12 Step Rebels
"Go Go Graveyard Rockin"
Dead Body

After releasing a series of blood wrenching tracks for compilations ranging from "Kicked Out of Purgatory" to Hellcat's "Give 'Em The Boot III," the bastard sons of satan have unleashed 12 tracks of evil unto the earth.

With "Go Go Graveyard Rockin," the 12 Step Rebels have been let loose on the psychobilly world, and are out to prove that you don't have to be from Europe to rock the upright bass. Blasting out a fury of punk and rockabilly, the band tears through each track with ferocious adrenaline that never crosses over to the hardcore side of things.

For their debut full-length, 12 Step Rebels brought an American psycho legend to man the boards. Former AFI and Tiger Army bass-man Geoff Kresge produced the record, and there is plenty of similarities to some of AFI's earlier work. Singer Jakob Insane even sounds like a more masculine version of AFI's androgynous front man.

Like a well-lubed hot rod, the band switches effortlessly between straight up punk tunes ("Rebel Rock"), eerie ballads from hell ("The Ballad Of Frankenstein's Monster"), and psychotic rockers ("Banshee's Wail").

12 Step Rebels graduated from the same school of psychobilly as fellow American wreckers Tiger Army and The Quakes, and the band's style is very similar. Southern California-style punk crossed with a very percussive style of bass slapping, all enveloped in creepy lyrics straight out of a B-rated horror flick.

Reviewed by: George Koroneos
Reviewed on: March 10, 2005