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Exclusive Song Premiere: Blitzkid’s ‘Mr. Sardonicus’

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13 years ago

March 22, 2011

Bloody-Disgusting loves bringing you the goods. Especially the horror goods! So today we’re bringing you an exclusive track premiere of Mr. Sardonicus from horrorpunk band Blitzkid‘s upcoming album ‘Apparitional’! The album comes out digitally on March 29th and the physical copy comes out May 3rd. Check after the jump for the exclusive track premiere as well as info on the band.

Blitzkid – Mr. Sardonicus

“When we approached the writing of Apparitional we were at a place where we felt a desire to touch base with our more fundamental punk roots.” Says vocalist/bassist Argyle Goolsby. “On our last album Five Cellars Below we explored our more fringe musical influences rather than relying solely on our prior albums comfort zones. Doing so gave us a deeper perspective of what propelled Blitzkid. On Apparitional we took that broadening of our sound and brought back much of the urgency and upbeat punk rock melody that our earliest songs conveyed. The results are truly the most resolved and balanced that Blitzkid have ever sounded as a band.”

Argyle Goolsby on Mr. Sardonicus:

“This song was borne out of time of immense inspiration. I can’t categorize how i was feeling outside of simply saying there was an undefined longing and a feeling of déjà vu guiding its creation. We were very happy to have our friend Doyle Wolfgang Von Franknenstein (formerly of THE MISFITS) play accompanying guitar on this track. There is an ethereal whimsical sadness to this song that needed to be translated and I feel like Doyle’s howling and supplicating guitars captured this perfectly.”

Blitzkid is:

Argyle Goolsby – bass/vocals

Nathan Bane – guitar/keys

Ricko Mortis – drums

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Blitzkid have just confirmed additional tour dates with Face to Face and Strung Out for the months on May and June. All of the announced dates for the tour are listed below.

5/24 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva

5/25 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

5/26 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

5/27 – Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues

5/28 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution

5/29 – St. Petersburg, FL @ The State Theater

6/1 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues

6/2 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

6/4 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit

6/5 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater

6/8 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In

6/9 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant

6/10 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada

6/11 – Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall

6/12 – Ft. Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater

6/13 – Casper, WY @ The Venue

6/14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex

6/15 – Boise, ID @ The Knitting Factory

6/16 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

6/17 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo

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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…