(Gein and the Graverobbers) have the creepy surf sound
down, man the production is pretty amazing...Sounds like Dick
Dale backed by Jerry and Doyle fromthe Misfits or something,
pretty cool stuff...
Yeehaw! (Songs in the Key of Evil) rocks! Good sounds and fun songs that move around quite a bit. I'm glad to add it to my collection.
I dig the way the recordings came out, not slick, not thin sounding, but obviously a lot of thought went into it....good work for a serial killer!
I liked Night on Route 666. Very Misfits... The Devil's Skin was the spookiest track, therefore the one I liked best.
Ah yes, the latest offering by "Satan's favorite surf band," and it is one dark, spookidelic, horror-laden, creepshow that will make you lock your doors and look under the bed. These instrumental gems not only exhibit musical acumen, but create a sense of atmosphere thicker than a London fog. Hell, they even do an Iron Maiden cover (Transylvania)! I always thought that band's music would be better without that sissy singer! This album was recorded in a studio instead of their basement this time, but they still keep the essence of the low-fi sound with the added bonus of sound consistency and clarity. Choice cuts are "Soul Collector" with its manic guitar picking, "Night on Route 666" with its blood and guts grinding, "Through the Trees" with its reverb soaked etherealness, or even "The Left Hand Path," in which I swear I heard a touch of South of Heaven. Still, those picks are somewhat arbitrary given the album's overall density of good tracks. Despite the band's focus, you need not be a horror buff either, to appreciate the masterful arrangements on here. For my money, this is one of the best instrumental bands on the chopping block of today's macabre market.
Gein and co. go the horror route with their surprisingly fresh take on the trad. surf sound...atmospheric sound bites, brooding minor keys...as Man or Astroman? did the science fiction instro. Credo!
Winter may not seem like the best time to pick up a surf album, but when it's being played with the frigid and sterile production values of Gein and the Graverobbers, nothing could be more appropriate. Influenced by Dick Dale and the Cramps, Gein follows up last year's "Hang Ten" with thirteen tracks of terrifying instrumental surf and garage that rely on heavy Fender reverb and drippy guitar playing. The result? A haunting soundtrack of '60's B-horror and instumental odes to serial killers. Included is a surf rendidtion of Iron Maiden's Transylvania, as well as another hidden metal classic that we'll leave as a surprise. Easily one of the most genuinely creepy-sounding bands in the modern underground horror surf scene. Go ghouls go!
It's a dark and somewhat moody... with a relentless intensity and sense of danger. Like a brooding inversion of a trad surf...
Twangy guitars shot through with reverb ride that ever-pulsing skeletonal surf beat as one guitar gobbles Crampsoid maggots whist the other pokes around the weirdly heart-tugging instrumental stuff the Brit genius Joe Meek strained through The Tornadoâs when your dad was in first grade.
...lead guitarist Gein is really quite good, the band itself is tight, and the production quality is an A...
- 3rd Degree Burns (Deadbolt)
Yeehaw! (Songs in the Key of Evil) rocks! Good sounds and fun songs that move around quite a bit. I'm glad to add it to my collection.
- Dusty Watson (Dick Dale, Slacktone, Agent Orange)
I dig the way the recordings came out, not slick, not thin sounding, but obviously a lot of thought went into it....good work for a serial killer!
- Mel Bergman (The Phantom Surfers)
I liked Night on Route 666. Very Misfits... The Devil's Skin was the spookiest track, therefore the one I liked best.
- The Baron (Ghastly Ones)
Ah yes, the latest offering by "Satan's favorite surf band," and it is one dark, spookidelic, horror-laden, creepshow that will make you lock your doors and look under the bed. These instrumental gems not only exhibit musical acumen, but create a sense of atmosphere thicker than a London fog. Hell, they even do an Iron Maiden cover (Transylvania)! I always thought that band's music would be better without that sissy singer! This album was recorded in a studio instead of their basement this time, but they still keep the essence of the low-fi sound with the added bonus of sound consistency and clarity. Choice cuts are "Soul Collector" with its manic guitar picking, "Night on Route 666" with its blood and guts grinding, "Through the Trees" with its reverb soaked etherealness, or even "The Left Hand Path," in which I swear I heard a touch of South of Heaven. Still, those picks are somewhat arbitrary given the album's overall density of good tracks. Despite the band's focus, you need not be a horror buff either, to appreciate the masterful arrangements on here. For my money, this is one of the best instrumental bands on the chopping block of today's macabre market.
- Rock -n- Roll Purgatory
Gein and co. go the horror route with their surprisingly fresh take on the trad. surf sound...atmospheric sound bites, brooding minor keys...as Man or Astroman? did the science fiction instro. Credo!
- Maximum Rock -n- Roll
Winter may not seem like the best time to pick up a surf album, but when it's being played with the frigid and sterile production values of Gein and the Graverobbers, nothing could be more appropriate. Influenced by Dick Dale and the Cramps, Gein follows up last year's "Hang Ten" with thirteen tracks of terrifying instrumental surf and garage that rely on heavy Fender reverb and drippy guitar playing. The result? A haunting soundtrack of '60's B-horror and instumental odes to serial killers. Included is a surf rendidtion of Iron Maiden's Transylvania, as well as another hidden metal classic that we'll leave as a surprise. Easily one of the most genuinely creepy-sounding bands in the modern underground horror surf scene. Go ghouls go!
- Rue Morgue Magazine
It's a dark and somewhat moody... with a relentless intensity and sense of danger. Like a brooding inversion of a trad surf...
- Phil Dirt (Reverb Central)
Twangy guitars shot through with reverb ride that ever-pulsing skeletonal surf beat as one guitar gobbles Crampsoid maggots whist the other pokes around the weirdly heart-tugging instrumental stuff the Brit genius Joe Meek strained through The Tornadoâs when your dad was in first grade.
- Lollipop
...lead guitarist Gein is really quite good, the band itself is tight, and the production quality is an A...
- The Noise