Book Review: DJ Zom-B and the Ungrateful Dead by Vinnie Penn

DJ Zom-B is a fast-paced debut zombie novel from author Vinnie Penn, who is the host of radio talk show The Vinnie Penn Project as well as an online contributing writer to MSN, Maxim and Cracked. As the book starts, our lead character, Luke Zombulli, better known to the world as abrasive radio personality DJ Zom-B, wakes up to the hellish world of a zombie apocalypse. After holing up in his apartment for a few days, he decides to venture out to the local radio station in hopes of broadcasting and searching for other survivors. Once there he meets other survivors but learns that humans are just as deadly, and much more twisted, than the zombies roaming the streets.

DJ Zom-B is a fun and thrilling book from Penn, though it is a little short in length at 171 pages. Penn, who has experience in the broadcasting industry, delivers quirky observations and quick witted comments through smart-ass (but inherently likable) DJ Zom-B. The zombie action isn’t half bad either, but the real terror doesn’t start until the villains of the book, some unlawful lawmen, arrive to round up both survivors and zombies. They plan on using the zombies, as well as the survivors, for their own personal, errrr, “entertainment”. Yup, it’s just as bad as it sounds!

The book also features a pop princess, her lovelorn deejay, a sound engineer that may or may not be turning into a zombie and several other characters that look to DJ Zom-B for leadership. Some of the characters are more developed than others (for good reason, since some characters quickly become zombie snacks), but we get a good feel for those in for the long haul.

I originally thought that the book would stick to a storyline like the film Pontypool (review) or even Dead Air (review), but the book doesn’t take place mainly in a DJ booth, but rather all over the state of Connecticut as the survivors try to escape the zombie hordes and unscrupulous lawmen. This was a relief for me, because I didn’t want to read a re-hash of these fine films. I also thought the despicable acts by the lawmen were far more horrifying than the gut-munching the zombies were doing, and was glad that Penn shifted his gaze a bit from the terror of the zombies to the callousness of humans.

While DJ Zom-B is a fun zombie novel, I thought it would have perhaps worked a bit better had it been condensed into a short story instead. There are several points in the book that just drag on a bit too much and I feel the story could have been more efficiently streamlined. Nonetheless, DJ Zom-B was an enjoyable read and is recommended for fans of zombie (and human) mayhem.

Available on Amazon!

Night of the Punks (2010)

Small town punk rockers The Brain Deads have their first out of town gig. But there are a few problems: The venue is totally deserted, the promoter is a creep, their bass player has gone missing, and the only kids in the audience are bloodthirsty monsters from hell. It’s gonna take a lot more than a few power chords and teenage angst to survive this night.

Night of the Punks is a sweet little slice of short film heaven packed full of gore, goo and groovy tunes! This is one of the most fun short films I’ve seen recently and it is a really fun throwback to films like Return of the Living Dead and Night of the Demons. It has such a manic, gleeful tone and perfectly balances horror and comedy. With a run-time under 20 minutes, the only flaw of this film is that it is not feature-length, because I would have loved to see the cast of lovable losers face off against more demons while trading witty lines.

Everything about this film was enjoyable, from the energetic punk soundtrack to the colorful characters to the direction to the gory effects to the overall high production value!! Director Dan Riesser (who also produced, edited and co-wrote the film) has created an instant cult classic with Night of the Punks. His direction really brought the story, written by himself and Mike L. Kinshella (who plays the lead singer “Spike” in the short and in real life is the singer for the horror punk band Murderland), to raucous life.

The cast also does a wonderful job with their characters and there wasn’t a bad performance in the bunch! I especially enjoyed Nick Mundy, who plays “Hooch”, the drummer, Luke Edwards as “Kenny” the guitarist and our underdog hero, and Aubrey Wood, who plays the band’s merch girl “Sarah”. Everyone else was wonderful as well, from the sleazy promoter played by Dominic Deleo to the band’s lead singer (Mike L. Kinshella) and bassist (John Bobek) to the actors that portrayed the gooey demons.

The gore displayed was also impressive, with the special effects and makeup design being done by Dizzworks Designs. You get your usual blood and guts, but there is also a gruesome face peel that was extremely well done! I also liked the demons’ makeup design, which makes them look like they’ve got a gangrenous skin condition. And their gooey green bodily fluids were pretty icky as well (I mean that as a complement, ya hear?).

Plus, the script is peppered with hilarious lines riffing on everything from the music industry to horror. Quips come fast and furious, and it’s worth a re-watch just to chuckle over the hilarious one-liners, such as:

Hooch: How do you stop a f*cking demon?

Sarah: I dunno Hooch, you’re the one who listens to Misfits!

Night of the Punks is an ode to ‘80s horror films filled with musical mayhem, demonic punks, gooey gore, colorful dialogue – all happening at a fast and furious pace. If there is one short film you see this year, make it Night of the Punks!

P.S. Word on the street is that the filmmakers are attempting to make a feature-length version of this film. My fingers are crossed that this happens!

Check out the film’s official site!

Halloween Music Mix 2010: 13 Alternative Halloween Songs

You know those Halloween songs that come out on those cheap-o comps and crowd the check-out counters of Halloween stores? You know, the ones that are filled with the usual holiday standards of “Monster Mash” or “Thriller”?

Aren’t you sick to death of hearing these, year in and year out? I mean, these overplayed songs are almost becoming as bad as Christmas carols! It’s not that I don’t love the old classics, but I think it is high time people got some fresh blood circulating through their iPods!

So, like in 2008 when I listed 13 Songs to Haunt your Halloween, I present to you a whole new list of alternative Halloween songs.

1.) “Halloween in Heaven” – Type O Negative (available on Dead Again)

“The dead they got that morbid beat
It goes deo deo
They dance upon decaying feet
With their black toes, oh no
Heaven, limbo, and hell
Purgatory oh well, oh well

Halloween in heaven
It’s Christmas in hell
Halloween in heaven
Oh well, oh well”

2.) “When You’re Evil” – Voltaire (available on The Devil’s Bris)

“And it’s so easy when you’re evil
This is the life, you see
The Devil tips his hat to me
I do it all because I’m evil
And I do it all for free
Your tears are all the pay I’ll ever need”

 

3.) “Orange and Black” – God Module (available on Let’s Go Dark)

“All the leaves have died
All the faces on the pumpkins come to life.
He’s coming home tonight.
There’s no where in the world that you can h…ide.
From the shape hiding in the closet.
The monster under your bed.
There’s no way that you can stop this.
It’s Halloween and you’re dead.”

