Rock music in Norway

Norwegian rock quickly fostered capable musicians, but was strongly influenced by the Anglo-American starting point for the musical form.

The most known rock and roll performers in the 1950s were Per Granberg, Per Hartvig (Rocke-Pelle), Jan Rohde and Odd Gisløy (Smiling Tommy).

Norway also has a notable progressive rock scene, which began in 1971 with the release of Junipher Greene's Friendship, the country's first double album.

[6] Punk continues to have an active scene in Norway, centered around the Blitz in Oslo and the UFFA house in Trondheim.

Bands such as Raga Rockers, DumDum Boys, Honningbarna, and Kvelertak have clear influences from the punk scene.

In the 80s Norway had A-Ha, Artch, Return, Stage Dolls and TNT, the first Norwegian band to be featured on the American Billboard charts.

The Stavanger hard rock band Kvelertak has been touring around the world with Purified in Blood among others since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2010.

In the mid 1980’s & early 1990s, Norway saw the growing of the underground black metal scene,[7][8][9] which eventually became the Early Norwegian black metal scene with bands including Mayhem, Immortal, Enslaved, Darkthrone, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Solefald, and Dimmu Borgir.