In 1984, Iron Maiden came to Poland for the first time. Bruce Dickinson heard the lead singer of Turbo and said, "You should sing in Deep Purple, not Turbo." Of course it was a compliment. Bruce was very nice, but apparently he appreciated Grzegorz Kupczyk's vocals.

Finally, a Metal School episode on a band I've never heard of. Prepare to be schooled!

I honestly would bet on me winning the lottery before seeing Turbo on Metal School. What a pleasant surprise.

Prędzej bym się spodziewał, że piekło zamarznie, niż polskiej kapeli tutaj. 🇵🇱 Polecam jeszcze kapele TSA oraz Kat.

I seriously miss the simpler days of the 70’s and early 80’s. Playing D&D and listening to bands like this.

The 2nd bass player, Piotr, sounds like a prodigy. His parts are exceptional.

thank you for talking about this beautiful band from my beautiful country! TURBO RULES!!!

That's really cool how you pay attention to the bands that are iconic in their countries of origin, but otherwise unknown elsewhere. Just a really admirable focus of the channel. I bet Turbo has been the first metal band for many people in Poland.

Turbo's life path is quite typical for post-soviet countries. As an example in Russia we have Master with a similar fate. Sensational start from traditional heavy metal suddenly becomes ordinary death metal. Talented musicians tried to follow the fashionable trends and lost their identity somewhere in the middle of the road. I completely agree with the author of the video: Dorosłe dzieci, Ostatni wojownik & Kawaleria Szatana are the best picks.

Hail Poland from Romania!

This band is a mystery to me. I'm pumped.

I´m bafled. This band WAS awesome.

Me and my mates were all into underground death and grind as teens (and I still am, as are quite a few of those guys too), and we only knew Turbo and the "Dead End" album. Imagine the look on our faces when we heard their earlier stuff. "You sure this is the same band?", "Erm, not so much now. Same logo, though..." I also like to point out that around 24:13, you can see some totally sweet Atomkraft and Deathrow shirts!! And as always, great job, brother!

I've heard one album once and know nothing about them so this is great to see. 🤘

Huh, never expected to find a vid about a Polish band here. Cool! Also, hearing you struggle with Polish names is amusing as hell :D EDIT: "Avatar" was a pretty big deal when it came out. Here in Poland it was like THE reunion, the most important heavy metal event of the decade - until they broke up again soon, of course. A few of their previous albums that you seem to appreciate were really, REALLY not liked here - I'm talking about Dead End and One Way, the fans really complained about the sound and change of direction. We somewhat always saw Turbo as our own local equivalent of Iron Maiden and the "NWOBHM" era of Turbo from Smak Ciszy and Kawaleria Szatana were always the most appreciated. We had another band for thrash metal things, and it was called KAT. Now KAT produced the single best Polish metal record, "Oddech Wymarłych Światów" (The Breath of the Extinct Worlds), which you REALLY should look into. Cheers!

Another perfect metal lesson! Thank you. Hope to see you one day make a metal school video about Arakain, metal legends from Czech Republic.

Great video and great band! Used to grow up with them during my youth. Only ever understood like 30% of what they were singing about but the instrumentals and melodies always stuck with me.

I never heard of Turbo. Definitely wasn’t expecting the SEPULTURA sound change lol

Cool, I am from Russia and I know Turbo. Great to see them on this channel, really interesting to know about them more, you are doing a great job!

The thrashy stuff is definitely competent and sounds like something I could have been into at that time, but today it's the earlier stuff that interests me. When I started watching I didn't expect much from this totally unknown (to me) Polish band, but hearing the songs from the first album put a big smile on my face. Their early- and mid 80s stuff, before it got too thrashy, definitely sounds like something I should investigate further. 👍

Dorosle Dzieci song from their debut album was actually a tragic song. As the title of the album it means ""Grown-up Children''.Well,it was a protest song against the communist regime,that kept the society cut off from the outside world. Do not think,do not ask questions,do not try to grow up,do not rebel.Just be like a child lost in the mist,without your own path.That was what the government demanded. So,the entire young generation was supposed to be like grown-up children.Unaware of their own potential.This was something Turbo rebelled against,obviously.Hence the album's title.

I will get all of Tubro albums. 😀👍🤘🎸

Piotr Pryzbylski sounds like a heavy weight, wow. Hearing him on this video has me wanting to hear much more of him. Thx for sharing TURBO with us 🤘

IMPOSSIBLE! I ALWAYS WANTED YOU TO DO A VIDEO ON TURBO

Definitely do not feel beholden to abstain from covering lesser known bands like this. That's what I'm here for, we already know about the big names, show us the weird and rare gems.

