 50HZ BROKEN, in 1994-plus a couple of singles that were cover versions. Supposed to release a second album in 1997, they decided to split up instead. Here is one of their singles, a FGTH cover.

Norwegian trio THE GRUESOME TWOSOME released their first single in 1989 and their only album CANDY FROM A STRANGER in 1993. This is their debut which also features on the album.

Another track:


Edit: I see they returned with another album in 2016, HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSE HITS.

Norwegian band FAMLENDE FORSØK started in the early 80s, and have released 13 albums up until 2020. This is from their third album DØVE MUNKER UT AV NORSK INDUSTRI (Deaf monks out of Norwegian industry):

Polish-Norwegian DE PRESS was founded in Norway in 1980. Their lyrics have been in Polish, Norwegian and English. They split up in 1983 after three albums, but reunited in the period 1990-1993. Since then Polish co-founder and vocalist Andrej Nebb has returned under the DE PRESS name in his homeland Poland, with other band members. All in all 19 albums have been released . This is from the 11th album REKYL (recoil):


And from their second album PRODUCT:

Swedish duo MISERY LOVES CO. have been active 1993-2000, and again since 2016. They have release d four albums, three during their initial run, and one since they reformed. This is from their self-titled debut from 1995:

Norwegian H2O were Stefan Groth and Geir Bratland from Apoptygma Berzerk. They gave out a few singles in the 90s.

Norwegian band MOTORPSYCHO is not to be confused with the American band of the same name. They started in 1989, and have released albums in various different styles. As far as I know, they have released 32 albums 1991-2022. Here is something besides that, them covering Kiss:

Norwegian band ELEKTRISK REGN aka EL-REGN (Electric rain), have been going on and off since 1978. Members have varied besides the main man Dennis Reksten. Only three albums released, in 1982, 1985 and 2002. This is from their debut STEINBYEN :

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is the most well known Norwegian classical composer internationally. 1858-1906 was the time of his musical carreer. This is from his first music for the famous Henrik Ibsen play:

BIOSPHERE is Norwegian Geir Jenssen also known as Bleep, Cosmic Explorer and E-Man. He was also a memer of Bel Canto during their first two albums. He has been active since 1983 and released his first Biosphere material in 1991.
He has released one album as E-Man, one as Bleep, 20 as Biosphere and done nine film soundtracks. This is from his third Biosphere album SUBSTRATA:

LEÆTHER STRIP is Danish Claus Larsen. The project was founded in 1988, and he started releasing music under the LS name in 1989. KLUTE is also him. Although dormant between 2000 and 2005, twenty-something albums have been released since 1990.

From their 22nd album WORLD MOLÆSTER


Rammstein cover

Norwegian humour group PRIMA VERA started in 1976 and gave out their first single in 1977-"Du er et svin" (You are a swine), their version of Sex Pistols God Save the Queen.Six albums followed 1977-1983 consisting of both original material and humorous translations (or rather alternative versions) of international hits. They split up in 1984, had a short reunion in 2000, and now they are back, this time in English:

Finnish band 22 PISTEPIRKKO started in 1980. They have since moved on from Finnish to English lyrics. They were on hold from 2015 to 2022, but are now back. They have released 14 albums between 1984 and 2022, as well as a cover album in 2006 under the nom de guerre THE OTHERS. This is from the 5th album RUMBLE CITY LA LA LAND:

I saw them in 1996, pretty good show.

Norwegian band ANAL BABES started in 1988, and had their first release in 1990. Their first album came out in 1992, and they split up after their third in 1998. I saw them live in 1989 as a support act . It must have been for Nitzer Ebb, incredibly enough.
This is from their debut album THE DIGNITY OF THE ANAL BABES IS UNIMPEACHABLE:

I know nothing about Norwegian MAKT & STYRKE (Power & Strength) except they have released a couple of EPs over the last few years.

Norwegian band SEIGMEN (Jellymen) started in 1989 as Klisne Seigmen (Sticky jellymen). They split up in 1999, but were reunited in 2005. Six studio albums 1993-2015.

This is the title track from the 1994 HJERNEN ER ALENE (The Brain is alone) ep, their cover version of another Norwegian band, de Lillos :

Norwegian band JOKKE & VALENTINERNE started in 1982. Their first album came out in 1986, and I listened to a concert they held in a parking house that year, from outside. In 1990 I attended a gig properly, which was more fun. They split up in 1994, but did some sporadic live shows until main man Joachim Nielsen died in 2000. Five albums in total. This is from their first, ALT KAN REPARERES (Everything can be repaired):


And live from same

Norwegian duo FROST was formed in 1997, and have released four albums between 1998 and 2012.
This is from their debut album BEDSIT THEORIES

Norwegian Varg Vikernes (aka Count Grishnackh) started his solo black metal project BURZUM in 1990. His two first albums contain magic that will only work when played on vinyl. It is not compatible with cd technology, unless the cd is programmed to play one side at the time.It has to do with spells, dont ask. 14 albums released 1992-2014, some of them recorded in jail where he served a 16 years sentence mainly for stabbing his bandmate to death.
This is a rerecording of a song from his first album BURZUM, released on the album FROM THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS:


And an original version of another song from the debut:

Now this guy I've heard of, because of the notoriety.

Don't get me started on adults who believe in spell-casting .

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Now this guy I've heard of, because of the notoriety.

Maybe you also heard these guys burned down churches in the 90s, including one that was 1000 years old.

Swedish band LÆDERNUNNAN aka LEATHER NUN was formed in 1978. They were active until 1995, then had a break until 2014, althogh they played some live gigs from 2005 onwards.  Along with Big Country and PIL they also played in the first ever international  rock festival to be held in the Soviet Union in 1988. 5 albums 1986-2015. This is an early 80s recording of a song from a 1979 EP, "Slow Death":