Turbo Killer
Track four of EP III, whose Seth Ickerman video won a Berlin award and led to the film Blood Machines.
Carpenter Brut, from EP III (2015)
"Turbo Killer" is the fourth track of EP III, 3:28, released on January 19, 2015 and produced by Franck Hueso; no explicit songwriting credit was found. Its music video, directed by Seth Ickerman (Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard), is dated February 29, 2016 on IMVDb, which counted 18.6 million YouTube views when we looked. The duo first wanted "Hang'em All" for a festival trailer, then got free rein with one request, to include certain characters Hueso had in mind, and he saw the finished video two weeks before release. It won Best VFX at the Berlin Music Video Awards in 2016. Daily Grindhouse called it a mix of space opera and Hellraiser, barely coherent and intensely fun.
Fans asked in YouTube comments for more of that world, and Ickerman's Blood Machines, with producer David Sandberg signed in December 2016, grew out of a Kickstarter from about 30 to 50 minutes and appeared on Shudder in 2020; it is considered a sequel to the video. Setlist.fm lists "Turbo Killer" as his second most played song, 168 plays against 169 for "Maniac" and 167 for "Roller Mobster"; it was near the end of the Toronto set on April 14, 2026. We found no covers or samples, and could not tell whether our upload is the official video or the EP audio.
On stage
- 2026-04-14, Toronto Played near the end of the set.
Sources
- Carpenter Brut, Wikipedia
- Turbo Killer, IMVDb
- Carpenter Brut interview, NewRetroWave (2017-03-01)
- Turbo Killer, Daily Grindhouse (2019-10-27)