Hello from Poland ! 😃 Thx for video. One of my favourite band 🤘 Another good band from Poland is KAT 😉🔥

Thank you metal school for introducing me to this band never heard of em till today

Hi from poland. Love how you butcher polish names ;-) you nailed grzegorz tho. Those yellow overalls are in the theme of album name "adult children"

It's awesome to hear american comentary on such underground Polish band live Turbo. Awesome and funny. 🙂💪

Smoking up amd seeing there's a new meta school. Makes my day and yes,theor first album is AMAZING

2:15 if you understand those Polish times, a lot of things were avoiding censorship thanks to symbolism, second meaning and so on. Just like lyrics on first album. And on this cover you can see Łysów aiming on the guitar at the east (at USSR) and Hoffmann's hands and Anioła's sticks are made in shape of V - victory.

Thanks for your hard work and great research about this band!

Finaly a band from my country! hope Kat will be next! (can't blame ya for butchering the names tho)

I would never expect this band here. Especially since they don't sing in English and that's why they're not well known outside of Poland. Respect Metal School.

A band outside of the usa/uk axis that sings in their local language? Neat! Gonna check them out.

We need more eastern european/iron curtain band episodes. Would love to see master (you already did the sister band aria) and black obelisk to name a couple.

Love the focus on international bands! always interesting to see

bro i can't describe how much i love your videos and text! many thanks and congrats for the master content

Man, I feel were getting close to the Pokolgép vid, I'm gonna definitely start listening to them, geniune metal!

These guys are awesome! I got into them about 15 years ago. They have so many good songs with awesome solo's. Also there is one amazing one from "dead end" called "Prophetic Sound" that I love.

Once again a band I've never heard of but yet very interesting. Well done sir. 🤘😎🤘

Wow, I was not expecting a video about Turbo and they're my favourites from my country! Usually people tend to go for KAT when it comes to early metal from Poland. Thanks for that!

Wow. Very cool. Never heard of Turbo. Great documentary!

Big thanks for presenting this band!

Wow, sick! Thanks again for an awesome lesson in metal.

Everyone in Poland is named Wojciech

Very cool, I love these videos on obscure old metal bands. They have some great tunes!! Thanx for making this Metal School.

Wow.... Never heard about these guys.... They are pretty good. Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it...

No bullshki or lies I've actually never heard of them! This I already can tell will be a blast from the past!

What a great Metal history lesson once again! Rightly or wrongly not primarily singing in English probably only kept Turbo back from being much bigger. Their music, a bombastic melodic mix of Maiden and Priest and latterly Metallica, was certainly good enough to gain them international recognition! I will be honest though early Turbo sounded better than the later day Thrash sound. Metal School keeps delivering these gems. Long may it continue 🤘🏻

It was hard to find this Band in West - Berlin at this time , great Stuff

Righteous! Finally info on Turbo! Poland had a long Rock Scene since the 60s that always gets overlooked by magazines and documentary makers. I first discovered Turbo in the 80s when my family went there for a visit. I bought a single and cassette of OSTATNI WOJOWNIK. Even when the Internet rose up, I was never able to find information on those guys. I did meet and talk to Hoffman in Detroit when he toured as guitarist for the final stages of the band Czerwone Gitary. He told me about his time in Turbo. His favorite guitar was the Ibanez Gem Vai edition and was a huge fan of Crüe's self-titled Vince Neil-less album. Bravo to you for this undertaking. FAST FACT ~ DOROSLE DZIECI means grown up children, thats why he's wearing the yellow overalls and striped shirt. Trying to look like a brat.

I hear Maiden, Priest and even some Megadeath influences. All wrapped up in some insanely cool riffs. This band rocks!

Wow can't believe your doing a video about turbo! Your the first on youtube to do anything related to turbo. I have three of their albums on CD from metal mind production. Poland in the 80's and 90's have such a best kept secret of talented heavy metal bands especially technical thrash. Also what I like about this band their first six albums they kind of change styles nwobhm, power, thrash and death thrash. Hope sometime down the road you give some other polish bands some attention too. Like Dragon and Wolf Spider. Great video what a enjoy.

These guys Rip ! 🤘 Hopefully a not fragile video in the future 🙏

I was quite shocked to see an episode about a Polish band that sings in Polish❤

Kawaleria Szatana - NAJLEPIEJ !!! \m/

Great discover for me. Thanks from Brazil

Never heard of these guys but their faster stuff sounds pretty awesome especially the release "Dead End" I'm definitely going to try and find some of those records.

Reaching deep into the world of metal musik bag here. Great share.

What if this was the real Turbo Lover? 🤔😅🔥

W sobie (In Itself) has to be one of the most beautiful instrumentals ever created. BTW, great work, as always.

