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Shuddersome Soundscape #4: A Psychedelic Omen

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After an undead intermission, this week, we return to our spooky spell casters with a tune from the genesis of psychedelia. For our Spooky Season, I give you Donovan's "Season of the Witch" (1966). This song, released on the album Sunshine Superman , features a steady guitar riff alongside foreboding and paranoid lyrics, a groovy omen of oncoming devastation. Could this foretold disaster be the work of the supernatural? Well, in the context of the song's creation, the lurking danger is something a little more earthly. "There was a feeling...that all was not perfect in the Garden of Eden," Donovan spoke in Mojo magazine about this Season when the song was born. He called "Witch" prophetic, referring to the marijuana bust soon to occur within the countercultural community. Not long after, these busts seized Donovan as well. "Season of the Witch" has appeared on the soundtracks of numerous Halloween-appropriate films, including Season of th...
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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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Shuddersome Soundscape #9: Tonight, The Veil Grows Thin

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 At last, the grand day of festivities, All Hallows Eve, is upon us. So, it is only fitting that the song of honour is as extravagant and vivid as the holiday itself. This is a day fit for stories of delight as well as tales of fright, with spots of nostalgia juxtaposed with demons waiting to strike. This week, I will provide you exactly that with the 13-minute epic, "Halloween" by Helloween.  Helloween - an iconic German power metal band formed in 1984 - released their second album, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part 1 , in 1987. This album, which established Helloween's place in the heavy metal scene, is also widely considered as vital to the creation of the district genre of European power metal, inspiring the techniques, vocals, and lyrical themes of bands to come. Keeper... is also significant as the first to feature Michael Kiske on lead vocals, another piece of the band's signature sound. The song "Halloween" takes place on seemingly innocent titular nigh...
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