Sponsor Spotlight - EVIL PUMPKINS!

The Horror Hootenanny welcomes EVIL PUMPKINS  on board for their first year as an evil sponsor. Evil Pumpkins are cool, hand-make, one of a kind pumpkin sculptures made by Tanya Roid! Every sculpture contains a pinch of very real "Evil Dirt" taken from the fireplace of the actual EVIL DEAD CABIN!

This year we are doing the very first ZOMBIE PROM where one undead guy and one undead girl will be selected and dubbed Zombie King and Zombie Queen! Each will take home an awesome EVIL PUMPKIN trophy! 

Evil Pumpkins will also provide a grand trophy for BEST ZOMBIE as voted by the zombie hoards! Special thanks to Tanya for bringing the evil this Halloween!

Don't forget to stop by the Evil Pumpkins table at the Horror Hootenanny and pick up a cool, one of a kind pumpkin sculpture or a very evil pumpkin pendant! Evil Dead vials will also be available as well as Creeping Cruds T-Shirts and CDs.
Evil will be well represented this year!!

Sponsor Spotlight - Unholy Apparel!

Providing some awesome Tees for you ghouls to win at the Hootenanny is our sponsor, Unholy Apparel! Hailing from the deepest darkest regions of Kentucky they have graciously supplied some kick ass tees, including these:

Hoot 8 Interview Series - JEANO ROID of THE CREEPING CRUDS

Who the hell are ya and what is your job in the band?

Jeano Roid. Horror Rock visionary. Guitar bastard, song scribbler and general all around old dude.

What did you do musically before The Creeping Cruds 

All kinda shitty music. The Roidz, Death Turd, The Abusers, Bad Acid, Ruptured Nun The Mighty Shrill, Psycho Charger and of course The Jeano Roid Experience. 

What are your favorite/most influential bands?

Ramones, AC/DC, Turbonegro, The Forbidden Dimension, Zeke, X, old Supersuckers, old Alice Cooper and a long list of three chord Rock genius. For the most part all the music of today can suck it.

What are your favorite/most influential horror flicks?

The big three - Night of The Living Dead, The Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw (originals - no sequels or remakes please). I love all Universal and Hammer Horror. Paul Naschy, Bava, 50's and 60's giant bugs, drive-in.  CGI can suck it!

What movie scared you the most?

By leaps and bounds... Black Sabbath. Specifically the segment call "A Drop of Water". Still scares me today! I challenge anyone to watch that one alone late at night. If you say it didn't scare you - you lie!

Most overrated Horror movie?

Wes Craven and Wes Craven. Biggest sellout phony in horror.

Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met?

I've met and known a shitload of famous punkers and music people over the years. GG Allin, Rollins, Bad Brains, El Duce was my pal. I've met all the usual suspects in modern horror via the horror shows (Bruce Campbell, Foree, Moseley, Haig, Romero etc.) I sat next to Jimmy Carter on a plane one time. He introduced himself to every passenger, then fell asleep and drooled all over himself.

What Cruds song is your favorite to play live?

I like the fast stuff - so probably I Was a Teenage Werewolf... Come Out Neville is fun too. It's always fun when the crowd sings your stuff above the sound system. 

What is one cool thing the kids may not know about The Creeping Cruds?

Hmm.. For starters, none of us are Nashville natives. Our first band name was The Burnin' Rubbers! That lasted one day!

Horror Hootenanny Interview Series - KID GRUESOME from ALUCARD!

Who the hell are ya and what is your job in the band?

Kid Gruesome. I play drums or thunder cannons if you will...

What did you do musically before Alucard (bands etc)

I used to play in an indie rock band that sounded alot like The Steve Miller Band called The Expression.

What are your favorite/most influential bands?

My biggest influence band wise is Bright Eyes, Co Co Rosie, Opiv, Rancid, Green Day and Blink 182.

What are your favorite/most influential horror flick?

Favorite. Horror flicks are Pelts, Ed Gein The Ghoul of Plainfield, Texas Chainsaw (the one with Mathew McConaughey) 

What movie scared you the most?

Amityville Horror

Most overrated Horror movie?

The most overrated horror flick is probably Paranormal Activity that shit sucked.

Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met?

The biggest celeb I've met is Conor Oberst of bright eyes. 

What Alucard song is your favorite to play live?

Favorite song live is "Bateman".

What is one cool thing the kids may not know about Alucard?

And as an interesting fact I have high social anxiety and I met hHro and Steele through a Craigslist ad looking for a drummer and for the longest time I'd show up practice and leave and never say a word to either of them I never talked! Then one day out of the blue I just started talking it's weird really.

Horror Hootenanny Interview Series - SCARY LARRY aka DR. GANGRENE from SPOOKHAND

Who the hell are ya and what is your job in the band (details)?
Scary Larry aka Dr. Gangrene, Nashville Horror Host. I sing, scream, and mutilate innocent bystanders.

What did you do musically before SPOOKHAND?
A few side projects with Jeano from the Cruds, but this is my first official band.

What are your favorite/most influential bands?
Alice Cooper, the Ramones, the Cramps, Dio among many others.

What are your favorite/most influential horror flicks?
Everything from classic Universal monster movies to grade Z horror films. I love them all and watch them year long. I’m particularly partial to anything with Vincent Price in it.

What movie scared you the most?
As a kid Salem’s Lot scared me. I remember watching it alone on a little black and white TV in my bedroom. Barlow is one scary vampire! The scene in War of the Worlds where the preacher gets zapped freaked me out, too, although I can’t imagine why nowadays.

