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Now a yearly tradition, the Beloved Ghouls super-group has come together again to make music. A slightly updated line-up featuring Chuck Billy of Testament, Dave Lombardo of Slayer & The Misfits, Gary Holt of Slayer & Exodus, and Gregory Coates return with their second scare-enducing song, "Shocked!" just in time for Halloween. The new single joins "Terrorized" released on October 30th of last year. "Terrorized," also, features Derrick Green of Sepultura on vocals with Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré on additional vocals. Produced by the legendary Ross Robinson (The Cure, Deftones, Glassjaw, Slipknot, The Used,) "Shocked!" also, features writing by Casey Chaos of Amen. Today, you can pre-order a limited edition 7-inch showcasing both seasonally-appropriate singles back-to-back! Shocked! by Beloved Ghouls Limited to 500 copies, this might be your only chance to grab one of these before they are gone forever... (Spooky!) Pre-order your c...

So, as many of you may well know by now, my wife and I are first-time parents of a now 4-month-old(!) baby and while I'm still trying to find a healthy balance between writing here on The Witzard, as well as a handful of other sites, and hanging out with my growing family, it admittedly isn't always easy. So, while I ran a bunch of Halloween-centric features over the course of the past two weeks or so, I didn't exactly have time to cover everything that came out on or around Friday for Halloween after our last post before the weekend. However, with that said, there were a bunch of ghoulishly great Halloween jams—both originals and covers—released this year. Now, with all that said, I'm proud to present to you A Pumpkin-punchin' Post-Halloween Punk/Hardcore Playlist. I've included Bandcamp links for most of these, as that's my preferred steaming platform (in addition to Spotify) and some of these picks selected are available as Bandcamp-only exclusives and ...