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Exclusive Track Debut AND Top 10 List: Rattlehead

Published

14 years ago

July 15, 2010

Los Angeles thrash band Rattlehead has exclusively supplied Bloody-Disgusting with all sorts of goodies! Inside, you’ll find the exclusive track debut of ‘Walk With The Dead‘ off of their second full-length album, ‘Tales From The Gutter’, which is being sold exclusively through their Official MySpace! Also, after the jump, you’ll find a ‘Top 10 Horror Films To Kill To‘ list with entries from each member of the band! Make sure to check the band out on their current tour (dates listed on the poster below).

Rattlehead is:

Nick Baranov – Vocals and Guitars

Francis Ausley – Lead Guitars

Shadow – Bass Guitars

AJ Stixx – Drums

Rattlehead’s ‘Top 10 Horror Films To Kill To‘:

10. Kill Bill Saga

– I know this one’s a little outside the box, but as the ultimate revenge movie, there’s so much killing, it had to make the list. I’d die to get killed by a hot babe in a jumpsuit. – Francis Ausley

9. SAW 1

Some might call it a bit overrated, but I think the novelty of the first one stood out. Made me daydream of random ridiculous death traps of my own, now if only I could score a license to kill… – Nick Baranov

8. Gigli

This movie was so horrid, with such a disregard for humanity that we regarded it as the ultimate suicide movie. That is how it made this list. If you haven’t seen it – don’t. – Nick Baranov

7. The Return of Texas Chainsaw Massacre

With a cast of A-list celebrities before they were ever big, it was quite amuzing to watch a gimpy Matthew McConaghew strangle Renee Zellwegger for an hour and a half. – Francis Ausley

6. Repo! The Genetic Opera

Where else can you find amazing vocals performances combined with live organ harvesting? Such a favorite of mine, we actually wrote a track about it on our album. -Nick Baranov

5. Hellraiser II

Not only does Pinhead speak for himself, we all saw that movie when we were around 12, and it gave us nightmares for weeks on end. Epic. – Francis Ausley

4. Cannibal Holocaust

Perhaps the most disturbing movie we’ve ever seen, and probably never want to watch it again. But for some odd reason, it made us a bit hungry watching it… – Nick Baranov

3. The Shining

Maybe the most classic example of descending into a psychopathic killer, you feel just as insane as Jack Nicholson by the end of the movie. – Francis Ausley

2. L’inetrieur (Inside)

This french indie flick took me by such surprise, it almost made me want to quit the music business and become a full time abortionist. A must see for anyone with a messed up sick mind. -Nick Baranov

1. Battle Royale

Leave it to the Japanese… Hot schoolgirls? Check. Ridiculous array of weaponry? Check. Pointless manslaughter? Check. By far the most extreme flick I’ve seen. If Battle Royale actually exists – sign me up. -Nick Baranov

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…