German dark rock band Lord of the Lost has announced dates for the U.S. and Canada in early 2026. With support from dark wave outfit The Birthday Massacre and horror punk icon Wednesday 13, this winter run spans sixteen dates and cities ranging from Baltimore, Maryland, to Berkeley, California. Tickets are on sale now at lordofthelost.de!
The final update for February is upon us! 2025 started flying by once January finally ended. Be sure to check out the entire playlist – parts one and two – and prepare for whatever March has to offer.
Here are the songs that have been added since February 14th.
I hope everyone is having a good year so far, but however you’re feeling at the moment, I have the soundtrack to go with it. Check out these recent releases!
Horror punk icon Wednesday 13 is hitting the road stateside next spring. The “There’s No Such Thing as Monsters” tour features support from Stitched Up Heart, The Dead Rabbitts, and I Ya Toyah. You can snag tickets at officialwednesday13.com! (VIP packages are available through the venues, according to the initial tour announcement post on Facebook.)
3/14 – Las Vegas, NV – Count’s Vamp’d
3/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Whisky A Go Go
3/16 – Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone Craft Beer & Live Music
3/18 – Portland, OR – Bossanova Ballroom
3/19 – Seattle, WA – El Corazón
3/21 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post Roseville
I just spent six wonderful days with my brother and his wife in Colorado, and I am devastated to be back home. Well, actually, home isn’t the problem; work is. My job sucks, but I won’t whine here. I’m sure everyone has complaints about their places of employment. Lol.
Anyway, I flew to Colorado Springs last Monday. My brother (Rick) and his wife (Jayne) picked me up from the airport. We had lunch and drove to their house, where we watched “The Osbournes Want to Believe” and ate dinner. We crashed pretty early, and once I’d caught up on sleep, my vacation could fully begin.
Tuesday was relaxing. We got coffee and did a little sightseeing, including the Catholic cemetery in town, then binged “Outer Banks” and made these really delicious grilled cheese sandwiches with blueberry jalapeño jam, smoked cheddar, horseradish mustard, and caramelized strips of bacon. Yes, it was as good as it sounds. Then, we hauled ass down to this really small haunted house, because it was Halloween and we wanted to do something in honor of my favorite holiday.
Wednesday was exciting, as it was the day we traveled down to Albuquerque for the Wednesday 13 Performs Murderdolls concert. This was the main reason for my trip, though I extended it into a nice family visit instead of a two-day run for nothing but the show. I’m going to write a review of the concert, so I won’t go into details in this post. Let me just say it was worth the 4 hour flight and 3.5 hour drive. Meeting Wednesday 13 (and guitarist Roman Surman) was everything. I’ve been a fan of Murderdolls for 20 years, and I thought I might die. Haha! Wednesday could not have been nicer. I told him that he’d always been my favorite Murderdoll and he said “So give me a hug since I’m yours.” I melted. Oh, and he said it was obvious I wasn’t from New Mexico because of my accent.
Ok. I’ll stop. You can read the rest when I share my review.
Thursday was another lazy day. Rick smoked burgers for dinner and we watched TV. He and Jayne had to work on Friday, and I used that time to do an interview with Adam of EverFelt and bond with their cats.
Rick and I stayed up late, finishing season 3 of “Outer Banks.” When I got up Saturday morning, Jayne was at work and Rick had already found our first college football game of the day. Now, this may seem strange to y’all, but this was the thing I was most excited about, besides the concert. My brother and I haven’t been able to watch football together since he moved to Colorado. Our whole family are huge Alabama Crimson Tide fans, and this past weekend was a big game: Alabama played LSU. Jayne was bored, but Rick and I were happy, especially given that Alabama won.
And then it was Sunday and time for me to get on a plane and return to Alabama. I had two more days off work, which was lucky because I came home with the flu. Now I’m back in the swing of real life and I kind of hate it. Just counting the days until my next trip…
I think I actually created this playlist last year, but it has undergone some changes since then! So click the link to visit the actual list on Spotify (this is NSFW), or simply read what made the cut below! Happy Halloween, y’all!
