Album Review: Ghosts in the Graveyard: The Last Halloween: Remix Album (2018)

September 8, 2018

Written by DanXIII

Daniel XIII; the result of an arcane ritual involving a King Diamond album, a box of Count Chocula, and a copy of Swank magazine, is a screenwriter, director, producer, actor, artist, and reviewer of fright flicks…Who hates ya baby?

I’ve been following Seattle Washington’s Darkwave shock rockers Ghosts in the Graveyard since the beginning (I’m like a fuckin’ horror hipster now, minus the beard and mason jars…and everything that makes a hipster a hipster), and I was excited as all unholy hell when the leader o’ this gang o’ ghouls Byron C. Miller reached out to your’s cruelly and asked him to check out a new arcane album full o’ revoltin’ remixes of some of the best terror tunes from the group’s debut Monsters for the Masses!
Featuring remixes from Idoless, Dead Animal Assembly Plant, Patrick Fears, Pill Brigade, Blakk Glass, The Labrynth, Kain Kinetic, and Endless Sunder; The Last Halloween takes the already creeptastic pitch black New Wave stylings the band is known for, and rips them open and blows them up into sonic assaults that sound even more melodic, layered, and downright “huge” then they did on their first go around!
Standout re-mixes for me include Thirteen Ways to Die (Synth Fiend Mix) re-mixed by Ghost in the Dark, which sounds like a song that would be playing on a Halloween episode of Top of the Pops circa ’83, Old Dark House (Ghost Machine Mix) by Kain Kinetic which will bring to mind the eternal question: What if Edgar Allen Poe wrote a love song for the ’95 Mortal Kombat film (I can think of at least 5 people, myself included that just uttered “Fuckin’ Rad” when they read that…and honestly everyone reading this should! Another choice cut is Monster Mask (NOX Mix) by The Labrynth. The original version I once claimed was a track that would be at home within the work of Samhain (particularly during their November-Coming-Fire period)…now as sexy a proposition that is, this re-mix makes it even darker…now that’s sexy my fiends! But by far my fav terror track on hand is Better in Black (RGB Violence Mix) by Endless Sunder…want to know what a song by the offspring of Soundwave (yeah, the Decepticon) and Marilyn Manson would sound like? Shove this fuckin’ monsterpiece in your eerie ear holes and let it turn your brain into absinthe flavored Energon boils n’ ghouls!
On the (not really) negative side of things, some songs (Better in Black and Thirteen Ways to Die to put a name on ’em) have more than one re-mix…but these are Ghosts in the Graveyards signature tunes and deserve the extra love…plus the versions differ wildly from one another believe you me!
Bottom line; this needs to be your Autumn soundtrack…the arcane audio aesthetics will match up perfectly with the chill breeze that lifts your hair like the hands of an invisible phantom, and the dead leaves that crunch rhythmically under foot like the heartbeat of a demon!
 

 
 

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