Admittedly I have been a bit silent about the past Drop Dead, no full review, not as many photos as there should have been. Honestly this year was daunting. Between crazy logistics and sound problems, there never the less was magic in the air. Festival officially was 5 days beginning with concerts on the beach under the moonlight but people came early and stayed late so it really was more like a week to two week extravaganza. The bands were amazing, and Portugal was a special place to visit. Simply the whole thing was daunting work to put together and run with a tiny crew but an experience of a lifetime never the less.

There has been copious amounts of videos from the festival on youtube some of questionable quality, some pretty damn good. this will give you some idea of inspiration , madness and silliness that went on last October in Portugal, Drop Dead Festival 6. Kicking things off with a funny segment from a major Portuguese TV station featuring an interview with yours truly and bemused 13th moon.

Please follow me behind the Cut to see UK Decay, Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons, Lene Lovich , Cinema Strange, Phantom Vision, †13th MOON†, and Tchiki Boum playing at the festival.

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Drop Dead Magazine has been invited by the worlds oldest Horror magazine Fangoria to do a horror music blog.  We are bloody delighted to bring you the Drop Dead Chronicles , The Cutting Edge. You can find this blog on the Fangoria official website . As our first order of business we have uploaded the full first album by our favorite Spanish horror fiends Los Carniceros Del Norte and did an interview with Thorsten of the Fiendforce Records. Presented for your ghoulish pleasure are 3 songs from the Fiendforce Records. We would love to hear what you think about our Horror Music  blog and what you would like up to cover. Please go to directly to Fangoria and make your comments there. Happy Ghoulidays every one!

Fiendforce MP3
Rezurex - Die De Los Muerto
The Other - Lovers Lane
Blitzkid - Terror In The Haunted House

English Label Cherry Red  is a bit of a slice of heaven when it comes to Goth, Punk or Psychobilly re-releases and compilations. In resent years among many hard to find material collected and re-released  were  incomparable Dancing Did, fabulous Divine and who is who of Punk and Psychobilly from Adicts to Wasted Youth. Among November releases five albums deserve a special notise. Witness a carer retrospective of Into the Circle, Gothy dream pop. CD features 20 essential tracks that include b-sides and 12′ remixes. Taste Alien Sex Fiend genre hoping, mutated Frankenstein devouring goth, deathrock, punk and techno in equal amounts. This double CD with 14 tracks each, focuses  on b-sides and remixes from ASF 12″ singles. Have you heard, Only meteors are Psychobilly? Well if you want proof here is 5 disc career retrospective. Some essential songs are missing of course but that is to be expected from a band with such a large catalog. Where is Captain Kirk? Spizzenergy got an answer for you. Although they s the first Indy band to chart a number 1 single, their music was hard to find until now. of course we know that you are abscessed with Vincent Price, who isn’t? Here is a final devilish delight a whole, entire cd of Vincent Price voice overs, stories, and radio recordings.

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MP3
Into a Circle - Over And Over (demo)
Alien Sex Fiend - Dead And Burried
The Meteors - The Phantom Rider
Spizzenergi - Where’s Captain Kirk

Link:
Cherry Red Records http://www.cherryred.co.uk/

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Reprint from DDM Issue 1 (Subscribe HERE)

by Kirill Ermichev
St. Psychoburg, Russia
September 30.11.05

It was a dark and rainy October evening of 1998. My doorbell rang and I opened the door. It was my neighbor Max, he brought me an audiotape. “Listen to it,” he said, “you will like it. It’s a kinda crazy rock-n-roll.” After listening for awhile I knew that this “crazy rock-n-roll” I was definitely impressed by the psychobilly songs, and a compilation that changed my life was called “1st Psychoattack Over Europe”… That was the intro. Now for the facts.

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