CREATURE FEATURE - The Greatest Show Unearthed

Greetings Boils and Ghouls.

Today I'd like to share with you a recent discovery of a CD of wonderfully written songs charming Gothic listeners around the world with their ghoulish appeal. If you like the music of Tim Burton, Marilyn Manson, or Mike Patton, then CREATURE FEATURE will be a breath of fresh air from that stench of staleness that has permeated the recent releases by the aforementioned masters. CREATURE FEATURE's new release "The Greatest Show Unearthed" is a clever combination of Psychobilly swing and Gothic narration which invoke images of a nightmarish amusement park with their carnivalesque calliope keyboard sound, ringmaster like vocals, and gruesome guitar work. 

CREATURE FEATURE draws lyrical inspiration from such horror classics as Night Of The Living Dead, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and The Twilight Zone's "To Serve Man" episode. The duo of Curtix RX (Guitar/Vocals) and Erik X (Synth/Samples) hail from Los Angeles, California, where they've performed infront of thousands of Goths at California's annual Bats Day at The Park. Keep your eyes pealed for this fun, freakish find at your local Goth shop.

Track Listing:

 1. The Greatest Show Unearthed

 2. Buried Alive

 3. Aim For The Head

 4. Six Foot Deep

 5. A Gorey Demise 

 6. Look To The Skies

 7. How To Serve Man

 8. Bound And Gagged

 9. The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth

10. A Corpse In My Bed

11. Such Horrible Things

source:

http://www.myspace.com/creaturefeaturemusic

LIZZY BORDEN – Appointment with Death

LIZZY BORDEN’s latest release “Appointment with Death” is proof that after nearly 25 years of rocking, Lizzy’s still got more chops to deliver. This L.A based quartet has put together 11 tracks of horror themed power metal that sounds current enough to appeal to a new generation of listeners, while still pleasing to their diehard fans.

The always theatrical Lizzy has added the face of Death to their look, revamping the band to appear undead. The entire album is themed around Death, and they’ve enlisted quite an impressive roster of guests musicians who lend their talents to the already well written songs. Performing solos on select  tracks are George Lynch , Dave Meniketti of Y&T, Cory Baeulieu of TRIVIUM, and Eric Rutan of HATE ETERNAL (who also mixed the CD giving it an extra heavy guitar sound).

Track listing:

1- Abnormal

2- Appointment with Death

3- Live Forever

4- Bloody Tears

5- The Death of Love

6- Tomorrow Never Dies

7- Under Your Skin

8- Perfect World (I Don’t Wanna Live)

9- Somthin’s Crawlin

10- (We Are) The Only Ones

11- The Darker Side

sources:

http://www.lizzyborden.com/

http://www.myspace.com/lizzybordenband

30 DAYS OF NIGHT

Greetings gorehounds and fiends of frightful film scores, today I was handed the wonderfully creepy sounding original motion picture soundtrack for the vampire film 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, composed by Brian Reitzell, the former drummer for REDD KROSS and AIR. Reitzell made his transition from bands to films back in 1999, working on Sofia Coppola's THE VIRGIN SUICIDES as a music supervisor. His unique talents were quickly recognized, and he went on to work on  mores films like LOST IN TRANSLATION and STRANGER THAN FICTION, to name a few.

Brian Reitzell's ability to combine just the right sounds creates some of the most haunting soundscapes I've had the pleasure of listening to in a long time. It's not often that someone innovative comes along that really knows how to scare the listener using just music. The tracks heard on 30 DAYS OF NIGHT are a combination of digital samples and live recordings, layered together to create an atmosphere of tension that compliments the films dark and violent tone. Low frequency hums, bending dissonant chords, high frequency sawtooth waves, and industrial percussions are all utilized to enhance the feeling of helplessness felt by the survivors of the Alaskan slaughter at the hands of the merciless vampire killers.

Brian Reitzell reveals one of his tricks to creating such a unique sound for this soundtrack in the press kit I was handed with this CD. Allow me to quote: "I was trying to figure out the different sounds and colors and instruments to use. I thought if someone came at me with an ax or was trying to kill me or eat me, that was going to be such a horrific experience and was going to be totally new and unfamiliar, so I didn't think what I was going to hear was something like an orchestra". Reitzell  gerry rigged a pottery wheel from Home Depot, affixed various items like a drum stick or felt mallet, mic'd the contraption and stood back. "The pottery wheel can spin up to 280 rpm. You have to wear goggles and body armor. I was scared to death".

Track Listings:

1. Prelude/Last Day Of Sun

2. Girl Bait

3. Muffin Monster

4. Soon There Will Be Just 5

5. Vampires On The Horizon

6. They Didn't Take Me

7. Barrow Burns

8. Ditchwiched

9. Vampired Johnny

10. Gus Loves His Head

11. You Wanna Play With Me Now?

12. The Bloody Fruits Of Barrow

13. Eben Shoots Up

14. The One Who Fights

15. Daybreak

16. Overture

17. Underture

Sources:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718687/

http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/entry/534643

http://www.ipecac.com/