4.) “Night in the Lonesome October” – Calabrese (available on Traveling Vampire Show)

“Like a bat in flight
Mortals go to hell
We’re already dead
Hypno eyes will turn
Virgin minds will burn
Taste of blood tonight”

5.) “Trick or Treat” – Nekromantix (available on Return of the Loving Dead)

“Trick, Trick, Trick or Treat
Open up your door and give me what I need
Thrill kill Halloween I’ll show you something
That you’ve never seen”

6.) “Michael” – Son of Sam (available on Songs From The Earth)

“I’ve been waiting patiently for this day to arrive and
I have spoken not a single word,
Now hand to hand my voice shall be heard

No Michael, not this time,
I’ve been waiting for oh so long, oh so long”

7.) “Spook City USA” – Misfits

“See the ghosts as you drive past graveyards
Spook City U.S.A.
Deathly souls in American graveyards
Spook City U.S.A.
Here is where I’ll die for sure”

8.)  “The Halloween Dance” – Reverend Horton Heat (available on Halloween Hootenanny)

“You do the step with the Psycho knife

You push a shopping cart like a Stepford wife

You stoop like a hunchback of Notre Dame

Now you’re doing the Halloween dance”

9.) “Autumn” – Bella Morte (available on Where Shadows Lie)

“When summer fades to silence
When winter’s still a dream
And solemn sleep to you is blind again
And the Autumn comes with amber eyes
Pale as the night
To enthrall your soul”

10.) “No Costume, No Candy” – Swingin’ Neckbreakers (available on Halloween Hootenanny)

“Trick or Treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat
No costume, no candy”

11.) “A Minute to Midnight” – God Module (Magic in My Heart Is Dead)

“I want to hang you on the wall like a Halloween mask

Do the things to you that you’re afraid to ask for

I knew you in the leaves and the pumpkins and the trees

Down on your knees in the cemetery”

12.) “October Skies” – Glis (available on Nemesis)

“As rain falls from October skies

I chase on into the night

Haunted by visions of past lives

As rain falls from October skies”

13.) “Kiss the Blade (Motherf*cker 667 Mix)” – Combichrist (available on Kiss The Blade)

“A glint of steel

In the night in the night

Darkness will arise

Behind a mask

A godless child

A force that never dies”

Interview with Goth-Industrial Band God Module

Don’t ever change
I like it spooky

Zombies eating brains
I like it spooky

Serial killers
And the insane
I like it spooky

Angry ghosts
Rattling chains
I like it spooky

-”Spooky” by God Module off their Let’s Go Dark album

How can any self-respecting spooky kid resist those lyrics? It’s like a horror-lovers’ anthem! Not to mention that a wicked sample of Trash (Linnea Quigley) from Return of the Living Dead appears throughout the track asking “Do you ever fantasize about being killed? Do you ever wonder about all the different ways Of dying…you know, violently?” as well as her famous “I like it spooky” line.

This song is not only representative of all the horror fiends out there, but it also shows what the goth-industrial/harsh EBM band God Module is all about. Founded by Jasyn Bangert (vocals, synth, programming), God Module also consists of fellow horror-lovers Byron C. Miller (vocals, live keyboards) and Courtney Bangert (vocals, live keyboards), and all three like it spooky!

As the creepy creators of “spooky dance music”, God Module has released the albums Artificial, Perception EP, Empath, Victims Among Friends EP, Viscera, Let’s Go Dark and recently released their new album The Magic in my Heart is Dead.

God Module has been one of my favorite bands for quite a long time, and it certainly was a pleasure to have the opportunity to chat with members Jasyn and Byron about crazy tour stories, their favorite horror movies and what is next for the band!

Fatally Yours: Welcome Jasyn and Byron! I’m very excited to have the opportunity to interview one of my favorite bands! 

Tell me, before God Module, what musical experience did you have?

Jasyn Bangert: When I was 14 I started playing drums. No formal training at all other than music class in middle school. I just played along to records like Misfits Walk Among Us and Ramones Rocket to Russia over and over again until I could play them. I was in an assortment of attempts at punk and death rock bands off and on while in high school but they never really worked out for too long. My interests in gothic and synth pop music brought me to be exposed to industrial bands. After hearing 242, Leather Strip, and Skinny Puppy I had no choice, I pawned my drum kit and bought an old shitty Alesis drum machine and set out to learn how to make electronic music and find out what the fuck MIDI meant.

Fatally Yours: Jasyn, you released God Module’s first album, Artificial, in 2000 before Byron and Courtney were in the band. How did the dynamic change after they joined the band in 2002? And Byron, how was your experience with joining the band?

Jasyn Bangert: Originally God Module was collaboration between one of my high school friends Andrew Ramirez and myself. At the time we met we both were really into Belgian new beat, techno and Ambient music. Looking back on those times its hilarious how little we knew about making a CD when we created “Artificial”. The stories of how we recorded our vocals on that release would scare most people who have a clue what they are doing musically. Sadly, people change and our friendship ended, as did his time being a part of God Module. Courtney had actually always been in the band since the first CD. I am very drawn to ideas of duality and the addition of clean, female vocals to my effected vocals was always part of the plan. With my music, lyrics and vocals I always try to exist somewhere in between good and evil, light and dark. I think the female vocal tracks really help to do that. Byron joined God Module after Andrew left due to my need for another live member. We have grown as a live band together since then and I feel Byron has really matured as a performer from where he was when we started. He also contributes vocals in the studio from time to time, as well as handling half the vocal duties live.

Byron C. Miller: I joined the band right around the completion of the Perception EP. I knew Jasyn wanted do something a little different with the next album Empath, and that we shared a great love for Horror in film and literature, and how well the genre can be used to explore, just as much as entertain. It only seemed natural that Jasyn would want to use horror as a backdrop and have always pushed for it in the music. Come to find out Jasyn was thinking the same way.  My overall experience in God Module is an evolution in live performance. The music and themes convey very powerful emotions and I always strive to really give an intense physical interpretation on the stage. I also do what I can behind the scenes to contribute to the albums by writing some lyrics, contributing vocals, finding many of the samples, and in general sitting there with Jasyn as he’s putting the song together and making suggestions.

