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Scary Mary

(Western Star)

Demented Are Go doghouse-basher Grischa Dördelmann can also be found in the Dukes; his participation is basically a Seal of Psycho Approval. A general 1980s approach is evident in the roar and rumble that hulking Grischa et al drive home in their third waxing. From maniac guitar devastations, to skins pummeled so severely they seem about to rip into shreds, to a main throat whose owner probably crunches windshield glass between incisers and canines, each sinister stomp is lovingly scarred and thrown in indiscriminate avalanche. Get shellacked.

Recommended: "Nightmare," "Body Bag," "Eventually," "Old No. 7," "Sometimes It Kills Me Being Lonely," "Raving Mad," "Scary Mary"

Videos: "Nightmare"   "Eventually"   "Sometimes It Kills Me Being Lonely"   "Scary Mary"

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Various Artists

Wreckin' the Decades - Volume 4

(Western Star)

Variations in quality being common to various-artist compendiums, exactly that can be anticipated here, though with the good news that plusses predominate. Uncoiling and lashing here are factors characteristic to Alan Wilson's Western Star stable -- including dire topics, rampageous rhythms, brown-paper-wrapper smuttiness, and doghouse-smackaround crownings. 

Recommended: "The Jolly Collier" (The Coal Dust Cowboys), "Billy Turned Psycho" (Dukes of Tijuana), "Living Dead Girl" (The Rock-It Dogz), "Undead Doll" (The Surfin' Wombatz), "Offski Boogie" (Henry & the Bleeders), "Freddie's Luck" (El-Camino), "Three-Holed Electric Love Doll" (The Coal Dust Cowboys),  "Washed Out" (Dukes of Tijuana), "B-Movie Killer Porno Queen" (The Bad Roaches), "The Undertaker's Girl" (Stage Frite), "Decapitate the Establishment" (El-Camino)

Videos: "The Jolly Collier"   "Billy Turned Psycho"   "Undead Doll"   "Decapitate the Establishment"

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Attack of the Rockin' Zombies   digital

(Blue Century Records)

"Who's this crazy wise guy, said Rock'n'Roll was dead?," demands Billy Taylor, in an agile exploit accompanied by similarly spooky renderings purveyed by hep creepy-crawlies. "I'm the monster Rock'n'Roll," growls Freddie Pinkhard, in guest turn with snap combo Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, personifying the culture-jarring creature that knocked stultifying straighties flat off their tintypes. In some undefinable manner, primitive ambiance intensifies playfully eerie character.

Recommended: "Zombie" (The Salmas Brothers), "Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall)" (The Duponts), "Wombie Zombie" (Billy Taylor & the Teardrops), "Night of the Vampire" (The Moontrekkers),  "Youngster Meets Monster" (Danny Zellas Rockers), "Janie Made a Monster" (The Fabulous Five), "Rockin' Zombie" (The Crewnecks)

Videos: "Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall)"   "Wombie Zombie"   "Janie Made a Monster"   "Rockin' Zombie"

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The Roughnecks

Guess Who

(Tombrero)

Listeners get both roundhouse wallops and affably tuneful come-ons. Guess Who first glimpsed daylight as a 12" in 2017, via Drunken Monkey Records. Last year, Tombrero reintroduced it to ears as a digital offensive; that same year saw the German ramrods rip straight into cerebra at Santa Susanna, Spain's Psychobilly Meeting festival. (The previous year, they'd tipped hats to 40 years and counting.) Songs' trajectories benefit from unanticipated avenues.

Recommended: "The Sleeper," "Guess Who," "Flying," "RWTD"

Videos: "Guess Who"   "Flying"

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The Real Gone Trio

Psycho Rockabilly Est. 2016 (remastered) / Journey Into Mictlan

(Self-Issued)

For all Psycho-Rockabilly's headlong dash in excellent directions -- and, were it standing alone, cash registers pressed into frequent service would surely expire -- Journey into Mictlan surpasses it in both style and substance. Owing to platters like this, Earth is probably getting an intergalactic reputation as a party planet.

