"I saw Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano with his feet and I lost my mind. I’ve been greasing my hair ever since," said Dominic "Domino" Boch, 29.

Boch is the lead singer in Temecula-based rockabilly band No Dice, which also includes guitarist Jerry Pierce, 32; drummer Robert "The Mechanic" Bradley, 39; and bassist Matt "King Double" Ross, 26.

Boch describes the band’s music as "nitro-burning rock and roll," and with good reason. The band sounds like a cross between Reverend Horton Heat and The Subhumans. It’s rockabilly but a little harder, heavier and angrier.

This makes sense since the band’s influences range from Marty Robbins to Motley Crüe.

"We like to get people up and out of their seats. We like to know we’re doing our job," Boch said.

In fact, it was Axel Rose of Guns N’ Roses, a heavy metal – not rockabilly – band, that first inspired Boch to pick up a microphone.

"Looking at those stadiums just filled with people just lit the fire," he said.

The heavy metal influence runs deep throughout other members of the band, too. Bradley, for example, spent the ’80s playing in thrash metal bands.

This is apparent watching him drum. At the Temecula Music Fest last month, he seemed to be violently assaulting his drum set, using double-kick bass drumbeats where other rockabilly drummers might have been doing a shuffle on the snare.

"I’m a real heavy hitter, so everything I play is really solid," said Bradley.

This was an understatement, according to Boch: "[Bradley’s drumming] sounds like a train on a track to hell."

The importance of another of his influences shouldn’t be understated, Bradley said jokingly in an interview earlier this week.

He referred to a tattoo of Animal, a character from the Muppets television show, on his right forearm holding sticks and stomping on a snare drum.

Every aspect of the band’s music isn’t all bombshells and bile, however. Boch’s lyrics describe the difficulties he’s experienced in his life.

"Just because I was born in Temecula doesn’t mean I haven’t seen the road on the darker side," he said.

For example, Boch wrote the song "Big Cold World" over the course of three years.

He started writing it when he was in a relationship with a good woman, he said, but his unethical behavior drove her to leave him.

Then, when he’d matured and given up the behaviors that drove that girlfriend away, he began a relationship with a woman who put him through exactly what he had put his previous girlfriend through.

This brought the story full-circle, he said, and taught him a hard lesson.

"That’s when I wrote the final verse," Boch said.

It’s surprising he has any time for a love life considering how active his band has been over its three-year-long existence.

The band began in 2006 when Boch started playing with some friends, none of whom are in the band any longer.

"Band members just kind of fizzled out over the years," he said. "Either their wives got mad or they couldn’t go on tour."

After forming the band, Boch formed a record label called Straight Razor Records. He formed the label to publish No Dice’s first EP, "Let It Ride," which he released in 2006.

The band released several recordings after that. In 2007, it released a single, "Big Cold World," and last year it released its first LP, "Heaven Sent Hell Bent." Just last month, the band released a new single, "Trigger."

No Dice is working on new songs and plans to release a new LP by October.

Boch has also signed short deals with other bands to produce compilations.

In October of 2007, Straight Razor Records released its first compilation, "Clash of the Billies," and then in November of 2008 it released its second compilation, "Rebels of Rock ‘n’ Roll."

Boch created the label to help local bands get heard by a larger audience and avoid some of the abuses of major labels, he said.

"I don’t make any money off it… I just don’t like to see people get ripped off," he said. "Making music, that takes blood and sweat."

To hear No Dice’s music, visit their Web site at www.myspace.com/1nodice.

No Dice with the Voodoo Glow Skulls

When: June 6 at 8 p.m.

Where: Trevi Entertainment Center, 32250 Mission Trail, Lake Elsinore

Cost: $15

No Dice

When: July 14 at 8 p.m.

Where: Slidebar Rock-n-Roll Cafe, 122 E. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton

Cost: Free

No Dice with 3Bad Jacks

When: June 26 at 8 p.m.

Where: The Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood

Cost: $15

No Dice with Great White

When: July 5 at 8 p.m.

Where: Long Beach Car Show along Shoreline Dr., Long Beach

Cost: $10