Slovenian band Eightbomb has been around a while and the guys have seen their share of touring action, ripping the stages accross many countries, having tons of great gigs, laughs, but also broken hearts when their guitarist Lou passed away suddenly in 2015.
Fast forward to 2018. and this is their brand new studio album. The music Eightbomb plays is not your traditional rock n roll, but also not your schoolbook rockabilly or psychobilly, rather it is a mix of everything above mentioned but at the same time the guys managed to retain the awesome dose of originality and energy, not being anyone´s clone. The album contains 8 songs just made for dancing and singing along at one of Eightbomb´s awesome gigs. For me, somehow the personal favourites of this album are “Killer Babe” and “A Scar”. Great album to listen to and just rock n roll the day off!
I first heard this band when they played at Trash N Burn couple of years ago. I liked them very much after their set there and I was very happy when this new record arrived.
The Rocket Dogz come from Prague, Czech Republic. They play psychobilly with punkrock, horrorpunk and rockabilly influences. The trio sounds very tight, very powerful and they are certainly one of the strongest European acts in that scene nowadays. They played gigs throughout the years that made them very loved and respected in the scene. The album contains 13 tracks with lyrics in English of course and I loved the energy and melody on this album. Everything in the song structures is just perfect, melodies, riffs, vocal lines, voice, backing vocals and of course, the lyrics. You can´t go wrong with songs like “Cemetery Walls” or “Slaves of the Darkness” or “Blood Moon Rising”. This is an excellent album that not only psychos will like, but also punkrockers will enjoy these blood soaked tracks.
This band comes from Calgary, Alberta and this is, as I understand their debut studio effort. This ep contains 5 songs of horrorpunk mayhem mixed with a lot of psychobilly influence in the song structures.
Vocally, the band leans more on a harsh side of the things, but adding enough melody to be memorable and catchy. I have said it for million times and I say it again, I just love when horrorpunk bands use samples from the movies and this band does it during the whole e.p. My favourite song on the e.p. is “Zombie Girl” being the most melodic song on the record and I listened to it couple of times in a row. Time passes quickly while listening to this e.p. and I really wish these guys record a whole full album and I cant wait to hear it. We will hear of this band more in the future I am sure.
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