Music

Fanmade The Birthday Massacre Video Will Melt Your Face…Literally

Published

8 years ago

February 9, 2016

I love popping on The Birthday Massacre now and again. If I’m in a bad mood, their blend of industrial goth rock with an almost bubbly pop attitude perk me right up and I absolutely adore what they have to offer. Their 2012 album Hide and Seek is a release that I can put on, hit ‘Play’, and listen to each song in a row without skipping a single track.

But let’s not dwell on that album and instead focus on Superstition, which was released in 2014. Directors Chris Nash and Shannon Hanmer (whose brother is in The Birthday Massacre) created a fanmade music video for the track “Destroyer” and it’s beyond perfect for Bloody-Disgusting!

My recommendation is to avoid skipping around as the video moves rhythmically along to the song, creating a hypnotic story that really builds up to something that actually had me utter “What the fuck?!” aloud. Yeah, it’s that well done.

My recommendation is to avoid watching this at work even though the only thing NSFW about it is gore. Still, that might be enough to get some people in trouble. ENJOY!

JonathanBarkan

Managing editor/music guy/social media fella of Bloody-Disgusting

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Music

“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…