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Featured atmospheres include a Mad Scientist’s Lab, Insect Infestation, A Roaring Beast/Monster, A Caged Freak, an aural peek into a Cannibal’s Kitchen whilst he butchers a body, and many more. Also included are multiple depictions of Hell. From the Human transformation perspective in the tracks “Descension” and “Swallowed Souls”, to the eerily regretful “Desolate”, and the sound of Hell’s burning lake of fire complete with tormented souls in distant caves in the track simply entitled “Hell”.
Some of the highest quality isolated ghost tracks available are featured on Dark Environments in both male and female versions. “We designed Dark Environments with the more serious haunter in mind, focusing on tracks useful for props and specific scenes, and keeping it overall less musical than our previous release TEEMING.”
Many of the tracks on Dark Environments were created based on direct feedback from the haunting community.
Dark Environments is available for the 2009 Halloween season as an MP3 format download only, for just $7.95, and will be available on CD in 2010.
Visit http://www.DepartedStudios.com for more info, demo tracks and to purchase downloads of Dark Environments.
A BROOM WITH A VIEW
from Kristen Lawrence’s
HALLOWEEN CAROLS™
Music for the Autumnal Season
Think more Harry Potter, less Freddie Kruger; more pipe organ, less “Monster Mash.” It’s time to take a sophisticated step away from all the sound effect CDs of creaking doors, screaming, and bubbling cauldrons. With more elegance and intrigue, less horror and kitsch, a new collection of original Halloween Carols™ has just been released on CD – A Broom With A View – written, recorded, and produced by Halloween aficionado Kristen Lawrence.
Haunting, witty, and beautiful, Kristen’s unique writing style embraces musical influences drawn from the ages, from medieval plainchant to modern day metal. Lawrence, a classically trained organist, has studied the holiday’s history and decided that the rich tradition of All Hallows Eve merits its own seasonal carols. To date, she has over 60 carols written, each waiting its turn to be recorded. This CD is the second release from her collection.
“I love it and think it is remarkably fresh and original – the pieces could be movie scores. Grown-ups who have loved this holiday from afar can come out of the woods because we finally have elegant Halloween music all ages can enjoy,” says Academy Award winning filmmaker Kieth Merrill. Pacific Symphony’s Assistant Conductor, Maxim Eshkenazy, calls A Broom With A View an “interesting, intriguing, and fascinating listen. Definitely an absolute must for Halloween.”
Kristen grew up in the temperate trick-or-treating weather of Orange County, California and calls Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion her second home. She writes music with her black cat “Molly Macabre the Halloween Cat” at her side. Molly is a featured “vocalist” in the song “Cats In The Catacombs.”
Other sweet treats from the CD include: “Mostly Ghostly” – a wailing pipe organ introduction; “Vampire Empire” – a succulent waltz with harpsichord, organ, and kick drums thumping like heartbeats; and two versions of the traditional “Souling Song” – “All Hallows Version,” which explains the medieval Christian history of All Hallows with cathedral bells and organ, and “Samhain Version,” which explains the pagan origins with drums, organ, and guitars. As Kristen’s singing and compositions range from richly intense to delightfully quirky, this CD will appeal to all ages and types of Trick-or-Treaters. Broom with a View is currently available
A Broom With A View is available at www.cdbaby.com and www.dfjamsstore.com coming to iTunes and Amazon very soon.
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Every year for the past nine years I have broadcast three stations of Halloween themed music for fans of Halloween the world over. They're all back this year for another five weeks of shivers, shenanigans, silliness and sinister, shadowy delights.
NeverEndingWonder Radio broadcasts a freeform mix of music ranging from some of the earliest music ever recorded, to brand new releases, including big band, blues, jazz, popular, classical, folk, rock, punk, Goth, electronic, psychobilly, punkabilly, gothabilly, horrorpop, metal, avante-gard, experimental and other styles, as well as horror and sci-fi soundtracks classic and contemporary. Also, twice a day (starting October 1st) we'll be presenting an hour of spooky and scary old time radio shows.
New this year, we've added a plague of Zombie music, including more Zombina & The Skeletones, Zombie Girl, Zombie Ghost Train, Zombie Night in Canada, The Great Erotic Zombie Shakedown and more! Halloween garage classics, some devilish Halloween music from the 20s & 30s, Rocky Horror Norwegian cast, spooky Halloween soundscapes from In a World, the brand new release from horror rock band The Horrorgans and more!
New soundtracks this year include House of 1000 Corpses, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Crow Soundtrack & Unreleased Score & many more!
The Voices of Halloween series is back this year, expanded to include the voices of Halloween fans from around the world- NeverEndingWonder Halloween Radio is ONLINE NOW!
Welcome to Weirdsville presents our unique mix of Halloween themed novelty hits and comedy, everything from the familiar Monster Mash & Purple People Eater, to a plethora of obscure music you'll have a hard time finding anywhere else! Dickie Goodman, Spike Jones, Weird Al, Allan Sherman, Killer Tomatoes- it's all here! Welcome to Weirdsville is ONLINE NOW!
Halloween on Broadway will be back with strange & unusual musical theatre- Rocky Horror, Phantom of the Opera, Little Shp of Horrors, Sweeney Todd- those are only the beginning! Dance of the Vampires, Silence of the Lambs The Musical, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jane Eyre and much more! New this year: Norwegian version of Rocky Horror and a new version of Hunchback of Notre Dame by former Styx keyboardist Denis DeYoung. Halloween on Broadway will return October 1st!
Come join the fun with the most unique, most interesting Halloween radio station on the internet!
http://www.NeverEndingWonder.com
The Insane Uncle Ozma will be back for his popular live broadcast marathon October 30 & 31! We'll be giving away personally autographed photographs of Vampire hottie Brooke Lewis! See NeverEndingWonder.com for details.