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Music Video of the Day: Silence by Vaughan (2020, dir by Olivia Sofia Ferrara)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

So, technically, this is not a horror-themed video.  As much as I want to devote every day in October to horror-themed music videos, there aren’t quite as many out there as you might think and we’ve been doing this for a few years now.  (Actually, I guess I should say that it’s not so much a case of finding a horror-themed music video as much as it’s finding a good horror-themed video.  There’s maybe a thousand videos out there featuring a singer going on about murder while his drummer plays his practice solo but that doesn’t mean all of them are worthy of being a music video of the day.)

That said, this video definitely has an October vibe to it.  Between the soulful voice of the singer and the shadowy images, it’s a haunting video.  This song is about looking for love in a cold world and certainly, that’s what a lot of paranormal beings spend October doing.  One could imagine this song being sung by a ghost and that’s good enough for me!

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Ghost in These Streets by Kate Vogel (2020, dir by Jessica Steddom)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I guess this music video isn’t literally about a ghost in the middle of the street but it could be and that’s the important thing.  It’s October, after all.  The ghost have to be somewhere.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Eye of the Storm by Millie Turner (2020, dir by Hannah Berry George)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Both this song and this music video just feel very much like the right way to begin the first Monday in October.  On the one hand, the landscape appears peaceful.  On the other hand, it’s hard not to feel like chaos is right around the corner.  It looks like a dream but it could be a nightmare.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: The Shining Main Titles, covered by Kevin Bias (2016, dir by Kevin Bias)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

For today’s music video of the day, we have a cover (by Kevin Bias) of the main title theme from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.  As I’ve often said on this site, The Shining is one of my favorite horror movies and I think it has one of the best scores to be found in a non-Italian horror film.

This is taken from Bias’s own description of the video on YouTube:

Written by Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind
Cover of the original from the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film ‘The Shining’.
Equipment: Alesis Ion, Ensoniq Sq2, OP-X PRO II emulation software

I pre-recorded my own sound effects and ambience which are not reflected in the visuals in the video. All of the visual takes seen in the video are the takes heard in the audio and mixed using Sonar X2.

If you like this cover, be sure to check out Kevin Bias’s YouTube channel and subscribe!

Music Video of the Day: Mad World, covered by Pentatonix (2020, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to October!

Since this is the first post of our annual Horrorthon, it only seems appropriate that today’s music video of the day should be for one of the most haunting songs ever written.  Originally recorded by Tears For Fears and then covered by Gary Jules for Donnie Darko, Mad World is a beautiful song and, if you ask me, an appropriate song for October.  After all, it’s a mad world out there.

I do have to admit that I usually absolutely hate anything a cappella.  Seriously, I usually find a cappella music to be one of the most painfully boring types of music around, second perhaps only to gospel and folk music.  However, I do like Pentatonix because they’re not as a self-important as most a cappella groups (as far as I know, they’ve never done a 10-minute version of I’ll Fly Away) and they’re from my home state of Texas.  (Y’know, home of the chainsaw massacre….)

Enjoy!