It Came From Creepsylvania: Ghoul's Haunted House Soundtrack
Up in the Volkov Mountains of Eastern Europe (or San Francisco Bay) lies Creepsylvania, a deceptively peaceful mountain community lined with trinket shops. But ask any of the local tar farmers about the hooded n'er-do-wells known as Ghoul that haunt their campfire stories, and suddenly their rosy-cheeked hospitality is ushered with you out the door.
Listen: Ghoul, 'Death In The Swamp'
Death in the Swamp
- Artist: Ghoul
- Album: Transmission Zero
Transmission Zero is out now on Tankcrimes Records. You can listen to the entire album at Bandcamp.
Armed with chainsaws and elbow-throwing mosh riffs, Ghoul is a death/thrash metal band wrapped in a burlap sack, then tossed into a river with a pile of gory '70s horror movies. But Ghoul owns the kitsch and lives it. The band's fourth album, Transmission Zero, is the most fun I've had listening to a metal record all year, full of grin-inducing but skull-splitting anthems. And, with the addition of sci-fi/surf-influenced riffs (as heard in "Death in the Swamp"), it's like Ghoul somehow knew that I wanted a Man... Or Astro-Man?-inspired metal album without me even knowing it.
In the spirit of Halloween and all things bloody, I asked guitarist and vocalist Digestor to list five songs that Ghoul would play in its own haunted house. Let the Creepsylvanian nightmare begin.
Ghoul's Haunted House Soundtrack
When the head of Tankcrimes Records, Scotty Karate, told us we were being asked by NPR to contribute a list of songs to play at a haunted house, we had so many questions. What does "tankcrimes" mean? What the hell is NPR? But, mainly, how did he get our number? Turns out even he didn't know the answer to the first question, but a quick Google search told us that in your country, NPR is an organization designed to interview the producers of Treme. We're still working on how Scotty got our number. In the meantime, here is our list of songs suitable for your very own Hell House.
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