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The Hangmen

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For a frighteningly long time The Hangmen have been creating & developing a punk/rockabilly hybrid under the generic term of ‘Psychobilly’.
The band has gigged and toured consistently throughout - releasing no less than seven albums along with countless compilation appearances, singles and even the odd art movie cameo. Having never ran with any pack they've pursued and evolved their raw hi-octane rock & roll formula with guts, distinction and attitude, becoming influential in the process.
Sustained live performances across the UK, USA, Canada and most of Western Europe endorse the fact that this is a formidable and unique live band matching it’s word-of-mouth reputation. Live highlights include their movie-shot New York Rumble Festival appearance, performing at NYCs legendary CBGBs and the distinction of ‘Live-pick-of-the-week’ in the national music press during a Canadian tour. They are choice support to touring acts such as Hellkat Records’ Transplants, Nekromantix or Tiger Army, and when not headlining in their own right are regularly seen warming up the masses for rejuvenated Punk-era heroes .
Primeval energy with distinctive material and style form the riotous bones of The Hangmens revamped, punk-stained, dirty Rock & Roll - ranted & hammered out by the trio at full throttle on one nasty guitar, punishing drums and a supercharged double-bass. In a hectic hail of sweat, noise & sneers they satire a menacingly bizarre world with cynical wit, perception and challenge - revelling in defiant hysteria at their own unsavoury, unpredictable visions.
Seven 'cult classic' albums released by small independent labels sell (and sell out) consistently to an ever expanding fanbase despite limited and erratic distribution. Their latest singles ‘Spring Heeled Jack’ and 'The Curse' attract further favourable reviews not to mention BBC airplay. And now in 2007 their finest, most anticipated and fastest selling opus to date - the new album Cacklefest! Described as a dark concoction of spare monster parts, pieces of crashed dragsters and lost voodoo artefacts!
As ‘industry outsiders’ they’ve achieved ongoing and gathering interest against the odds, and as such continue crafting new material to compliment an already prolific repertoire. Surviving and thriving where most had fallen, stumbled or hibernated away hoping for better days, The Hangmen are the Rock & Roll graveyard gang that sweat, bleed and piss it - so when you're ready to get down to it just remember The Hangmen are already down there ready, kicking it up and keeping it hot.They have momentum, they have originality and they have relentless energy. What do you do with a band like that?...
Hell knows..!
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Member Since: 11/13/2004
Band Website: hangmen.co.uk
Band Members: Loz Firewalker Guitar Strangler & Strangled Vocals
hAdes Drum Collisions.
Lee Rotter Death by Double Bass & B.vox
Album Discog:
Cacklefest! (Abattoir Records) Play Dead (Tombstone Records)
No Happy Endings (Ripper Records/Pure & Proud (Fr.))
Original Sins (Crazy Love Records)
Tested On Animals (Bone Tone Corporation)
Last Train To Purgatory (Bone Tone Corporation)
Gutbucket Rock & Roll (Rockhouse Records)
Singles Discog:
THE CURSE / FIREWALKER / LET THERE BE DRUMS / PLAY WITH FIRE. SPRING HEELED JACK EP - (Dislocate Records). Spring Heeled Jack, Dancing On Your Grave, Teenage Suicide & Stop The Monkey. Ltd. red vinyl 7".
DYNAMITE EP - 7" ("Slaughterhouse Strut" alt. version)
BAD BLOOD - (Pure & Proud Records) 12" Pic. Disc + Songs That The Dead Men Sing + Littler Bitz
Compilations:
PSYCHOBILLY WRECKAGE - Wreckin' Bones Records ("Goodbye Coffin Joe")
CIRCUS PUNKABILLY - Wolverine Records ("Bad Blood")
IT CAME FROM HELL Vol.2 - Crazy Love Records ("Death Wish")
DANCE WITH A CHAINSAW - Funeral Music ("Zombie World" demo version)
HIGH VOLTAGE - Black Sky Fiesta Records ("Ugly")
HIGH VOLTAGE Vol 2-3 - Black Sky Fiesta Records ("DemonFreakshow")
PSYCHOBILLY HELL Dbl CD - Raucous Records (Live Tracks)
PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT - Raucous Records ("Whore For The Devil")
NEO-ROCKABILLY STORY VOL 10 - LP (2 off Gutbucket Rock n'Roll)
NEO- ROCKABILLY STORY VOL 5 - CD (As Above)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING PUSSIES - Anagram/Cherry Red ("Worms")
LIVE FROM THE CHARLOTTE - CD Raucous Records (2 Live Tracks)
THE DEVILS JUKEBOX - Bone Tone Corporation (2 tracks)
CRAZY LOVE RECORDS SAMPLER - (21st Century Frankenstein)
CRUEL BRITTANIA - Big Cheese Magazine covermount
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL - ("Swamp Thing" & "CorpseGrinder")
Appearances In Motion Picture:
New York Rumble
Blood on the Cats (DVD)
Psycho Attack (DVD)
Psychobilly - A Cancer On Rock & Roll
The Story of Psychobillies

