CD Review: Holy Terror – Dante Tomaselli (2025)

May 31, 2025

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?

Maestro of the multi-media macabre, Dante Tomaselli, has returned (seemingly from Hell) with another psychotronic sensory horror happening designed to transport your consciousness, via your eerie earholes, straight into the Underworld with his latest CD release; Holy Terror!

While best known as a director of surrealist fright flicks such as Torture Chamber and Satan’s Playground, Dante can deliver the terror tunes as well via his supernatural synths (and perhaps an arcane pact with the darkness)… and has done just that many times in the past with his releases NightmareThe DollScream in the Dark, Witches, and Out of Body Experience respectively)

Packed with an outré assortment of twelve tracks of electronic sonic alchemy, Holy Terror transports the listener through an audio odyssey of near-palpable foreboding and haunting journeys into realms better left to those who stalk the night!

To that very end, feast thine putrid peepers on this track-list:

Route 666

Sin

Elizabeth Dane

Witchery

Near-Death Experience

You Know Me as the Devil

The Incubus

Vampire Bat (of note, this gothic coffin-banger was originally titled Hallucinogenic Drugs and was banned by its online distributor)

Inferno Master

Pandemonium

Incantation

Deep Space

Just from reading some of the titles in that line-up you know you’re in for an ear-ride into the dark side… which is a ghoulishly good thing indeed!

As a freaky fun fact, six of the devilish ditties mentioned above (Route 666, Sin, You Know Me as the Devil, Witchery, Inferno Master and Deep Space) have been licensed to appear in Epic Games’ multi-platform juggernaut, Fortnite!

All of that macabre music comes surrounded by illustrations courtesy of UK-based artist Simon Pritchard that are rainbow-hued nightmare fuel perfection!

Tomaselli delivers a dark wave electronica fever dream with Holy Terror; a collection of songs to let your imagination be sonically seduced by the rhythmic pulse of the dark!

 

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