Return of the Loving Dead is the fifth studio album by the Danish

Denmark

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 psychobilly

Psychobilly

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 band the Nekromantix

Nekromantix

The Nekromantix are a Danish-American psychobilly band formed in 1989 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their music is 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...

, released in 2002 by Hellcat Records

Hellcat Records

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. It was the band's first release on the American record label and their first to be widely distributed in the United States

United States

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, and a music video

Music video

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 was filmed for the single "Gargoyles Over Copenhagen." After this release band leader Kim Nekroman

Kim Nekroman

Kim Nekroman is the bassist and lead singer for the psychobilly band Nekromantix and the lead guitarist of HorrorPops. He is married to Patricia Day, lead singer and bassist for HorrorPops.-On tour:...

 relocated to Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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 while the remaining members, brothers Peter and Kristian Sandorff, remained in Denmark.

Track listing

All songs written by Gaarde/Sandorff/Sandorff

1. "Nice Day for a Resurrection" - 4:23
2. "Who Killed the Cheerleader" - 4:09
3. "Nekronauts" - 3:31
4. "Subcultural Girl" - 4:13
5. "Gargoyles Over Copenhagen" - 3:57
6. "Trick or Treat" - 4:16
7. "Murder for Breakfast" - 3:07
8. "Rubbermonks & Leathernuns" - 3:58
9. "Generation 666" - 3:25
10. "Return of the Loving Dead" - 5:25
11. "I'm a Hellcat" - 2:55
12. "Haunted Cathouse" - 4:44
13. "Nekronomicon" - 6:59

Performers

• Kim Nekroman
  Kim Nekroman
  Kim Nekroman is the bassist and lead singer for the psychobilly band Nekromantix and the lead guitarist of HorrorPops. He is married to Patricia Day, lead singer and bassist for HorrorPops.-On tour:...
  
   - double bass
  Double bass
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Peter Sandorff - guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Kristian Sandorff - drums
  Drum kit
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Album information

• Record label: Hellcat Records
  Hellcat Records
  Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz carp Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, the latter of whom is generally responsible for...
  
  
• All songs written by Gaarde/Sandorff/Sandorff.