We continue our summer celebration of whatever zombie music we could find. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. This time we’re going goth/glam with Levitika’s “Zombie Barbie”.

Levitika is, according to their unfortunately failed KickStarter campaign, “a new emerging Aussie alternative rock band with a dark edge, fronted by female singer/songwriter Levitika.” Whatever happens, the world could use more undead music, so we wish them the best!

We continue our summer celebration of whatever zombie music we could find. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. We previously made Michael Jackson, the broken man-child, a Zombie of the Week, but now we’re making the song the Zombie of the Week. So it’s completely different. Except that we’re going to use the exact same write-up (because we’re lazy).

If there’s one thing that both forgiving fans and devoted haters can agree on it’s that Michael Jackson was best dead. The music video for “Thriller” was in all ways a full theatrical production. With a running time of nearly 14 minutes, a screenplay and direction by John Landis (“The Blues Brothers”, “Animal House”, “An American Werewolf in London”) and creature effects by the legendary Rick Baker (“Star Wars”, “Men in Black”, “Hellboy”) no expense was spared. It even contained a lengthy spoken word section by horror cinema god Vincent Price.

The video was released on December 2, 1983 and quickly sold over 9 million copies (on VHS no less). It’s been entered into the National Film Registry (the first music video to be so honored) and won two Grammy’s. It’s estimated that over 4 Billion (with a “B”) people have seen the video. So whatever your opinion of Jackson and the allegations against him it’s hard to argue with the fact that he’s quite literally the most famous zombie ever.

We continue our summer celebration of whatever zombie music we could find. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. Here we have Rob Zombie with “Living Dead Girl”.

Almost two years ago we made Rob, himself, the Zombie of the Week, now we’re celebrating one of his songs. We honestly have no idea what the point of the song is but we do know that songs don’t need to have a point. So there.

We continue our summer celebration of whatever zombie music we could find. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. Up now is (the fictional) Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures with “Zombie A Go Go”.

A little something different this week. Treyarch built up a massive amount of hype for a special zombies mode in their massively popular game, “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3”. As part of this they created a special “Zombie Choral Canon”. This is the first part (of five) of a mini-documentary about a special performance of that music at the Concordia University of Edmonton. This first part introduces the vocalist Malukah. In later episodes we’ll meet Kevin Sherwood, Elena Siegman and Bill Anderson.

We continue our summer celebration of whatever zombie music we could find. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. Up now is (the fictional) Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures with “Zombie A Go Go”.

The band was introduced in Rob Zombie’s 2009 remake sequel Halloween II. Although fictional, their catchy, psychobilly music clearly struck a chord and a companion album to the movie was released, “Rob Zombie Presents Captain Clegg And The Night Creatures“. Although opinions on the movie seem to fall into strict love-it-or-hate-it camps, the album is nothing but pure, tongue-in-cheek fun.

We continue our summer celebration of whatever zombie music we could find. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. Up now is Aesop Rock with “Coffee”.

Honestly, we don’t know what’s really going here. Maybe a screed against materialism? Maybe an anthem for the one-percenters? We’re not sure – but the video has zombies aplenty and that’s all that really matters (to us).

We’ve decided to spend a few weeks celebrating whatever zombie music we could find out there. Zombies in the lyrics, in the videos, in the theme… whatever. We’re starting with The Cranberries 1994 dark classic “Zombie” from their album “No Need to Argue”.

The song was writen for Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry, who were killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington, England in 1993.  Written by Dolores O’Riordan,  the lead singer, the song hit No. 1 on the charts in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany.

This week we celebrate George, the titular roomie in John Wigger’s long-running web comic Zombie Roomie (he’s the blue, dead one in the middle of the picture). Now in its seventh year of publication, the strip’s cast has grown substantially since the beginning, on all fronts: living, dead, undead, cursed, reanimated and… ichthiad? The strip covers those many, down-to-Earth, everyday topics that everybody can related to, like the death (and sometimes resurrection) of pets and friends, dating (both the dead and the living) and the ups-and-downs of gay werewolf weddings.

Well, fine. Even if your life is so dully perfect that you can’t relate directly, it’s still a wonderful comic. Highly recommended.

It’s Flag Day in the U.S., the day were we celebrate all-things-our-specific-flag (not any old flag – not yours – ours!) Although Flag Day isn’t an official federal holiday status, we happen live in Pennsylvania, the only state where it is an official state holiday.

Although another in our long line of “not technically zombie, but close enough” inductees, it seemed fitting to, on today of all days, celebrate the twisted love child of Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo, The American Scream. Introduced in their seminal 1990 reboot of the classic Steve Ditko character Shade the Changing Man, it was the major foil for the initial story still available in the Shade The Changing Man: Volume One collection.

The American Scream represented the rampant madness of America. In its own words:

“And I am the American Scream. E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many, One… giver of voice and flesh to quiet screams of unquiet minds… and what quiet screams, what sly blisters of madness are lurking within you, Shade? Before I’m finished, you will be reduced to nothing but a mouth, no memory, no soul… a faceless, mindless mouth.”

A character that wants to devour people’s brains leaving them nothing but mindless mouths… sure as hell sounds like a zombie to us!