Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween Score by Randin Graves Now Available!
The filmmakers of “Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween” are excited to announce that the “Curse of Crom” soundtrack is now available to stream just in time for Halloween! The album includes the complete original score by Randin Graves, plus the single “Monster” by The Spin Syndicate. You’re going to want it on your Halloween playlist!
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Now available on Bandcamp and Spotify! (And wherever else you get your music)
The Witching Season II: A Halloween Anthology
Contribute to The Witching Season II’s Indigogo here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-witching-season-ii-a-halloween-anthology#/
In 2015, Witching Season Films brewed its first project The Witching Season, an award-winning five-episode Halloween anthology that has been seen by viewers around the world. The series was directed by Witching Season Films founder Michael Ballif and longtime collaborator James Morris and had several viral hits online. It went on to screen and numerous film festivals, eventually receiving physical distribution through Scream Team Releasing, and landed a long-term spot on multiple streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Tubi.
Flash forward a few years later, in 2020 Witching Season Films released their first feature-length movie, They Live Inside Us (written and directed by Michael Ballif), an adaptation of the fourth episode of The Witching Season of the same title. In 2021, the company embarked on production on their second feature, He Never Left (written and directed by James Morris), starring veteran film and television actor Colin Cunningham. The film is officially complete and currently starting its film festival run this Halloween season, with an anticipated release in 2024.
Now, in 2023, after years of working on feature film projects, we’re excited to return to our spooky roots. We’ve been asked time and time again if a second season of The Witching Season will be happening. We’re thrilled to finally respond with a spine-tingling “YES!” We are excited to take everything we’ve learned and the experience we’ve gained since the creation of Season I, to make the most cinematic, atmospheric, and Halloween-fueled follow-up we possibly can.
2023 Cult of the Great Pumpkin Halloween Megamix Playlist on Spotify
Happy October! Just in time for the greatest month of the year, it’s back – the Cult of the Great Pumpkin Halloween Megamix playlist on Spotify! Roughly 5 hours of macabre music and spooky tunes to augment your spooky month! Listen here – http://svi.link/greatpumpkin2023 – I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I did making it!
And if you want even more, there’s the previous years’ playlists at http://svi.link/greatpumpkin2021 and http://svi.link/greatpumpkin2020!
Sam Haynes releases new halloween music – Haunted House Party 2
Prolific Horror soundtrack and Halloween music producer Sam Haynes has released his 17th (!) Studio Album, “Haunted House Party 2”. Featuring all new music for Halloween 2023.
Pre-order Haunted House Party 2 for a special price of just $2 now : https://samhaynes1.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-2023-haunted-house-party-2
A very limited edition CD set is also available til September 25th only.
You can also pre-save the album on Spotify : https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samhaynes/haunted-house-party-2
The album is the latest in an annual collection of retro horror themed music, inspired by 70s and 80s horror soundtracks. Expect more of Sam’s signature sound mixing haunting soundtracks with modern electronic beats. The perfect queue music for your haunt or soundtrack to your Halloween Party!
Included are 2 new high energy Halloween songs, perfect for your Halloween Party. These songs have recently been featured on BBC radio and are sure-fire Halloween hits –
‘The Haunting is over’ an epic Goth Rocker featuring American Vocalist Destini Beard (Destini has previously released music with Midnight Syndicate – Sam refers to Destini as ‘The voice of Halloween’) and ‘Live Forever’ with powerful UK based Dance vocalist Jenna Louise.
Prog rocker Gary Bennett, from the band Oktober, features throughout the album with amazing haunting guitar solos.
“The idea is to create new soundtracks that sound modern but have the feel of classic soundtracks from producers like John Carpenter, Fabio Frizzi & Goblin. Creating something new and different – pushing the boundaries but also keeping close to the atmosphere of those classic horror sounds.
Also included are classic Halloween sounds and all new music from the upcoming Horror movie ‘The Devil’s Stone’ which will be released in early October.
