Rue Morgue Magazine
The California band Stellar Corpses has carved its name into the skull of the worldwide psychobilly scene with its follow-up to last year's impressive debut... thirteen rawking tracks that the Corpses have disenterred for you fist-pumping, rib-cracking, aural pleasure." -Rue Morgue Magazine (LCL) (read more)

PunkNews.org
"Though it’s the Los Angeles scene that seems to be booming on any given weekend, Stellar Corpses have created a noteworthy buzz even from deep within their haunted Santa Cruz basement base. ...there are some major gems on Welcome to the Nightmare. “Hale Bopp” is both amusing and macabre, recounting the 1997 Heaven’s Gate mass suicide that coincided with the appearance of comet Hale-Bopp: “Matching pants and matching shawls / Cut your hair and your boyfriend's balls / Come on baby let’s do the Hale Bopp!” Some tracks forgo the heavy upright thump in lieu of a slower horror-punk or deathrock style, such as “When You Don’t See Me” and, to a lesser extent, “Teenage Witchcraft,” which is in more of a latter-day Misfits style. “Can’t Keep a Good Corpse Down” features some nice surf-styled guitar licks in one of the better tracks on the album.
...Welcome to the Nightmare demonstrates a competent, driven, and ultimately rather enjoyable take on the narrowly defined genre." - Punk News

Horror Hound Magazine
"...be sure to check out the newest album from the Santa Cruz based psychobilly/horror punk band Stellar Corpses. Far more diverse than most horror rock outfits, Stellar Corpses strives (and delivers) a unique sound that is hard to simply label..." - Horror Hound Magazine (read more)

AZChaos
"With Psychobilly becoming more and more over the top with terrible cliches these days, being more about image and less about putting out good, solid music, it was nice to be able to pop in the newest effort from Stellar Corpses and not be disappointed. It's faster, tighter and far more diverse... the songs have underlying more substantial meanings than... most Psycho Horror Punk bands." -AZ Chaos (Rikki Lee) (read more)

Good Times Weekly
"Though most people may like to think of Santa Cruz as a quiet beach town, some locals know the area also has a dark side—one part fictional, as seen in the cult classic vampire movie The Lost Boys, notoriously filmed here in the 1980s—the other very real, as seen during the 1970s when a string of serial killers terrorized the mountain communities that surround the city.
It should come as no surprise then that a band that embraces the more monstrous side of things has been born here: Stellar Corpses have been making a name for themselves locally and globally for nearly four years, mixing psychobilly, punk, rockabilly, surf rock and more, while striving to avoid any pigeonholes. Featuring Dusty Grave on vocals and guitar, Matt Macabre on drums, Dan Lamothe on bass, and Emilio Menze on guitar, Stellar Corpses released their debut EP, Respect The Dead, in 2007, toured Europe in 2008, and a new full length album, Welcome To The Nightmare, has just come out on Fiend Force Records, exploring a fuller breadth of styles.
The instrumental title track kicks things off in high gear for the album, followed by the shout-along anthem “My Shadow.” “Cemetery Man,””One More Day” and “When You Don’t See Me” are among the other standout tracks on Welcome To The Nightmare, which is being unveiled at this week’s CD-release party at The Catalyst. “
Our predecessors, the guys who were doing rockabilly to start with, they were taking country and the blues and doing their own thing with it,” says Grave. “We just feel like we’re continuing that tradition, and being true to ourselves.”
That independent attitude has fueled the band’s journey down a darker, richer path—chances are you won’t hear many other area groups play a song like “Hale Bopp,” a frightfully catchy tune that tells the infamous tale of the mass suicide of the Heaven’s Gate cult, set to a Bo Diddley-on-steroids beat." - Good Times Weekly (Sean Patrick McCourt)

Big Cheese Magazine
Excellent darkness from sunny California [rating: 4/5]
The Stellar Corpses play a very American take on Psychobilly. The standards of a whacked the hell out of slap bass and rockabilly guitar are there in abundance but there is a definite Horrorpunk crossover going on here. Hardly surprising when you consider the label that they are on that big choruses and sweeping arrangements coupled with deeper than your average Psycho lyric are at the fore but adding to and not smothering the Rockabilly undercarriage. If this was given anything like the of sort airplay it undoubtedly deserves Stellar Corpses could easily find their fan base much wider lending from the likes of AFI. - Big Cheese (Simon Nott)