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{{quote| ''Norwegian storm-trooping tarantellas with savage rhythms and innovative textures. Thinking man's circus music. Way out''.<br />

* Janove Ottesen: Vocals, percussion

* Terje Winterstø Røthing: Rhythm guitar, percussion

* Helge Risa: Organ, percussion

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The relatives of one Violeta Violeta. And in another sense of the word, the mafia family of ''Ompa til du dør''.

* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: They refrained from including "Prosessen", an up-tempo, relatively straight pop song, from their first album specifically to avoid this. Ironically, it was eventually released on ''Våre demoner''; while released as a single, it was not much of a hit, even by the band's standards.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Helge's character is a somewhat [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Omen-ous]] example of this, as described in this page's Funny tab. Øyvind too shows signs of this in both live DVD documentaries (especially ''Veien til Spektrum'', in which he imitates the sound of a newly opened bottle of wine being poured, which he does to convince himself it is actually a fresh bottle), but the extent to which he plays it up for entertainment is indecisive at best.

* [[Concept Album]]: Their entire studio discography, but crowning honors go to the ''Violeta Violeta'' trilogy.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Music At Sporting Events]]: Surprisingly invoked when the group became the sponsors for the Norwegian soccer team Bryne.

* [[Myth Arc]]: The lyrics form an interconnected story arc that follows a Mafia familiy throughout and after WWI and II.

* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: Pretty much describes their entire musical output.

* [[Spoken Word in Music]]: The outro of "Auksjon (i Dieter Meyers hall)" has Janove repeatedly uttering the words "[[Gratuitous English|Come to daddy, daddy is cool.]]"

* [[Stage Names]]: All the members have stage names: Janove is "The Jackal", Geir is "Hellraizer", Terje is "Killmaster", Rune is "Mink", Øyvind is "Thunder", and Helge is "Omen". Past member Jon Sjøen was [[I Have Many Names|interchangeably]] referred to as "Lion King" and "Rasmus", among others. Additionally, Janove was initially called "Rat". The origin of these names are uncertain, however, the band have remarked that Rune is so named due to his excessive amount of body hair.

** In a hilarious instance, all the band members switched instruments for a performance of "Bøn fra helvete"; Helge performed lead vocals. In recent times, he has also performed the spoken word verses of "Svarte katter & flosshatter" (by yelling into a megaphone, no less) during live performances.

** A borderline case is Geir. He used to perform lead vocals on a number of songs early on in their career, but this has since been phased out somewhat. Geir performing lead vocals, both live and on record, has become a rare occurrence over time; when he does so, however, at least the trope is executed in the most literal manner possible. He has returned to lead vocal duties on two songs on ''Violeta Violeta Volume II'', however.