New Nicholas Burgess Halloween album, “Creepy Zeepy,” materializes in October
On October 13, Claw Solutions will release the spooky new Nicholas Burgess album Creepy Zeepy on all music platforms. The new record is a follow-up to last year’s All-Night Midnite Monster Party, and it features songs about zombies, witches, swamp creatures, and more. Every song on the album showcases guest musicians from across North America, with musical moments and details that make the listening experience as rewarding on headphones as it is on speakers at your Halloween party.
The full album hits Spotify, YouTube, and other services on October 13, but you can hear the first two singles, “Creepies” and “Sweet Little Witch,” now on all platforms. Creepy Zeepy is available for pre-order from Bandcamp on CD, cassette, and digital formats, including limited edition deluxe bundles with stickers and art prints. Those who order on Bandcamp will receive six extra bonus instrumental mixes with their digital download.
Bandcamp pre-order link: https://nicholasburgess.bandcamp.com/album/creepy-zeepy
Nicholas Burgess on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2IXNNRHWhWVfNoRuBPe39D
MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE RELEASES NEW STUDIO ALBUM, THE BRIMSTONE CLUB
CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 18, 2023 – Horror Fantasy and Halloween music composers Midnight Syndicate have released their 15th studio album, The Brimstone Club. Featuring the “soundtracks to imaginary films” concept the band helped pioneer, The Brimstone Club blends orchestration and sound effects to take listeners to a shadowy theatre club where the strangeness of its exotic entertainment and libations are matched only by its peculiar clientele.
“The album was inspired by the Parisian Cabaret de L’Enfer, a 19th century hell-themed cabaret that was a forerunner to the haunted attractions and themed restaurants and taverns of today,” said Midnight Syndicate founder and co-composer Edward Douglas.
“Sometimes a piece of history can prove to be every bit as fascinating as anything one might imagine,” added Midnight Syndicate co-composer Gavin Goszka.
Similar to Midnight Syndicate’s other albums, The Brimstone Club utilizes music and sound to tell a story whose details are left up to the listener. “We hope people are able to listen to it at least once from start to finish in a quiet darkened room. There’s a lot in this world to explore in your mind’s eye,” said Douglas.
Listen to or purchase The Brimstone Club: https://midnightsyndicate.fanlink.to/thebrimstoneclub
Watch The Brimstone Club album trailer: https://youtu.be/BfFesV1Bx9M
Midnight Syndicate Legions of the Night Fan Community: https://legions.midnightsyndicate.com/join-legions-of-the-night
Midnight Syndicate official website: http://www.MidnightSyndicate.com
Midnight Syndicate
Midnight Syndicate is synonymous with haunting themes, gothic fantasy soundtracks, and musical storytelling at its most evocative. If you’ve visited a haunted attraction or amusement park anywhere in the world during the Halloween season, went trick-or-treating, or enjoyed a night of Dungeons & Dragons with friends, chances are you’ve heard their music. Since 1997, dark music pioneers Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka have been entertaining fans of Halloween, gothic music, haunted attractions, horror cinema, video games, and roleplaying games with their soundtracks to imaginary films. Featuring a signature blend of orchestral music and sound effects, Midnight Syndicate’s fifteen studio albums, along with their independent film, The Dead Matter, and several film scores, have earned them a worldwide following. In 2003, the band was approached to produce the first official soundtrack to the seminal roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Their success has led to collaborations with Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights and Cedar Point’s HalloWeekends, along with features on television shows, HSN, SiriusXM’s Scream Radio, video games, King Diamond tours, a Misfits live album, and several releases by major horrorcore artists. In 2014, the band began producing Midnight Syndicate Live!, a series of horror-themed multimedia concerts which continue to enjoy successful runs at Cedar Point’s annual HalloWeekends event to this day.
Leave a Comment Go to Post...Jill Tracy’s “The Secret Music of Lily Dale”
So I let October come and go without really posting anything to the Cult of the Great Pumpkin site this year – I was focused on the #FrightFall2022 daily drawing challenge, which just didn’t leave time for much else this year. I hope everybody had a super spooky October!
