Welcome to another Saturday morning mixtape, perfect to get you up and awake if you find yourself in a post-Christmas hangover state. We jammed this one full of our favorite holiday themed tracks, plus a few choice secular jams to round things out. Grab your cup of cheer and listen down below.
Yep, 10.31. HALLOWEEN. The best day of the year. So, in light of this, we bring you our spooky edition or gore edition or occult edition, all depends on what video is playing at the time. Brother Vince made the call for spooooooooky videos and I was over here with zero power or internet so in lieu of putting him on the last minute spot, you got me. So, what horrors are in store? What wicked tricks do we have? I bring some wicked death metal, King Diamond and Axeslasher, Jon brings some Devin Townsend, Angela brings Ghost B.C. and Misfits (topical, I might add), Ian brings The Mountain Goats (no surprise) and Pallbearer, and Hera brings some Zeal & Ardor. And, we close with two HITS from Two Minutes To Late Night and even though it’s not Christmas, both of these are still tailor made for today, you’ll see. Hit play and go scare up some good times somewhere or just hang in and sync this up with an old favorite horror movie. Either way, enjoy and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
King Diamond will release The Dark Sides on CD and LP formats on October 30th. Originally released in 1988, the collection features five tracks and an outro. You know what to do.
And we’ll tie this up with a new video from Boundaries for “Behind the Bend”. Your Receding Warmth drops on November 13th through Unbeaten Records.
If you appreciate photography, this auction hosted by Nathaniel Shannon, in cooperation with MetalSucks, is worth exploring. It will benefit For The Nomads, a charity organized for touring crews hit hard recently. Definitely an excuse to snag a print of King Diamond, Every Time I Die, or The Black Dahlia Murder.
Ulcerate have dropped one of the best albums in 2020 so far with Stare Into Death And Be Still, so let’s check out this awesome video for “Dissolved Orders” taken from that album (out now on Debemur Morti Productions).
Some guidelines have emerged regarding concerts and how to make them a thing again. Surprising to probably nobody, moshing and crowd surfing definitely wouldn’t be a thing going forward it seems.
Napalm Death has teamed up with Decibel Magazine to reissue Time Waits for No Slave, Smear Campaign, Utilitarian, and Apex Predator on vinyl. Pre-orders are available now at this location.
Here’s Killswitch Engage performing an acoustic version of “We Carry On”, recorded in quarantine of course. Definitely a good one to close the day with.