Halloween 2026 Vol. 3 THE MEMBERS Promptgenix ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS 38 Coffin & MORE!

HALLOWEEN 2026 Vol. 3

We love our Halloween music here at Jonky.  Unless The Creature From The Black Lagoon starts blogging, no other blog is going to serve up five different CD-length horror-filled comps.  Vol. 3 may be my favorite of them all.  

PROMPTGENIX starts it off with The Thing In Grafton Woods—a story song about a creature with “skin like something dragged from hell” that maintains a genuinely creepy, atmospheric, & swampy groove.  I don’t have words to describe how much I love it.  Equally ethereal is Buffy Sainte-Marie’s skeletal The Vampire.

My second favorite track is Rocket From The Tombs' unhinged version of the garage rock classic Strychnine.  I've never seen a haunted castle with a garage, but more garage music makes another appearance in the form of Zombina & The Skeletons' The Count Of Five.  

India Ramey and Fabienne Delsol may not have expected to land on a Halloween compilation, but I think you’ll agree their songs fit right in.  As does The Hoodoo Gurus’ tale of revenge; Hayride From Hell, & Gregg Allman’s raw-boned Devil Got My Woman.

Big Boy Bloater takes a savage stab at Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Alligator Wine.  Joe Bouchard already paid tribute to Godzilla when he played with B.O.C., but now he turns his solo sights on The Wolfman.  I  hope he remembered his silver bullets.

Doing Johnny Cash one better, Sonny George recorded Hillbilly Wolfman for his Live At The Tennessee Prison For Women album.  I’m not sure if he brought along a handful of pardons, but that hillbilly sure can howl.  L.A. rockabilly weirdo Johnny Legend tells the tale of the House Of Frankenstein complete with ascending doo-wop “Ahh’s” provided by a choir of fallen angels.  The Necromantix serve up Haunted Cathouse, and Webb Wilder blows the dust off of his classic track Hoodoo Witch.

Without a doubt, the most fun tracks are Rockapella’s Zombie Jamboree, & the always awe-inspiring Petra Haden who vocally supplies all the instrumentation in her version of Tubular Bells.  Bringing to mind an entirely different kind of tubular is 38 Coffin’s Dead Surfer Girl.  The Members completely tear up Jack The Ripper—largely due to their guitarist, Nigel Bennett, who definitely deserves the MVP award (Most Vibratorsesque Performance).

And dragging it all down to the dungeon is The Damned’s Wait For The Blackout, which some folks might not feel is a Halloween song.  I’d argue that it's being sung by a guy dressed like Dracula.