Zombina & The Skeletones Answer “The Call Of Zombina” On New Album

Zombina & The Skeletones are six deformed Rock ‘n Roll monsters from Liverpool, UK, who have been mixing garage punk and girl group pop with spooked out surf-a-billy sonics since 1998, after founding members Zombina and Doc Horror met at a high school Halloween party and fell into a teenage romance. Following a monstrously successful launch show at Rough Trade Liverpool last weekend, Merseyside, UK horror punks Zombina & The Skeletones have released their first new album in ten years, The Call of Zombina, on CD, vinyl and digital formats via 9×9 Records. To celebrate the release, the band recently revealed the videos for Don’t Kick My Coffin and Cemetery World.

After officially coming out of retirement in 2023 with a heart-shaped split single with cult American horror-punks Blitzkid and a surprise TV placement when Zombie Hop and I Was A Teenage Frankenstein turned up in the Extraordinary Halloween Special on Disney+, it seemed that the only thing left to do for “The Band Under Your Bed” was to return to the studio. In this case, a creepy old church in Liverpool was the perfect location to make their first album in ten years, with Stephen Cole (a.P.A.t.T) producing, and local label 9×9 Records in charge of the physical release.

The Call Of Zombina is Hammer Horror melodrama as art-therapy, the punk roots of Goth Rock meets the strings and harpsichords of baroque, with new drummer ‘All Hallow’s’ Eve adding a previously unheard power to the Zombina & The Skeletones sound. The Call Of Zombina seeks to mirror the classic portmanteau horror of The House That Dripped Blood‘ or Asylum, with each track telling its own self-contained story. Lyrically, the schlocky Americanisms of old have been eschewed in favour of the no less pulpy vernacular of Pan Classics paperbacks, and of course the whole thing was recorded in an old spooky church, to capture some of that creaky atmosphere and gigantic reverb.

Zombina & The Skeletones will be appearing at two sold out London shows, The Unskinny Bop Zombie Hop on the 26th October and the Psychobilly Freakout on the 2nd November. The band will also be appearing at the annual Halloween Party at Northwich’s The Salty Dog with support from Thee Windom Earles & The Salty Goffs on the 1st November.