Zombina and The Skeletones

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Zombina and The Skeletones
in Bochum (2008)
in Bochum (2008)
General information
origin Liverpool , England
Genre (s) Horror punk
founding 1998 as The Deformed
Founding members
singing
 Zombina Venus Hatchett
Guitar, vocals
 Doc horror
Keyboard, vocals
 Jonny Tokyo
Current occupation
Singing, theremin
 Zombina Venus Hatchett
Guitar, vocals
 Doc horror
saxophone
 X-Ray Speck (since 2008)
bass
 Kyle K'Thulu (since 2008)
Drums
 Ben Dur (since 2007)
former members
guitar
 Grim Outlook (1999-2004)
guitar
 Taylor Woah (2004)
Drums
 Kit Shivers (1999-2005)
Guitar, vocals
 Louie Diablo (2004-2006)
Drums
 Peter Martin (2006)
Keyboard
 Jonny Tokyo (2008)
bass
 Jettison Dervish 2008

Zombina and The Skeletones ( ZATS for short ) are a British horror punk band from Liverpool that was founded in 1998 under the name The Deformed . Typically for the genre, their music contains elements from rockabilly , doo wop singing and surf rock .

Band history

The singer Zombina and the guitarist and songwriter Doc Horror first met in 1998. After realizing that they had similar musical and cinematic preferences, they began to write their own songs. This led to the release of their first demo No Sleep 'Til Transylvania in 1999 , then under the band name The Deformed .

This demo already contained songs like The Grave… And Beyond! , Braindead and Leave my Brain alone , which both musically and in terms of content are reminiscent of early works by Misfits and The Cramps and later became popular Zombina and The Skeletones songs. When they first appeared in 1999, Doc Horror let the audience decide whether the band should continue to be called The Deformed or continue under the name Zombina and The Skeletones . The audience chose the name Zombina and The Skeletones , which the band has been using since then. In 2002 the release of their debut album Taste the Blood of Zombina & The Skeletones followed .

Singer Zombina (Live, 2009)

In 2003 the band started a rock 'n' roll club night called "Useless" in Liverpool, where the band performed every week. The series of events was later renamed "Zombie Hop" and took place at the Heaven and Hell Club in Liverpool. A little later the club night was discontinued.

The single I Was A Human Bomb For The FBI was released in 2004 as a 7 ″ vinyl, two more 7 ″ copies followed. This was followed by appearances with The Damned , the Misfits, The Meteors , Wednesday 13 and Jayne County in Great Britain, as well as a short tour of Germany. The band also recorded an "Unsigned Band" session for BBC Radio 2 .

In late 2006, Death Valley High was finally released . This concept album tells the story of the imaginary student Janie Spencer and her experiences on Death Valley High . In the same year the band headlined the Lumous Gothic Festival in Finland . In 2007 you were one of the headliners of the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig . In addition, the Troma Entertainment film Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead was released in 2006 , to whose soundtrack Zombina and The Skeletones contributed the song Red Planet from their debut album.

In 2008 the band signed a recording contract with the German label Fiend Force Records , which released the album Out of the Crypt and into your Heart on Halloween of the same year , which was recorded in 2007. The follow-up album Charnel House Rock was released under Ectoplastic Records in 2014 . In the same year, the group released Love is Strange , a single with the participation of Argyle Goolsby , the former singer and bassist of Blitzkid .

Discography

Albums

  • 2002: Taste the Blood of Zombina and the Skeletones
  • 2006: Death Valley High
  • 2006: Monsters On 45
  • 2008: Out of the Crypt and into your Heart
  • 2014: Charnel House Rock

EPs and singles

  • 2000: Love Bites
  • 2001: Silver Bullet
  • 2002: Frankenlady
  • 2003: Halloween Hollerin '!
  • 2004: Promo EP
  • 2006: 3 songs vs. Your brain
  • 2006: Chainsaw For Christmas (Download)
  • 2007: Halloween Party Classics (Download)
  • 2007: Dracula Blood
  • 2011: Teenage Caveman Beat Gargantua / Futurelife
  • 2012: That Doll Just Tried To Kill Me
  • 2014: Love is Strange (with Argyle Goolsby )
  • 2015: In Sinistereo (Part One)
  • 2015: In Sinistereo (Part Two)
  • 2016: In Sinistereo (Part Three)
  • 2017: In Sinistereo (Part Four)

7 "EP trilogy

  • 2004: I Was A Human Bomb For The FBI
  • 2005: Mondo Zombina!
  • 2005: Staci Stasis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goodnight, Jonny Tokyo! ( Memento of March 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Liverpool - Unsigned Bands - Zombina & The Skeletones. BBC
  3. ↑ Wave Gotik Treffen 2007. In: festivalhopper.de. May 28, 2007, accessed October 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ↑ Product page of the album Out of the Crypt and into your Heart at amazon.de