Fatally Yours: Can you tell us about your main influences/inspirations when performing and/or writing material? 

Jasyn Bangert: When it comes to mood and imagery I am very inspired by artistic imaginaries such as Clive Barker, David Lynch, H.P. Lovecraft, Joel-Peter Witkin and Mike Mignola to name a few. I find myself drawn to these people because they seem to touch on places and experiences that “normal” people cannot begin to comprehend with their art. It’s not just personal or expressive but it is otherworldly at times. Performing live I think that my stage persona is very unique in the type of music we make. I don’t try to emulate anyone else when I am onstage.  I use my physical stature to become a reflection of the music I create. In doing so, I take a very animalistic, intimidating, monstrous approach to my stage persona.

Byron C. Miller: In performing live I strive to completely transform into something inhuman, evil.

Fatally Yours: Many of your songs are influenced by horror movies and it is obvious you are all big fans of horror. What are some of your favorite horror movies?

Jasyn Bangert: Some of my favorite horror films are: Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its sequel, Phantasm, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and Halloween, Clive  Barker’s Hellraiser 1 and  2, Lord of Illusions, Stewart Gordon’s Reanimator films, Dagon, From Beyond, Return of the Living Dead 1, 2, and 3, Pumpkinhead, Trick R Treat, The Resurrected, etc., etc. I am also an insane Jason Voorhees fan, so I love all the Friday the 13th movies but, Part 6: Jason Lives is my favorite, followed closely by Part 7.

Byron C. Miller: I have many favorites for many different reasons, here’s a taste: Dust Devil, John Carpenter’s Halloween, The Thing,  Night of the Creeps, Dawn of the Dead (‘78), Return of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (‘78), Near Dark, Fright Night,  The Haunting (‘63), The Exorcist, Re-Animator, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (‘86).

Fatally Yours: Was there any specific moments and/or events that made you the horror fans you are today?

Jasyn Bangert: When I was really young I saw the trailer or TV spot for Phantasm somewhere and I became obsessed with seeing it.  I bugged my Mom constantly, every day trying to get her to take me to see this movie. From a very young age, I couldn’t wait for Saturdays so I could watch Creature Feature on Channel 50 in Detroit, where I grew up, in the suburbs. So it wasn’t that I had never seen a scary movie,  I just  had never seen anything other than what was shown on TV, which was mainly older Hammer or Universal films with the occasional 50’s B monster movie thrown in. So I think my mom finally gave in and took me to the movie in hopes that it would scare the shit out of me and I would shut up…and it did, I couldn’t walk past a mirror for a long time without expecting the tall man to jump out and grab me. Rather than turning me against being scared of things, it did the total opposite. I loved that feeling even more than ever and that is still going till this day.

Byron C. Miller: I attribute a lot of it to growing up for half of my childhood in Owensboro, KY. It’s a small town with plenty of legends and ghost stories, and my Grandma on my Dad’s side would always tell me of these stories and I could never get enough. Her house at the time was haunted and located on a hill next to an abandoned cemetery. Sometimes it’s like I was a kid in a horror movie and I loved every moment; I love to be scared! The late night horror host Sammy Terry was my hero, and Halloween was always my favorite holiday. I would even build haunted mazes in my room and have the neighborhood kids go through them. I suppose it’s just in my blood.

Fatally Yours: On the subject of horror, could you give our readers examples of your songs that directly relate to the genre and what inspired you to write them? 

Jasyn Bangert: From the beginning, God Module has been directly tied to horror in the sense of the majority of the themes I use in my song writing are in one way or another connected to the genre. Even our first CD, Artificial, which many people place in the sci-fi category is mainly based around ideas I got from movies like Aliens, Event Horizon, and Cube. After that CD, the title track on the Perception EP is based in the paranormal and uses ideas like telekinesis and ESP to express other more personal matters hidden in the words. This has become very synonymous with my work with God Module. I take extremely personal thoughts and feelings that I need to expel from my own self. I just use very dark imagery through words to get these things out of me. So while a song that seems like it is about the end times of the world (“Skeptical”), evolving into a fish person in Innsmouth (“Forseen”), or murder and rape (“Lucid”), they just might really be about very different aspects of my personality at their core. Then there are songs that are more obviously inspired by specific horror films I love like: “Your True Face” (Nightbreed), “Orange and Black” (John Carpenter’s Halloween), and “Brains” (my favorite zombie films like Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, etc., etc.).

Byron C. Miller: The song “Spooky” had an interesting evolution. Jasyn and I had always wanted to sample Trash and Suicide from Return of the Living Dead. When Jasyn sampled the “I like it spooky” line I started thinking of what the lyrics to such a song would be. I left a voicemail one day with the phrase “Don’t ever change I like it spooky.” This was a message to everyone that’s a little different to always be themselves. It was an anthem for everyone, and for myself as at the time I had just gotten out of a relationship that made me feel like I couldn’t always be myself. Jasyn liked it and thought that it could be the basis for a song that was not only a message, but also a fun tribute all things Horror that we enjoy. It would be like a trip through a haunted house. He then wrote the first verse, I wrote the second verse and the rest is history. I like that despite it’s more tongue in cheek approach, “Spooky”, like all God Module songs, is about much more than what it appears on the surface.

Fatally Yours: On your many tours, what has been your most memorable concert experience? 

Jasyn Bangert: There have been many. One of my Favorites was when we toured with the Mexican EBM band Hocico as part of the Out Of Line festival throughout Germany. At the time I was such a fan boy of Erk and Racso’s music that it was unreal to be driving around Europe on a bus performing with them every night. Sitting on the side of the stage watching Hocico every night after our set was over is something I will always remember as being fucking amazing. Also a lot of the early shows we did with my good friend Alex Matheu’s band Negative Format are very special to me.

Byron C. Miller: It’s a tie. Playing the WGT festival in Germany, performing for about 5,000 people was amazing and so much fun. However I don’t feel that I had reached my full potential at the time, and in a way that show and its success helped give me the strength to finally become the performer I always knew I could be. So the tie is with performing at DAS BUNKER in Los Angeles. The last two shows (this might be considered a threeway tie…) were just great. Such emotion and power from the crowd, and something overall about that venue just really makes me come alive. I love it!

