Punkabilly

Punkabilly describes the mixture of punk rock and rockabilly elements.

The origin of punkabilly lies in the 1970s with the New York group The Cramps . In the 1980s, however, punkabilly was mostly used for groups like Demented Are Go or Mad Sin , which came from the psychobilly environment. Rockabilly influences played a lesser role in these bands, which is why, in contrast to bands like The Meteors, they were not considered "Pure Psychobilly".

Since the 1990s, however, punkabilly has established itself as a general umbrella term for a genre that ranges from “punkier” psychobilly (also called 'Hellbilly') to extremely poppy music (e.g. horror pop , The Living End , Tiger Army ) to Arrangements in a full big band line-up ( Kings of Nuthin ' ) based on punk and rockabilly combine a wide range of influences.

Style of play

Punkabilly is usually characterized by the fact that the guitar not only plays a certain rhythm in the form of power chords , as is usually the case with punk , but mostly plays solo-like parts. The drums usually play a modification of a simple two beat , as is also the case with rockabilly .

Often the same instruments are used as in rockabilly : a double bass , a drum kit and one or two guitars, which are often semi-acoustic, although you can often see a telecaster . The use of the double bass as a slap bass is extremely important for most bands to see themselves as a "punkabilly band".

Bands of the genre

• The Peacocks
• Heartbreak Engines
• The Living End
• Sewer Rats
• Mad Sin
• Shark soup
• Barnyard Ballers
• The cramps
• Tea Flanders
• Gangnails
• Godless Wicked Creeps
• Horror pops
• Kings of nuthin '
• Necromantix
• Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space
• Motel Transylvania

Web links

• Genre definition (English)