IMSC Ep 55 - Song 1: "Zombie Girls from Outer Space" by Horrorshow Hoods

"Horrorshow Hoods was a psyco-billy band from Des Moines that was founded during the late 1990s."
- from their entry in The Underground Archives

"Horrorshow Hoods (the EP) was issued as a 4-song 7-inch on transparent green vinyl. These were basically the first songs we wrote and were our core rockabilly/psychobilly songs at all of our shows. We recorded up in Ames with one of the guys from Grubby Ernie. This has our full 6-piece band including keys and sax. I don't know if you are familiar with our live shows, but we always switched to a more horror-punk sound at the end and closed out with B.R.A.I.N.S.

"Screams from the Basement was issued to capture those songs separately from our other stuff. We recorded it in DSM at Scott/Billy's basement. I think we were down to a 4-piece at that time and Clint/Eddie took over on bass. It's a little bit of a concept album with some movie clips worked in and bleeding between tracks."
- from an email by Brendan "Jimmy Kill" Sapienza sent to us

"They were good & nice guys to boot."
- from Nate on the 515 Crew Forum

"Yeah they were always really nice..."
- from Davo Wilkins on the 515 Crew Forum

"i had a 60-something year old lady bring her granddaughter into the ED. she (the grandmother) was wearing a Horrorshow Hoods shirt. i got excited and she was like, 'i got this shirt at Goodwill. what is Horrorshow Hoods?'

that's all i got."
- from ilikehorses on the 515 Crew Forum

Lineup:
Austin "Richie Gore" Sapienza - vocals
Brendan "Jimmy Kill" Sapienza - guitar
Tanner Strutzenberg - upright bass (1999-2001)
Clint Knox - upright bass (2001-2002)
Scott "Billy Bloodbath" O'Gara - drums
Adam Horning - sax

From their MySpace page
https://myspace.com/horrorshowhoods/photos

An extremely short clip from Davo Wilkins...,


MySpace:
https://myspace.com/horrorshowhoods

Underground Archives:
http://underground-archives.com/content/horrorshow-hoods

Discussion on the 515 Crew Forum:
http://www.515crew.com/msgbrd/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5763

To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode55/Iowa+Music+Showcase+-+Episode+55_.mp3

Labels: 2000s, 2002, Austin Sapienza, Brendan Sapienza, Clint Knox, Des Moines, Des Moines area, Ep 055,Halloween, Halloween 2017, Horrorshow Hoods (band), punk rock, Scoot O'Gara, Zombie Girls from Outer Space (song)