Gluecifer - I Got a War

What this video is

Released in 2000 as part of Gluecifer's third album Tender Is the Savage on Sub Pop Records (US) and White Jazz Records internationally, 'I Got a War' arrived at the peak of the Scandinavian hard rock revival. Gluecifer, formed in Oslo in 1994, were central figures in a movement that also included Turbonegro and The Hellacopters — a scene that, as one Norwegian festival summarized, 'defined the very vital…

Why it matters

The video is a primary visual document of the Scandinavian garage-hard rock revival at its commercial and creative apex. Gluecifer's signing to Sub Pop — the label that launched grunge — for the US market represents a deliberate editorial positioning of Nordic sleaze rock as the next significant…