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A circus march dressed in red velvet and brass, sung by a barker who is selling something far worse than dolls — and a chorus of tiny voices that know exactly what he means.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/the-dolls-will-have-them-allEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0664/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
A flame-haired woman alone at the edge of town, the lies of two small girls who put her on the gallows, and a cycle that the village square could not bury — told in the slow blues register Crossroads Haint reserves for the wrongs that won't stay down.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/crossroadshaint/the-woman-with-the-flaming-hairWATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiWEDPr1BlEEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/CondemnedAsAWitch/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
A young wife at the rail of a great ocean liner in 1915, certain her husband will come up the stairs at any moment, and the song she's still waiting to greet him with — playing on a gramophone in a Gloucestershire asylum thirty years later, sweet as the moonlight, wrong as the hour.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/ill-wait-upon-the-deckEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0662/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
A breathless punk-pop dash through the longest first night on a brand-new job — where every shadow has a footnote, and the only sane move is the exit. Hazard pay sold separately.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darkweirdness/nope-my-way-outta-hereEPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/aloneonthejob/MORE OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicHEAR THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
What if a classic radio story became a song — in the time it takes place?Static Wax takes the stories told on vintage radio broadcasts and reimagines them as era-appropriate songs — the way they might have sounded if they'd been written for the jukebox instead of the airwaves.ABOUT THE SONG: "The Old Gray Ghost" is a slow minor-key folk-blues ballad written in the style of mid-1960s British R&B — arpeggiated guitar, Hammond organ swells, walking bass, brushes on snare, a baritone-tenor storytelling vocal. The lyrics follow Don Barton, the landlord of an old English inn called the Crown and Mitre, built on the buried foundations of a Cistercian abbey. Don has bought the inn for the coven that meets in its cellar, married a woman he does not love for the money she brought, and intends to drive her mad and frame her for the murder of an old neighbor he killed himself. On the night of the new moon, he descends to the wine cellar to call Diana down. He does not get Diana.ABOUT THE SOURCE EPISODE: "Inn Spectre" originally aired on “The Creaking Door” on July 27, 1964. The story takes place at the fictional Crown and Mitre, an old English country inn built on the site of an ancient Cistercian abbey once ruled by an abbot named Cantior. The inn's landlord, Donald Barton, is secretly the master of a witch coven that meets in the abbey vaults beneath the cellar — and when an inquisitive neighbor across the road turns up strangled, Inspector Hunter arrives to investigate. The episode plays its hauntings straight — poltergeists in the cellar, sleepwalking, dead frogs in pockets, mud on bedroom slippers — before pivoting in its final act into a confrontation between black magic and the ghost of the long-dead abbot.ABOUT THE RADIO SHOW: “The Creaking Door” was a half-hour horror anthology produced for Springbok Radio in South Africa beginning in 1964, sponsored by State Express 3-5 Filter King cigarettes and styled deliberately after American shows like “Inner Sanctum” — complete with a creaking-door cold open, a wry host, and a single self-contained tale of terror per episode. The series ran for several years and produced dozens of episodes drawing on classic ghost-story formulas, original scripts, and literary adaptations.ABOUT STATIC WAX: Static Wax is the Weird Darkness Records band that takes the stories told on vintage radio broadcasts — pulled from the Retro Radio feed of the Weird Darkness universe — and reimagines them as era-appropriate songs, the way they might have sounded if they'd been written for the jukebox instead of the airwaves. Every Static Wax release is locked to the year and the musical vocabulary of the broadcast it came from. More at https://weirddarkness.com/music.ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS RECORDS: Weird Darkness Records is the music wing of Marlar House Productions and the Weird Darkness podcast, releasing original music across multiple bands and genres — Static Wax, Dark Weirdness, Crossroads Haint, and Incorruption. The full catalog lives at weirddarkness.com/music.All Static Wax releases eventually reach streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and most other major services under Weird Darkness Records.Find all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
A small bird-faced geologist drilled to the center of the Earth and came back with an answer no one wanted, and the song that grew out of it sits somewhere between a confession and a question that won't let the listener go.GET THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/staticwax/how-does-it-feel-to-knowMORE FROM THE BAND: https://hyperfollow.com/staticwaxTHE EPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0640/THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicWEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
A doll behind museum glass, a man on a motorcycle who laughed in her face, and a Delta-blues warning that says the stare you've been ignoring your whole life was never empty.THE EPISODE THAT INSPIRED THE SONG: https://weirddarkness.com/dangerousdolls/THE SONG: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/crossroadshaint/dont-knock-on-the-glass-of-that-dollALL OF THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicSUBSCRIBE TO THE WEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
Somewhere between Scott Walker and a hospital ward, a woman waits on a beach for a great white ship and a father who left her fifteen years ago — and the song she inspired asks what's really in the small glass of water beside her bed.THE RETRO RADIO EPISODE FEATURING “SILENT SHOCK”: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0638/THE MUSIC: https://weirddarkness.com/musicWEIRD DARKNESS PODCAST: https://weirddarkness.com/listenFind all of the music from Weird Darkness Records - all groups and genres released - at https://weirddarkness.com/music.
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