The Monsters’ Rev. Beat-Man Gets Scary With His Exclusive Picks For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’ Playlist

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, Rev. Beat-Man stops by to driblet immoderate panic tracks into the mix.

Boo! It’s Rev. Beat-Man. (Patrick Principe)

Rev. Beat-Man formed The Monsters in Bern, Switzerland, successful 1986, creating a dependable that is “a fuzzed-out premix betwixt 60’s store punk, chaotic teenage trash rockabilly, and primitive rock‘n‘roll,” according to their Bandcamp. As pioneers of the underground, The Monsters would animate galore with their in-your-face, unapologetic stone sound. In 1992, Beat-Man founded Voodoo Rhythm Records, a self-described “haven for misfits” successful the euphony world. Bang Bang Band Girl, SLOKS, The Me’s, The Giant Robots, and Trixie and the Trainwrecks are conscionable immoderate of the artists presently progressive successful the Voodoo Rhythm roster (and immoderate of these could beryllium added to your Halloween playlist.

In summation to his tenure successful The Monsters and moving Voodoo Rhythm, Beat-Man plays arsenic Rev. Beat-Man arsenic a solo instrumentalist (or sometimes on with others, similar Izobel Garcia) In October, helium volition “go connected circuit successful Mexico for the Day of the Dead tour, arsenic Reverend Beat-Man I deliberation [for] 7 oregon 8 shows, costume enactment madness,” helium tells HollywoodLife. “It’s going to beryllium amazing. But close now, I’m connected moving for a creation theatre, making the euphony calls. It’s Confession and the manager is Marcel Leemann

Ahead of that costume enactment madness, present are Rev. Beat-Man’s picks for The Sound of Halloween.

Rev. Beat-Man’s Halloween Playlist Picks

Die Zorros, “Der Lachende Sarg”

Rose and the Arrangement, “The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati”

[Editor’s Note: “The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati” is simply a staple of The Doctor Demento Show, the vigor programme that gave emergence to “Weird” Al Yankovic and much oddball songs. Since the archetypal mentation by Possum/Rose and the Arrangement isn’t connected streaming platforms, we’re including the mentation by the fearfulness punk pioneers Misfits (which successful itself is odd, since this is the archetypal and sofar lone Misfits opus connected TSOH playlist.) 

The Monsters, “Walkin’ Through A Cemetery”

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?   

At location with my son, erstwhile the kids are instrumentality oregon treatin’, me, [musician] Delaney Davidson and my lad dressed up, ace scary arsenic f-ck, and erstwhile the doorbell rang, we had a 100 watt talker with Schubert’s Funeral March, and it blew everybody away. They were soooo frightened — inactive are, 15 years later

Some of the kids, we utilized achromatic partition overgarment for make-up — that was a atrocious idea.

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

We should beryllium each dressed nude — to show astir the favoritism and sexualization of the earthy quality body. But I deliberation it volition beryllium arsenic boring arsenic Trump oregon Putin oregon the Queen, etcetera.

(Patrick Principe)

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?   

No, successful Switzerland we don’t observe Halloween; it swapped implicit from the USA, and I similar it.  We person Karneval present oregon Fasnacht, mostly successful the mountains. Some radical dressed up arsenic devils (the winter) and bushed the sh-t retired of the radical (summer) which means the acold country begins.

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

I would similar to beryllium a bug that eats everything, and I sh-t retired galaxies and make caller unrecorded with my crap .. that would beryllium my movie.

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

I spell connected circuit successful Mexico for the Day of the Dead tour, arsenic Reverend Beat-Man I deliberation [for] 7 oregon 8 shows, costume enactment madness. It’s going to beryllium amazing. But close now, I’m connected moving for a creation theatre, making the euphony calls. It’s Confession and the manager is Marcel Leemann.