Nekromantix

Nekromantix
Nekromantix performing in 2011. Left to right: Nekroman, Lux, and Mesa
Background information
Origin	Copenhagen, Denmark
Genres	Psychobilly
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Hellcat, Intermusic, Record Music Denmark, E.S.P., Kick Music, Nervous, Tombstone
Associated acts	HorrorPops, Rezurex, The Rocketz
Website	www.myspace.com/nekromantix
Members	Kim Nekroman Francisco Mesa Adam Guerrero
Past members	Jens Brygman Paolo Molinari Peter Sandorff Peek Ian Dawn Grim Tim Handsome Søren Munk Petersen Kristian Sandorff Tröy Deströy Wasted James Andy DeMize Pete Belair Lux

The Nekromantix is a Danish-American psychobilly band founded in 1989 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their lyrics are generally structured around monster and horror themes. A central icon of the band's image is founder and frontman Kim Nekroman's "coffinbass", a custom-built double bass with a body in the shape of a coffin and a the shape of a cross. Nekroman has been the sole constant member of the band, the rest of the current lineup consisting of guitarist Francisco Mesa and drummer Adam Guerro.

The Nekromantix released five albums on various European record labels during their first decade, then crossed over to American audiences in the early 2000s by signing to Los Angeles-based Hellcat Records, through which they have released three albums since 2002. Their eighth studio album, What Happens in Hell, Stays in Hell, was released in August 2011.

The Nekromantix were formed in 1989 in Copenhagen by Kim Nekroman after he left the Danish Navy, in which he had been a submarine radio operator for eight years. Deciding to launch a new career in music, he initially played drums in a rockabilly band prior to the foundation of Nekromantix.

Learning to play the double bass and to sing, Nekroman set about forming a horror-themed psychobilly band with himself as the frontman. Initially consisting of Nekroman, guitarist Paolo Molinari and drummer Jens Brygman, the band took the name Nekromantix.

A centerpiece of the band's image was Nekroman's self-constructed "coffinbass," an upright bass in the shape of a coffin. The first of these was constructed using an actual child-sized coffin, but over the years he has constructed new models in order to achieve better acoustics and collapsibility for easier transportation. By the time of the band's first official recordings, Molinari and Brygman had been replaced respectively by Peter Sandorff and Sebastian Jensen, who used the pseudonym Peek.