Never Is Forever

Never Is Forever
Studio album by Turbonegro
Released	1994
Recorded	March–December 1993
Studio	Nesodden Musikkverksted
Genre	Punk rock
Length	65:55
Label	Dog Job Records Bitzcore Records (re-press)
Turbonegro chronology
(He's a) Grunge Whore (1993) Never Is Forever (1994) Stinky Fingers (1995)
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Original 1994 cover

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Never Is Forever is the second full-length album by the Norwegian rock band Turbonegro, released in 1994 via Dog Job Records. It was a limited and CD-only release to only 1,000 copies (some accounts suggest 1,200). Bitzcore Records re-released the album remastered and with a new "Derrick-style" cover artwork in 1999.

The album—a tribute to Blue Öyster Cult, as claimed by the band themselves—is an attempt to dissociate from the lo-fi aesthetics of the garage scene: "When the rest of the punk oriented world tried hard to be lo-fi and 'real', Turbonegro as usual went the opposite way, creating a miniature suburban deathpunk opera. Seldom have pop culture, darkness and desperation blended so well."

The track "Hush, Earthling" features dialogue sampled from the 1980 film Flash Gordon.

Four songs from the (He's a) Grunge Whore EP are also included here.

The CD version includes three hidden tracks at the end of the final track: Bengt "Bingo" Calmeyer singing "Staten och kapitalet", a 1970s radical left-wing progressive rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön; Evel Knievel performing a poem named "Why?"; and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song "The Ballad of Evel Knievel".

Track listing

1. Letter from Your Momma – 2:16
2. Suburban Prince's Death Song – 3:36
3. Übermensch – 3:37
4. I Will Never Die – 3:54
5. No Beast So Fierce – 3:54
6. Destination: Hell – 3:23
7. Timebomb – 3:18
8. Pain in der Arsch Pocket Full of Cash – 1:31
9. Hush, Earthling – 3:14
10. Nihil Sleighride – 2:59
11. (He's a) Grunge Whore – 4:37
12. Black Chrome – 2:26
13. Oslo Bloodbath Pt. II: I Don't Care – 2:44
14. Oslo Bloodbath Pt. III: The Ballad of Gerda and Tore – 24:26

• 00:00-06:04 – "Oslo Bloodbath Pt. III: The Ballad of Gerda and Tore"
• 06:04-12:04 – six minutes of silence
• 12:04-16:58 – "Staten och Kapitalet"
• 16:58-19:58 – "Why?"
• 19:58-24:26 – "The Ballad of Evel Knievel"

Personnel

Band members

• Hans Erik – vocals
• Rune – guitar
• Pål – guitar/vocals
• Bengt – bass/vocals
• Thomas – drums

Additional musicians

• Åsgeir Knudsen – additional instruments on "Letter from Your Momma"

Production

• Morten Anderson – photography
• Ando – photography
• Christian A. Calmeyer – engineer
• Dimitri – artwork
• Craig Morris – editing, mastering