Psycho-Rockabilly Recommended: "Intro / Trouble," "Where Did My Baby Go," "Rock It"

Video: live "Intro / Trouble" "Where Did My Baby Go" (live, 2018)  

Journey to Mictlan Recommended: "Going Down," "Tell Me That You Love Me," "Real Gone Cluster," "Why Don't You Go Away," "Out the Door," "Picking in A," "Propane and Propane Accessories," "Tell Me," "Cannibal Beach," "Again," "Where Did My Baby Go"

Videos: "Real Gone Cluster"   "Out the Door"   "Propane and Propane Accessories"

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Pumpkin' Disorderly - a Halloween Goes Punk Compilation

Though unavailable for estimation at presstime, this All Hallow's Eve ghoulpendium pledges macabre titillation sufficient to warrant purchase by those who dare. 

(Presented by Crap-O-Rama -- "The Interplanetary Truckstop of the Lost Dimension. Oddities, Novelties, Vintage Pop Culture, Weird, Strange, and Unusual, Cryptids, Aliens and Paranormal Awesomeness!")

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Against Abi Gabba Ghoul's insistent snareskin hammerings, and with Danny "Widerbeast" ensuring that rigorous slap-bass rattlings resound up front where they belong, Justin Strange (he of towering wedge and nightshadow cheaters) spits a tale coldly credible -- given his dirt-nap pallor -- with gravel-throated disdain for mortality.

Video: "I Ain't Dead"

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Brioles

XL   Vinyl LP

(El Toro Records)

Jorge, Daniel, and Josep maintain bond to the Rock'n'Roll classics that soundtracked their lives, which explains their decision to commemorate 40 Brioles years with reinventions of them. That affection finds expression on record as stormy celebrations, poignancy, and an electricity whose avid charges only circulate through endeavors of significance, this being one.

Recommended: "It's Love," "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White," "I Don't Care," "I'm Going Crazy," "No Feelings," "Drifting Heart," "Raska-Yu," "Down in the Cellar," "Ella Es Tan Extraña," "Bo Was Right (Pretty Thing)"

Videos: "It's Love"   "I Don't Care"   "No Feelings"   "Drifting Heart"   "Bo Was Right (Pretty Thing"

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Dogface Bastards

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(Self-issued)

As invigoratingly defiant as rebellion with the cause of Oi! sounds on record, total immersion in the animal comes only for those launching themselves into the snarling, participatory beast; everywhere, bodies fly, tumble, and sprawl, all to tunes blasted by mohawked warriors. L.A.'s Dogface Bastards urge on circle-dance mayhem in wee hours. 

None of the foregoing was meant to dissuade disc purchasers. To the contrary, subjecting eardrums to the raucousness the Dogfaced ones shovel so violently is a fine first step toward the maelstrom.

Recommended: "Dogbite," "Dog Eat Dog," "New Voice of Oi!," "Friday Night," "Do or Bust," "Barking Dogs Don't Bite"

Videos: "Dog Eat Dog" / "New Voice of Oi!" / etc (live)   "Barking Dogs Don't Bite"

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Die Erste Und Einzige

(Just Another Normal Guy Records)

Had it not been for JANGR's discovery, remastering, and fresh 200-copy issuance of these unreleased tracks, all the world might know of the early '80s Deutschland hearties is the single cut they contributed back then to a compilation. Their in-rash-germination Punkabilly shouts exuberance at its own rumbustiousness. Even in current times, and to ears wise to subsequent Psycho squallings, old-school recklessness offers magnetism all its own.

