Psychobilly
Psychobilly is a style of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. Some psychobilly songs include thrash metal or country music styles. Psychobilly is commonly played with a simple guitar/bass/drum/vocal arrangement, with many bands consisting of only three members. Often the guitarist or bassist will be the lead vocalist.
The first psychobilly band was the Meteors, a band from London, UK.
Psychobilly band members and fans often shave part of their heads.
Psychobilly Media
The Cramps are considered progenitors of psychobilly.
The Meteors are considered the first definitive psychobilly band.
Demented Are Go's singer's stage blood make-up is an example of the horror-film schtick some psychobilly bands adopted.
The influential German band Mad Sin in 2008. From a psychobilly fashion perspective, note the bassist's red-dyed pompadour and the guitarist on the right's crop cut sides.
Tiger Army, shown here performing on the 2007 Warped Tour, are one of the most significant American psychobilly acts.
Reverend Horton Heat playing in 2010
Canadian psychobilly band The Creepshow playing in Manchester in 2012
The Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space show the use of horror-film stage costumes and the decoration of the upright bass.
HorrorPops frontwoman Patricia Day plays an elaborately decorated double bass, a common instrument in psychobilly.
The Living End demonstrate psychobilly stage antics; in this photo, the guitarist is standing on top of the upright bass.
