TRP – Warlord – Blood Splattered Vinyl LP and T-shirt!
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Wild and untamed teenage heavy metal from Sweden 1981-1985.

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TRP – wild and untamed Swedish teenage heavy metal from 1981-1985. The boys were still in elementary school when they cranked out and recorded their heavy metal / hard rock music. Their fans were made up of the local teen hard rock youth gangs who all wore leather jackets, studded belts and denim vests. TRP, an acronym for “Tyrannosaurus Rex Prisoners”, performed loud and crazy live show with excessive use of homemade smoke bombs, pyrotechnics and gallons of fake blood which eventually got them banned from performing live for being too obscene(!). 

“I had welded a guitar slide with one end closed and filled it with chimney test smoke pellets, then I screwed it to the top of the neck of the bass. It burned constantly for two songs, but the effect was cool. We spat blood, as usual, and Peter just kept firing off bombs like crazy. He managed to shoot one right up into Fredrik’s ass during a guitar solo…”