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[[File:KaizersOrchestra_6225.jpg|frame|From left to right: Janove Ottesen, Terje Winterstø Røthing, Helge Risa (and [[Iconic Item|The Mask]]), [[Geir Zahl]], Rune Solheim, and Øyvind Storesund]]
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A Norwegian alternative rock band who have also attained significant international popularity despite (or, maybe because of) singing in their native Norwegian dialect. They are well known for their raucous live shows, during which they utilize oil barrels and other unusual items for the purposes of percussion.
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All in all, they can be considered the epitome of [[Crazy Awesome]] and [[Hot-Blooded]].
Band members:
* Janove Ottesen: Vocals, percussion
* [[Geir Zahl]]: Lead guitar, vocals, percussion
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* Øyvind Storesund: Bass
* Rune Solheim: Drums, percussion
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* ''Ompa til du dør'' (2001)
* ''Evig pint'' (2003)
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* ''Violeta Violeta Volume II'' (2011)
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Dominique, Violeta, Marcello and... Kenneth. (Bear in mind that "Kenneth" is still a relatively unusual given name in Norway.)
* [[Album Title Drop]]: Sometimes it even gets dropped as a song title!
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* [[Animated Music Video]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw1oQsGkZhQ Mann mot mann]" (NSFW).
* [[Arc Words]]: If you don't know about the mafia-based backstory (and sometimes, even if you do), just about any proper noun can become one.
* [[Audience Participation]]: At one special event for a hundred fans, they invited one fan to play drums on "Knekker deg til sist".
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: Go to most Kaizers concerts (at least domestically) and you figure out pretty quickly that the band could probably do without their vocalist half of the time. The band tends to leave most refrains and call-and-response parts to the audience, at least on songs that are relatively well-known: Some songs will have the audience singing along on the entire song, prompted or no.
** The all-time greatest occurrence of this was at their special anniversary concert in Oslo Spektrum in 2011. The crowd kept singing the chorus of "Die Polizei", the very last song of the set, for damn near ten minutes after the band walked off the stage.
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* [[Dr. Feelgood]]: "Dr. Mowinckel".
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: "Min kvite russer". Also "Den romantiske tragedien".
* [[Epic Instrumental Opener]]: The first few minutes of "Medisin & Psykiatri", from ''Våre demoner'', qualifies as this.
** Done again in "Svarte katter & flosshatter" from ''Violeta Violeta Volume I''.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: "Kontroll på kontinentet" and a slight handful of other songs become this when performed live.
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* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: Implied with the character Dominique after [["Failure to Save" Murder|he fails to keep Tony Fuciante from]] [[Boom! Headshot!|shooting himself in the head playing]] [[Russian Roulette]].
* [[Iconic Item]]: The gas mask. How it came to be in the band's possession (or is it the ''the other way around''?), as explained by Helge:
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Read a Norwegian newspaper. Any Norwegian newspaper. You will get a kipper if an article on the band has anything but something along the lines of "the Kaizer's new clothes", or "control over the [arbitrary performance venue]."
* [[La Résistance]]: "Resistansen" of ''Ompa til du dør''.
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** "The devil made that guitar for him. ...But the LAAAAAWD made him that suit!"
* [[Let's Duet]]: ''Maskineri'' has two of them: "Den andre er meg" with Terje's wife Ragnhild, and "Du og meg Lou, og din fru" with Swedish artist Stefan Sundström.
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: ...Well, at least they tried. This is what the special embossed-cover version of ''Violeta Violeta Volume I'' was intended to be. Originally, the point was for everyone who attended a show during their 2010 Studio Tour to get one in exchange for sending a special mail-in card to a certain address. Turns out they had some to spare after sending them, and sold these at the merch stand at concerts.
** To a lesser extent, the ''Våre demoner'' album. It was printed in a one-run edition, and was to be retracted from stores after the passing of one week. Similar to the above example, it wasn't, and is still sold at merch stands in 2012 (though they have claimed this will truly be the last time they will be available for sale).
* [[List Song]]: A bridge in "Din kjole lukter bensin, mor" lists, in bullet points, the process of Violeta and Beatrice's hypothetical reconciliation. What's more, the final stanza incorporates both last points by way of a pun.
