‘Metal & Monsters’ Host Count D Brings A Clawful Of Orange & Black Vibes To ‘The Sound Of Halloween’

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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. As we bask the past afloat week earlier Halloween, TSOH is coming to a close. Before the timepiece tin chime the last hour, Matt Montgomery, aka Count D, of The Haxans and Rob Zombie, drops by to rise immoderate spirits.

Like each bully fearfulness host, Matt returned conscionable successful clip for Halloween. Gibson TV’s Metal And Monsters released its 2nd occurrence of his awesome matrimony of metallic and horror, and it’s a vacation special! Featuring Matt’s chap fearfulness aficionado, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Metal And Monsters returns with a vengeance. During the episode’s interrogation segment, Kirk and Matt speech astir their emotion of films similar The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Matt besides revisits Type O Negative’s October Rust album earlier taking viewers connected a travel to Horror Nights astatine Universal Studios. Count D besides talks to Anthrax’s Charlie Benante about the band’s four-decade headbanging history. There’s besides a accidental to triumph immoderate chill schwag.

It makes sense, then, that Halloween is simply a large woody for Count D. And this year, the D stands for “Dadcula.” Though, if things enactment out, helium mightiness 1 time observe Halloween arsenic 1 of Tim Curry’s most iconic roles. “I’m going to bash this earlier I dice connected immoderate minuscule fund anyway,” helium tells HollywoodLife, “but If I could truly scope mode retired of my gait and beryllium a prick, I’d emotion to sing those Frank-N-Furter songs conscionable once.”

Until that happens, articulation Count D. successful rewatching The Rocky Horror Picture Show this season, arsenic good arsenic a fewer different of his favourite films (which helium shares below.) You tin besides formal up similar Count D. with the authoritative Metal And Monsters merch. It’s an casual costume that works 365 days a year!

Count D’s Halloween Playlist Picks

Alice Cooper, “Keepin’ Halloween Alive”

Count D: I’ll beryllium a small selfish with this one. Alice Cooper and I wrote a Halloween opus immoderate years agone called “Keepin’ Halloween Alive,” and it gives america the aforesaid feeling you get erstwhile you spot the archetypal question of achromatic and orangish crap hitting the shelves astatine target. I’m not picking it due to the fact that we request the candy corn; it’s each astir the feels.

Misfits, “Vampira”

And also, “Vampira” by The Misfits needs to beryllium connected there.

[Editor’s Note: To find retired wherefore helium picked this song, read HollywoodLife’s interview with Count D. from earlier successful the year.]

What is your astir salient Halloween memory? Like, erstwhile idiosyncratic says “Halloween,” what’s the archetypal happening that jumps into your caput from your past?

John 5 and I erstwhile went arsenic Gumby and Pokey astatine a Rob Zombie Halloween amusement successful Dallas. That was beauteous fun!

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

It should beryllium Stranger Things characters successful my book, but it mightiness beryllium broke Yeezy. I’m going arsenic Count Dadcula.

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?

I ticker Horror Hotel and Black Sunday. I bargain a container of those orangish pumpkin candies from Rite Aid, I devour two…I consciousness blameworthy and past propulsion them retired and spell to bed.

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 tin make your own.

I’m going to bash this earlier I dice connected immoderate minuscule fund anyway, but If I could truly scope mode retired of my gait and beryllium a prick, I’d emotion to sing those Frankenfurter songs conscionable once.

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

I’m preparing for adjacent Halloween already. There are ever much records, books, and chats astir Metal And Monsters to beryllium had. Then, I’m going to find that Gumby costume successful my retention and spell rake the leaves.