Mad Sin
“Dead Moon’s Calling”
People Like You Records

With every new Mad Sin record, the band comes closer and closer to mainstream acceptance, and “Dead Moon’s Calling” might be their most radio-friendly album to date. Opening with a demonic sounding “Intro,” you’d think the record was either treading into metalbilly terrain or that it’s going to sound like an AFI record. Surprise, the band pulls a bait-and-switch and tears into a modern psychobilly tune that sounds as catchy as anything the 12 Step Rebels have ever recorded.

Every track on this record runs at top speed, with clear and punchy vocals, a mile-a-minute low-end thump, and some awesome call and response choruses. These are the type of songs you find humming to yourself well after you turn the iPod off.

“Dead Moon’s Calling” just grooves; the songs are fast enough to sound like “No Control”-era Bad Religion, but the twang and horror themes rock out better than any Tiger Army or Nekromatnix number. Singer Koefte Deville is a master storyteller, spinning yarns about death, fear, and nightmares.

This record is an ideal primer for fans of modern psychobilly that find Demented Are Go too hardcore and The Horropops too cheesy. Mad Sin have been playing awe-inspiring pyschobilly for decades, and their music sounds just as fresh and cool today as it did back when they first shredded onto the scene. This is required listening material.

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