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[Top 10] A Week Of DeadHeads’ ‘Songs In The Key Of (A)pocalypse’ – McDinkle

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13 years ago

October 10, 2011

BD Music is excited to kick off a week of Top 10’s from the characters of DeadHeads, the zombie movie that is winning one festival award after another! We start the week with Zombie Killer McDinkle (played by Ben Webster) sharing the songs he’d kill a zombie horde to!

Directed by the Pierce Bros. and starring Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Markus Taylor, Thomas Galasso, Natalie Victoria, Ben Webster, Greg Dow, and Eden Malyn, DeadHeads is a hilariously terrifying zombie road trip full of romance, comedy and some good ole’ fashioned gore!

If you’re in the LA area, you can check out DeadHeads at Screamfest LA this Sunday at 3pm PST. All information, including ticket ordering, is available here.

Songs In The Key Of (A)apocalypse:

McDinkle – Zombie Killer

1.) The Emergency Broadcast System– Various Artists

This tune sets the tone and vice versa. Sure it’ll be the “Hey Ya!” of the Zombie Apocalypse, but you’ll miss it when it’s gone.

2.) Song 2– blur

This songs is like sex made love to a car crash and then got shot out of a canon. It’ll make you want to shave your head and aim for others’. Plus any song used to market Starship Troopers is fucking harsh.

3.) Search and Destroy– Iggy and the Stooges

The title is meat and potatoes. The guitar is as ruthless as you need to be. If you can’t get behind the lyrics; “I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm…” then you’re already dead.

4.) Bulls on Parade– Rage Against the Machine

The undead are a slow stampede of rotting meat. This song provides you the fuel to tenderize them. As an added bonus the chorus reminds you what your pockets should be filled with at all times.

5.) Nice Shot– Filter

This song is slow distortion followed by noise and screams. This is your world now. It ends with “Nice Shot”… pray your days echo it.

6.) Head Like a Hole– Nine Inch Nails

Pulsating and angry. Zombies provide the head, you provide the hole (it sounds wrong, but it’s right.)

7.) You’re the Best Around– Joe Esposito

Because even if you are the last human being left, thus making the song’s title true… it’s still nice to have assurance.

8.) Goodbye – Alan Silvestri (off the Predator OST)

For the fallen.

9.) 9th Symphony– Beethoven

This is murder with strings. A perfect example of what’s at stake and what humanity stands to lose… plus it’s great for a little of the old ultra-violence.

10.) The End– The Doors

Martin Sheen used this song to kill Marlon Brando… Zombies should be a cake walk.

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

Published

2 weeks 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…