The Meteors Release 24th Studio Album “40 Days A Rotting”

The Meteors were formed in 1980 in a reaction to the bands that were singing about ‘Big Green Cars’, ‘Rocking This Town’ and being ‘Rockabilly Rebels’. Preferring their songs to contain topics about vampires, stomping in graveyards and radioactive kids, P. Paul Fenech, Mark Robertson and Nigel Lewis soon found themselves all over the media, who were eagerly lapping up a new sound that was christened ‘Psychobilly’. The Meteors were front page news in the weekly music press, recording radio sessions and interviews for legends like John Peel, and gracing the silver screen care of a movie short that did the rounds with the Two-Tone movie Dance Craze. Their film, Meteor Madness, apart from hosting some crazed performances with the unhinged trio, also featured songstress Lilly Allen‘s father, actor and comedian Keith Allen, starring as none other than the rather exasperated Devil, strange but true.

By 1982 the original line-up had split with Lewis and Robertson going on to form their own bands while Fenech forged ahead with a free hand with The Meteors and his idea of how psychobilly should sound. That was a sound that had grown from one of a band’s own personal identity to a world-wide genre that is now over 43 years established. Paul and his band mates are still constantly touring the globe and spreading their own definition of their self-created genre. The Meteors have continued to inspire and influence countless bands while continuing to lead the charge from the very vanguard.

40 Days A Rotting is the latest studio full length by the undisputed ‘Kings Of Psychobilly’. The album is out today via Mutant Rock Records and features 14 new tracks that are as uncompromising as ever and encompass all the elements that have always made up The Meteors brand of ‘Pure Psychobilly’. Mashing up rockabilly, country, surf, punk and rock ‘n roll their sound is woven by Fenech’s rockin’ guitar and bile-spitting Beelzebub-rousing lyrics. 40 Days a Rotting proves once again that despite some aspiring would-be usurpers, The Meteors won’t be giving up their crown anytime soon.