Recommended: "Do the Bop," "Everywhere," "Rockabilly Cat," "Bad Times," "Racecat," "Boppin' At the Moon," "Hep Cat Dance," "Wild Girl," "Just Be Crazy," "Someday I'll Be a Star"

Videos: promo (3:48)   "Everywhere"   "Hep Cat Dance"   

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Rockin' Bones

Somewhere amidst forbidding foliage on the outskirts of nowhere, beauteous gris-gris spellcasters divert, their talismans and other arcane hex statuary at hand, as Frenchmen of reverb, hipchain, and triple slap thrash pathway through Psychobilly, as practiced by old-school wreckage mongers on planets of which NASA Poindexters know not.

Video: "Death Dance"

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Captain...The Klingons have surrounded URANUS!

(Sharawaji Records)

Snort derisively at the 2022 instrumental work's asinine title, and no counterargument will be registered from this quarter. Turning to the contents, though, one finds an entirely other story: Six-string pyrotechnics set off conflagratory spectacularness, adventuring at warp speed and scrambling down unforseen corkscrews. Sensationalistic manners of Psychobilly, Morricone musings, surf hullabalooings, New Delhi bazaars -- and something perhaps answering to descriptor 'RockaPsychedeliaBilly' -- bashthrash from within brainpans hopelessly hooked on Science Fiction stuntery, as 1960s one-lung auteurs force-fed it to drive-in backseat grapplers.

Even were title "Geosynchonous Orbituary" the sole feature that track had going for it, a crown would be merited. But so much more of intriguing consequence throbs within. 

Recommended: "Captain...The Klingons Have Surrounded Uranus," "My Organ (Intro) Trailer Park Rendezvous," "The Crawling Eye," "Ghost Train," "Private Eye," "The Abyssal Ass Fish," "Desert Winds," "Geosynchonous Orbituary"

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Ultrainstinto

Try as they might, Medellín's shadows fail to obfuscate the descending passages, chordal crashes, and magisterial musical body that envelop listeners in this tale of dangerous mystery. Nor can lightning flashes of solo oration or raging vocal exhortations be taken lightly, such is the urgency with which they haul ass into your essence.

Video: "Ritual de las Sombras"

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Nightwork

(Self-issued)

Should some lackwit aver that Ukraine lacks Psychobilly, flip open their cranium and install this with maximum force. Hurtling thrashstorms render language insignificant. Lock, load, and wreck till all around is wasteland. Continue wrecking.

Recommended: "Nichna robota," "Ibash," "Ne khochesh" "Pokynute misto," "Shepit vnochi," "Kathany," "Kris nich," "Sontsea liahaie," "Zalyshaieshsia tut"

Videos: "Nichna robota"   "I Bash"   "Pokynute misto"   "Sontsea Liahaie"

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Karling and the Kadavers

Curse on Me   EP

(Self-issued)

Title platter-gash races like a hearse up sideways on two wheels. Frantic, grim, and neck-snapping. Slap-bass prominent "Ruby" lopes, its cold tale of svelte vampirism cinematic in descriptiveness. (Somebody exhume Tura Satana and Al Adamson.) Slashing guitarwork is perpetrated by three practioners of villainy: Fuse, Watts, and Gator McMurder. (GM also wielded that mighty bass.) "The Worst of Me" concludes this dark endeavor, with Bermuda Schwartz hammering skins like they dared to look at him funny. 

And Karling herself? She amazes with vocal cords that know no boundary and shake every note on the scale until it has Xs on its eyelids.

Recommended: "Curse on Me," "Ruby," "The Worst of Me"

Videos: "Curse on Me" (official video)   "Ruby"   "The Worst of Me"

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Psych (live)   Digital EP

(Monkey Temple Production)

The seething and snaking "Slip Slip Slippin' In" and "Psych" were on the Dogs' Vodka and Kalashnikov, also issued in 2024. Poison-pen missives, offered now in versions more frequently than not in slo-mo venomousness, they typify the menace amassing formidability cut by cut. It's magnetic in its malfigurement. It's Psychobilly.

Recommended: "Slip Slip Slippin' In," "Psych!," "Clap Hands"

Videos: "Slip Slip Slippin' In"   "Psych"

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