This December is good one. We have all the holidays. Plenty of time off work. And yes, a free signed copy of 400 Lonely Things Tonight of the Living Dead. Check out the promotion over here and give it a listen.

Horror website Bloody Disgusting interviewed Craig Varian – one of the founders of 400 Lonely Things – and talked about the production of the album at length. There are a lot of tasty nuggets of information in the writeup about about the album. For example,

I’d like to mention that I avoided all of the dialog and the more obvious pieces of music and audio and kept this album strictly instrumental. For me, the scariest part of the film is Barbra’s few moments alone in a strange house, before Ben’s arrival – and it was this feeling of disassociation and terror and isolation that I was trying to focus on, musically and in the packaging.

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I should also confess that NOTLD is not my favorite zombie movie. That honor goes to Andrea Bianchi’s Burial Ground & Be Nights of Terror. It’s so fucking awful and perfect, terribly bad and funny – but decrepit and vile and truly horrifying. One of our many unreleased albums is called Profecy of the Black Spider and fans of Burial Ground will probably spot the reference.

Definitely give it a read. Good stuff.

Horror-Techno Music Review: TONIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (bloody-disgusting.com <- new window)