Turbonegro: Hank Von Helvete (vocals); P?l Pot Pamparius, Rune Rebellion (guitar); Happy-Tom, Euroboy, Chris Summers (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Tomas Dahl (background vocals).
Turbonegro beat the odds once again with the 2007 release RETOX. Having already survived 15 years of anything-goes mayhem and having already broken up once, the Norwegian hellions were on a creative tear with their third record since their alleged split. RETOX, as its title suggests, broke no new ground for the sextet, but when you've spent a career distilling the sleaze and humor of all kinds of heavy legends--from the Alice Cooper Band and Bon Scott to the Germs and the Circle Jerks--into one hell-raising guitar riff and one continuously funny premise (that being rock & roll itself) who needs innovation? RETOX will raise your fists and, if you care to even look at the titles, bust your gut to boot.
Professional Reviews
Spin (p.126) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Punch lines fly like goopy spitballs on the uproarious seventh studio album by the world's foremost funny-punk sextet."
Uncut (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] admirable heavy metal and thrash punk, to which they are, utterly unironically, committed."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.48) - "If you're a fan of the scuzzier side of rock 'n' roll you probably need this simply because it's Turbonegro, and no one else in this day and age even comes close."
