Halloween 2025: The Hell’s Bells Playlist
October 27, 2025
Fiendish sounds and fever dreams, the devil’s music selection this year is, as ever, a twisted tale of soundtracks, freakish and macabre passages, harrowed indie, horrorcore rap, the theatrical, esoteric post-punk and rock ‘n’ roll jukebox mischief. The selection this year devilishly devised by Dominic Valvona.
Pulp ‘The Mark of the Devil’
My Solid Ground ‘The Executioner’
The Wytches ‘Coffin Nails’
The Awkward Silences ‘Haunted by my own ghost’
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires ‘Frankenstein’
Naked City ‘Graveyard Shift (Live in Quebec 1988)’
itsokaylove & Black Wick ‘The Grim Denial’
Casper Ghostly & Uncommon Nasa ‘Floor Thirteen’
Lords Of The Underground ‘Psycho’
Fatboi Sharif, Driveby & Lungs ‘Basquiat Painted Transylvania’
itchy-O ‘Entangled|Unbinding – JG Thirlwell Remix’
The Northern Lighthouse Board ‘Ancient Sorceries’
Ruth White ‘The Litanies of Satan’
Nick Kuepfer ‘Vampyro’
Thomas Truax ‘The Cannibals Have Captured Our Nicole Kidman (Sebastian Reynolds Remix)’
The Eurosuite ‘Reflection Monster’
Kitchen Cynics ‘Phosphorus Tenement’
Lalo Schifrin ‘A Pact with Satan’
Pere Ubu ‘Satan’s Hamster’
Sonic Youth ‘Satan Is Boring’
30 Door Key ‘Cavern Of The Seasons Gone By’
Tetsuo ii ‘The Howling’
The Pretty Things ‘Death’
Mint Tattoo ‘Mark Of The Beast’
Librarians With Hickeys ‘Ghoul You Want’
The Legless Crabs ‘Sleep Sweet Satan’
Candice Gordon ‘Cannibal Love’
So Beast ‘Beastride’
Society of the Silver Cross ‘Mourning the Night’
A smattering of previous Halloween playlists and posts:
From 2012: Selection of Youtube videos and tunes.
The Monolith Cocktail Social: Playlist #XXXI
November 22, 2017
DOMINIC VALVONA’S PLAYLIST
In danger of repeating myself forever, but for newcomers to the site here’s the premise of my playlist selections. Previously only ever shared via our Facebook profile and on Spotify our regular Monolith Cocktail Social playlists will also be posted here on the blog itself.
With no themes or demarcated reasoning we pick songs from across a wide spectrum of genres, and from all eras.Selection #31, chosen as always by me, Dominic Valvona, includes Jean-Jacques Perrey‘s charming kitsch flights of fantasy into space, L.A. Jay‘s languid, floating jazzy remix of the Californian hip-hop troupe, The Pharcyde‘s Otha Fish, Penny Goodwin‘s fluttering flute ballad turn super funk acid dancefloor blast Too Soon You’re Old, South Seas dreamy sauntered pop from the Insecure Men, Kosmische traverses from the German dream team Mythos, plus spiritual, conscious and sublime jazz from Roy Hargrove & Ronnie Matthews and Brother Ah, and troubadour psych magic from Elyse Weinberg.
Tracks:
Jean-Jacques Perrey ‘Spatial Blues’
LaVice & Company ‘Thoughs Were The Days’
Jeff Parker ‘Get Dressed’
Claudia Lennear ‘Not At All’
Penny Goodwin ‘Too Soon You’re Old’
Insecure Men ‘Subaru Nights’
The Pharcyde ‘Otha Fish (L.A. Jay Remix)’
Lords Of The Underground ‘Flow On (New Symphony)’
Murs ‘What Do You Know?’
The Move ‘Message From The Country’
Affinity ‘I Am And So Are You’
Roy Hargrove, Ronnie Matthews ‘Salima’s Dance’
Brother Ah ‘Transcendental March (Creation Song)’
Joe Harriott, Amancio D’Silva Quartet ‘Stephano’s Dance’
Famous L. Renfroe ‘Believe’
Gunn – Truscinski Duo ‘Minetta River’
Krzysztof Komeda ‘Litania’
The Monzas ‘In My Lonely Room’
Evinha ‘Que Bandeira’
Elyse Weinberg ‘City Of The Angels’
Annette Peacock ‘Love’s Out To Lunch’
Midnight Magic ‘Walking The Midnight Streets’
Raw Material ‘I’d Be Delighted’
Mythos ‘Eternity’
La Dusseldorf ‘Geld’
Jean-Jacques Perrey ‘Chicken On The Rocks’
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