The Night Creeper

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The UK's greatest cult band Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats return with their fourth album The Night Creeper and their biggest tour to date. Recorded at Toe Rag Studios in early 2015 with engineer Liam Watson (White Stripes, Tame Impala, Electric Wizard), The Night Creeper oozes touché evil. Here flesh-melting riffs that creep like hot magma bubbling through the earth's crust combine with an ear for melody born out of the bands love for girl groups like The Ronettes and the Shangri-La's. Sabbath-meets-Spector. It's a heady combination. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' breakthrough album Blood Lust (2011) was a homage to British Hammer and folk horror films of the 1970s, a candle-lit head trip of withered hands, ritual knives and gallows ropes. Mind Control (2013) looked further afield, to the post-Charles Manson US for inspiration: Jim Jones dosing the Kool-Aid. Blue Cheer, Blue Oyster Cult and B-movie biker movies. War, Watergate, serial killers and suicidal TV evangelists. And now comes The Night Creeper, their darkest journey yet.