October 29, 2020

Trick or treat! The first Halloween Horror Metal episode: metal as the perfect Halloween soundtrack, from Loudersound and Metal Injection's scariest-album lists to Iron Maiden's The Wicker Man, Cathedral, Municipal Waste’s The Thing, Orange Goblin’s The Fog, Rob Zombie, Samhain, King Diamond and Type O Negative.

October 27, 2022

“How could The Exorcist be your least favorite scary movie?” A celebration of All Hallows Eve, Metal Nerdery style, with horror movies and spookiness in metal. Tracks include Type O Negative’s Black No. 1, Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare, Danzig’s Am I Demon and How the Gods Kill, Bark at the Moon, The Number of the Beast and Slayer’s Live Undead.

October 19, 2023

A head-to-head Death Match of Mercyful Fate’s first two albums, 1983’s Melissa and 1984’s Don’t Break the Oath, landmark black metal recordings — the Sober October edition, after a short chat about classic horror cinema. “That devil stuff just freaks me out, man…”

September 26, 2024

A concert review of the Alice Cooper / Rob Zombie Freaks on Parade show in Atlanta, plus a look at the shock rock subgenre, where the live show is everything: spitting blood, breathing fire, a duet with a boa constrictor. Alice Cooper tracks include Billion Dollar Babies, Go to Hell, Welcome to My Nightmare and Only Women Bleed.

October 10, 2024

A 2-hour Halloween special on the creepiest songs from the greatest bands across the metal spectrum, including “the ultimate vampire song.” Picks include Metallica’s Of Wolf and Man, The Sword’s Tres Brujas, Blue Öyster Cult’s Godzilla, Cradle of Filth, Type O Negative’s Wolf Moon, Slayer’s Black Magic, Opeth, Death’s Zombie Ritual and Rob Zombie’s Dragula.

October 2024  ·  MN-P-15  ·  Patreon

“It’s got people…” A Patreon-exclusive Halloween edition of The Bunkerpoon After Dark: a whole slew of horror movies from the classic 70s and 80s to now, psychological thrillers, unkillable serial killers, the supernatural, some extreme horror, plus earliest scary-movie memories from childhood.

October 16, 2025

“That dude is Dracula, man…” You can’t do October without Type O Negative, the official soundtrack to the month of Halloween. A full walk through 1996’s October Rust, gothier and more atmospheric than their earlier albums: Love You to Death, Be My Druidess, Green Man, In Praise of Bacchus, Cinnamon Girl, Wolf Moon and Haunted.