Hound Gawd! Records

"The sinewy slide guitars sound as if they’re powered by gasoline, and the measures lubed with motor oil… wouldn’t sound out of place in the next Quentin Tarantino film." the North Coast Voice describes their sound.

The duo of real-life barbers, the Sweeney Todd of Rock – Jason Cutthroat (vocals, guitar) and Donny Paycheck (drums) – carve up a bloody, ballsy and brash brand of rock ‘n’ roll that – not unlike their medieval counterparts – takes no prisoners. They are wearing bloodspattered white smocks for live shows and they’re as handy with a straight razor as they are with garage rock.

"The classic imagery of what a barber is correlates so well to the music," says Donny. "We keep it straightforward and as sharp as possible." "It’s a little creepy and weird," Jason adds. "But it’s a lot of fun and ties into what we do every day." Jason and Donny initially got acquainted in the Pacific Northwest rock scene as both played in local bands. Most notably, Donny made his bones behind the kit for the iconic Zeke, a wonderfully brutal hardcore band that played with Pearl Jam, Iron Maiden, Mudhoney and many other renowned acts. They are both veterans of a regional rock scene that has always made national reverberations. For their second album the duo called on a Seattle legend – Jack Endino (Mudhoney, The Sonics, Nirvana, Soundgarden). They’ve captured a sound that is at once diabolical and alluring. It couldn’t have come from anywhere but the Northwest.

Since the Brothers share the same profession (a grizzly one in days of yore) and a passion for bands like The Gun Club, The Cramps, Eagles of Death Metal, The Hives, it was effortless for the duo to write songs. All the music is arranged by both of them. The songs are about blood, death, drugs, sex, black magic, bad relationships, although not necessarily in that order.

TRACKLIST

1. Taste For Evil

2. Shake Move Howl Kill

3. Out Of Control

4. Wrong

5. Black Candle

6. Medicine

7. Killing Time

8. Candy Cane

9. Get Haunted

10. The King Is Dead

Hound Gawd! Records

For their critically acclaimed second album Taste For Evil, The Cutthroat Brothers enlisted punk icon Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges) to lay down bass tracks. Though those tracks were initially lost in transit and didn’t surface until after the album’s release, they finally appeared in full on The King is Dead, remixed and mastered by legendary producer Jack Endino (Mudhoney, Nirvana, Soundgarden). The album delivers a dense, dynamic power fueled by Mike Watt’s unmistakable bass lines and Raymond Pettibon’s iconic artwork — a name synonymous with punk rock imagery, notably for Black Flag.

Lyrically, The Cutthroat Brothers dive into dark, visceral themes — blood, death, drugs, sex, black magic, and toxic relationships. Their live shows evoke the smoky, grimy, frenetic energy of garage punk clubs across Europe, where the audience is drawn into a feverish trance, possessed by the devilish spirit of the music.

TRACKLIST

1. Killing Time

2. Medicine

3. The King Is Dead

4. Out Of Control

5. Taste For Evil

6. Get Haunted

7. Wrong

8. Shake Move Howl Kill

9. Candy Cane

10. Black Candle

Hound Gawd! Records

As ‘Devil in Berlin’ by The Cutthroat Brothers starts to play, You can taste the packed booze and smoke filled caverns of every garage punk club in Europe. The walls like a lung, expanding as the audience falls into a feverish trance as if possessed. You can hear the crowd’s screams and the sinister laughter of The Devil himself.

The gruesome twosome, along with punk legend Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges) are back in road sharpened form. Jason Cutthroat’s grinding, straight razor slide guitar and Donny Paycheck’s (ex Zeke) pummeling, heavy-as-hell drums beat down on you in a blues punk soaked fever. Mike Watt provides the blood-like glue that brings the monster’s heart to life.

Songs like ‘Devil in Berlin’, ‘Been Away’, and ‘Love, Drugs, Etc.’ provide hooks that stick in your brain like a grimy dance floor to the bottom of your motorcycle boots. Screaming down the Autobahn like a rat rod hearse on fire, this is music born from punk touring. The ‘Sweeney Todd’s of Punk’ served a successful slashing of Europe that ended right before Covid came and stopped everything rock and roll, and otherwise.

‘Devil in Berlin’ oozes a seedy, primal slime that grips onto and feeds greedily off of audience energy and can only survive in the dark corners of the soul. Each track a sordid, sinful sketch that can be directly attached to a night on tour. From cops in Rotterdam one day, rowdy audiences storming the stage in Liege, to audience members pulling at The Cutthroat’s blood and sweat soaked smocks in Köln, this album bares every kick and scratch then pours a bottle of whiskey over them so you never forget.

Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney) produces and mixes, shaping ‘Devil in Berlin’ to a razor sharp edge fit to shave Satan himself.

TRACKLIST

1. Bad Candy Girl

2. Been Away

3. Devil In Berlin

4. Love, Drugs, Etc.

5. Cold Dead Night

6. Magic Tricks

7. Out Of Our Cage

8. Kiss The Moon

9. Cherry

10. Like A Zombie

11. Wild Western