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"Rue Morgue Magazine - Play Primitive Trashman... album review"

With song titles like "Undertaker and His Pals," "Devil's Rain," "Corpse Grindin' Baby" and a groovy low-fi sound, Play Primitive is an undead B-movie machine. The Memphis Morticians mix a sweet touch of Southern twang with a speedy but refined level of bass pummelling, adding bargain basement production values to create a nicely fuzzed-out garagevibe. Like the title suggests, this album is as primitive and dumb as you can get, and offers plenty of morbidly obsessed ditties about horror movies, murder and partying -- sometimes all three at once. Tail-made for dirty bars and dirty folks, it just doesn't get any sleazier, bloodier or more fun than this. 5/5 skulls - Rue Morgue Magazine


"SLUG Magazine - Play Primitive Trashman... allbum review"

The Memphis Morticians = The Raymen + Mad Sin (early) + The Legendary Invisible Men
It’s funny to me that garage rock came out of the rockabilly of the early 60s and this band from NYC has taken the best parts of both those genres and slammed them together with some punk-rock vigor. I can honestly say that I have never heard a band quite like the Memphis Morticians. Their self-dubbed trashabilly is really the perfect word for what they do. Fuzzed-out guitar and scratchy, echoed vocals delivered with frantic fervor on top of a revved-up rockabilly rhythm section is truly something to behold. The song "Linda Lee" starts out with some traditional rockabilly-sounding guitar, but pretty soon turns into an outrageous expression of rock n’ roll energy. Although plenty of tracks have that old 50s feel, I believe that the best example of the Memphis Mortician sound is on songs like "Hearse Drivin’ Man," which is full of grinding guitar, hard slappin’ bass and that fuck-you attitude that lead singer Trash Only is so fine at. –James Orme - SLUG Magazine


"Big Cheese Magazine - Play Primitive Trashman... album review"

The album starts of with a sample I’m sure I heard before on a Hangman track, the vicar is saying goodbye to the dearly departed and they start to fill the grave, and it sounds like you’re in it, nasty, then when track one kicks off, horror indeed, then it sounds as if you are the one filling the grave and the speakers are in it. Luckily the sound improves dramatically for the other 13 tracks. And what a cracking 13 tracks, the best trashed up rockabilly mess you’ve heard for a long time. The double bass when prominent bounces along in the right and proper manner, each track has its own charm largely due to a skilful emphasis on various parts of the Morticians sound, trashy and as fuzzed as can be in places and rockabilly that would have Charlie Feathers spinning in his grave in delight in others, just makes you wanna scream yeaaaaaaaaah! - 4.5/5 - Simon Nott


Discography

Greetings From the Memphis Mortuary
3 song EP, 45 r.p.m. 7" vinyl. Released 2005

Play Primitive Trashman and 13 Other Love Songs
14 tracks, full length CD. Released 2006

Compilations:
Pledge Your Allegiance to Satan, CD. Released 2005
Kaiser Records' International Stomp-o-lation, CD. Released 2007
God Save the King, CD. Released 2008
Soundtrack to Oblivion, CD. Released 2007

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The biggest thing in death since the bubonic plague, the Memphis Morticians are a four-piece outfit out of New York City. Established in 1999, this funeral industry group transmits a mortuary positive message to the masses via their infectious sonic vibes. Steeped in the vinyl goodness of 1950s rockabilly, 1960s garage, punk rock and psychobilly, the Memphis Morticians brew their own unique swill of Rock and Roll.

The fuzzpunk quartet is led by ray gun virtuoso Trash Only who howls and yelps over the contagious riffs of Supro guitar enthusiast Crypt-a-Fur. The group is rounded out by the creepy Von Erickson on the homemade upright bass, while Frrito Bandito keeps the time like a caveman with a Rolex.

The Morticians' garage-a-billy disease has tainted the ears of listeners up and down the east coast of the U.S. with reverberations traveling as far north as Montreal and as far west as Los Angeles. Armed with two deadly pathogens (their 2005 single Greetings From the Memphis Mortuary and 2006 full-length album Play Primitive Trashman and 13 Other Love Songs) the Morticians have landed many high profile gigs with acts such as: the Vibrators, Robert Gordon, Mad Sin, the Kings of Nuthin', Tim Polecat, the Monsters, Joe Buck Yourself, Dead Bolt, Deja Voodoo, and Nigel Lewis (of the Meteors and Tallboys fame).

Should one be afraid of encountering these creepy crypt rockers?

Well according to Rue Morgue magazine the Memphis Morticians are, "Tailor-made for dirty bars and dirty folks, it just doesn't get any sleazier, bloodier or more fun than this" or as SLUG magazine puts it, "It’s funny to me that garage rock came out of the rockabilly of the early 60s and this band from NYC has taken the best parts of both those genres and slammed them together with some punk-rock vigor." Spooky!

What's next for these rockabilly rejects?

Currently they are in the studio working on their second full-length release titled, "Bereave it or not... a second album by the Memphis Morticians" with plans to follow this up with extensive grave rocking across North America and possibly Europe.

So, if a band that's half rockabilly, half garage, and half drunk is yer cup of formaldehyde, then come out to a Morticians' gig and swig along to the sound of rubber insects.