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Shuddersome Soundscape #5: Twin Tales

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Let me first start off with a jubilation: At last! October has graced us with its presence once again! Now that that moment of silliness is out of our systems, let us proceed with the music. One band that I find always plunges me into the Halloween spirit is Type O Negative. Anytime in the year when I find myself longing for this special season, I can simply play a Type O track, and I am instantly transported back to the crisp, pumpkin-fraught weeks of October. So appropriately, this band is the centerpiece to start off the month of honour.  Also, as this is the first Shuddersome Soundscape post of October, I shall grant you two songs rather than just the one. Thusly, here are two featured tunes, both from the album World Coming Down (1999): "Creepy Green Light" and "All Hallows Eve." Type O Negative can be described as gothic metal, or "Gothedelic," in frontman Peter Steele's words, as their sound fuses classic gothic metal with 1960s psychedelia. As...
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A Toast to Alternative Black Musicians: Together

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This week, we continue our Black History Month tribute in the 1960s with a rallying call for harmony and love in the face of disparity. Here is "Everyday People" by Sly and the Family Stone." Sly and the Family Stone, formed in 1966, was a representation of the socially conscious counterculture movement. The band consisted of both black and white, men and women, all working together to share their message using a driving union of rock and soul. In this, they practically became an embodiment of the change-seeking youth and became a voice for their beliefs. The band's album Stand (1969) came at a vital time, at an hour of turbulence in America. This was an era of racial struggles, violence, voices unheard, and pushes for equality that seemed at times to go nowhere despite laws passed years before (how times never change, I must say...). Amidst this, Stand delivered an array of messages, all important and timely, from comfort in times of trial to calls to action to pl...
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Shuddersome Soundscape #12: A Final Treat...or Trick

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After a glorious several weeks of dark escapades and moonlit festivities, we have reached the end of the Spooky Season. Throughout this, I've enjoyed gifting you a menagerie of songs from different reaches of the subcultural music world. This week, we shall wrap up this series with a brief, final spotlight on a classic tune that encapsulates the theme of our ghoulish Soundscape. For a last hurrah, this is the aptly-named "Halloween" by Siouxsie and the Banshees.  Like I said, I shall be brief. Siouxsie and the Banshees, formed in London, England in 1976, originally rose to prominence as a unique presence in the punk scene. A major cause of this may have been their artful, experimental instrumentation and innovative guitar techniques, all of which earned them the additional title of "art rock." Their pivotal 1981 album Juju , from which our song comes, lent a largely influential hand to the flowering post-punk genre, the precursor to gothic rock. Although Siouxsi...
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