Type O Negative: “Love You to Death”
Type O Negative: “Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)”
Small Town Titans: “Monster Mash”
Marilyn Manson: “This is Halloween”
Ed Ivory, Ken Page: “Oogie Boogie’s Song”
Danny Elfman: “Remains of the Day”
Bruno Coulais, The Children’s Choir of Nice: “Coraline End Credits”
London After Midnight: “The Black Cat”
Avenged Sevenfold: “A Little Piece of Heaven”
Alice Cooper: “Feed My Frankenstein”
Depeche Mode: “Enjoy the Silence – 2006 Remaster”
Marilyn Manson, Sneaker Pimps: “Long Hard Road Out of Hell”
Sneaker Pimps: “6 Underground”
Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Richard O’Brien: “Time Warp”
Lana Del Rey: “Season of the Witch”
Eagles: “Witchy Woman – 2013 Remaster”
Collide: “White Rabbit”
Rob Zombie: “Dragula”
Crosses: “Bitches Brew”
White Zombie: “Thunder Kiss ’65”
Fall Out Boy: “Uma Thurman”
Backstreet Boys: “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
The Weeknd: “Blinding Lights”
The 69 Eyes: “Lost Boys”
Ghost: “Dance Macabre”
Keith David: “Friends on the Other Side” (from The Princess and the Frog)
The Alan Parsons Project: “The Raven”
The Alan Parsons Project: “(The System Of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “Red Right Hand”
Front Line Assembly: “Ghosts”
Creature Feature: “The Greatest Show Unearthed”
Jyrki 69, Steve Stevens: “White Rabbit”
Die Krupps: “The Vampire Strikes Back”
Panzer AG: “Monster”
Rob Zombie: “House of 1000 Corpses”
Rob Zombie: “Pussy Liquor”
John 5: “Beat It”
Anarchy Club: “Behind the Mask”
Graveyard BBQ: “Cheat on the Church”
Bobaflex: “I’m Glad You’re Dead”
Rammstein: “Mein Teil”
Ghost: “Call Me Little Sunshine”
Ghost: “Hunter’s Moon”
Atlanta Rhythm Section: “Spooky”
Alice Cooper: “Welcome To My Nightmare”
Tom Petty: “Zombie Zoo”
Wednesday 13: “I Walked With a Zombie”
Murderdolls: “Love at First Fright”
Escape the Fate: “Zombie Dance”
Escape the Fate: “Gorgeous Nightmare”
Escape the Fate: “Lost in Darkness”
Powerman 5000: “Black Lipstick”
Deftones: “Change (In the House of Flies)”
Muse: “You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween”
Strvngers: “Crucifixxx”
Strvngers: “Necromancer”
Crywolf: “Halloween, 1987”
Andrew Gold: “Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix)”
I still have 11 days before I fly to Colorado to visit my brother, but my mind has already abandoned the real world. I am so ready to escape my job for a week. Plus, while I’m out there, I get my birthday gift: we’re going to Albuquerque for the Wednesday 13 Performs Murderdolls tour – and my brother bought me the VIP experience, so I’m meeting Wednesday 13!!!!!! I’ve been a fan since I was 15, and I just know I’m going to make a fool of myself.
In other news, I had an appointment with a gastroenterologist last week. I had been having some abdominal discomfort, up to and including mild pain just below my breastbone and slightly to the right. The doctor said it was most likely a pre-ulcer or an ulcer. I was given a medicine to coat my stomach when I eat and another that is supposed to help control my stomach acid. I also had an ultrasound done. Well, the office has not called with the ultrasound results, but the medicines seem to be helping. The only pain I’ve had in the past few days has been at work. One of my coworkers said that suggests an ulcer, because I’m hurting only when I’m stressed. I guess we’ll see. If I don’t hurt at all in Colorado, then the problem is my place of work. Haha!
Just wanted to share another personal post, give y’all an update on things. In regard to the music side of the blog, I have two interviews coming up: hard rockers Sever Red and the industrial metal band Corvin’s Breed (who is opening for Psyclon Nine on their upcoming Infection Divinum Tour). These will both be written, as I don’t yet have the option to do video or phone interviews. I’m also continuing my weekly Bands You Should Know, so if there’s anyone I need to do a brief blurb about, tell me in the comments!
I hope this post finds all of you well! Oh, and if y’all wanted to see a half-assed shot of what was visible in Alabama during the annular eclipse…
I was in the parking lot at work with three other employees trying to catch that. The picture might not be great, but we were having a lot of fun! Lol.
Update:Due to overwhelming demand, the show in Dallas on 11/3 has been moved from Sundown to the Granada Theater, and is now all ages as well!
Horror punk band Murderdolls’ debut album, Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls, turns 21 this year! In celebration of this anniversary, frontman Wednesday 13 is hitting the road to perform songs from their first record, as well as their second and final release, Women and Children Last (2010). Wednesday’s touring lineup for this run includes Murderdolls’ alumni Roman Surman and Jack Tankersley.
The supporting acts are Gemini Syndrome, Infected Rain, and Black Satellite.
Remember the days of AIM and chat rooms and people asking “a/s/l”? Haha! Today’s kids will never know…
Anyway, I don’t actually want to know your age, sex, and location, but if you’re seeing this, it would be cool for you to tell me something good about your day! I feel like I don’t do nearly enough personal posts. I keep intending to change that and I always fail miserably – then I do a post like this, explaining how I’m trying to do more personal posts and that I always fall short. Lol. In my defense, the focus here is music, movies, and books.
For those interested, I’ve been working a lot. I had a doctor’s appointment Monday, but there’s no diagnosis yet: I have to have an ultrasound to check my gallbladder, and I’m on meds to help alleviate the acid in my system, in case I have an ulcer. I’m not super worried; I simply hope I feel better by the end of the month, when I’m going to Colorado to visit my brother again. We plan to celebrate Halloween in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then we’re going to see Wednesday 13 performing Murderdolls. And my brother bought me the VIP meet-and-greet experience for my birthday. Eeeeek!
Hope y’all are having a fabulous October so far! I started Frankenstein, by the way. I don’t know if I like it or not. Victor annoyed me, the way he avoided a situation he created. But we’ll see. I’m about halfway through.
If you’ve made it this far, please leave me a comment, as I mentioned earlier, about your day. Or something you like. Or…whatever. I just want to connect with my followers a bit.
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