Then there was only the sound of the rain outside in the endless blackness of the long night and, presently, the rising tones of a pitiful wailing within and without, spreading across the station, the town, and the land without end.
-Halloween III (novelization)
Amazing track from Halloween Returns to Haddonfield.
By Dan J. Schulte.
Click the nice man below:
I do believe this is The Skeleton Key blog's finest year...
Click below for a wonderful playlist by K.O. (loved the cover of the Stranger Things theme):
Another great mix tape from Bojo the Ghost...
Click below for some fun tracks:
Only had time for one blog post today, so I wanted to re-post our old Halloween playlist from 2010, with just a few changes (added a couple tracks and removed a few which now contained advertisements).
It's meant to be listened to and not watched...
Enjoy.
Was surprised to see that all but one of the video tracks from last year's Halloween mix were still on youtube (a lot get deleted and my old playlists are just skeletons now).
Windy and chilly today.... 
UPDATE: House Bloodthorn shot me the missing cue - the confessional scene from Exorcist III.
The Thirty-One Rusted articles (recorded in 2008) is the Project’s study of end-of-October pseudo-pagan traditions, as well as some musical relics from the Upland South.
Click below for [awesome] samples.
Previously featured HERE.
Sincerely,
fanboy
By the group Aphex Twin. I use some of their tracks in my background music on Halloween night. Specifically the tracks Grass, Tree, Match Sticks, and the peculiar White Blur 2.
And the non-Halloweenish track Rhubarb is amazing.
Listen to samples here.
Huge fan of James Newton Howard and I always find myself playing his scores for SIGNS and THE VILLAGE around this time of year.
Samples here.
Zombie music.
Some pretty sweet ambient tracks featuring samples and distortions from the score to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
Tonight of the Living Dead.
The new Halloween At High Noon album is available for download at Amazon.com. It's the darkest of the bunch and a great addition to the previous releases.
Image by crudedoodle
Sample and buy it here.
The previous albums.
High Noon Records
For as long as I've had a yard haunt, I've had music playing to enhance it. Back in the day, it was selected tracks from John Carpenter soundtracks and various horror scores. I remember one early year the main titles from BEETLEJUICE even made it to the final cut. Lately it's been dark ambient music. Subtle and unnerving, slowly building to add tension and a pending certain doom for any trick-or-treater close enough to hear it. Music makes the shadows darker and the pumpkins brighter. And the night a little colder.
A good friend of mine from a few states away has a really cool blog which I've featured a number of times here. He's a talented writer and I've always found his stuff to be witty and insightful and loaded with heart. He's also a musician and a composer. He featured some tracks of music recently and I was blown away. I don't write that lightly. It did what music's supposed to do - it connected with the listener [me]. I related to it and felt emotion from it...and wanted more. I posted a few comments complimenting his work and invited him to satiate his desire to write horror scores by composing something for my haunt video. To my delight, he accepted the offer and began working on a score to my 2008 video for THE HOLLOWMEN.
It's difficult to describe how I felt when he sent me the finished product. Listening to a musical score that was written specifically for my video was a tad overwhelming. I'm an opinionated stickler for music and spend an insane amount of time selecting tracks for my haunt videos. His music was simply perfect. He displays a skill for subtle tension and chilling accents, while avoiding any of the typical trappings you might expect from a horror score. I felt like it was Halloween again. Like I was looking at someone else's haunt. The video is now packed with atmosphere and style and creepiness.
I'm pretty honored and extremely grateful that he did this for me. He's a Master at his craft. I have darker shadows and brighter pumpkins to prove it.
Thanks, man.
Click to watch:
By Rusty Knife. I picked up my copy at Gore-Galore.com.
Check out the samples below:
An old favorite in my library of dark ambient drone.
The track Among Icebergs always reminds me of the "electronic realization" music in Carpenter's THE FOG (music when they first show Blake and his men [not on the score release]).
Listen to samples.
I love the harsh beauty of Megaptera's The Curse of the Scarecrow. It's my favorite album by this group.
Listen to samples here (especially Don't Desecrate the Dead)
Great album cover.
Fun assortment of songs. Not really all that dark or Halloween-ish, but still fun to sample. Bourbon might enhance the album a bit.
Sample the songs.
Here's something more like what I was looking for.
From this cool blog.
