Messer Chups brings their creepy surf sounds to Houston for the first time. Credit: Photo by Oleg Guitaracula If someone took a vintage tiki cocktail mixer and added shots of Bela Lugosi, Dick Dale, a ...

The Messer Chups were originally formed as an experimental band in 1998 by composer and guitarist Oleg Fomchenkov (aka Oleg Gitaracula). While its members and sound have changed over the years, today ...

Messer Chups are not just any surf-garage-trash-roots-horror rock trio from Russia. On the Saint Petersburg band’s latest album, The Adventures of Zombierella and Guitaracula, there are all the ...

Nine years ago some kindly public-relations person sent me a copy of the Messer Chups album “Crazy Price” on Ipecac Records. In a sea of copycats, the album grabbed my attention. There seemed to be so ...

The Messer Chups were originally formed as an experimental band in 1998 by composer and guitarist Oleg Fomchenkov (aka Oleg Gitaracula). While its members and sound have changed over the years, today ...

In the world of Messer Chups, it's all about the riff. Guitarist Oleg Guitaracula will occasionally grunt some howling-man vocals, but most of the time he and bassist Svetlana “Zombierella” Nagaeva ...