Hellacious Harmonies
Psychobilly, Neo Rockabilly and Rockabilly record reviews.
“Hailing from Portland, Oregon, The Brainiax are relative newcomers to the psychobilly scene. The lads have been together a year but Collin O’Brainiac tells me the lads have been acting the bollix in various bands for several years. You’d know it too. This is some quality stuff. They love the cream of the crop of musical genres which shows in their sound. Taking influences from psychobilly, punk, country and rockabilly, you just know these boys have good taste. Their début show was opening for Canadian sexpots The Gutter Demons and they’ve just released their first album…all by themselves I might add. It makes me so proud *sniff*. But seriously though, when a band goes down the self-release road I think they deserve as much support as they can get. They do it for the love of the music. Let’s face it, there’s fuck all profit in psychobilly and any money made goes straight back in to the band (well, maybe a small portion goes to the pub). Anyway, what struck me straight away about The Brainiax is that their sound is somewhat reminiscent of Hayride To Hell and to a certain degree The Hellbillys. They’re very much of that tough American psychobilly ilk as opposed to the more “fun” for want of a better expression European psychobilly sound. There’s a nice bit of echo chamber on the vocals which gives a sexy rockabilly twist but the music is not for rockabilly aficionados with their heads planted firmly up their arses. It’s for rockabilly aficionados like me with my head planted firmly between two arse cheeks…with rockabilly tattooed on one and psychobilly on the other. It’s not in-your-face psychobilly either. By psycho standards it’s mid-paced. Groovy! I’ll tell ya what. I fuckin’ love The Brainiax me. If you like your psychobilly with a glint of a flick knife and a knuckle duster to the man-spuds this’ll be right up your street. You can grab it directly from the band (and pick up some merch while you’re at it…seemingly if you wear one of their shirts, sew a couple of their patches over your nipples and apply a sticker (or 10 in my case) over your shlong, it’s guaranteed to result in panty evaporation).”
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Kraykulla Webzine- online magazine
VladKrayKulla record review of “Rock and Roll Lobotomy” has this to say
“These guys are hailing from Portland and I must admit that I have never heard of them prior to this record. The music of The Brainiax can be described as psychobilly, leaning more heavily on the old school psycho bands like Demented Are Go, Batmobile and similar legendary bands. This record contains 10 songs of old school hard rocking psychobilly with some ska influences(Cape Fear), also, I can hear some doo wop rock n roll in No Way. The album is varied and in no way boring, with country influenced The Bastard Sun, for me one of the best songs on the album Devil Doll. Anyway, the best songs come in the last third of the album, namely Hideous Horrific and House On The Hill, being psycho hits for the new millennia haha. Good one.”
The three piece psychobilly onslaught currently has a full length release (Rock and Roll Lobotomy) and a two track EP (Laboratory Love) out with a new full length cooking to come out in the near future. It is refreshing to see groups so dedicated, staying tried and true and set to carry on niche subgenre such as psychobilly. Stay tuned for more releases from the band.
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