#Dracmorda

[tampire]

Meeting The Boulets and Victoria Elizabeth Black, Erika Klash, Koco Caine and HoSo TerraToma was a delight in the Dragula Titans Toronto 4/20 show and I also enjoyed wearing my Yovska shirt in my Corinthian from Sandman cosplay. Edit: I also went to Morning Nightmare event on June 3rd and enjoyed meeting Dahli and seeing HoSo and Yovska again too in my exact same Corinthian cosplay look lol. All the local performers were amazing as well and I love the Rec Room Arcade games too.

[thisaintascenereviews]

What I’ve Been Listening To During Spooky Season: 2024 Edition

Ah, yes, Halloween season is upon us again. I started a tradition a few years ago where I’d talk about Halloween-themed or Halloween adjacent music, and it was pretty fun! I always love writing these types of pieces, because I try to listen to different stuff with a spooky theme each year, and this year is no different. Each year I’ll try to have a theme, and from looking back to see what theme I had last year, I didn’t even post one last year. I thought I did, but I was going to write about the last couple of albums from Clipping, an experimental rap group fronted by Daveed Diggs. I’ll still talk about those albums at some point, but I really thought I did that.

My first theme was spooky-themed rock and metal bands, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, and a few other bands, but I don’t want to repeat myself twice. Nonetheless, I wanted to bring this series back this year, especially when this year caught me by surprise. It all started by the first thing I’ll talk about here in a minute, but it made me remember a couple of other things I found last year and never spent that much time with, so I got a bit of an interesting theme with this year. What is that theme, you may be asking? Why, my theme is 1960s surf-rock, bubblegum pop, and novelty albums! The first album I’ll talk about isn’t from the 1960s, but it’s very much inspired by it, which is…

The Boulet Brothers - Halloween House Party EP

If you read the newest piece I wrote with my buddy Jake, where we cut it up about the newest stuff we’ve been enjoying over the last couple months, I talked about the drag competition show Dragula, which is Drag Race for horror fans, basically, that’s in its sixth season currently. It’s a show that’s more so about horror, versus standard drag, so there is a lot of VFX and makeup, as well as performing and acting. The show was created by legendary drag duo, The Boulet Brothers, and aside from Dragula, they also have veered into music. I haven’t liked much they’ve done, but this new Halloween EP they put out is a lot of fun. It’s very short, sweet, and to the point. There’s a 1960s surf-rock and doo-woo feel throughout it, and despite the EP having a similar sound, all the songs are catchy enough, and they manage to make each song interesting enough, considering the ideas they have to work with.

As a side bar, music that is specifically Halloween-themed, versus just being spooky in general, is way more niche than Christmas music. Fun fact: I’ve already got some Christmas music on deck, and I may talk about it in some way this year, although, despite already talking about a Christmas album last year in the vein of Seth MacFarlane and Liz Gillies’ newly released Christmas album, We Wish You The Merriest. Halloween music has its place, but at the same time, there aren’t many things to really talk about that hold up for a whole season. Christmas music, especially the more secular stuff, can be about wintertime, versus Halloween is mainly about monsters, trick or treating, and just being overall spooky and stuff. Music that is Halloween-adjacent holds up because it has more to talk about, versus specifically Halloween-themed music.

The Deadly Ones - It’s Monster Surfing Time

During the early 1960s, surf-rock was all the rage, especially with Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, The Beach Boys, The Trashmen, and many other acts having that sound, so what’s the most logical thing to do? Combine Halloween and surf-rock to make for one of the most niche and interesting albums I’ve heard in a long time. Released in 1964, It’s Monster Surfing Time is the only album from The Deadly Ones, and the kicker is, no one knows who played on this. They seem to be session musicians from their label, Vee-Jay, but that’s it. I couldn’t find much about this album at all, but in a way, the mystery is that much more fun. This is a mainly instrumental album that has surf-rock with some spooky sounds thrown in. It’s fun, despite being relatively generic, as well as niche as all hell, but I’ve been having some fun with it.

Bobby “Boris” Pickett - The Original Monster Mash

If there is one “essential” Halloween song, it has to be “Monster Mash.” While it’s a novelty hit that comes back for a bit each year, Pickett released a whole album in 1962 with a lot of Halloween songs. The album has its name for a funny reason — another artist released a cover version of the “Monster Mash,” and put out a whole record before Pickett could, hence the “original” moniker. I’ve been wanting to really sink my teeth into this album for the last couple of years, and I finally have. It’s been a fun little listen, despite the songs being of the novelty and cheesy variety. Most of these songs are in line with a popular trend of the time, not including the title track, but they take advantage of the popularity of certain things at that time, and it can be either pretty cheesy or pretty fun, depending on who you are. I might add this to my yearly rotation, at least for a bit, anyway.

The Munsters - S/T

The last thing I wanted to talk about is one of the most niche and cash grabby things I’ve ever heard, and it’s The Munsters 1964 self-titled album. This album doesn’t have much information about it, but it’s a surf-rock album that’s touted as being performed by The Munsters, who were in their prime at the time, but it’s really just some session musicians. This record is pretty fun, albeit very gimmicky and silly, because it’s just songs about The Munsters, so if you don’t like The Munsters, I can’t help you. If you do, though, this album should be a lot of fun and get some chuckles out of you. I’ve listened to it a handful of times, but it’s a good little record that admittedly sounds dated and niche. I still enjoy this, though, at least for what it is.

[midnightmonarchs]

The Lovers Preliminary Sketch

[t4yce]

the boulets in dragula titans 1.07 ↳ for @anon

[villaneve-love]

I CANNOT WAIT

[viceandmature]

The Dragula Boulets / Bizarre Vice and Mature Nightmares

[lavieopulent]

The Boulet Brothers

[eimehh]

god they’re hot

[madelinedemichele]

My #artvsartist2023 ! Happy New Year!

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When I redownloaded tumblr, I fully forgot to move it to my ‘socials’ folder on my phone and so I kept forgetting that the app existed ;-; JUST moved it to its proper spot and DEMOTED fb so hopefully I’ll be around more frequently ✨

[jonathanhulten]

Twin Temple with the Boulet Brothers for their Halloween Ball, where they appeared as guest judges 28/10/2022 (🔥)

[fat-fem-and-asian]

If you don't like the horror drag you will start to cough in 7 days

[midnightmonarchs]

Dracmorda Study

[whatarethedykesupto]

[lunarluna22]

Dragula🧛🏻Titans ⭐️Entrance look 🏳️‍⚧️

I made an entrance look for dragula titans!!! For this look I wanted to go for this witchy overlord with a gooey cape, I fucking love all the sparkles here and how beautiful and magical it looks, I had so much fun making this, and this is only the beginning of these 👽🌺🌈

Xoxo, Olivia 🧝🏻‍♀️🌺🏳️‍⚧️

[jaidatheessanceofmyheart]

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Preview: DC Horror Presents #1 (of 3)

DC Horror Presents #1 preview. Bones crunching, worms munching, blood spattering… A new collection of gruesome tales set in the DCU #comics #comicbooks