Pyschobilly pioneers, The Phantom Rockers blaze a rockabilly trail of fire whenever they get together. With a line-up which features ex-members of The Krewmen and The Exploited, The Phantom Rockers are the perfect Psychobilly-Punk Rock combination. A great album of powerful, aggressive in-yer-face Punkabilly Rock 'n' Roll - packed with new material and including great covers of The Ramones' 'Psycho Therapy' and Vince Taylor's 'Brand New Cadillac'.
1.Rock'n'roll man 2.Mexico 3.Crash and burn 4.Rockin' 5.Army of darkness 6.Run for your life 7.Rise up 8.Psycho sick demon rockers 9.Pain, pain, pain 10.London town 11.Perfect girl 12.Psycho therapy 13.Brand new Cadillac
Phantom Rockers
"Hi - let me introduce you the new album from The Phantom Rockers called 'Rise Up'. As you know, The Phantom Rockers were and are still one of the most popular bands in the Psychobilly scene. After they moved from Europe to the USA, their style has changed a bit: from pure psychobilly to fast forward R'n'R, psycho-punk'n'roll with U.S. streetpunk influences. This unique style was made possible with the arrival of a new bandmember: Karl Morris (ex Exploited !!!). After several years of touring in the U.S. (and some tours in Europe), The Phantom Rockers are back!! And how, with a brand new killer album with thirteen tracks! This album contains eleven brand new songs and two songs from the ESP mini CD (a limited edition - now sold out!) It's not necessary to say that The Phantom Rockers have a large following. So beware of this album that will thrill you to the bone !!!" Drunkabilly Records 2002
"The Phantom Rockers are back big and with a vengeance. Their lastest effort, 'Rise Up', puts the punk'n'roll back in psychobilly. This is different from their previous albums because it features the arrival of Karl Morris (ex Exploited) adding a new flavour to the already highly concentrated mix. The album contains thirteen tracks, but only eleven are new and the other two are from the ESP mini-CD that was limited and now sold out. So I begin with the first song, 'Rock'n' Roll Man'. It contains that '77 style punk vibe that made those English punk bands famous, but it keeps it on the mid tempo side, but - damn - it's a really good song. Their next song, 'Mexico', starts off with a kewl trumpet intro and then goes straight into a uptempo lead from Karl followed up by a kewl chorus and then the song keeps going straight. 'Crash and Burn' follows those songs and is more on the psycho side but isn't as fast as songs from their previous albums, but it's fast enough to wreck to, so it's all good. Track 4, 'Rockin', is a fast tempo psycho song with a kewl little lead in middle followed by some pretty bad ass lyrics. Their track 'Run For Your Life' starts off with a kewl intro that they took from a horror movie and it has something to do with werewolves and shit, then it goes straight all psycho all the way through and has a catchy chorus. By hearing this song, to me they seem to be showing their horror movies background. Then comes 'Rise Up' that has this 'Don't Fear the Reaper' vibe intro to it then they kick in the overdrive and bust another mid-tempo song about rising up from everything or something associated with that. Well, that's my mentality on the song. One of my favourite songs on the cd has to be 'Psycho Sick Demon Rockers'. I mean it has everything - crunchy guitars, a wild slapping bass, fast psycho tempo and a kewl solo from Karl. What else could a psycho want more? The only other fast song on the cd besides the two covers (I will get to them later) is 'Pain Pain Pain', which has this trot like drum beat to it. The Song 'London Town' is a well-played song, but I couldn't really get the meaning of it. Their last original song, 'Perfect Girl', is an uptempo song that basically talks about the perfect woman that every man wants. The first song, 'Psycho Therapy, a Ramones song, is covered very well and the Phantom Rockers add their little psycho signature to the already classic punk song. It's one of my favorite songs on the cd, even though it's a cover. Their last song 'Brand New Cadillac' is covered as well as The Ramones song. They've added their own style on it as with the other cover song. I thought the album was done really well and I am talking song-wise. I thought the way they were arranged was done really well and I give kudos to the Phantom Rockers. I think two or three could have been left off the album, but it's still a really good album with them. It's good to see the Phantom Rockers alive and kicking. I was worried that maybe they had fallen off the face of the earth, so if you get a chance to see them, I recommend you do and pick up their album because it's only for the sickest of sickest psychos." Johnny Graves
Pyschobilly pioneers, The Phantom Rockers blaze a rockabilly trail of fire whenever they get together. With a line-up which features ex-members of The Krewmen and The Exploited, The Phantom Rockers are the perfect Psychobilly-Punk Rock combination. A great album of powerful, aggressive in-yer-face Punkabilly Rock 'n' Roll - packed with new material and including great covers of The Ramones' 'Psycho Therapy' and Vince Taylor's 'Brand New Cadillac'.