About four years ago, I wandered into Reckless Records and, in an exploring mood, decided to buy an album by an artist I have never heard of. My hands landed on an album called "Dealing the Death Card" by a band called Zombie Ghost Train. It cost about three bucks. I came home and, not expecting much, listened to the album; and as I expected, it didn't make much of an impression on me. But I was in 8th grade; my music education had only really began about a year before and I didn't know much about music, having a completely undeveloped taste.
Three years later I was listening to my iPod on shuffle and a song that I seemingly never heard before came on. It was a kind of gloomy rock song, with an overwhelmingly talented vocalist singing something about death and a girl and taking her down "To The River". A wonderful rediscovery, I quickly went through all the other songs and decided that I loved them. I won't go much into the lyrics of any of the songs because they're all about monsters or death or girls. Some songs are in blues style, some have a jazzy feel, some are just rock, but they all have this Halloween-y feel to them that makes me smile and want to dance with Frankenstein in a cobweb-filled mansion. Apparently the genre is called "psychobilly" or "gothabilly" or something.
I don't know.
Maybe it's the zombie makeup.
Maybe it's my love for bass voices and huge vocal ranges.
But this was one of the more interesting musical discoveries I have ever made.
Below are links to some of the songs where the lead singer displays his deeper vocal ranges, and overall just good songs.
"To The River": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRF4VNQzqg
"Trouble": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvP4g0B6NWk
"Gone": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDobjRHA2kk
Enjoy.
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