Vídeo de Valeri Yarovoi

Happy Halloween everybody! Oh man, where to start? We’ve promised to do something special for Halloween for three years and these covers were actually started last year. Scheduling problems and the constant workload has made it impossible to finish. But this year we said enough is enough and tore through the production in 2 weeks. That’s why Anders is sporting a cell-phone and a tome in these things, he didn’t have time to actually learn the lyrics :P These are the first 2 covers Ashbury Heights has ever done and it’s actually the first covers any of us has released period. We listened through a lot of “top ten Halloween songs“-lists to choose the tracks to cover and boy is there a lack of good Halloween music. In the end we came up with four alternatives that we felt had something we liked and here we are. Track #1 ’Don’t Fear the Reaper’ by Blue Oyster Cult is a beautiful song with some pretty puerile lyrics. But we feel it’s naive rather than stupid and as a Halloween track it is probably THE classic (together with Monster Mash which we also considered). Our version is an attempt to make it danceable and fun in a modern sense, while keeping the songs haunting and atmospheric qualities intact. We think it turned out pretty nicely in that regard :) Track #2 ’Everyday is Halloween’ by Ministry felt like the most natural track to do a cover of. It’s electronic, it’s by a band Anders has been listening to ever since 8th grade and it was really fun doing something so shamelessly retro with the production. Modernizing this song felt like robbing it of its soul so we stuck with an arrangement very close to the original. Hope you enjoy these forays into covering other people’s music as much as we did.