UK psychobilly rockers the Meteors have made the rounds in San Diego over the past decade, playing venues like the House of Blues and Queen Bee’s, but the local stage they’ve visited most is Brick by Brick, where they return November 1 to debut new songs currently being tracked at Wolftone Studios. Aside from the new stuff, they’ve got nearly 40 years of setlist material to choose from, with around two dozen studio albums and another dozen live releases, and you’d be hard pressed to find any psychobilly compilation ever curated that doesn’t include at least one Meteors track.

The only founding member who remains, P. Paul Fenech, is one of the most prolific songwriters in the biz, the Stephen King of psychobilly, scoring films and TV shows as well as releasing nearly a dozen more solo albums, soundtracking video games, and playing in side projects such as the Murder Brothers, Raw Deal, and the Surfing Dead. Looking at publicity pics for the current tour and listening to their most recent album, 2016’s The Power of 3, you’d never guess that the Meteors, who were born around the same time as the Rubik’s Cube first hit the market, will soon play their 6000th gig. Only a handful of similar bands such as the Cramps ever enjoyed such longevity (1976-2009, through the death of Lux Interior), and few are likely to outlast them.