Gloom Rock Duo Hoaxed Brings ‘Real Life Monsters’ To ‘The Sound Of Halloween’ With Exclusive Song Picks

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. Today, the haunting duo HOAXED offers a preview of their upcoming album, Two Shadows (out Oct. 28 connected Relapse records), portion besides giving immoderate bloody-hearted emotion to 2 Halloween icons.

(Shimon Karmel)

“For us, Halloween is simply a ineffable lawsuit we look guardant to each twelvemonth round,” Hoaxed tells HollywoodLife. The group, made up of Kat Keo (vocals/guitar) and Kim Coffell (drums), says that this year’s All Hallow’s Eve volition bring astir “a caller contented of reliving our younker astatine When We Were Young Fest successful Las Vegas. The existent fearfulness volition beryllium looking into the reflector astatine what erstwhile was ourselves. We can’t wait.”

Formed successful 2020 successful Portland, Oregon, Hoaxed drew inspiration from a wide scope of sources, resulting successful a dynamic and captivating multi-faceted sound. A reddish wedding of goth, metal, electronic, rock, and alternative, Hoaxed’s dependable glows with the strength of a lightning-illuminated gravestone. The two-person outfit follows successful the thunderous footsteps of groups similar The White Stripes, Tears For Fears, The Long Losts, and different pairs hailing from the October Country — proving that you don’t request galore to marque a larger-than-life sound.

Now, a twelvemonth aft releasing their eponymous EP, Hoaxed volition stock their debut LP – conscionable successful clip for Halloween. The radical picks a brace of classical tracks for The Sound of Halloween up of the holiday, on with 2 samples of what we tin expect erstwhile Two Shadows darkens our doorways.

HOAXED Halloween Playlist Picks

Hoaxed, “Guilty Ones”

Hoaxed: Sometimes what haunts america astir aren’t tales of fantastical creatures, but the real-life monsters that situation america each day. Who is genuinely blameworthy successful this satellite of wandering evil and soundless bystanders?

Hoaxed, “The Call”

This opus is astir voices from the shadows calling to you successful the dormant of night, and though you effort your champion to enactment successful the airy of the flames, you cannot defy the call. Very spooky indeed.

Type O Negative, “Wolf Moon”

The intro to this opus transports you backmost to the glory gory years of 80’s fearfulness cinema, and thing spells Halloween fearfulness similar blood, sex, and werewolves.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, “I Put a Spell connected You”

Such a classical opus filled with Halloween chills. The transportation is truthful spooky and confident, Screamin’ Jay was a existent maestro of show and this opus perfectly captures his brilliance.

HollywoodLife: What is your astir salient Halloween memory? 

In a erstwhile band, we erstwhile did a Halloweekend tour, and Kim played her drums connected signifier dressed arsenic No Face from Spirited Away. It was hilarious to spot her enthusiastic drumming successful specified a acold and expressionless mask. That was a large tour!

What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir popular Halloween costume this year? What SHOULD be, successful your mind?   

Our favourite costumes are the ones that are unexpected and creative. With each the ’90s nostalgia floating around, we’re expecting to spot immoderate of our favourite icons reappear. We urge your favourite Brendan Fraser character, Street Sharks, oregon if you’re feeling crafty, a Bop-It!

HOAXED (Shimon Karmel)

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?  

For us, Halloween is simply a ineffable lawsuit we look guardant to each twelvemonth round. This twelvemonth brings a caller contented of reliving our younker astatine When We Were Young Fest successful Las Vegas. The existent fearfulness volition beryllium looking into the reflector astatine what erstwhile was ourselves. We can’t wait. 

What fearfulness movie would you prima successful if fixed a fund and escaped scope to bash whatever? You tin remake immoderate movie of the past, oregon you could make your own. 

We’re fascinated by the classical fearfulness films of the 80s and would emotion to prima successful immoderate gratuitous decease country with unbelievable amounts of blood, fantastical prosthetics, and unreasonable determination making.

What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year?  

Our debut full-length album, Two Shadows, drops connected Oct. 28th, 2022. We’re highly excited and arrogant to merchandise our spooky songs during the haunting hours of Halloweekend. With specified themes arsenic stalkers, witches, and the undead, this medium fits the play perfectly.