Skambankt is the self-titled first album by norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 Hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Skambankt

Skambankt

This article is about the band. For the self-titled album, see Skambankt .Skambankt is a Norwegian hard rock band from Klepp, just south of Stavanger. They play a mixture of classic rock'n'roll, punk and hardrock in the tradition of bands like Motörhead, AC/DC, Sex Pistols, Ramones and The Stooges...

. Several of the songs from the band's 1994 demo

Demo (music)

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 were recorded for the album, as well as the songs they recorded while being an Urørt band. All the track names have an exclamation mark after them, complimenting the band's aggressive style.

All lyrics are in the norwegian language

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

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Track listing

All music/lyrics by Ted Winters

Terje Winterstø Røthing

Terje Winterstø Røthing is a Norwegian musician, playing guitar in two rock bands.Terje joined a band named Kaizers Orchestra a little while after the band started in 2000, but he had also participated on the projects the different bandmembers had before those times...

/Don Fist unless otherwise stated.

1. Skambankt! (Beaten up!)
2. Me sa nei! (We said no!)
3. Desertør! (Deserter!) (Winters/Hans Panzer)
4. Revolusjonens aggregat! (The Fuel of the Revolution!)
5. Panzersjokk! (Panzershock!)
6. Alarm! (Alert!)
7. KKK! (Winters/Geir Zahl)
8. Våre fiender! (Our enemies!) (Zahl)
9. Kapitalens spel! (The Capital Game!)
10. Systemets makt! (Power of the system!)
11. Politistat! (Police state!)

Trivia

• The lyrics for Politistat! are missing from the booklet. It is unknown whether this is a mistake or intentional.
• The track Skambankt! has been featured in the soundtracks for the Norwegian movies Tommys Inferno and Uro.
• The track KKK! was co-written by Ted Winters and Geir Zahl
  Geir Zahl
  Geir Zahl is a Norwegian musician. He is known for playing guitar in the Norwegian rock group Kaizers Orchestra. The band was founded by Geir Zahl and Janove Ottesen who had both played together in some other bands, namely Blod, snått & juling and gnom...
  
   (from Kaizers Orchestra
  Kaizers Orchestra
  Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian alternative rock group formed on January 1, 2000. The two leading members, vocalist Janove Ottesen and guitarist Geir Zahl, had known each other for years, and first played together in a band called Blod, Snått & Juling in 1989.Kaizers Orchestra are notable for...
  
  ), and Våre Fiender was written entirely by Zahl.
• The track KKK! (which stands for Kristelig KulturKaos (Christian CultureChaos)), features a guest appearance by Prepple Houmb
  Prepple Houmb
  Per Øivind Houmb, stage name Prepple is the vocalist and frontman in the Norwegian rock band DumDum Boys. He has also been the vocalist in the band Wannskrækk, the drummer in Belsen Boys and the bassist in the band Betty Bohm Bang Band.-References:...
  
   from Norwegian rock band DumDum Boys
  DumDum Boys
  DumDum Boys is a Norwegian rock band from Trondheim. They started up in the late 1970s as a punk band under the name "Wannskrækk", and released a few singles under that name before they reinvented themselves with a new name and a somewhat new sound in 1985....
  
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