Nekromantix
Return of the Loving Dead (Hellcat)
by Scott Hefflon
“Thriller” meets the Reverend Horton Heat. Some may slag graveyard-obsessed rockabilly as being campy, like “What are you, the Danzig of rockabilly or something, freak?” But those people’ll quickly get a mouthfulla knuckles’n’biker rings, so beware… One of the good things about this stuff (like I can overgeneralize the Gothabilly culture, which exists, uh, for all of a couple comps-worth of bands) is that it’s musically talented and knowledgeable as to roots-rock tradition and such. And at the same time, they mix ghoul humor in with it.
(2798 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026)