In 1989, when this Norwegian band got together, it was clearly fueled by a love of Alice Cooper and his '80s glam-rock equivalents, especially Hanoi Rocks and the Stooges. You can hear the influence in songs like "Sell Your Body (To the Night)," which features an obvious guitar-riff nod to the latter's "Penetration." The band also took visual cues from acts like Cooper, Kiss and King Diamond, and its lyrics embrace the excesses of glam's various tropes, with a cartoonishly trashy offensiveness that has the potential to polarize its audience. The band's fun, over-the-top theatrical rock and roll is clearly aiming to get a reaction, with calculated outrageousness and stage personas designed to challenge and titillate.