Fatally Yours: Do you have any favorite venues/cities you just love to play?

Jasyn Bangert: Das Bunker in Los Angeles because the crowd is always fucking crazy! Sadisco* in Arizona is really cool too. When we first played there they asked me if I had a choice which movie would I want to play a concert in and of course I said The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2..because who wouldn’t? So when we got there they had turned the club into a rendition of the underground world beneath the old the Texas Battleland amusement park the Sawyer family lived in. Bones, Christmas lights and body parts were everywhere. They even had one room set up like the dinner scene. Then of course playing bigger festivals like Wave Gothic Treffen, Kinetik, Infest etc are always really fun. Not only is it nice to play in front of hundreds and sometimes thousands of people but getting to see and perform with many bands we are fans of or friends with or both is awesome.

Byron C. Miller: Los Angeles, San Antonio, Montreal, Mexico City, Leipzig – Germany

Fatally Yours: If you could pick any bands that you would want to tour with, who would they be and why?

Jasyn Bangert: I would have to say I would need a time machine to get the full effect out of this question. With that said the incarnation of the Misfits when the line up consisted of Doyle, Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only and Robo. Their music has been such a huge inspiration on so many aspects of my life. I would even settle for the opening spot for Danzig on tour for their first record. Runners up include touring with The Cure for Disintegration on the Prayer Tour, Christian Death for Only Theater of Pain, Skinny Puppy for Too Dark Park, Front 242 for Front By Front and Marilyn Manson for Antichrist Superstar.

Byron C. Miller:  Calabrese, it would be fun to tour with a great Death Rock band. GhoulTown for the same reason as Calabrese. Imperative Reaction, because they’re awesome and it would be lots of fun to hit the road with our friends Ted and Clint and the gang, and we’ve been talking about it forever, time to do it!

Fatally Yours: Oh yes please! Those would be great tours! So, tell us about your new EP, The Magic in My Heart Is Dead which is out now!

Jasyn Bangert: The new EP is based around 4 new God Module songs that after finishing I felt were strong enough to be released as their own entity and not part of the next CD:

“The Magic In My Heart Is Dead”: This songs title, which is also the title of the EP, comes from the name of a painting done by my good friend Ashley Kitchens. I was inspired by her work to write a song that I planned on using as the instrumental opening for our upcoming shows. I ended up simply speaking the words – “The Magic in My Heart is Dead” – on the song and I really liked the way it turned out. The title of her painting really appealed to me at the time. There were things I was dealing with in my personal life that had left me feeling as if parts of me had in fact died. I see this song as a funeral march of sorts. Mourning the loss of a very important person in my life and also as chance to become stronger from my own loss.

“Skeptical”: Is about the doubt, anger and fear I experienced after losing a very important person in my life. There were times when I felt like I was not sure I would ever be able to get over what I was feeling. Of course at times like these people are quick to tell you how these feelings will pass and in time they do. But this song is not about that, rather it is about me expressing my desire to be nothing like these people who can easily accept such things and move on. While I believe everything that does not kill us does make us stronger, I will never accept the belief that things happen “for a reason” or that any part of being born, growing old and dying is fair or just. There are many magical things to experience in life but at the same time no matter what your belief or faith is, you have to accept that we are brought into life to lose it and everything else we find while we are alive. That is how we are made and how the cycle of life works. And it’s really catchy and you can dance to it!

“Art”: In this song I used metaphors such as film and my nightmares to express some very intense emotional problems I was experiencing when writing the song. These are far too personal to detail here but let’s just say the lyrics “I’m breaking, I’m falling apart, all for the sake of my art” in this case were very true
“A Minute to Midnight”: Is a dark, twisted Halloween song about spooky sex and depravity. Right now I think it is close to being my favorite God Mod song I have ever done. While it’s nowhere near the most complicated or meaningful song I have written, I love the fact that it’s really deceiving in that at its core it is written simply as a pop song but at the same time it’s very perverted and kinda fucked up…well depending what you’re into I guess.

I also did a cover of the Gary Numan song “Me! I Disconnect from You”. It has been one of my favorite songs for over the last 20 years and i have always wanted to break it apart and recreate it in my own image so to speak. There are also remixes by some amazing artists and I did a more club oriented remix of our song “Spooky”. To sum it up, people can expect a crazy, fucked up ride through the haunted and sometimes deranged chambers of my brain. That every once in a while will show them that there might be a light at the end of their own fucked up tunnel. The trick is that I try to make the things hiding in the dark so appealing that they will lose all interest in ever wanting to leave.

Fatally Yours: What kind of touring have you done or do you plan to do for the new EP? 

Jasyn Bangert: We just finished a 24 date US tour in support of the EP. Overall it was an amazing success. We played some really big shows and a couple very small shows but they all were really fun. In June this tour will continue with 4 shows in Mexico followed by 3 shows in South America. Also we are already planning our next tour in support of the new CD that I am working on now.

Fatally Yours: What kind of hardware/software do you use to create your music?

Jasyn Bangert:  My current studio is based around my PC running Cubase 4. I use far too many software synths, samplers and insert effects to name them all. Hardware wise I have a Korg MS2000B, Access Virus B, EMU Audity 200 and X-treme Lead 1 all hooked up into my mixer for the new CD.

Fatally Yours: I love all the movie samples you use within your songs. Do you find a sample and build a song around it or do you search for samples to fit into song after it has already been written? 

Jasyn Bangert: Sometimes a scene in a film or television show will just stick out right away and I will know I have to use it in a song. Other times I just use what I or Byron has collected recently where they seem to fit when the time comes. Usually I try to do this after the lyrics have been written if I am using something I didn’t already have planned for a particular song.

Byron C. Miller: I find a great deal of the samples and it’s usually a process of me going through a number of films I love and going to scenes where I remember something interesting being said, and then if it seems like it could work for something I sample it. Then I give Jasyn all of these samples and he goes through them when it’s time to add one to a song. Sometimes him or I will be watching something and be like “man we have to sample that!” Or Jasyn will occasionally give me a certain thing to search for like someone talking about the end of the world, or someone talking about fucking and eating somebody.

