Hidden Gems & Guilty Pleasures: The Lurking Corpses (USA)
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The Lurking Corpses (Heavy Metal / Horror Punk, USA)
For nearly 25 years now, The Lurking Corpses have been perfecting their patented “horror metal” – a singular and potent blend of dark, Misfits/Samhain-style punk rock, blistering thrash, and classic, hook-laden heavy metal – and deliver it with theatrics and panache, masked and becloaked in the best Halloween tradition. However, these Indiana ghouls’ albums hit hard no matter the season, and they’ve risen from the grave after a whole decade with »Lurking After Midnight«.
Featuring a mostly new lineup, led as ever by demon-crooning frontman Lord Vladimir Von Ghoul and bassist The Nameless Horror returning, The Lurking Corpses sound absolutely reinvigorated on »Lurking After Midnight«, their first album since the Hells Headbangers-released »Workin’ For The Devil«. Sure to fulfill every horror geek’s wet dream, the quintet unload a wide variety of styles across the album’s 15 songs, ranging from doo-wop to surf to punk to death metal, but always with addicting energy and straightforward heaviness to spare. Of course, it wouldn’t be The Lurking Corpses without their tongue-in-cheek mix of sex, violence, and good, old-fashioned horror-flick gore, and you get a maximum overdrive of all across the 49 minutes of »Lurking After Midnight«.
Sure to leave you singing along and banging your head like there’s no tomorrow, The Lurking Corpses put the “fun” back in funeral with »Lurking After Midnight«!
Hells Headbangers is proud to present The Lurking Corpses’ highly anticipated fifth album, »Lurking After Midnight«, released May 24, 2024 on CD and vinyl LP formats. Order your copy HERE.
Courtesy of Hells Headbangers Records
Discography:
• »23 Tales Of Terror« LP (Creature Feature, 2003)
• »Lust For Blood« LP (Dark Horizon Records, 2006)
• »Smells Like The Dead« LP (Reaper Metal Records, 2008)
• »Gross Encounters Of The Sacrificial Rite« Split (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, 2012)
• »Workin’ For The Devil« LP (Hells Headbangers Records, 2014)
• »Nunslaughter / The Lurking Corpses« Split (Hells Headbangers Records, 2015)
• »Split Personality« Split (Give Praise Records, 2016)
• »Split Hits The Fans Part 3« Split (Failure Records & Tapes, 2018)
• »Lurking After Midnight« LP (Hells Headbangers Records, 2024)
The Lurking Corpses is:
Lord Vladimir Von Ghoul – Vocals
Cousin Eerie – Guitars
The Nameless Horror – Bass
Friar Frightengale – Drums
For fans of Misfits, Samhain, Gorgeous Frankenstein, Devils Whorehouse, DieMonsterDie, The Crimson Ghosts, Zombeast
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well