The Arrasate environment has had a direct connection for a long time. with music. In the case of this latter style, throughout the 1990s Arrasate was an island of the nuts, as it did not exist anywhere else, and in this town a lot. Later, these kinds of groups increased and there's still a quarry. But in recent years, many of those involved in music have moved on to punk rock, folk rock and other styles. In general, the range of styles within rock has increased significantly.
Among them, it is surprising and gratifying to create a psychobillys group, something that can hardly be found in the Basque Country, no more and no less outside the capitals. Of course, these Arrasate and Aretxabaleta musicians are not beginners and everyone has their own trajectory behind: The punk group of Aretxabaleta Neallta Fola Street-punk, the punk group of Oñati Coup and the band of Arrasate Los Galerna, which makes instrumental rock, among others.
From Nekromantix, Mad Sin, Johnny Cash, The Torments, Gutter Demonds, Meteors, Social Distortion, etc., starting rehearsing and admiring in 2012, they created their own songs. So, almost without realizing it, they started performing concerts in Arrasate, Bilbao, Madrid, Berlin… And then, as soon as they completed the group and the songs, they have published in vinyl and CD Demon Tales, a work recorded in the Nekrosound study of Aretxabaleta.
They have everything to be the Psychobilly group: the frenzied contraband running the devil, the guitar riffs typical of the rock and roll of the 1950s, the bad hostile of punk and drums, the underground words and, above all, attitude. Thus, they have achieved a convincing and forceful result, they have surprised the locals and are receiving recognition abroad.
But if you look at the nuances of the album, the group goes further: it has a lot of punk; there's the force and the speed that the group has. In that they have a lot to do with the background of some of the members of the group. And, on the other hand, the fact that two components of the group come from the imaginative instrumental rock band Los Galerna has much to say both in the rich instrumentations and singing arrangements as in the use of saxo, something that is not common in these groups and that makes them very special.
Among the songs sung in English, there are quick and dark pieces (Alien, Evil thrashmen, Fire in my head, My way…) with patterns of psychobilly in fullness (Willie the fisherman, Kendrick's psycho mansion…); and large rock pieces (Willie the fisherman, Kendrick's psycho mansion…). In addition, they have dared with Hillbilly (Little Jim), accompanied by the banjo Julek of the RIP group, and have elegantly and vitally united swing Io, rock and roll of the 50 and punk in the song that has already been born to be hit.
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