Fatally Yours: Byron, I was surprised to learn you made a vampire film not too long ago called Night. Can you tell us what that experience was like?

Byron C. Miller: I’ve been writing scripts and making short horror films since middle school, so it was a great feeling of accomplishment to Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, and Edit a feature length motion picture for under 7grand and get distribution for it. It was a lot of hard work and a huge learning experience, and I loved every single minute.

Fatally Yours: I hear that many industrial bands also contributed to the soundtrack and that Jasyn actually did the soundtrack for Night. Byron, can you tell us what it was like putting together the music for the film?

Byron C. Miller: It was really just working with Jasyn, explaining what each scene meant to me to give him as much insight as possible for him to create the music for the film. As far as the bands go, some were on Sector 9 Studios, the record label then owned by Jasyn and Alex Matheu (Negative Format), the rest were on our European label Out Of Line. So we had an idea of the bands and some of the songs we wanted and once we had permission we simply began plugging in the songs where they worked best.

Fatally Yours: Byron has also directed several God Module videos. Do you plan to direct more and make more films, Byron?

Byron C. Miller: As far as the videos go, yes I certainly hope to do more. We talk about new videos constantly, and I’ve probably had 5 ideas for songs for each release. It’s just that sometimes we get too busy with other things, and the videos go to the background.

Fatally Yours: Jasyn, you scored Byron’s film Night. How did that experience differ from writing music for God Module?

Jasyn Bangert: It was very different from writing for God Module of course but at the same time it was something I have always wanted to do. Night was a very early version of the work I hope to be able to do in the future and it was a very good learning experience. I want my style to fall somewhere in-between the simple and ultra effective electronics of early John Carpenter film scores and the unsettling beauty of the work that Angelo Badelamenti has done with David Lynch. I think music and sound add just as much to a film as the imagery if done correctly.

Fatally Yours: Where do you see God Module going in the next few years? What are each of your plans and goals for the band?

Jasyn Bangert: After a few years of not being as active as I would have liked to be I am very happy with the current direction of the band. We just finished our first US tour in quite a while and it was very well received. The new EP has gotten great reactions from fans and critics and I think the next CD will take us even closer to where we are supposed to be within the realms of music we exist in and beyond! I plan to keep pushing God Mod everywhere possible in the next couple years and exposing my music to people who should already know about it but don’t. I think we have the ability to crossover and appeal to many different scenes if given the chance. I want people to find out that not all good hard, dark music has to be metal.

Byron C. Miller: My goal is to help make it bigger, starting with our recent tour it’s time to really push things to a whole new level. A new world of gods and monsters.

Fatally Yours: Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions! Is there anything else you’d like to add?

Jasyn Bangert: Thank you for your support of my music and long live the HORROR!

Byron C. Miller: Stay evil.

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Interview with Rusty Eye Drummer Miss Randall

Miss Randall (born Julieta Randall on November 25, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico) is an American drummer, vocalist and audio engineer.

A percussive and rhythmic person – always interested in Prog Rock and Metal at an early age – she bought her first drum kit at the age of 18, determined to teach herself how to play drums. Hard work demonstrated an innate talent and after 6 months of picking up the drum sticks, she joined the Mexican/American band Rusty Eye.

Playing live and recording Rusty Eye demos triggered in her an interest in Music Production, attending Music College in 2003. During this same year, she learned how to incorporate singing while drumming.

In 2004 she opted to continue Recording Engineering studies in Hollywood, CA as well as relocating the band to this city.

Self-produced releases include: Cryogenic EP, Stendhal Syndrome, Live at the Joint MMVI, and most recently, Possessor which features music collaborations with: acclaimed Italian film composer Claudio Simonetti (Goblin), guitarist/producer Waldemar Sorychta (Grip Inc.) and Alex Mitchell (Circus of Power).
Miss Randall was among the World’s Fastest Drummer finalists in 2007 (feet category) scoring 720 hits in 60 seconds.

Fatally Yours: How long have you been drumming and singing? Do you play any other instruments? 

Miss Randall: I’ve always been into singing. I played in a few professional plays as a kid, mostly musicals, and that got me acquainted with the thrill of being onstage. Years later after quitting theater, the motivation for performing came back but I thought that I needed an instrument to tag along with me. So I bought my first drum kit 7 years ago, joined Rusty Eye 6 months later (I was not fooling around!). I play a bit of piano just to put my ideas down and to make the guides of songs that we record.

Fatally Yours: When did you become interested in pursuing music as a career? 

Miss Randall: I always wanted to do music, but in the beginning it was a hobby. I started to take it seriously when I graduated high school and firmly decided that I had to move to L.A. in order to study Audio Engineering and rock that city with my band too. Before I moved out of Mexico City, I attended a music school for about a year, and that was of great help.

Fatally Yours: What has it been like as a female in the male-dominated metal genre? 

Miss Randall: I get that question a lot! As of now, I’ve learned to just do my thing, carrying myself as a professional musician and not thinking about me being in a male-dominated environment (it can get to your head and besides, I’m not a feminist).

I honestly work better with guys, maybe because they appear to me to be a bit more dedicated and serious. I’m not saying that there are not dedicated women out there, but I just know what works for me.

Fatally Yours: Have you had any experiences where people took you less seriously as a musician because of your gender?

Miss Randall: Happens all the time in recording sessions, loading up gear, doing sound check at clubs, going to shows, and introducing myself to people… I always have to prove myself more than a guy would have to. That is the reality of it. I bugs, yes, but I won’t let that put me down or sad.

Fatally Yours: Why do you think it’s hard for some people to accept that women can love metal music and horror movies?

Miss Randall: Well, I think that deep in their minds they that we go to the extreme of showing our interest for Horror and Metal as an escape to our problems or just to get attention. At least that’s what people tell me who are not aware of what goes on in the Horror/Metal world. I think that the nature of both genres demands a bit more intellect, openness, and understanding. Not everything is to be taken literally either, could be an outside tale told from another hypothetical person. Or sometimes it could be something personal: an internal feeling sublimed in a song. Either way, both sides are positive. Creating is a positive thing and not everything is supposed to be pretty, but then again: who said that the ugly cannot be considered beautiful too?

Fatally Yours: Have you noticed more women getting into metal, whether they are musicians or fans? 

Miss Randall: Yeah that’s really cool, I’m glad this is happening.

