Mushroomhead will celebrate their 16th annual Halloween show
with their first live DVD shoot. On Saturday, October 31, Cleveland’s
masked metal kings will stage their most elaborate Halloween concert to
date, incorporating props from previous years, at the Agora Theater
(5000 Euclid Ave.).
“Take the last five Halloween shows, and throw ’em all together
— plus some extras,” says drummer/band leader Steve “Skinny”
Felton.
A crew will shoot with five professional cameras, two of them
high-definition. The band will play two songs it has never played
before. Skinny won’t reveal which ones, but says they include a track
from 2003’s XIII and one from 2007’s Savior Sorrow. There’s no release date set for the DVD.
The concert will be a blowout. Felton says Tenafly Viper — his Southern-rock/metal side project, which also features ‘Head
co-frontman Waylon — may play a short set. And it will be the
CD-release party for Foose, the new hardcore band from
Spudmonsters/Run Devil Run frontman Don Foose. Ventana, Straight Line
Stitch, Cellbound, Mutiny Within and Crossbreed are also on the bill.
Doors are 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $28 advance, $32 day of show.
Halloween will last all weekend long at the newly reanimated
Chamber (11814 Detroit Ave.). On Wednesday, October 28, DJ
Scotty D will spin dark ’80s tunes and play zombie movies. October
30, Encoder programmer Cable (of Violent Playground party
renown) will join regular Friday DJ Darknave to spin industrial
and darkwave. Nave, formerly of PKS, is best known for his
goth-industrial band Lestat, which recently reformed after a nine-and-a
half-year hiatus. They’re rehearsing new material and plan to return
with live shows and a studio album next year. Visit MySpace.com/thebandlestat for
details. And on Saturday — Halloween night — the goth-dance
club will host its annual Halloween party, with food, a costume contest
and “cheesy horror movies.”
On Halloween night at Rockstar Cleveland (2045 E. 21st St.),
members of the Missing and some national visitors will perform as
Onethirtyeight, a tribute to horrorcore icons the Misfits. The show
will be a Peabody’s/Ghost Laboratories costume party, with prizes and
specials. Admission is $2 with costume, $5 without; doors are at 8
p.m.
Mr. Gnome‘s new CD, Heave Yer Skeleton, will be
available at their Halloween headlining set at the Sachsenheim Hall’s
(7001 Denison Ave.) Freakers’ Ball. The official release party is at
the Beachland December 18.
This article appears in Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2009.
savior sorrow was released in 2006