Appearances In Books:
The Deathrow Chronicles (Cherry Red Books)
Hells Bent On Rockin' (Cherry Red Books)
Let's Wreck (Stormscreen Publications)
Influences: Rock & Roll, Noise, Ed Gein, chaos, Spike Milligan, Drag Racing, mental lapses, Punch & Judy, Silent Hill, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Lon Chaney, Anton Le Vey, Tom Waits, Jack The Ripper, The Cramps, Grand Guignol, Hank Williams, Lucio Fulci, Patches The Clown, The Thing, Lycanthropy, The Brothers Grimm, Winston Chuchill and his parrot, Atomic Bombs, Spring Heeled Jack, Voodoo Loa, Circus sideshows, Punk Rock, The Evil Dead, evil in general... BUT MOST OF ALL THE VOICES.
Sounds Like: (taken from reviews/press)
"Psychobilly for Punks or Punk for Psychobillies"
" Motorhead Vs. The Stray Cats after overdosing on all-night horror movie reruns"
“The Hangmen occupy a strange, dark space. Imagine if The Damned, Slipknot and The Cramps met with Johnny Cash and Alice Cooper to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show on a bottle of night nurse each. The Hangmen would be the band playing in the bar afterwards".

Record Label: Abattoir Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Hangmen in the history books.

Hells Bent on Rockin' is a new book on the history of Psychobilly published by Cherry Red. A great read at only £14.99. The Hangmen are featured, with piccys too. So it's official - we're history! &n...
Posted by The Hangmen on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:14:00 PST

Some Cacklefest Reviews...

Support the following rags on the grounds of impeccable taste...! From the latest Big Cheese (issue 89)THE HANGMEN'Cacklefest'(Abattoir)Evil, Wicked, Nasty and Rockin'4 ½ /5The Hangmen, the most indep...
Posted by The Hangmen on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:21:00 PST

Cacklefest No. 4 in Psychobilly Album Charts

Cacklefest is now the 4th top seller in premier Psychobilly site Wreckin' Pit s(wreckingpit.com) charts at the moment. (Compiled by Nervous records, being perhaps thee most prolific and industry ...
Posted by The Hangmen on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:53:00 PST

Cacklefest from the HMV & other reputable dealers

Its selling like Hellhot Cakes, you know what happens to albums by The Hangmen if you leave it too late... so if you wanna get your bad hands on a copy and dont want to order from our website try thes...
Posted by The Hangmen on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:39:00 PST

More Radio Play...(Courtesy Evil Stu and www.baltimorepsychobilly.com!)

...Banish away the shitty June weather, by listening to    http://www.live365.com/stations/djevilstu   ...and check out this super playlist...   Thee Flanders-Erna P. Batmobile-Tra...
Posted by The Hangmen on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:58:00 PST

Radio 1 plays The Hangmen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mikedavies/index.shtml New album track 'Bad Medicine' played by Mike Davies on Radio 1s The Lock-Up show, check it out on the above link. It's the first time the network ha...
Posted by The Hangmen on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST

New Album Trade Distro etc.

The new album is currently or soon will be available through the following trade outlets ~ UK/Europe/Asia Nervous Records, www.nervousrecords.co.uk Europe Sonic Distribution www.sonicrendezvous.com ...
Posted by The Hangmen on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:38:00 PST

This Saturday, Manchester, Satans Hollow

This Saturday 16th June ~ 7:30-10:30 PM THE HANGMENTHE HYPERJAXBLUE DEMON Satans HollowPrinces Street, Manchester M1 6DD (UK) Maplink http://www.ents24.com/web/maps.php?venueid=31283 Train: Oxford Roa...
Posted by The Hangmen on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:04:00 PST

Back catalogue, now limited availability

In the wake of the amazing demand for Cacklefest in the first week of release there's also been a rush on The Hangmens CD back catalogue. As with the previous albums that have sold out, when they are ...
Posted by The Hangmen on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:42:00 PST

'Friends'

Just to say, we don't blanket mail myspacers to get our friends list statistics up. Everyone on our friends list has contacted us directly not the other way round, (and of course we welcome them)...
Posted by The Hangmen on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:39:00 PST