Fatally Yours: Do you think perceptions of women in mainly male-dominated industries are changing? If so, how and why are women’s roles changing?

Miss Randall: I guess that in the end, when we stop questioning the role men and women have in society, we can finally reach the equal rights we are looking for.

Fatally Yours: What has been your best concert and/or tour experience? Your worst?

Miss Randall: A great show experience was when we played with Katatonia and Moonspell; we caught the attention of a film director in the audience who later filmed “Mr. Cannibal” for us, sponsored/directed by him and it came out pretty professional. As for bad experiences, I think all shows have had a positive outcome, which immediately neutralizes any difficulties inside my head.

Fatally Yours: Who are your favorite female metal vocalists and musicians? 

Miss Randall: Anneke from The Gathering (the early stuff), Liv Kristine when in Theater of Tragedy, Doro, Lita Ford, and I guess that’s pretty much it.

Fatally Yours: What are your top five albums?

Miss Randall: Morningrise by Opeth, Dark Side of the Moon by Floyd, Red by King Crimson, Melissa by Mercyful Fate, Seventeen Seconds by The Cure.

Fatally Yours: What musicians have inspired/influenced you the most?

Miss Randall: Stewart Copeland [The Police], Neil Peart [Rush], Lars Ulrich [Metallica], Mikael Åkerfeldt [Opeth], Beth Gibbons [Portishead], Mikkey Dee [Motörhead], Danny Carey [Tool], Jim Morrison [The Doors], David Gilmour [Pink Floyd], Robert Fripp [King Crimson] and Claudio Simonetti [Goblin].

Fatally Yours: A lot of your songs are named after and about horror films. What inspired your band to do this? 

Miss Randall: The cinematic properties our music is undeniable, thank you for noticing that! It must be the amount of movies we’ve seen, their scores, and also listening to King Diamond and Mercyful Fate quite a lot!

Fatally Yours: When and how did you fall in love with the horror genre?

Miss Randall: Definitely the first time I saw Nightmare on Elm Street and Poltergeist. I’ve always enjoyed the thrill of getting scared.

Fatally Yours: What are your favorite horror films?

Miss Randall: Inferno, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Deep Red, The Exorcist, The Entity, Zombi 2, The Beyond, From Beyond, Poltergeist. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, To the Devil a Daughter, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Hellraiser, Deathdream, Reanimator, Anthropophagus… and so many more. 
 
Fatally Yours: What goals do you hope to accomplish in your life?

Miss Randall: Just keep immersing in different fields of artistic expression, perhaps film at a later point. I’d love to score a film one day too and to start producing/engineering other bands that have something interesting to say.

For more info on Miss Randall and Rusty Eye, visit:

http://wordpress.rustyeye.com/
http://www.youtube.com/mrrust
http://www.myspace.com/rustyeye
http://www.myspace.com/missrandall

Interview with Filmmaker Lisa Hammer

Lisa Hammer has been a prominent NY underground filmmaker for over a decade. She currently writes, produces and directs feature films with her brother James Merendino (SLC Punk!). Together the two are known as “The Terror Twins”. Lisa is best known for her dark German Expressionist films and experimental horror films and fairy tales, as well as the voice of Triana Orpheus on Adult Swim’s hit cartoon The Venture Brothers. She was also lead singer of the popular “goth” rock bands Mors Syphilitica and Requiem In White.

Her films have toured the U.S. and the world, winning awards and screening at one-woman shows, film and video festivals, art galleries, clubs, and on television. She has collaborated with Ben Edlund (Firefly, Angel) and Doc Hammer (The Venture Brothers), Chris McCulloch (The Venture Brothers), and directed the likes of: Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, James Duval (Donnie Darko), Clayne Crawford (Roswell), Lisa Suckdog, Queen Itchie and Dame Darcy, to name a few.

Her cult horror feature film Pus$bucket, from the Broadway Musical, caused a few near-riots and has recently been acquired by Arcanum/Warner Home Entertainment for widespread commercial re-release on DVD, as have her film collections Girls Gone Grimm and Best of Turn of the Century. The feature film version of her award-winning cult NYC TV show POX (starring an actual cult leader) is in post-production. Her surrealist-feminist film Period Piece about a mentally challenged young girl and her period, has been touring the world in festivals and one-woman shows for five years.

Hammer has also kept busy directing and produced dozens of film, video, TV show episodes, horror stage-plays and soundtracks and co-writing several scripts, including a feminist horror film The Bitch, now in pre-production. The Terror Twins’ latest feature film, The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch, recently won Best Feature Film at the CMJ Film Festival in New York City. The film is a dark comedy “shockumentary” following the life of a lonely hit man. The Terror Twins have completed a pilot for their TV show Terror Lab, as well as recording a haunting CD Bloody Ballads (www.myspace.com/terrortwinsmedia). Hammer has recently released her ethereal solo CD Dakini on Projekt Records.

Her work can be seen on her web site: www.lisahammer.com and at imdb.com.

Fatally Yours: How and when did you fall in love with horror? 

Lisa Hammer:  I have been terrified since I was child. I was born in Salem, MA, where the witch trials are still talked about every day. I remember visiting the Salem Witch Museum when I was five, watching the floor light up in a pentagram shape, and then a statue of the Devil glowed and shrieked, starting a terrifying wax museum tour of the true story of the torture and murder of innocent people. I was never normal after that.

Fatally Yours: What does horror mean to you? 

Lisa Hammer: It means nightmares for a week. No, seriously, it could be anything from brilliant slasher films like Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to supernatural and psychological masterpieces like The Shining, and even the spectacular horrors of nature as in Jaws.

Fatally Yours: What are others’ reactions when you tell them you are involved in the horror genre?

Lisa Hammer: I hang out with a lot of artists and intellectuals and they usually turn their noses up when I mention that I’m about to make a horror movie. But they all love The Shining. I tell them that The Shining is a horror movie. Many great directors have made horror movies. Then I tell them how much money horror films make in general and they usually grumble a little then shut up. I’ve been a starving art purist already, and I’m ready to move on.

Fatally Yours: Why do you think the horror genre has primarily been a man’s domain?