Most overrated Horror movie?
Anything by Wes Craven. SO overrated. And Rocky Horror Picture Show. Gag. That thing is so overdone and the second half of it is just horrible.

Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met?
I’ve met and interviewed many horror celebs over the years - Forrest J. Ackerman, George Romero - Interviewing the stars of Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ben Chapman, Ricou Browning, and Julie Adams was pretty awesome. Little did I realize as a kid watching those films that I’d one day be interviewing them!

What Spookhand song is your favorite to play live?

Probably Vader. I love singing about that Sci-fi villain and feeding my inner nerd.

What is one cool thing the kids may not know about SPOOKHAND?

The name came from a nightmare one of my kids had. My wife and I got him calmed down and afterwards asked him what was wrong. he said "A spook hand is waving to me from out of the closet." CREEPY!

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And there you have it folks.. Dr Gangrene speaks! Didn't know The Doc wasn't Rocky Horror fan. We'll have a discussion about that in the near future.

Horror Hootenanny Interview Series - JIMMY HANDSOME from THE CREEPING CRUDS

Who the hell are ya and what is your job in the band (details)?
I'm Jimmy Handsome and I play the bass guitar and sing harmonies with Wolfie's sweet sweet crooning.

What did you do musically before The Creeping Cruds (bands etc)?
I have played in bands since I was 14, mostly playing the bass, in everything from straight up metal (the Bloody Nuns in Labor), to alt-rock (The Lovematics), to psychedelic mod rock and roll (The Moviees).

What are your favorite/most influential bands?
Hmmmm...this week: Black Sabbath, the Zombies, the Small Faces, the Who, the Ramones, any band where I can watch Jean-O Roid play the gee-tar.

What are your favorite/most influential horror flicks?
I dig mostly old Japanese monster movies. Mothra is my favorite, but Godzilla vs. anyone will do.

What movie scared you the most?
Header, by Archie Flancranston. It made/makes me nauseous.

Most overrated Horror movie?
I don't really dig slasher stuff, I need a serious element of the supernatural to get freaked out. I walked out of those Rob Zombie flicks (House of 1,000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects) feeling a little robbed. Like I'd been all hopped up on adrenaline with no payoff...those would be the ones.

Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met?
Steven Van Zandt from the Sopranos and the E Street Band. He was really helpful to the Movies and used to play us on the Underground Garage on Sirius/XM. My favorite was meeting Rod Argent from the Zombies. Dude's a genius.

What Creeping Cruds song is your favorite to play live?
They're all really great and fun, there's a bunch of new ones that are killer too that people haven't heard yet that we'll debut this month and next. I think my perennial favorite has always been "Tennessee Bloodbath", but Jean writes a new song and you're like "damn girl, that's finer than the last one!"

HOOT 8 Interview Series - CHRIS STEELE from ALUCARD

Who the hell are ya and what is your job in the band?
Chris Steele, but I go by Steel Christ in the band because it sounds spooky. I play the bass guitar.

What did you do musically before Alucard (bands etc)
I played electric guitar in The Fakes.

What are your favorite/most influential bands?
The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, The Strokes, White Stripes

What are your favorite/most influential horror flicks?
American Psycho, Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman), Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
What movie scared you the most?
Blair Witch Project. Come on, you were as well.

Most overrated Horror movie?
Blair Witch Project.

Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met?
Kid Gruesome from Alucard

What Alucard song is your favorite to play live?
Dark Passenger. It's a groover.

What is one cool thing the kids may not know about Alucard?
Alucard spelled backward is rocknroll.


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Everybody knows that Alucard spelled backwards is The Mummy. Let's hope Justin Beiber and Dexter show up for Chris' sake!

Hoot 8 Interview Series - DEAD DICK HAMMER

Who the hell are ya and what is your job in the band (details)?

Ringleader and voice of the voice-less

What did you do musically before Dead Dick Hammer (bands etc)?

Before I died I was a successful musician and rock-n-roll sensation known as Richie Hammer, A.K.A. lil Richie Skinn'r Back.I was also an uncredited sessions musician and song writer of several Memphis based recordings from 1953-1957

What are your favorite/most influential bands?
Gene Vincent, T-Bone Walker,Cliff Gallup, The Devil (you know he taught Robert Johnson and Django?)

What are your favorite/most influential horror flicks?

Frankenstien, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Wolfman,Phantom of the Opera,Creature from the Black Lagoon ,Bluebeard ,Dracula

What movie scared you the most?
Love Me Tender

Most overrated Horror movie?

Them

Who is the biggest celebrity you have ever met?

I met Elvis in 1954 but one of my favorites would be Buddy Holly,
we used to drank liqour and chase whores together in Hell back before my recent awakening, here's a lil know fact friend,,,He hated Elvis

What Dead Dick Hammer song is your favorite to play live?

LIVE? we are of the undead,,,favorite song? ALL OF EM!! I dont play songs that I don't like, Songs that don't condone the mainstream auto-tuned boom boom shit garbage pollution that seeped into my grave and woke me from death!!!!

What is one cool thing the kids may not know about Dead Dick Hammer?

..other then my dick being the coolest part of me, my body anyhow, prolly the fact that I like my women like I like my wine,,,,in a box!,,,,

Now everyone who reads this, come to the Horror Hootenanny or I shall be forced to have Doctor Kong ( undead drummer for the t.b.a. and voodoo priest) shrink your heads and curse you all to shit maggots and night crawlers until you die!