Nekromantix: Return Of The Loving Dead (Hellcat)

By Tommi Lindqvist

This was my first Nekromantix album, in fact it was just about my first time ever to hear this type of music (if The Cramps and Living End are not included), and I wasn't disappointed. This is basically a mix of punk rock and rockabilly and, as I have a good history in both of those types of stuff, I really dig this one.

As I'm writing this, I have heard a couple of the band's other albums, but I must say this is the best one. It's a little more produced and a little more punk, meaning the guitar is a bit more distorted. The band is almost fifteen years old so it's fucking obvious they know how to play.

The songs are really catchy and it seems that the album structure is something like this: 5 fast songs, 1 slow, 5 fast and 1 slow again but it works. The lyrics are quite silly with song titles like "Who killed the Cheerleader", "Rubbermonks & Leathernuns" and "Generation 666", but nevermind that, it's a part of the deal, psychobilly music is often described as "Elvis meets the Wolfman", so here YOU GO!

1. Nice day for a Resurrection
2. Who killed the Cheerleader
3. Nekronauts
4. Subcultural Girl
5. Gargoyles over Copenhagen
6. Trick or Treat
7. Murder for Breakfast
8. RubberMonks & LeatherNuns
9. Generation 666
10. Return of the loving Dead
11. I'm a Hellcat
12. Haunted Cathouse
13. Nekronomicon

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