A leaky faucet. An unreliable narrator. A nightmare of confinement, control, and questionable sanity. Metallica’s “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” transforms psychological horror into six and a half minutes of heavy metal brilliance.
Some songs haunt us with ghosts and monsters. Others confront the greatest mystery of all. Death Cab for Cutie’s beautiful acoustic ballad explores mortality, devotion, and the promise that love needn’t surrender to the darkness.
Benjamin Franklin, older lovers, scientifically improved flatulence, Sanskrit-speaking drywall, and two sisters who know exactly how to keep a secret. The Pierces bring a deliciously sinister slice of gothic indie pop to Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs!
ALL ABOARD! Ketch Secor sends us hurtling through a haunted Western landscape on a rip-roaring bluegrass ghost train bound for musical damnation. Next stop: Purgatorial Point!
A guitar-playing troll, a haunted wooden bridge, and one filthy swamp-rock groove. Tony Joe White reminds us that sometimes monsters just want to rock out!
ZOMBIES! FROM OUTER SPACE! Two minutes of glorious horror-punk mayhem courtesy of Glenn Danzig and Misfits. No existential dread, no complicated metaphors, just pure, buttkickin’ monster-rock lunacy!
In Gary Numan’s dystopian future, androids replace human intimacy, memories fragment, and individuality becomes obsolete. Tubeway Army’s Are ‘Friends’ Electric? remains a chilling vision of humanity’s uncertain future.
A psychedelic trip down the bluegrass rabbit hole! Discover how Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway transform Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit into a gloriously spooky, fiddle-fueled Wonderland adventure.
What if the most terrifying sounds in the universe are the cries of angels? Dead Can Dance’s “The Host of Seraphim” takes us beyond the walls of human perception into a realm of divine beauty and existential horror.
Burt Bacharach. Steve McQueen. A giant glob of murderous strawberry Jell-O. Welcome to 1958, when monster movies were ridiculous and Halloween music was goofy as all hell. The theme song to “The Blob” joins our ongoing Halloween playlist.