As we begin the two month grind that is “The Holiday Season”, Jill Tracy has stepped up to make it just a little more phantasmagoric with the release of “The Secret Music of Lily Dale”. I’ve been listening to it for the past hour or so and it’s mesmerizing, not only for the completely improved music, but for the circumstances under which she recorded it. From the release notes:
“A rare peek inside the famed little town that talks to the dead— with both sights and sounds. An unprecedented project, Jill Tracy reveals a sonic exploration of Lily Dale, the private community of mediums and Spiritualists in upstate New York. These are her elegant, mystical, late-night piano recordings channeled alone on an antique grand inside the 1883 auditorium, site of séances and spirit communication for over 100 years. Bask in the vast, otherworldly ambience, the magical Leolyn Woods, nighttime thunderstorms, Lily Dale’s beloved bells, chimes, and nature. During her nights alone at the piano, you’ll witness mysterious sounds that appeared on the recording that defy explanation. Beautiful, contemplative, and mysterious… be transported into a truly magical place few ever get to experience.”
Jill recorded the entire album on location in Lily Dale. Music was created spontaneously inside Lily Dale’s historic 1883 auditorium, after dark, on the auditorium’s original (circa 1990) grand piano. Along with the music you can hear the ambience of the atmosphere, which, at times, includes inexplicable sounds from within the theater (make of that what you will!).
“The Secret Music of Lily Dale” is available as both a physical and digital release and includes a 50 page booklet with photographs, history of Lily Dale, her experiences recording the album and more to help you immerse yourself in Miss Tracy’s tenebrous musical tour of the town.
Get it at https://jilltracy.com/the-secret-music-of-lily-dale!
Leave a Comment Go to Post...Dr. Snik’s Nocturnes In Neon
Snik/verb: to cut, snip or nick.
Deep down in his dark laboratory Dr. Snik, The Sonic Surgeon, diagnoses, dissects and creates sonic monstrosities with surgical precision.
MUSIC for your fEARS…
2022 is Dr. Snik’s 5th year of practicing sonic surgery.
Dr. Snik: The Sonic Surgeon presents some of the darkest classical music of Satie, Chopin, Beethoven and Bach all in the style of Walter/Wendy Carlos with a hint of John Carpenter and Vangelis.
NOCTURNES IN NEON: Available NOW on Bandcamp, Spotify and all other streaming sites!!
- MAIN SITE: https://snikczar.wixsite.com/dr-snik
- Bandcamp: https://drsnik.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnes-in-neon
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/60aAO6nJi86ms44fcTqamq
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dr.+Snik&i=digital-music&search-type=ss&ref=ntt_srch_drd_B0744MMDJG
Sam Haynes – Celebrating 10 Years of Terror this Halloween
A Halloween Tradition
For 10 years Sam Haynes has created ground-breaking independent Halloween music to chill your bones. This year listeners can stream the entire back catalogue of over 200 horror themes and songs (including 70s and 80s inspired soundtracks, ambient tracks, synthpop and horror synthwave) on Spotify. Great for making playlists to celebrate the spooky season!
Sam’s work has been featured in many horror shorts, dark attractions worldwide, BBC Radio and has been nominated for a Rondo Award for best Horror soundtrack. The new album, Out of the Dark, is now available too with a huge selection of experimental new Halloween music for 2022! We will also be featuring on the soundtrack to new horror short ‘All Hallows Eve – Rebirth’ which will be released on the 21st of October.
Listeners can find the complete collection on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0u9k9HOOqbtaX980kkmgm1
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sam-haynes/529727291
- Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0BFFXWCS8
- Or buy the extended Bandcamp versions & limited CD’s and cassettes here: https://samhaynes1.bandcamp.com/
All-Night Midnite Monster Party dropping just in time for Halloween
On October 21, Claw Solutions will release the new Nicholas Burgess album All-Night Midnite Monster Party on all music platforms. The 13 track concept album tells the tale of a man trapped in a never-ending monster party, forever cursed to carouse with Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and other nightmarish creatures.
The album will hit Spotify and other services on October 21, but you can stream some songs and pre-order now directly from Bandcamp. CDs and cassettes are available, with exclusive artwork and other goodies (Glow-in-the-dark stickers! Finger puppets! Original artwork!): https://nicholasburgess.bandcamp.com/album/all-night-midnite-monster-party
