Screamin' Witch Doctors

Bio:

The band is a steamin' garage rock quartet with Urban von Ripper, Johannes Winter, Goyo Webenstein Elvyra, and Burning Serge Salgado. They are preaching their exciting garage-rythm 'n blues music since 2006.

They are devoted to the music of Screaming Lord Sutch, voodoo and New Orleans swamp atmospheres à la Screamin Jay Hawkins-, along with 60s classic garage and Rhythm & Blues, including particularly Mann & Weill's songs, and instrumentals like those by Booker T. Jones or Jack Mc Duff.
Always with a funny side and an ironic twist, the band showcases their energy and compositions in the swampy, mysterious and sometimes dark songs of their second smash 2012 release "Afraid of the Dark" with Subterfuge Records. Their debut "Come On Let's Dance with the Screamin' Witch Doctors!" featured high doses of Twang Swamp guitar and Hammond organ to back the unique voice of Urban Von Ripper singing about black magic, cemeteries and other disquieting places.
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Johannes Winter, Burning Serge Salgado, Urban Von Ripper y Goyo W. Elvyra vuelven a la carga con una descarga lisérgica de garage y rhythm 'n blues: ¡¡Los Screamin' Witch Doctors!!
Su inspiración es el Rhythm & Blues de Screaming Lord Sutch , los pantanos de Nueva Orleáns de Screamin Jay Hawkins .... o los clásicos del garage de los 60, siempre con altas dosis de Rythm 'n Blues en su repertorio.
En su nuevo y rompedor disco "Afraid of the Dark" (2012), editado por Subterfuge Records, muestran su energía garagera sin perder su toque festivo y divertido. Un disco lleno de Rock & Roll, pantanos, fuzz, callejones oscuros, gitanos, hombres lobo, serpientes, jorobados... ¡Un cóctel explosivo! Tras su disco debut "Come On Let's Dance With the Screamin' Witch Doctors!" (2009) profundizan en sus obsesiones con las referencias a la magia negra, brujas, demonios, cementerios, ciénagas y demás lugares desasosegantes... Músicos curtidos en distintas bandas de blues y funky (Alias Blues Gang, The Blind Lemons, Jungle Strut Band) y de rocknroll (Harla Horror, Black Cat Bones) los madrileño-pucelanos lo mismo abordan el repertorio de unos Remains, Music Machine, The Young Rascals o The Sonics, que se atreven con Booker T. & The MGs, los grandes del surf instrumental o deshacen a su antojo el tema principal de Corrupción en Miami.

Member Since:

March 12, 2006

Members:

Urban von Ripper: Voz - Vocals
Johannes Winter: Hammond, vocals
Goyo Web: Guitarra, coros / guitar, vocals
Sergio Salgado: Bateria / drums

Influences:

Screaming Lord Sutch, Arthur Brown, Music Machine, The Remains, Young Rascals, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Marketts, Miami Vice, The Shadows, The Sonics, Miracle Workers, Quentin Tarantino, Lime Spiders, The Straitjackets, Frank Zappa, Booker T. & the M.G's, Fernando Arrabal, The Ventures, Jesus Quintero, Kenny & The Kasuals, The Blues Magoos, La cosa del pantano, Leon Theremin, Kinks, Bo Diddley