Insane - The Arkhams

Anything that has a cover featuring Cthulu driving a Cadillac automatically get's an incredible pass. It wouldn't matter if the music was a tower of shit on fire, I would still buy that album and I would still dance my ass off to it.

So it's a good thing then that The Arkhams are also a truly excellent band. Smashing apart the psychobilly genre tag with a standup bass turned jackhammer, the band are like rockabilly and surf and garage rock on steroids and speed. Their 2007 debut album The Road to Arkham is a fast and furious road trip through Hell, Love, and Your Slowly Shattering Mental State. Which brings me to today's Best Song Ever: Insane.

'Insane' is as rip roaring as a rock song gets. The drums sounds like a train derailing over and over again. The guitars shift between chiming spiderweb surf chords, thick arpeggios and crashing shrieks. Lead singer Matt 'The Knife' Goldpaugh whirls between shrieking for his mind and slamming an upright bass like only a future asylum inmate ever could.

It's the sound of Elder Gods, High School Sweethearts and Rock'n'roll racing at 100 miles per hour. Get it. Now.