I hope that one day you make a video about czech band... maybe Arakain, Master's Hammer or Kabát. Greetings from Czechia.

Awesome episode!!! Never listened to Turbo!!!

Turbo is freaking amazing! My favorite album is One Way

Great video !

Great video.Good band.

Speaking next month’s band - I’m actually seeing them in mid-December - new vocalist is super cool, and sounds a fair bit similar to Mike, and on sadder terms l, it’s not been all that long since the og drummer gained acceptance to rock n roll heaven🤍 RIP Mr. Arrington.

Your videos should have a lot more views but I know they will very soon 🤘

Never heard of these dudes? Nice Work Bro🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Great work! Back in the day I bought the english version of The Last Warrior and then the following album (which was a bit of a disappointment as it lacked the great melodic aspects of TLW), they are a great band. The Last Warrior is a wonderful thrash album

Cool cool. Gonna check them out! Gotta be honest, if I did see the record somewhere in the past, I might have overlooked it bc of the overly-simple name of the band. I'm finicky like that. But gotta make allowances for the culture, non-english, etc. I grew up. I'm ready to give em a chance. Thanks!

Amazing🙌🏻

Man I clicked on this video because it mentioned polish. I’m about 50% Polish and this is nice to find a band who are from there. Time to start listening!

I had an álbum from an 80's thrash metal polish band called DESTROYERS, they sang in polish, i couldnt understand nothing 😂 but was really Nice. A suggestion for a next vídeo, the portuguese band TARÂNTULA, the still in action since the 80's. The álbum "Kingdom of Lusitânia" is great. Give it a try. Cheers from Portugal 🤘🍺🇵🇹

Pamiętam jak w połowie lat 90 kiedy z okien wszystkich dzieciaków na osiedlu leciały nóż Illusion albo scyzoryk Liroya to my paru metali na zmianę w naszych modnych wtedy pierwotnych walkmanach słuchaliśmy Kawalerii Turbo albo Lamiastraty Ceti. Oczywiście przewijanie tylko patyczkiem od loda żeby oszczędzać baterie. Tak na to patrzę to byliśmy nieźle odklejeni że słuchaliśmy wtedy klasycznego metalu zamiast panującego wtedy black metalu albo dzwnych rzeczy typu roots Sepultury.

Shit you beat me to it...I've had these guys on my to do list for a video too. Great band. The Polish version of Last Warrior is my personal favorite.

Love all the Metal School videos... this is the second video (besides Aria) of a band I've never heard. Being swedish but having polish parents I actually understand the band as well. So I'm sure to make the home work this time around.

Great video and lesson, even for us - polish metalheads :) Please make another lesson (somewhere in the future) about Acid Drinkers - second legendary metal band from Poznan. That was the first and main band for Robert Litza Friedrich and Im sure you`ll like this band, maybe even more than Turbo... Acids started with sth like crossover punk/trash and go almost only "down" in sound from there. Oh and all of their stuff is in english by design :)

Najlepsze albumy Ostatni Wojownik i Dead End

" Released in 1985, on this label..".. not even attempting the pronunciation.

Damn. I thought you fell off the edge of the earth. You've been gone so long. Thanks for the post. I'd love to see a Canadian band by the name of Brighton rocks, possibly crimson Glory or an opus of Magnum. May I also postulate a potential series for you. You could do an expose on different genres over You know 3 months or so, All thrash, all melodic rock, all glam all black metal or whatever. That'd be really cool

The four piece Turbo sounds like sepultura

I can't believe they went from that shit they started with to such aggressive thrash and even a touch of death metal. What an impressive sound change.

Sorry, for some reason I never got the notification for this, in spite of my settings to have all notifications from you - great vid as usual btw. Not that I try to find a way to inadvertently bring up Sweden in every comment i make, but they do have the market cornered when it comes to beautifully produced (sometimes clunky sounding depending on the band - which is understandable since English ain’t their native tongue) album oriented/80s inspired (again depending on the band), melodic rock with catchy (albeit a little cliche at times) hooks.

Lemme say it agsin..again... AMAZING

👍👍great video

I'd expect you would do a Metal School about KAT but this is also very nice!

This ripppppppssssssssss. Thank you

Done perfectly.

What a great band. 🎸

Super awesome bad ass!!!!

Dead end is a masterpiece!

Subbed because it’s a new band for me

Dead end such a great album

TURBO album „DEAD END”💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Jeden z fundamentów polskiego metalu.

O pięknie,jeszcze Kat,Acid Drinkers

My childhood..Those musicians are still playing as TURBO of course

Another great Polish band is Wolf Spider/Wilczy Pająk