Hellbillys
Torture Garden vinyl
(Wreckin' Bones Records)
The 2021 rerelease of flamethrowing Torture Garden was featured on this blog some three years ago. A band representative soon noted it had sold out. But because Drunkabilly is now marketing the title as a 2024 product, and since it still towers in its combustible genre, new appraisal is warranted.
Owing to brutal, amphetemine-dosed rampages and requisite ghastliness, California's yet-active Hellbillys were/are first-rank American Psychos. Amid skull-shattering devastation, old-school postures are struck but are reinvented as contemporary furies. It's entirely possible that club floors are spattered with thick crimson by night's end. Spain's Wrecking Bones reissue includes nine bonus tracks from '94 and '95.
The group plans its own rerelease of Torture Garden (with extra cuts) in 2025. And in a July Facebook message, the band pledged a new disc is also forthcoming. Counting days...
Recommended, original release: "Bondage A Go Go," "Bucket O' Blood," "Fleshook," "Whistle Bait," "No Sympathy," "Rockabilly Rumble," "Useless Man," "Nitro Ghouls," "Drug," "First Probe To Uranus," "G.I. Blues"
Recommended, bonus tracks: "It's Alive," "Evil," "Say Mama"
Videos: "Bondage A Go Go" "Bucket O' Blood"
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