Lisa Hammer: I don’t know exactly, but maybe it’s because it’s so gross to watch! I can hardly watch a really gory film. I get too scared. We girls see enough blood every month! Ha ha ha…I don’t think it’s because men are more violent, as some people think. I know some pretty sick women. Also it might be because many horror films show hot girls being threatened; guys like to think they can save all of us.

Fatally Yours: As a woman, do you think you are viewed differently than your male counterparts in the horror genre? If so, how and why?

Lisa Hammer: The response from male fans to me and my work has been very positive. Men tend to think it’s really cool when a girl makes horror films. However, I am dealing with a lot of condescension from professional men in the industry, it’s really too bad because they could be working so easily with me on amazing projects instead of sticking to their traditional boring boy’s club.

Fatally Yours: Even though women seem to be getting more and more involved behind the scenes in horror, why do you think there are less female horror directors, writers, producers, etc. in the genre than males?

Lisa Hammer: Horror may not interest women as much as films that center more on character development and relationships between people. I’ve seen many horror films that were just too simplistic to hold my interest. Or perhaps women have not been encouraged to make horror films. There should be mentors for sick women like me! I’ve heard that the fine people over at Darklight are helping female filmmakers create horror films, and Heidi [Martinuzzi] at Pretty-Scary has been extremely supportive of me and other female directors in this genre.

Fatally Yours: What elements can female filmmakers/authors/journalists/etc. bring to the horror genre that are lacking in males’ perspectives?

Lisa Hammer: I think women are really creative, imaginative and work so well in group situations. They are inclusive rather than exclusive. Men tend to be loners and alpha dogs fighting to keep their positions. Women have always gotten more done for me on my projects than men have, working together toward a collective goal. I think the women also bring more emotion and character development into scripts and films. Personally I would like to see more petticoats.

Fatally Yours: Do you think it’s harder for women to be taken seriously in a genre that seems to be dominated by males? 

Lisa Hammer: Unfortunately, yes. Hopefully we will help change that.

Fatally Yours: Since you’ve been involved with the horror genre, have you noticed a change in women’s roles in the industry? 

Lisa Hammer: I have noticed a change in the whole industry, and everyones’ roles. Traditional routes of film production and distributions are being replaced by internet videos and downloads, and the ways in which we get our films are so different than before. Right now, anyone with an HD camcorder and some friends can throw together a cheap horror film and sell it for download. I don’t think gender matters so much anymore.

Fatally Yours: Dario Argento once said, “I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.” Alfred Hitchcock elaborated by saying, “I always believe in following the advice of the playwright Sardou. He said, ‘Torture the women!’ The trouble today is that we don’t torture enough.” What is your reaction when reading those quotes, especially as a filmmaker? 

Lisa Hammer: I believe that we should torture more Scientologists.

Fatally Yours: Do you ever get annoyed at how women in horror movies always end naked or with their clothes ripped off? Do monsters not like men’s abs?!

Lisa Hammer: Traditionally throughout art history, the female form has always been more desired by the masses than the male form. Especially the dirty pillows.

Fatally Yours: What horror movie would you say is equally fair in terms of men being objectified or at least, losing the same amount of clothes?


Lisa Hammer: Gayracula.

Fatally Yours: Do you feel you’ve become desensitized to stereotypical scenes in horror like the half-naked girl screaming and running for her life in slow motion? Or are these types of familiar horror tropes still effective and necessary? 

Lisa Hammer: Anything in slow motion is either gorgeous or very funny to me. I am not desensitized at all. I am still extremely squeamish whenever I see blood and violence of any kind. The only things necessary in horror films (as any film) are things that truly add to the storyline and are not thrown in just for effect.

Fatally Yours: Do you feel that other people view women as being “soft” and not able to endure horror as well as men? How do you fight this stereotypical view?

Lisa Hammer: Just keep making these films. It’s the only way to fight. I don’t care how people view me. I just keep going like a mad machine. It’s really fun making horror movies and grossing people out. I’m addicted to it.

Fatally Yours: What women in horror do you admire and why?

Lisa Hammer: I am sad to say that I don’t really know many female film directors in this genre. I do admire Mary Harron and Julie Taymor, to name two. They aren’t afraid to be masculine and feminine, and to be highly creative, funny, very bold and shocking. I absolutely love Mary Harron’s American Psycho.

Fatally Yours: What advice would you give women who want to become involved in the horror genre?

Lisa Hammer: Have fun. The guys might give you a hard time, but they’re generally really cute film geeks who like to have girls around. Blow their minds by being your own adorable self, AND by allowing yourself be that strong, smart, talented Valkyrie that you know you are! Don’t be too nice or polite, but don’t try to be a man either. Your femininity is your weapon. Take off that baseball cap and wear your favorite dress. In a friendly and joking manner, publicly humiliate the men that talk down to you, don’t be a victim and hold it in. Unless you’re a P.A….Then you can’t really complain too loud.

Fatally Yours: What’s the last horror movie that made you think “this is some effed up shiznit!”? 

Lisa Hammer: Of all time: the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  Recently: Irreversible by Gaspar Noé. Holy sh*t!

Fatally Yours: What’s one horror movie you think is HIGHLY overrated?

Lisa Hammer: I have heard that Paranormal Activity is boring. I won’t go see it. I fell asleep during The Ring. I left the theater during High Tension because it was just SO bad. Unwatchable.

Fatally Yours: What are your favorite horror films, books, etc.?

Lisa Hammer: Films: The Shining, The Innocents, Jaws, Alien, all of the Hammer horror films. Too many to list. I love to read Poe and really any good ghost stories.

Fatally Yours: Do you have any upcoming projects you’d like to talk about?

Lisa Hammer: I work with my brother James Merendino (SLC Punk) and we recently won best feature film at the CMJ Film Festival for our dark, gory comedy The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch (on imdb.com) and we are currently in pre-production for a girl-power-dark-comedy-extreme-gore-fest feature film The Bitch. This film will set new standards for over-the-top blood and guts punk rock filmmaking.

Fatally Yours: What are your goals for yourself within the horror genre?

Lisa Hammer: I really have a strange need to make people throw up.

Fatally Yours: Where can people find more info on you?

Lisa Hammer: lisahammer.com

Halloween Music Mix 2008: 13 Songs to Haunt Your Halloween

It’s finally the beginning of the month that so many of us cherish…October! A time of bonfires burning bright and pumpkin faces in the night…a time for Halloween, every horror fan’s favorite holiday!

