About
Skambankt started in 1994 in the most spontaneous way possible: when a band dropped out of a show at Klepp Rockeklubb, Ted Winters, Don Fist, and Hans Panzer wrote nine songs in roughly three hours and played the gig themselves. They disbanded, bumped into each other at a bachelor party in 2003, and decided to give it another go. From there they built a reputation as one of Norway's most energetic hard rock acts, drawing on the spirit of Motörhead, AC/DC, the Ramones, and the Sex Pistols while writing all their lyrics in Norwegian Nynorsk. Over the years the band put out a string of albums that kept climbing the Norwegian charts. Sirene hit number one in 2014, and the campaign around its lead single "Voodoo" was creative enough to earn them Spotify Innovator of the Year, partly because they melted down old plastic guitars and pressed them into vinyl records. Their sixth album Horisonten brenner was recorded in a studio they built themselves out of an old pig shed, and it peaked at number six on the VG lista. Skambankt opened for Bon Jovi in Stavanger in 2019 and once supported AC/DC in Oslo, which says a lot about where they sat in the Norwegian rock landscape. They played their final concert on November 4, 2022, at the DNB Arena in Stavanger, closing out nearly three decades as a band.