* [[Lost Love Montage]]: "Hjerteknuser" from ''Violeta Violeta Volume I'' and "Fanden hakk i hel" from ''Våre demoner'' both have elements of this.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: ''And how.'' "Tokyo Ice til Clementine" is perhaps their most shining example of this trope, as the song is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECK_laXW6gk overly cheerful and bouncy]...[https://web.archive.org/web/20100929060151/http://www.freewebs.com/kaizersinst/maestro.htm but the matter surely ain't]. (Scroll to the bottom of the page.)
* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: ''Ompa til du dør'' is widely considered their [[Magnum Opus]], although ''Maestro'' (to a lesser degree) is often given the same consideration; in fact, the band themselves appear to consider ''Maestro'' to be their masterwork. This doesn't stop them from claiming their newest effort is their best whenever they have a new album coming out. These convictions seldom last.
* [[Medley]]: During the 250 Prosent tour, concerts began with abridged versions of "Medisin & psykiatri", "Fra sjåfør til passasjer" and "På ditt skift" performed as if it were one whole song.
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]: The ''Kaizers Orchestra EP'' (better known as the ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Gul EP]]'') has a plain yellow cover, adorned only by a barcode.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: "Bak et halleluja" might as well be marketed as a professional elocution lesson at times. Also, when performing the band introductions during live performances of "Kontroll på kontinentet", Janove is prone to segue into this.
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* [[The Musical]]: ''[[Sonny (theatre)|Sonny]]'' has shades of this, featuring Kaizers Orchestra songs re-recorded for the occasion. The play itself is based on the interconnected lyrical universe of the band's first three albums.
* [[Myth Arc]]: The lyrics form an interconnected story arc that follows a Mafia familiy throughout and after WWI and II.
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Ompa + gas masks + a pump organ + oil barrels + [[Large Ham]] = these guys.
** Add a dash of [[Tom Waits]] in for good measure...
* [[Non-Appearing Title]]: "Rullett", "Katastrofen", "Hevnervals", "Moment", "Kaizers 115. drøm", "Romantisk salme i F-dur", and "Christiania". The latter was given an outro refrain of "Bevar Christiania" ("Preserve Christiania") during live performances, however; fittingly, one such performance was recorded for the ''Viva La Vega'' DVD recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark.<ref> For those not in the know, "Freetown Christiania" is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighborhood of Copenhagen.</ref>
** And aside from these, there are a bunch of songs whose titles aren't sung in [[Exact Words]].
* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: A conspicuous amount of songs on the ''Violeta Violeta'' albums (perhaps more to come) have these: "Sju bøtter tårer er nok, Beatrice", "Femtakt filosofi", "En for orgelet, en for meg", and "Tusen dråper regn".
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* [[Power Ballad]]: "Med en gong eg når bånn", "Min kvite russer", and "Jævel av en tango" have all been referred to, in-concert, as power ballads.
* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: Sometimes during performances, Helge will incorporate melodies from psalms and hymns.
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* [[The Quiet One]] / [[The Stoic]]: Helge, wearer of the iconic Gas Mask, has one hell of a poker face even without the mask on. And when he speaks, you listen.
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: Often invoked with songs that are performed live long before they are ever released; most radically, "Di grind" was originally presented as a slower number, with a prominent guitar riff rather than a piano part acting as the primary "hook".
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* [[Rockumentary]]: The "Tour Tull" (Tour Nonsense) documentary featured on the ''Viva La Vega'' DVD, infamous for its less-than-serious subtitles, is an example of this.
* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Prosessen" is definitely this, being a thinly veiled depiction of Kaizers Orchestra's rise to fame. And it was written before they had even achieved much of any kind of success...
* [[Rooftop Concert]]: Kaizers Orchestra played an unnanounced concert the rooftop of Universal Germany headquarters in Berlin in 2005.
* [[Russian Roulette]]: A recurring theme in their work.
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: There are quite a few. Actually, ''Maestro'' is pretty much a Sanity Slippage Album.
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