Retox (album)

For the Fatboy Slim song, see Retox (song).

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Retox is the Norwegian band Turbonegro's 8th album. This is the first release under the band's newly created Scandinavian Leather Recordings. The album was released on June 11, 2007 in Norway, June 13, 2007 in Sweden, and on June 15, 2007 in the rest of Europe (excluding the UK), according to their official MySpace it was released on June 23, 2007 in Australia, July 9, 2007 in UK, and finally August 14, 2007 in the USA.

The entire album was available for listening on Turbonegro's MySpace.com site for one week only (ending June 13th).

According to Turbonegro Retox is "a nihilistic homo punk metal bikermovie: Full of speed, power, humiliation and freedom!". "Retox is rock music that's been up for 5 days without sleeping, able to see more than most people, but not seeing anything exactly clear."

They have also added: "We survived Grunge, Britpop, House music, hip-hop, new rock revolution, dance rock, but maybe not new rave..? People say we've been making the same record for 10 years, that's not right. We've been making the same record for 4-5 years."

The club Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg, Sweden held a Retox release party on June 15, which also coincided with Hank's 35th birthday. The band was in attendance, equipped with several giveaways and playing some songs.

Recording process

After recording a demo in May of 2006 at Knut's Crystal Canyon Studio the band recorded the basic tracks at Fagerborg Lydstudio and returned to Crystal Canyon again to finish the recordings together with Anders Møller (of Gluecifer and Euroboys among others). In January, 2007 Knut, Tom and Chris traveled to the USA to mix the album together with John Agnello (who previously worked a lot with Dinosaur Jr., and just recently for Sonic Youth's last album Rather Ripped) at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey. The band selected 11 of the 23 songs and sent them for mastering to Ted Jensen (who has also worked on Green Day's American Idiot album) at Sterling Sound, NYC.

Track listing

1. "We're Gonna Drop the Atom Bomb" - 3:41
2. "Welcome to the Garbage Dump" - 1:58
3. "Hell Toupée" - 3:27
4. "Stroke the Shaft" - 3:19
5. "No, I'm Alpha Male" - 3:13
6. "Do You Do You Dig Destruction" - 3:46
7. "I Wanna Come" - 3:37
8. "You Must Bleed/All Night Long" - 2:39
9. "Hot and Filthy" - 3:15
10. "Boys From Nowhere" - 3:29
11. "Everybody Loves a Chubby Dude" - 3:48
12. "What Is Rock?!" - 7:49
13. "Back In Denim" (Denim cover) (Special Edition Digipak bonus track)
14. "Into the Void" (Special Edition Digipak bonus track)
15. "Levelled Karma" (iTunes bonus track)

Credits

• Hank Von Helvete (Hans Erik Dyvik Husby) - Vocals
• Euroboy (Knut Schreiner) - Lead guitar
• Rune Rebellion (Rune Grønn) - Rhythm guitar
• Pål Pot Pamparius (Pål Bottger Kjærnes) - Rhythm guitar
• Happy-Tom (Thomas Seltzer) - Bass guitar
• Chris Summers (Christer Engen) - Drums
• Mixed by John Agnello at Water Music Recorders, Hoboken and The Magic Shop, New York
• Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York

Miscellanea

• In the song "Everybody Loves a Chubby Dude" Hank says "I am the lizard king, I can eat anything". It is a reference to Jim Morrison's famous alter ego The Lizard King, more precisely The Doors song "Not to Touch the Earth", which contains the lyrics "I am the Lizard King, I can do anything."

• Retox is also the name of a Fatboy Slim song on the album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars.

External links

• Retox Lyrics at Infectious Lyrics