Iguana Death Cult

Iguana Death Cult is a band based in Rotterdam that produces high-powered, energetic music with a raw garage rock feel. They borrow generously from roadhouse rock and rockabilly, but can also turn on a dime and start playing bouncy new wave beats combined with surf guitars. Their first album was more heavily punk and noise-oriented, which has toned down since then. The band has a tendency to push the tempo up even with songs that might have otherwise been nice mid-tempo ballads. Their songs are often driven by Arjen van Opstal's relentlessly pulsating bass. The guitars are dynamic and provide a diverse range of flavors: they can be jagged and artsy in one song, distorted and loud in another, not to mention the good old wah wah pedal, with often subtle shifts in between.