With a giant monster hand smashing through a busted TV and lightning cracking behind the logo, The Dahmers turn Creature Feature into a full-on B-movie fever dream before you even press play. Add song titles like Nightmare of ’78, Creeps From Outer Space, Teenage Caveman and Wake Up the Dead, and you are about to enter a late-night horror marathon soundtracked by cheap thrills.

A marathon may not be the best description of Creature Feature, though. Plenty of these songs feel more like a sprint, a burst of horror glam punk dripping in blob-like fluid or sticky with unidentifiable glue-like material. Jeepers creepers, this stuff is infectious.

More than ever, The Dahmers lean into theatrics and bombast without throwing away what they do best: writing insanely hooky rock-‘n’-roll tunes and playing them with a swagger you cannot teach. These Swedes, with their perverted minds, were born to play like this. We should all be grateful.

Creature Feature (produced by Johan Gustafsson and Christian Grahn of The Hives) is out now on LP via Eerie Sounds.

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