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i see the horror surf genre as being horror like "the
munsters". not seriously "scary" horror. I believe the
ventures in space, was a pretty serious atempt as
being 'scary horror'. The closest moden day thing i
have heard ( if they lost the vocals ) is deadbolt.
its funny jacob, because this is something i have been
thinking about on and off recently. In the late 90s i
was trying to produce this exact thing ' horror surf
'. But the images was not of wolfman or frankenstein,
but of nuclear holocausts and such.
I have made some sdtrks for horror type movies, but
that was when i was into my 'pure noise' phase.
on a side note, since i see most of you seem into it.
check out this doc thats coming out on horror hosts :
--- Jacob Dobner <> wrote:
> Something I have always been curious about is the
> obvious sub-genre of
> surf music that is the so-called horror music. How
> did all of this
> start? There are the Portland band's who are really
> into the whole
> thing and then there are the Ghastly One's. And all
> the way back we
> have the Ghouls. There are many more modern bands
> that have this sound
> as well. How did this whole idea start and evolve?
>
> And do we think of the horror sound because of the
> image of the band
> or do we associate the actual melodies with creepy
> music we have heard
> in our youth.
>
> Are the Ghouls really the start of it all? In other
> words were they a
> popular enough band to influence the bands that
> came.
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