GIVEAWAY: Enter Casket Robbery and Ghost Cult’s Hideous Pumpkin Carving Competition


Spooky season is here, and no one loves the season more than haunted Wisconsin Death Metallers Casket Robbery! They are hosting a month of scary activities with fans which you can check out at their site! Like a final girl in a horror movie, they are ready to stab this season in the face with a new merch giveaway/competition: their Hideous Pumpkin Carving Contest! Carve your own horrific pumpkin that best captures the Halloween spirit and submit your photo to win one of three grand prizes! You can win a gang of merch from Casket Robbery, artist Matt Graves (Rotten Yellow), and more! Another prize is super special: Private Streaming Listening Party and Q&A invite with the band and Casket Robbery Patreon members! Full rules below, and enter to win at this link! To enter submit your photo by October 24th and voting ends at midnight on Halloween!

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Watch The Video for My Missing Half’s Cover of “Halloween” by The Misfits


New England’s Melodic Death Metal band My Missing Half have dropped a gnarly cover of Misfits cover of “Halloween”, just in time for the season. The track is killer, but the video is next level hilarious and features their members and shredders Bijan Hennesy and Nick Petrino (Dee Snider) frolicking in a forest ghoul style and fun and terror ensues!

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Devin Townsend Shares By request Halloween Livestream Trailer


Devin Townsend, who has been keeping busy in the pandemic with four albums worked on and releasing, charity livestreams, and a podcast has your Halloween plans all set. Heavy Devy is hosting a Halloween “by request” live stream dubbed Devin Townsend’s Crappy Haloween Party Rarities By Request, that promises to be scary as hell. Devin’s Order of Magnitude live album and Blu-ray/DVD release next month. Watch the trailer here! Continue reading


King Diamond Shares Visualizer for “Halloween”, New LP and CD of “Fatal Portrait” Incoming


King Diamond will see the re-release of his classic album Fatal Portrait on April 24th via Metal Blade Records! The band has shared a visualizer for the track ‘Halloween’, which you can see below. Recently setback by a hernia surgery that caused him to pull out of tour dates in Mexico last month before the coronavirus pandemic took hold, King Diamond is recovering and continues to work towards a new album, due for release later in 2020. Pre-orders are live for Fatal Portrait CDs and LPs, so watch the video and get yours! Continue reading


PODCAST: Episode 64 – Matt Harvey of Exhumed Talks Death Metal, Horror and Metallica


One of our favorite interviewees in person or the phone is Matt Harvey of Exhumed. Matt is as amazing to chat with as he is a guitarist and bandleader. Exhumed’s new album is the aptly titled Horror (Relapse Records) which came out just ahead of Halloween 2019, and he was in a spooky mood when we chatted. We talked about the new album, his proclivity for writing great OSDM songs, the consistency of the current lineup of the band, his favorite horror movies ever, and his thoughts on attending one of Metallica’s “S and M 2 Concerts” in San Francisco, earlier this fall, and more. Catch the band on tour through the start of December with Necrot! Continue reading


Soil Shares Spooky Halloween-Themed Theatrical Video for ‘One Love’


 

Soil has released a theatrical video version of the song ‘One Love’, just in time for Halloween 2019, The video has similar vibes to horror films like The Witch or I Spit On Your Grave! The video contains an eerie backstory and was filmed exclusively with actors and does not feature the band. Conceptually the band wanted to do something different and interesting with the song since ‘One Love’ originally appeared on the 2013 studio album Whole. Indie filmmakers David Gregory (Director) and James Morgan (Director of photography) were tapped for the job. Filming was shot in the UK during the band’s recent tour supporting Static-X. Watch the video now! The band is currently working on new material for 2020.Continue reading


Classic Heavy metal Song “Mother” by Danzig Covered for American Satan Movie


American Satan, the 2017 movie Directed by Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen will see a television sequel Paradise City soon. The film starred and featured music from many Sumerian cornerstone artists with a score co-written by Jonathan Davis of Korn. The series stars Black Veil Brides leaders Andy Black and Ben Bruce, along with Sleeping With Sirens frontman Kellen Quinn and many others. Listen to this trip-hot inspired reimaging of Danzig’s classic ‘Mother’, in a video with clips from the original film right now!Continue reading