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psychobilly
Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rock and roll, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly. Merriam-Webster defines it as "music that blends punk rock and rockabilly";〔(Psychobilly - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary ). Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-07.〕 another dictionary defines it as "loud frantic rockabilly music."〔(psychobilly - definition of psychobilly by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia ). Thefreedictionary.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-07.〕 About.com defines psychobilly as "tak() the traditional countrified rock style known as rockabilly, ramp() up its speed to a sweaty pace, and combin() it with punk rock and imagery lifted from horror films and late-night sci-fi schlock,...(a ) gritty honky tonk punk rock."〔() 〕 Psychobilly, "while rooted in the twang of rockabilly, owes just as much to the sound of straight up three-chord punk, often with a dose of thrash metal."〔()〕
Psychobilly is often characterized by lyrical references to science fiction, horror and exploitation films, violence, lurid sexuality, and other topics generally considered taboo, though often presented in a comedic or tongue-in-cheek fashion. Psychobilly bands and lyrics usually take an apolitical stance, a reaction to the right- and left-wing political attitudes which divided other British youth cultures.〔 It is often played with an upright double bass, instead of the electric bass which is more common in modern rock music, and the hollowbody electric guitar, rather than the solid-bodied electric guitars that predominate in rock. Many psychobilly bands are trios of electric guitar, upright bass and drums, with one of the instrumentalists doubling as vocalist.
Psychobilly gained underground popularity in Europe beginning in the early 1980s, with the UK band The Meteors, but remained largely unknown in the United States until the late 1990s.〔Downey, 77. "Before Tiger Army started touring in support of their 1999 debut, the psycho scene in the U.S. was practically nonexistent. There were fans in a few towns who hung with the rockabillies or punks, but psycho was their little imported secret."〕〔Downey, 78. "European record labels like Nervous (U.K.) and Crazy Love (Germany) were crucial as psychobilly continued to be virtually unnoticed in the U.S."〕 The second wave of psychobilly began with the 1986 release of British band Demented Are Go's debut album ''In Sickness & In Health''.〔 The genre soon spread throughout Europe, inspiring a number of new acts such as Mad Sin (formed in Germany in 1987) and the Nekromantix (formed in Denmark in 1989), who released the album ''Curse of the Coffin'' in 1991.〔 Since then the advent of several notable psychobilly bands, such as the US band Tiger Army and the Australian band The Living End, has led to its mainstream popularity and attracted international attention to the genre.
==History==
The evolution of psychobilly as a genre is often described as having occurred in waves. The first wave occurred in Britain in the early 1980s, the second wave took place at the end of that decade and spread through the rest of Europe, and the third crested in the late 1990s with the genre finding international popularity.〔Downey, 77.〕
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