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April Fool’s Day may be Angel Dust’s birthday, but this news is no joke! A new remix of “Poison,” the #1 song on the Billboard Soundtrack chart from Prime Video’s smash hit Hazbin Hotel, is now available on all streaming platforms. The “Poison” official remix comes from the minds of the popular electronic rock band The Living Tombstone, which one of Hazbin Hotel’s songwriters, Sam Haft, is a member of. Fellow band member and founder Yoav Landau is the producer of the “Poison” remix.

At the end of 2022, I was given the Goliath task of explaining to our readers (and much of our staff) why the internet had gone completely feral over the animated design of the Devil Daddy himself, Lucifer Morningstar, on "Hazbin Hotel." Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano debuted the animated musical pilot for "Hazbin Hotel" on YouTube in 2019, funded entirely by Medrano's Patreon followers and brought to life completely by freelance animators. It quickly went viral and generated a diehard fanbase, one that exists on the fringes of fandom circles and well outside of four-quadrant entertainment.

It's adult animation, but too edgy for the constraints of something like "The Simpsons." It's as raunchy as "South Park," but caters to a queerer audience base. It boasts a Broadway cast as impressive as "Central Park," but without the "Hamilton" name recognition to excite your mom. "Hazbin Hotel" is what happens when you grow up watching...

In an era of complicated first-person shooters, detailed world-building, and dueling consoles, one of the internet’s most popular games built a gaming fandom with a simple point-and-click.

First released in 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s was an indie game initially crowdfunded, then released for players on Steam by developer Scott Cawthon. While the gameplay was simple — survive five nights in a spooky abandoned pizza parlor while animatronic animals try to kill you — Five Nights at Freddy’s (or Fnaf as it is known online) had a fandom larger than most mainstream...

If you're a fan of "Five Nights at Freddy's," chances are you're also a fan of The Living Tombstone. Consisting of musicians Yoav Landau and Sam Haft, The Living Tombstone is considered by many to be the unofficial sound of "FNaF," after the duo created a series of songs and music videos inspired by the games. Or, more likely, you're familiar with that absolutely bangin' remix of Andrew Gold's "Spooky Scary Skeletons." You know, the one everyone dances to on TikTok around Halloween season? Yeah, that was Landau's doing.

This is all to say, The Living Tombstone might not be a household name to the general public, but for those in the know, they're a pretty big deal. So much so that when the "FNaF" movie was first announced, one of the biggest questions (outside of wondering if Markiplier would be making a cameo) asked by the fandom...