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Are You A Fan Of 80’s Action? Listen To ‘The Annihilator’ From Karate King!
The rise of retrosynth isn’t just focused on horror, although that’s what it might seem like. You can’t forget that there are other film styles that the genre can pay homage to. Perhaps one of the best examples is the 80’s action film, which were often as violent and gory as any horror film of that era. They also had some killer soundtracks, which is where Karate King comes in with The Annihilation, “The Soundtrack to the Greatest 80’s Action Movie Never Made”!
The 22-track retrosynth album features original tracks from artists such as 20SIX Hundred, Surgery Head, TCR, Lintu, and a whole lot more. The music is meant to tell the story of The Annihilator, which has a ridiculous yet awesome synopsis:
To former Green Beret Larry Steele, being a key witness in a murder trial was not just a civic duty. It was also a death sentence.
Little did he know that his path to righteousness had him cross ways with the powerful Vincenzo family.
On one fateful day everything was taken away from him.
A gang of mobsters came uninvited to the family picnic.
They brutally raped and murdered his daughter and wife.
They put a bullet in his head.
They thought he was dead.
They thought they were safe.
But they were wrong. Dead wrong…Larry Steele – the Annihilator: Risen from the ashes, he embarks on a blood-splattered, relentless killing spree of revenge, going up against the entire Italian mafia. The Annihilator will bust their balls. He will maim, crush, burn, bludgeon and incinerate them. There will be no one left alive when he is done.
Head below to stream the album and make sure to pick up a copy via Bandcamp.
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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