Black Valley Moon are hailing from America and this band was formed by Down By Law guitarist Sam Williams and drummer Dave Kamrath. This new album contains 13 songs of dark atmosphere, Why? Because this band manages to incorporate punk rock, namely horrorpunk, gothabilly, throw in some surf for good measure and create an atmosphere of old school sixties horror movies like those awesome American International old horror movies. This record is very guitar oriented and I must warn you that, if you search for horrorpunk played in the vein of more straightforward bands of the genre, rather choose something else, this one is more rock, surf and rock/gothabilly oriented with vocals being kinda nervous at time and shouted, but at the same time fitting perfectly to the songs and the atmosphere that this band creates. And that is, besides music, in my opinion one of the greatest advantages a band can have, when their music takes me as a listener to some other place, atmosphere and dimension, thus the art penetrates straight to the heart of the one that it is intended for. I love underground. I love how much freedom, art and discovery it provides, making each one of us find their own new favorites. Go have a listen to this one. Songs like Don´t Lie My Succubi, Sons of Dracula or Christmas In The Castle Of Blood won´t disappoint you, plus you will hear Descendents cover like you never listened to before.
Germany´s The Baseballs are back with new album. Although I am not usually an avid fan of cover bands there are couple of exceptions from that rule. The Baseballs are one of them. Yes, they play covers of famous hits but they do it in doo wop and rockabilly version, so melodic and sooo good. Vocals are phenomenal and this music, in this renditions takes you back in time to the times when you wore a knife in your boot and were ready to fight with another guys for your favorite rock music. There are fourteen songs on this album, they are all fantastic, but my personal favorites are Rock Me Amadeus, Forever Young, Jump and Paradise City. Awesome new album!
I must admit that I have never listened to Scotland´s Full Moon Freaks prior to this record. These five piece band plays an energetic mixture of psychobilly, surf rock, rockabilly and punk rock delivering horror punches all the while.
There are 13 songs on this record, one being different version of Strontium Dogs, one of the best songs on the record, one is a cover song and one is a demo version. I must admit that I am not a fan of surf horror rock but these guys mix enough in their song structures to make them interesting and great to listen. Lyrics are about, well you can guess from the record title, can´t you? For me, more melodic songs are my favorites, for example King Cobra Snake and Night Of The Living Dead , being epic and melodic perky little fiends.
This is great album for all you freaks and ghouls out there who love their horror psyched with ´billy and surf.
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