Halloween season is upon us, and we here at The Arcade are thrilled to bring you our annual Halloween Music Special! Unlike pretty much every other outlet at this time of year, we get our hands dirty and dig deep to unearth some of the finest and most enjoyable Halloween music you won’t hear anywhere else. We’ll start this year’s proceedings with a group of songs focused on what we’re calling “ancient evil”. No, it’s not recordings of pagan ceremonies, but it is all British music about the occult/Satan from the 1960’s. From there comes the obligatory metal group, which, this year, has a decidedly Canadian bent to it. Once the metal is out of the way, we focus on a genre which has really been underrepresented in previous Halloween Music Specials, hip-hop. There’s a rich world of horror-themed hip-hop out there, and we’re presenting just the tip of the iceberg this year. This year’s show ends off focusing on the haunting sounds of Peter Steele. The former frontman of Type O Negative had one of the deepest and most distinct voices in rock, and we found a few tracks that perfectly illustrate how perfect Peter Steele’s voice was for Halloween.
What Was Played:
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- Black Widow – Come To The Sabbat
- Arthur Brown – Devil’s Grip
- Uriah Heep – Rainbow Demon
- Coven – Coven In Charing Cross
- Annihilator – Alison Hell
- Zimmers Hole – Well Of Misfortune
- Strapping Young Lad – Satan’s Ice Cream Truck
- Dissolution – A Raven’s Stare
- Anvil – Zombie Apocalypse
- Geto Boys – Chuckie
- E-40 – Zombie (feat. Tech N9ne, Brotha Lynch Hung)
- Gravediggaz – Repentance Day (feat. Sunz Of Man & Killah Priest)
- Tech N9ne – The Boogieman (feat. First Degree the D.E. & Stokley Williams of Mint Condition)
- Type O Negative – Black Sabbath
- Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)
- Type O Negative – Summer Breeze
Dennis’s Nickname:
The man who hopes to get more Trick-Or -Treaters this year, if only to save him from the inevitable leftover candy hangover he’ll inflict upon himself
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