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INTRO BY TOMB DRAGOMIR + “Rue Morgue Radio”
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w“When RM asked us to write them a song for Rue Morgue Radio, we FEATURES
and put it on our album Run for Your Life. The lyrics in the song became the theme for our album art, which Ghoulish Gary Pullin also had a huge part in. If The Creepshow and Rue Morgue were human, we would be ‘doing it’ with each other constantly!
rote a fast little jingle and liked it so much, we made it into a full song CINEMACABRE
Tomb first sounded the alarms in RM#58 when he nearly sold his soul for the Burlington, Ontario band’s debut, and it’s been a sordid band-mag love affair ever since. The little-horror-band-that-could has hit the big time now, having opened for the likes of Rancid, Tiger Army, The Unseen, Agnostic Front, Mad Sin and Demented Are Go, and toured in such ex- otic locales as Japan and Australia. Bassist McNab and the rest of the creepers may be tireless road warriors but they were right in our back- yard all along. TT
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THECREEPSHOW.ORG “Into the Cauldron” CINEMACABRE
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“It’s about losing all hope and going all-or-nothing, fucking with fire and throw- CINEMACABRE
ing it all in the pot to see what happens...or simply just being frustrated and fed up and throwing some pretty little witch into a boiling cauldron.
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bath Bloody Sabbath,” or as the long-haired triumvirate led by singer/bassist Jason Decay has coined it: “Straight up, rite heavy, tit perv, beer swilling, bullet belting metal.” The fire’s lit, the broth is hot, now prepare to be served! TT
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O AUDIO-DROME d“‘Black Dream’ is a song about my girlfriend and I just escaping into the won- erful world of horror on the silver screen. During the time we were writing the
Do It Again album, she was having a hard time going through chemo treatments. It was raining a lot at that time too. Our favourite thing to do on rainy days is to cook popcorn or a recipe out of one of Vincent Price’s cookbooks and just slug around holding each other, watching Vincent Price movies. It is a great way to get your mind off the real-life horror. The lyrics are about some of the many movies we watched during that time, and the title is about what it really was: a dream and a nightmare at the same time.
“This is one of the first songs Ed wrote
for Midnight Syndicate. It appeared on our 1997 self-titled debut, then again on Born of the Night and Out of the Darkness. GAVIN GOSZKA
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USICIANS SO SYNONYMOUS WITH Halloween they’d have to cancel the
day without them, Midnight Syndicate craft lush, expansive soundscapes for the creepi- est corners of your mind. The Ohio band’s nightmare voyagers, Edward Douglas and Goszka, have been creating soundtracks for the imagination for the past thirteen years, setting the industry standard for the world's top haunted attractions and amusement parks. Their dark harmonies have been fea- tured at everything from Hugh Hefner’s in- famous Halloween parties to Monday Night Football and X-Box games. A dark lullaby seems like an eerily fitting ode for the dawn of our new arrival, Hymns from the House of Horror! TD
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ghoulish and written some of the most memorable tracks in Rue Morgue Radio rotation. The late, great Joey Ramone managed the band from 1995 to his death in 2001, and you can hear the spirit of the Ramones in the band’s defiant, fist-pumping punk rawk sound. As Evil explains, “Black Dream” has a special place in his heart, and it perfectly encapsulates how our favourite horror flicks often feel like old friends. If you aren’t singing along to this one, you're probably a corpse. DA
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S AUDIO-DROME 05 “Return of the Living Dead”
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“As far as songwriting goes, ‘Return of the Living Dead’ ranks at the top of my per- ” COUNT LYLE
sonal favourites. After a few minutes of strumming out the spooky rhythms on my acoustic [guitar], I glanced up and saw the DVD case of one of my all-time favourite movies, Return of the Living Dead. That was all I needed. The title worked perfectly as the chorus and, after scrawling down some Dawn of the Dead-inspired lyrics to fill out the verses, my zombie tribute was complete.
lands of Texas by frontman Count Lyle, Ghoultown has released four full-length albums, several EPs and singles, have been featured in a video game, comic book and, most recently, made a music video di- rected by Gris Grimly and starring Elvira. This re-recorded version of “Return of the Living Dead” was re- leased on the 2009 Mistress of the Dark digipack, and perfectly show- cases the six piece’s distinctive hy- brid of outlaw country, horror punk and monster metal – or as they put it, imagine if “Rob Zombie and Johnny Cash were tossed into a meat packer, Ghoultown is what would come out the other side.” DA
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OUNDED UP OVER A DECADE ago in the sun-bleached bad-
”EVIL PRESLY 04 CI FEATURES DREADLINES NINTH CIRCLE ” JASON DECAY
UT OF THE ASHES OF OLD SCHOOL THRASHERS GOAT HORN COMES THE similarly venomous heavy metal of Toronto’s Cauldron. Call this track their “Sab-
”SEAN “SICK BOY” MCNAB
HE MAIDEN BROADCAST OF OUR BLACK SOUNDTRACK JUST wouldn’t be complete without our Creepshow-penned theme song!
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“Black Dream”
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TRANGER THINGS MAY HAVE BUBBLED UP FROM THE SWAMPS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT OUR FAVOURITE IS The Independents. Since 1992, founders Evil Presly and Willy B have taken their love of punk, ska, psychobilly and all things
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