Horror Punk bands you should check out.

BKT - 1-14-2009 at 11:25 PM

Like the Misfits? Well here are some great bands that were obviously inspired by them:

The Crimson Ghosts.
Grave Robber
The Night Shift
Zombeast
Terrill
Calabrese

They all have myspace look em up and listen if this is your thing. I am a big fan of all these bands, they were able to pull it off in my opinion.

MM.

DAK - 1-15-2009 at 12:01 AM

Plan 9

tireironsaint - 1-15-2009 at 12:36 AM

I LOVE Horror Punk, but none of those do it all that well for me. The Crimson Ghosts are pretty good, but everything I've heard from them is just Surfed up instro versions of Misfits songs. Calabrese are ok, I guess, but there's something about their sound that just makes me believe that each and every member of the band would happily take Danzig's cock down their throat just to be able to say they did.

I would say that my favorite Horror Punk band outside of the whole Misfits/Samhain family is The Staggers outta Dallas. I don't think they're really active right now, but the main force behind them has another band called Dog Company which is kinda similar in style, but without the Horror stuff and the kind of Western sound that the Staggers have. Anyway, there are two amazing full lengths available from them on Haunted Town records that I HIGHLY recommend. The singer for both of these bands can really fucking sing and has an amazing voice, perfectly suited to Horror and not at all another Danzig rip off. There were some other releases from these guys too, some under the name Riot Squad, before they realized that there were already dozens of other bands using that name. If you listen to the Staggers and become a huge fan of their sound, I'd recommend searching out the Riot Squad stuff too, but it's a bit harder to track down and not quite as perfected as they became after the name change.

Another one I love would be the Tall Boys. The OTHER founding member of The Meteors went on to form this group with much less of a Psychobilly sound, but still a strong Horror and Western type root to it. Most people know them from their track on the soundtrack to Return Of The Living Dead, but there's a great CD out there called Fun Time which has pretty much everything they recorded and is well worth the import pricing I paid a few years back when I finally tracked it down.

There were a few great bands on that soundtrack, another one would be The Jet Black Berries and their former incarnation as a band called New Math. Very Goth Rock sounding, but not the light and fluffy bullshit or the fruity dance shit that most people think of in that genre.

Voodoobillyman - 1-15-2009 at 09:29 AM

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Originally posted by tireironsaint
I LOVE Horror Punk, but none of those do it all that well for me. The Crimson Ghosts are pretty good, but everything I've heard from them is just Surfed up instro versions of Misfits songs. Calabrese are ok, I guess, but there's something about their sound that just makes me believe that each and every member of the band would happily take Danzig's cock down their throat just to be able to say they did.

I would say that my favorite Horror Punk band outside of the whole Misfits/Samhain family is The Staggers outta Dallas. I don't think they're really active right now, but the main force behind them has another band called Dog Company which is kinda similar in style, but without the Horror stuff and the kind of Western sound that the Staggers have. Anyway, there are two amazing full lengths available from them on Haunted Town records that I HIGHLY recommend. The singer for both of these bands can really fucking sing and has an amazing voice, perfectly suited to Horror and not at all another Danzig rip off. There were some other releases from these guys too, some under the name Riot Squad, before they realized that there were already dozens of other bands using that name. If you listen to the Staggers and become a huge fan of their sound, I'd recommend searching out the Riot Squad stuff too, but it's a bit harder to track down and not quite as perfected as they became after the name change.

Another one I love would be the Tall Boys. The OTHER founding member of The Meteors went on to form this group with much less of a Psychobilly sound, but still a strong Horror and Western type root to it. Most people know them from their track on the soundtrack to Return Of The Living Dead, but there's a great CD out there called Fun Time which has pretty much everything they recorded and is well worth the import pricing I paid a few years back when I finally tracked it down.

There were a few great bands on that soundtrack, another one would be The Jet Black Berries and their former incarnation as a band called New Math. Very Goth Rock sounding, but not the light and fluffy bullshit or the fruity dance shit that most people think of in that genre.

Saint, there are two crimson Ghosts, the one you mentioned is the Mass based Misfits surf cover band. They do that specifically. there is another Crimson Ghosts that is more along the lines of what MM was listing out. I too love the horror punk genre and will recommend a few compilations for any whom are interested.

This is Horror punk Vol I and II - Fiendforce records (they have alot of good horror bands)

The horror of it all Vol I and II - unsure of label.

Wednesday 13's Horror High compilation.

BKT - 1-15-2009 at 11:57 AM

Ya I was talking about the second Crimson Ghost, not the Misfits cover band.

Also I cannot believe I forgot to list Demonspeed. They are great as well.

Iron Saint thanks for the suggestions I will have to check some of that out.

MM.

MarkV - 1-15-2009 at 03:08 PM

Demonspeed? The swing metal band from NYC?

BKT - 1-15-2009 at 03:47 PM

Ya that is them. They were great. Not sure if they are still around.

MM.

MarkV - 1-15-2009 at 04:05 PM

I haven't heard anything from them in YEARS. I'm pretty sure they're done. Probably 10 years since the last time I saw them.

Voodoobillyman - 1-15-2009 at 08:00 PM

Yup. The two albums and out for Demonspeed. But "Swing is Hell" was an important album for my musical taste development if you will. Really got me hip to a bunch of different stuff.

tireironsaint - 1-15-2009 at 11:46 PM

Hmmm, I'll hafta look into this other Crimson Ghosts band. I had only ever heard of the surf one and while they're really good at that, I can only listen to music without vocals for so long.

As for The Staggers, here's their myspace page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPro...

I'll go back through and track some of these other bands down too.

sippers - 1-16-2009 at 09:40 AM

grave robbers have some new trax shit is sick.from the new album into the killing fields.i'll be doing the complete layout for the ablum shit is going to be my best work to date..

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPro...

Voodoobillyman - 1-16-2009 at 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by sippers
grave robbers have some new trax shit is sick.from the new album into the killing fields.i'll be doing the complete layout for the ablum shit is going to be my best work to date..

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPro...

Very much looking foward to this! I dig these guys big time!