Over the last two countdowns, I’ve been closing things out with a music-themed Youtube video that ties into Halloween in some way. I didn’t originally intend to do it each year and I have no clue how long I’ll keep it up. All I do know is that this video was the perfect closer to …
Category: Music
Music of all kind.
Oct 29 2010
Music to Haunt By: Michael Hedstrom
Michael Hedstrom Official Site Midnight Circus, Hedstorm Productions 1999 Clive Manor, Hedstorm Productions 2001 Demagogue, Hedstorm Productions 2007 The haunted attraction/Halloween community is just as prone to fads and crazes as everyone else. Asylums, pirates and rednecks are only a few of the theme ideas (be it for a room or the entire haunt) that …
Oct 28 2010
Music to Haunt By: Hollywood Haunts
Hollywood Haunts Official Site Monster Movie Haunts!, Introsound 2008 Those who browse through Halloween CDs each year may have noticed a mysterious newcomer to the field: Introsound. Initially debuting with the “Dr.Goodsound’s” line consisting of Twisted Circus of Horror Sounds, Creep Show and Halloween Haunt-O-Tron, Introsound’s newest line is Hollywood Haunts. Said line consists of …
Oct 28 2010
Ghoul Squad
Ghoul Squad on MySpace and Facebook Ain’t gonna front – I don’t know anything about this band except 1) They’re from Massachusetts 2) They’ve been in this game longer than most of the other death rock punk bands these days 3) they might be broken up and 4) the music is incredible. Last March, they said …
Oct 27 2010
Music to Haunt By: Dronolan’s Tower
Dronolan’s Tower Official Site Journeys in Darkness Vol. 1: Those Who Dwell Beneath, Forever Young Music 2008 Although initially surprised by the idea of CDs designed for use while playing tabletop RPGs, I must admit that it’s not a bad idea. Remember, the whole point of a role-playing game is to immerse yourself in another …
Oct 27 2010
The Meteors
Thirty years ago, three lads from the isle of England put together a band called The Meteors and from there, some say, the genre of psychobilly was born. Punk rock and rockabilly mixing together, with elements of horror mixed in with classic roots rock country. Thirty years as a band is pretty impressive, even more …
Oct 26 2010
Music to Haunt By: Buzz Works
Buzz Works Official Site Zombie Influx, Monolith Graphics 2009 If you read yesterday’s installment about Nox Arcana, you might remember how I teased about another new release of sorts from them. That’s due to their involvement with Buzz Works… Buzz Works’ origins lie in an Ohio-based store of the same name that’s devoted to all …
Oct 25 2010
Music to Haunt By: Nox Arcana
Nox Arcana Official Site Blackthorn Asylum, Monolith Graphics 2009 For years, I had thought the Midnight Syndicate was the only group out there doing spooky ambient albums based around a single theme. So as you can imagine, I was pretty blown away with I stumbled across the Wikipedia entry for Nox Arcana. Elated by the …
Oct 24 2010
Music to Haunt By: Midnight Syndicate
Midnight Syndicate Official Site The 13th Hour, Entity Productions 2005 The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates, Entity Productions 2008 If you hang out in forums devoted to Halloween and/or haunted attractions, then you’ve probably heard of the Midnight Syndicate. Their music is held in very high regard and always comes up in discussions over what makes …
Oct 23 2010
Music to Haunt By: An Introduction
Having clearly not learned my lesson from doing the Freaky Tiki Surf-ari, I’ve decided to do another music-related review series for the site. However, unlike last time, this will be much shorter and won’t have the introduction and first review merged into a single post… Sound is an important part of any haunted attraction, be …
Oct 20 2010
Tiger Army
I don’t know the guy personally but I’m sure that Tim Armstrong of Rancid is a big fan of psychobilly. Nekromantix, HorrorPops and The Creepshow are all signed to his Hellcat Records label, which also is home to Devils Brigade, which is Matt Freeman’s side project when he’s not playing in Rancid. Over ten years …
Oct 13 2010
Memphis Morticians
We talked about Memphis Morticians back when Von Erickson’s work was featured in a Tuesday uEtsy (which I’m told are on vacation for October as we do the daily countdown.) Being that it’s Psychobilly Wednesday, what better band to feature than the Memphis Morticians? I saw them place down in Stanford a few years ago …
Oct 07 2010
That Sync-ing Feeling
Popular legend has it that if one plays Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album while watching The Wizard of Oz, the music and actions totally sync up MAN. Pink Floyd denies that any of this was intentional and it has been pointed out that any seeming connections between the two are just …
Oct 06 2010
King Sickabilly/Sasquatch and the Sick-a-billys
I’m selective in my rockabilly/psychobilly choices. The genre shares an unfortunate quality with modern country, where different people sound alike. Modern country has always appeared to be made up of five session bands and a rotating cavalcade of singers, producing different songs with different vocals but ultimately, sounding the same. It’s dull. There’s no real …
Oct 05 2010
World Needs Monsters – diemonsterdie
You don’t need to go any earlier than the first Ramones record to see how interlinked punk and horror have been from the start: you can find it in ‘Chainsaw,’ a punk tribute to the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ but as well in ‘I Don’t Want To Go Down to The Basement.’ There was something automatic …
Oct 04 2010
Providence
[This is going to be a long one.] Providence, Rhode Island was and remains the home of H.P. Lovecraft. It was a town I had been to only once before I ventured north to see the Deadbolt show at Club Hell back in May 2010. The last time that Deadbolt came east was a year …