Snotty, brash, Entombed and Darkthrone worshipping metalpunks OKKULTOKRATI are about to lay waste to the UK next week with a short tour of London, Sheffield and Birmingham. With a new video for ‘Magic People’ from their blistering new album ‘Raspberry Dawn’ just released we caught up with the band to find out what songs will be on the van’s clapped out cassette player as they drive between the homes of Sabbath and Priest. Out now on Southern Lord, their label’s boss Greg Anderson described them best: “Fucked up in all the right places! Super original and I can say that I’ve definitely never heard anything like this! Visions of Bauhaus and Darkthrone listening to Joy Division albums by torchlight in the dark forests of Oslo.” Actually that’s something we can imagine Fenriz doing… enjoy the sounds of darkness

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The Spits – ‘Tomorrow’s Children’ “This is our favourite band.”

Emperor – ‘Cosmic Keys to My Creations And Times’ “Imagine being 17 and writing songs like this…”

New Order – ‘Dreams Never End’ “We covered this song on all of our tours in 2014. I like to think we took something from that song, and New Order in general, with us into the new album.”

Alan Vega – ‘Ghost Rider’ “Obvious pick, … Read More

To kick off a series of top ten lists from artists and musicians that we’ve, well, hassled into submission Jason Decay of Toronto traditionalists Cauldron has given us his top ten tracks to get him in the mood for All Hallows Eve.

10. Halloween by Helloween “I suppose this one’s a bit tedious, but remains a classic where I’m from.”

9. Trick Or Treat by Fastway “A nice wintry track about the festive season.”

8. Halloween by Ostrogoth “This is a summer record for me, but this particular tune tends to carry over into October.”

7. Drive To Santa Mira by John Carpenter “Essential.”

6. Children Of The Witches by Halloween “The masters.”

5. Halloween by King Diamond “King knows best and so would you if every night was Halloween.”

4. Halloween by Seduce “The original!”

3. Halloween Night by Halloween “One of my fave tracks! Find this one.”

2. Halloween by Misfits “Dead cats hanging from poles and candy apples with razor blades, that’s how I remember Halloween too… Scary.”

1. Halloween by 220 Volt “What Halloween is like in Sweden. Pretty similar to Halloween in America from what I gather… My favourite Halloween song these last few years, up there with Misfits.”