For me personally, this is my favorite time of year and I get as giddy as a schoolgirl once Halloween season rolls around. My house is already decorated for Halloween year-round, but I put in extra effort for October and go wild with Halloween decorations (just ask my boyfriend…)!

To kick off the Halloween season, I always make a Halloween music mix. My mixes don’t have your typical Misfits’ “Halloween” song (or covers) and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is no where to be found. Forget about “Monster Mash!” Though I do love those songs, everyone hears them repeatedly every time they walk into a Halloween store! So, instead, I try and unearth some industrial, goth, and EBM-type songs to set the perfect mood for a eerie All Hallow’s Eve.

There are many morbidly macabre songs perfect for Halloween, but below are some of my all-time favorite Halloween songs!

13 Songs to Haunt Your Halloween:

1.) Ministry – “Every Day is Halloween” (available on Early Trax)

“Well I let their teeny minds think
That they’re dealing with someone who is over the brink
And I dress this way just to keep them at bay
Coz Halloween is everyday…
It’s everyday…”


The title pretty much says it all…Every Day IS Halloween for some people…including me! I love how this song celebrates being different and being true to yourself year-round.

2.) God Module – “Spooky” (available on Let’s Go Dark)

“Don’t ever change
I like it spooky
Zombies eating brains
I like it spooky
Serial killers
And the insane
I like it spooky
Angry ghosts,
Rattling chains
I like it spooky”

For me, this is the titular Halloween song! With a sample from Trash’s death speech in Return of the Living Dead, this song just oozes Halloween spirit! I consider this song kinda like my theme song. Also check out “Orange and Black” by God Module, off the same Let’s Go Dark album, which features samples from John Carpenter’s Halloween.

3.) AFI – Fall Children (available on All Hallow’s EP)

“Fall children fill the streets at dusk
At last,  it will all begin…”

This is old skool AFI from their All Hallow’s EP (which also includes a cover of the Misfits’ “Halloween”) and is a fast-paced punk song that begins with a very eerie intro reminiscent of a dark October night.

4.) Nine Inch Nails – Dead Souls (Joy Division cover, available on The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

“They keep calling me…”

This Joy Division cover was originally written by Ian Curtis about spirits calling to him. How much more macabre and morose can you get? Nine Inch Nails’ cover of this song is a bit heavier and Trent Reznor’s harsh vocals are a perfect match to the tortured lyrics.

5.) Marilyn Manson – This is Halloween (available on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack)

“This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It’s our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween”

From The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, Marilyn Manson’s take on “This is Halloween” is the perfect balance between frightening and fun. Danny Elfman’s lyrics are just so joyful and infectious that you can’t help but sing along, even though Manson gives the song a darker edge! And everyone wishes they lived in Halloweentown…I know I do!

6.) Rasputina – Transylvanian Concubine [Marilyn Manson Mix] (available on Transylvanian Regurgitations EP)


“Look into their eyes and you’ll be a Transylvanian Concubine.
You know what flows here like wine.
Stay here with us
It’s just time.
Transylvanian Concubine…”

Elegantly eerie…whenever I hear this song I can’t help but think of the Brides of Dracula seducing Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A perfect song to accompany a sexy outfit on Halloween.

7.) The Cure – Lullaby (available on Disintegration)

“On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed”

Definitely one of The Cure’s creepier songs, “Lullaby” is the perfect nightmare scenario of being visiting by an unspeakable evil during the night. Though probably one of the slower songs on this mix, “Lullaby” is haunting and puts me in the mood to spook!

8.) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand (available on Let Love In)

“On a gathering storm comes
A tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
A red right hand”

This songs just evokes evil and makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up…

9.) Siouxsie and the Banshees – Halloween (available on Juju)

“The night is still
And the frost it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost
“Trick or Treat”
“Trick or Treat”
The bitter and the sweet”

NOT a cover of the Misfits’ “Halloween”, instead this is a nostalgic look back at childhood. The “Trick or Treat” chorus is just too fun to pass up, though you can hear Siouxsie’s longing for the old days in her voice.

10.) Switchblade Symphony – Witches (available on Bread and Jam for Frances)

“Your dreams are filled with blood and gore.
Now they’re right outside your door.
They’re gonna get you.”

An eerie, languid and sexy song with strong horror imagery featuring witches, skeletons, spiders, monsters and goblins, “Witches” and its hypnotizing beat will have you conjuring some “toil and trouble” of your own…

11.) Velvet Acid Christ – Haunted (available on Hex Angel: Utopia-Dystopia)

“Tonight, tonight I slowly bleed
Haunted by the will of unease
Shattered by the sound of your screams
Tonight, tonight I watch you plea.”

Perfect for dancing the night away with that boil or ghoul you met on the dance floor…if you don’t mind a song about bloody murder…

12.) Voltaire – Dead Girls (available on Almost Human)

“Dead girls like me
Can’t you see?
Only dead girls like me
Oh, dead girls like me
Can’t you see?
Only dead girls don’t walk away from me
Sad as it seems…”

Halloween just isn’t complete without Voltaire, and his goth cabaret music is a delightful companion to the season. His “Dead Girls,” about, ahem, necrophilia, is excellent for a gross-out good time yet still maintains a dapper style!

13.) Type O Negative – All Hallow’s Eve (available on World Coming Down)

“Be spiderwebbed and glazed in frost
She wears death – beautifully
More stunning now – than in her life – on a bed – of autumn leaves
Into her eyes and quite surprised I whispered don’t you leave
Sing macabre songs and well dance ‘til dawn – on All Hallow’s Eve”

Mmmm…what’s more romantic than resurrecting your dead lover on All Hallow’s Eve? Peter Steele’s deep voice, the song’s slowly rising tempo and the evocatively creepy lyrics are perfect for Halloween!

And there you have it! A list of 13 of my favorite Halloween tracks! Now, this is just an example of my ideal Halloween songs, but there are many more out there and I’m well aware of that. So before you jump in to say, “What about [blank]?!” please keep in mind that my list contains selected suggestions for your spooktacular October and isn’t by any means a complete list of all Halloween-themed, scary music.
On that note, here is wishing you a BOO-tiful Halloween season full of screams and good fears!