The Industrial Twilight: V/A - "Halloween 2025 Compilation" [2025]

Friday, October 31, 2025

V/A - "Halloween 2025 Compilation" [2025]

Label: High Mage Productions

Title: Halloween 2025 Compilation

Genre: Dungeon/Keller Synth

Country: various

Release date: 2025

Track List:

Ozeregroth - Halloween (Misfits Cover)
Spife - Steppin' Stone Circle (Minor Threat Cover)
Diem Exuro - Mickey Mouse is Dead (Subhumans Cover)
Dleifdem - I Like Your Mom (Bouncing Souls Cover)
Erisian Chalice - JAR (Green Day Cover)
Mortal Relic - Swing for the Crime (The Saints Cover)
Old Moth Dreams - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (Discharge Cover)
Psychic Hood - Overcome (Terror Cover)
Segadeath - SQUAT! (The Ex Cover)
Vakkerike - Sailin' On (Bad Brains Cover)
The Rotund Spellcaster - We Are 138 (Misfits Cover)
KOVVNS - So What (Crass Cover)
Ashen Codex - Live In Fear (The Unseen Cover)
Seregost - Division (Strongarm Cover)
Medwegya - Medwegya Über Alles (Dead Kennedys)
Nightshade Lantern - Rotted Head, Full of Flies (The Cramps Cover)

Now here's probably the most unusual Halloween-themed compilation I've heard, containing 16 covers of punk/hardcore classics by various dungeon synth projects whose names I haven't heard before (except for Medwegya, who made the cover illustration, and whose track I recommend to start from if you're into more heavier stuff):

<a href="https://highmagetapes.com/album/halloween-2025-compilation">Halloween 2025 Compilation by Various Artists</a>

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