^Thanks for the update da-ron

The Waterboarders are also on page one of this thread about halfway down page. Neat video

The Insanitizers (Vancouver-Washington, USA)

https://www.facebook.com/pg/insanitizers/about/?ref=page_internal

https://insanitizers.com/

https://insanitizers.bandcamp.com/

Awards (From Facebook page)

1. First Prize, Dallas Songwriters Association Competition, 2016 Instrumental music for "Shootout"
   2, Best Rock Instrumental Album, TheAkademia.com, July 2016 for "Guitar Fun"
2. Best Rock Instrumental Song, TheAkademia.com, June 2015 for "Shootout"
3. Cry of the Heart Award, from "Cry of the Coyote" music review magazine, for "Wild Surf Guitars" album
4. Cry of the Heart Award, from "Cry of the Coyote" music review magazine, for "Whimsical Surf Version 2" album
5. Top Ten Pick, Pipeline Music Review Magazine, Autumn 2016, for "Guitar Fun" album.

The Torquays - (Orange County-California, USA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torquays

https://www.discogs.com/The-Torquays-A-Date-With/release/5063378

https://www.discogs.com/artist/356117-The-Torquays

The Torquays were a popular instrumental surf band from Orange County in Southern California from 1994 to 2008. The band was originally formed in 1964 by Jerry Gordon in Shawnee Mission Kansas. After Gordon moved to Southern California a few years later the band went dormant until the film Pulp Fiction came out in 1994.

Guitarzilla (Napa-California, USA)

https://www.facebook.com/guitarzillaband

http://www.guitarzillaband.com/who-we-are.html

Biography (From Facebook page)

Guitarzilla consists of:
John Wheeler: Guitar and electric uke- As a longtime member of the southern California music scene, John has toured with Dick Dale as a member of the Del Tones and has shared the stage with other surf greats like the Ventures, The Safaris and Jan and Dean.

Keith Jordon: Guitar- As a California native, Keith grew up on classic surf music, blues and reggae and has played with several notable bay area bands playing guitar, baritone guitar and percussion. Keith is a scholar of surf music and blues and is a secret weapon to the Guitarzilla rhythm section.

Mark Heims: Bass- Growing up in Orange County, CA, Mark was raised on the sounds of the Huntington Beach surf and influenced by the California music scene. Mark has played guitar and bass in metal, classical, blues, jazz, reggae and rock groups and has appeared with a number of prominent artists including Terry Bradford, Brenda Holloway and jazz saxophonist Mike Morris.

Steve Trovao: Drums- Steve has spent most of his career playing in classic/progressive rock, swing, blues and r&b/funk bands. With a large palette of music styles under his belt Steve is in high demand as a teacher and performer in the bay area. Steve's blues band has been honored with several notable honors and awards including best blues band 2 years in a row. No one can have a great band without a great drummer!

Stronzo Gelantino & The Boo-Men (Germany?)

http://www.stronzogelantino.de/

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Stronzo+Gelantino+%26+The+Boo-Men&i=digital-music&search-type=ss&ref=ntt_srch_drd_B003EJAQYO

https://www.reverbnation.com/stronzogelantino

Biography (Translated from German)

Stronzo Gelantino, a known genius and horsebear, founded the instrumental singing club Stronzo Gelantino and The Boo-Men in 2003. At last, in painstaking cold aquise, he had found the cast for his chapel, which was ready to present his hydrodynamic compositions to a select professional audience. The Boo men were born. To this day, the true identity of these insectoid masked strangers remains unrevealed. The quartet makes use of the methodological madness of polka, surf, melodies from the near to middle east, classic rock ' n ' roll and western tunes. Instrumental numbers on the edge of the nervous breakdown, wonderfully hysterical, like watching a bunch of flies perminently strut against a sloping roof window in vain towards the sun, browsing over amplifiers in the process.

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Les Agamemnonz (Rouen, France)

https://www.facebook.com/Les-Agamemnonz-200696936638531/

https://lesagamemnonz.bandcamp.com/album/les-agamemnonz-10

https://lesagamemnonz.bandcamp.com/album/au-revoir

https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/15241/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2804420-Les-Agamemnonz

www.stormsurgeofreverb.com/content/les-agamemnonz-release-au-revoir-and-de-à-z

The Apemen (Tilburg / Rotterdam, Holland) 1990 - 2007 / 2010 - 2014

https://www.facebook.com/TheApemen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apemen

The Apemen is a Dutch surf rock band, comprising band-members from Tilburg and Rotterdam, with their base remaining in Tilburg.
They have existed since the early 1990s, and has seen several changes in line-up and musical style since their beginning. Their most active period was in the mid-90s when they released all of their records. They are famous for wearing gorilla masks and suits on stage combined with various stage acts, including jumping and moving around on stage, shaking hands with the audience, telling jokes between songs and climbing on top of the bar while playing.
Their first album Are you being surfed? (1994) is strictly guitar-oriented, and includes a mix of songs from their first EP and surf classics like Pipeline and Penetration. The personnel on this record was Joep Verbeek and John Peate on guitar, Jeroen van de Sande on bass, and their first drummer Mike Rosema on drums.
Surfvival of de onbeschofste (1995) saw a change in line-up with Joep Verbeek and John Peate quitting the band, Jeroen van de Sande moving from bass to guitar, and David Andriesse filling in on bass. On this record Albert Benier was added to play organ, and he wrote much of the material for this album. The sound on this record is more organ-based with several songs using that as the lead instrument. El rey del Surf is their only vocal song on Surfvival..., and is a Spanish-language version of Trashmen's King of the Surf.
After Surfvival of de onbeschofste the group has only recorded one song that has been released: 24 hours from Tulsa which was released on the surf-music tribute to Burt Bacharach That's new Pussycat! (OmOm Records, 2000).
Their live-set mainly comprises songs from Surfvival of de onbeschofste with several numbers from Are you... and songs they have written after Surfvival of de onbeschofste, and has seen little change after their prolific period.
On January 6, 2007 they played their farewell concert in Geel, Belgium. Late 2010 they made their comeback on Burlesque Ballroom in Rotterdam.

Pedrito Diablo y los Cadaveras (El Hoyo, Argentina)

https://eidonmusica.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/pedrito-diablo-los-cadaveras/

In the border city of El Hoyo begin to glimpse green sprouts... And this time it's serious. Peter the Devil & the corpses have hit the key, no doubt. Albariño, spaghetti and rock and roll seem to be the essential ingredients to bring to fruition any company, however farfetched it may seem.
Whole mornings enjoying Sergio Leone, entire afternoons of rock, long nights of roll and, albariño and spaghetti daily, have served, although many doubted, to give Life to his debut album. A record influenced by bands of the likes of the Ventures, the shadows, Link Wray or Phantom surfers and some of the great soundtrack composers of Spaghetti Western (Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, Alessandro Alessandroni...).
Although the origins are very clear, the band has been able to compose nine themes with its own personality, that without fleeing the standards of the genre are enriched with Tex Mex, Rock and a series B air that makes them totally go

The Quiet Surfers (Berkeley-California, USA)

https://www.facebook.com/quietsurfers/

Sandy & the SurfSonics

https://www.allmusic.com/album/oceanica-mw0001275091

Not much out there on this group - might be a solo act?

I will update later if I find anything/