Style recipe for Suno v5

Psychobilly

Psychobilly from the 1980s: slapped upright bass, twangy hollow guitar, tremolo surf lead, menacing and swaggering in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Psychobilly takes rockabilly, speeds it up to a sweaty punk pace and fills it with horror films, late-night sci-fi schlock and taboo jokes. The usual line-up is a trio of hollowbody electric guitar, upright double bass and drums, and the scene stays pointedly apolitical. The word came via Johnny Cash: Wayne Kemp's "One Piece at a Time", a US Top 10 hit in 1976, describes building a psychobilly Cadillac out of stolen parts. The Cramps, formed in Sacramento in 1972 and part of the New York punk scene from 1975, borrowed the term for their flyers, though they later insisted it was carny talk, not a style of music. Their 1979 album Songs the Lord Taught Us shaped what followed, and in their early days they played with no bass at all. The first band to call its own music psychobilly was The Meteors, formed in South London in 1980, whose fans are credited with inventing the slam dance called wrecking. A second wave began with Demented Are Go's 1986 debut, and the late 1990s brought Tiger Army and The Living End to an international audience. Screamin' Jay Hawkins is counted among its ancestors.

The recipe

Psychobilly, 1980s, menacing, swaggering…

This recipe breaks down into 38 distinct style tags spanning 679 characters, tuned to 160–200 BPM and rooted in the 1980s.

Artists in this style

• Volbeat
• The Cramps

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