Life Is a Grave & I Dig It! is the seventh studio album by the psychobilly

Psychobilly

Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, trashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly...

 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 2007 by 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...

. It is the group's only album to include guitarist Tröy Deströy and drummer Andy DeMize

Andy DeMize

Andrew Martinez , better known as Andy DeMize, was a Mexican-American musician. Martinez was the drummer for the bands Nekromantix, Up Syndrome, and The Rocketz.-Bio:...

, replacing brothers Peter and Kristian Sandorff who had left the band in 2005 after frontman 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:...

's relocation to Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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 from the band's home country of Denmark

Denmark

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. Seven months after the album's release Deströy left the band to focus on a solo career and was replaced by guitarist Pete Belair of the Australia

Australia

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n band Firebird. In January 2009 Martinez was killed in an automobile accident. He was replaced by Lux, formerly of Mystery Hangup and Sacred Storm.

The album contains a fourteenth track which is unlisted on the album sleeve, an instrumental version of "Anaheim After Dark."

Track listing

All songs written by Gaarde/Russel/Martinez

1. "NekroHigh"
2. "Horny in a Hearse"
3. "Life Is a Grave & I Dig It!"
4. "My Girl"
5. "Rot In Hell!"
6. "Voodoo Shop Hop"
7. "Cave Canem"
8. "Flowers Are Slow"
9. "B.E.A.S.T."
10. "Anaheim After Dark"
11. "Fantazma"
12. "Panic at the Morgue"
13. "Out Comes the Batz"
14. "Anaheim After Dark (instrumental)"

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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  , lead vocals
  Singing
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• Tröy Deströy (Troy Russel) - guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Andy DeMize
  Andy DeMize
  Andrew Martinez , better known as Andy DeMize, was a Mexican-American musician. Martinez was the drummer for the bands Nekromantix, Up Syndrome, and The Rocketz.-Bio:...
  
   (Andrew Martinez) - drums
  Drum kit
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  , backing vocals

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...
  
  
• Recorded "In Hell" Studios in Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
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  in 2006. Drums recorded at Thee Warehouse in Los Angeles.
• Engineered and mixed by Henrik Neidemeier
• Mastered by Jeff King at Threshold Sound
• Produced by Kim Nekroman
• Front cover photo by Den Labre Larvve Og Papa Razzi
• Back cover photo by Matt Ginsberg
• Artwork and layout by Kim Nekroman