Here are 13 ghoulish goodies to scare up for the horrordays from Revolver‘s special Halloween issue, Rock! Shock! and Horror!, which is on newsstands now or can be purchased here.
1. The Cabin in the Woods Blu-Ray + Digital Copy
This cleverly self-aware gore-soaked comedy was easily one of the best fright flicks of the past year. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
2. The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season Blu-Ray Box Set
What’s better than owning the second season of The Walking Dead on Blu-Ray? Storing it in a life-size zombie head with a screwdriver through the eye. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
3. ESP LTD Bela Lugosi Dracula Electric Guitar
Imagine what music the children of the night will make with this ax commemorating the original Universal Monster, highly limited to just 325 models worldwide. For more information, go to the ESP website here.
4. Justin Bartlett’s “The Thing” Glow-in-the-Dark Shirt
Illustrator Justin Barlett has created art for bands including Job for a Cowboy, Isis, Trap Them, and Kvelertak. Not surprisingly, his take on the spider-legged abomination from John Carpenter’s The Thing is totally brutal, plus it glows in the dark. Click here to buy now on Holy Mountain Printing.
5. American Horror Story: The Complete First Season Blu-Ray
This original FX series not only garnered 17 Emmy nominations but also features Alexandra Breckenridge, one of Dave Navarro’s picks for the hottest women on the planet, as a sexy ghost maid. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
6. Resident Evil 6
The latest entry in the heralded horror series spans three continents and six playable characters. Even better, it welcomes zombies—in a new, more mobile and more deadly incarnation—back to the franchise. Click here to buy now on Amazon for PS3 or XBOX 360.
7. Zombie Feet Sandals
These flip-flops made to resemble decaying undead flesh are pretty cool for most people. Sadly, our toes actually just look like that. Click here to buy now at NeatoShop.com. 
8. NECA Evil Dead 2 Series 2 Action Figures
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the splatstick classic with “Hero Ash,” complete with chainsaw hand, and basement-dwelling zombie Hentietta, ready to “swallow your soul!” Click here to buy now on Amazon.
9. Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones
R.L. Stine calls this new Young Adult zombie novel “fast, frightening, and all too real!” Of course it is—the first in a projected series, it’s penned by Revolver contributor Christopher Krovatin, aka Stolas Trephinator of the band Flaming Tusk. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
10. Monster Matryoshkas
These are not your Russian grandmother’s matroyshkas. But these nesting dolls of a ghost, mummy, vampire, zombie, and the Grim Reaper will still look great on the mantel. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
11. Zombies!: An Illustrated History of the Undead
Revolver’s “Splatter Matters” columnist, Jovanka Vuckovic, traces the line from Haitian voodoo lore and the writing of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe all the way to Zombieland and The Walking Dead. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
12. Orange Signature #4 Jim Root Terror Head and PPC212JR Speaker Cab
This all-tube, 15-watt amp not only comes in Halloween colors but is also modeled after the Dirty Channel on the same amp that Jim Root—of masked maniacs Slipknot, as well as Stone Sour—plays in the studio and on the road. Click here to buy now on Amazon.
13. Corpse Corps Skate Reaper Coffin Deck
Instead of walking door-to-door trick or treatin’, try shredding down the block on this casket-shaped skateboard emblazoned with Death himself. Click here to buy now at CorpseCorpsBoards.com.
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Anthrax’s, and in particular guitarist Scott Ian’s, love for zombies is well known—the band’s new album, Worship Music, features the zombie-themed “Fight’Em ‘Til You Can’t” and Ian recently appeared on an episode of The Walking Dead—so what better way to promote their record for Christmas than with a Zombie Claus? Check out this short video by metal puppeteer Foam Foolery and let us know what you think in the comments.
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RevolverTV recently caught up with the creator of The Walking Dead comic series and writer on the massively successful AMC TV adaptation, Robert Kirkman, as well as Chris Hardwick, host of the new Walking Dead after show, The Talking Dead. In the videos the pair discuss the comic, the series, and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian’s recent zombie-playing cameo in one of the show’s webisodes.
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As previously reported, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian recently made his foray into zombie-acting for the AMC TV series The Walking Dead. The webisode he appears in, which bears a title worthy of an Anthrax song, “Everything Dies,” is viewable here. Ian’s debut is at around the 1:47 mark. Luckily for us, as a musician, Ian remains, as the Anthrax song goes, among the living.
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In honor of the hugely anticipated Big Four concert at Yankee Stadium in New York City on September 14, Revolver and Guitar World are celebrating the Big Four Weeks leading up to the show. Our websites will be giving fans eye-popping exclusives, previously unseen backstage video, excerpts from our interviews with the bands—including those in Revolver’s special issue devoted to the Big Four, which you can buy right here—and much, much more. Additionally, Revolver’s September/October issue (available here) features collectible trading cards, which you can view here.
A day before Anthrax join the other members of the Big Four—Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth—onstage at Yankee Stadium on September 14, the group will release its first album in eight years, Worship Music (Megaforce). The first track unleashed online from the record was “Fight’em ‘Til You Can’t,” a song about slaying zombies that represented a chance for Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian to combine his passion for music with his passion for the undead monsters. Ian—who is interviewed in the new issue of Revolver, available on newsstands now and online right here—has long been a zombie enthusiast, and he’s even set to play a one the hit TV show The Walking Dead (he’s pictured above on set with special effects guru Greg Nicotero). Fittingly, then, we got the axman to reveal his favorite zombie everything.
Night of the Living Dead
“I think I first saw it in the early ’70s—I was into horror movies since I was a little kid. You gotta remember, when Night of the Living Dead came out, ’68, you didn’t have special effects like we came to know later, but the subject matter at the time was extremely graphic. Night of the Living Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that was too much for people to handle—they couldn’t deal with that shit. Looking back now, if you just look at it from a production point of view, yeah, Night of the Living Dead looks extremely tame. But at the same time, think about the subject matter: Here comes the relentless undead who are never gonna stop. That’s it—our way of life is over. Even though it doesn’t look as gory and as bloody as other movies that came after, it was the first film to really explore that subject matter of a future that is nothing but bleak.”
Dawn of the Dead
“I thought the original and the remake were both brilliant. That remake is probably the only remake I’ve ever seen that not only was worthy but as a standalone was amazing. I loved that the zombies just did what they were used to doing, so the zombies just went to the mall. I dig that social commentary, because I’ve never been a mall person.”
The Walking Dead
“The comic and the TV show. It’s the most realistic depiction [futureusgalleryof a zombie apocalypse]. The comic book, which I’m a massive fan of, almost moves at a real-life pace. Nobody is safe—there are no real heroes and main characters that just hang around, because it’s reality and people are going to die. That’s what I love so much about Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead: He’s really, really, really put the time and energy and the thought into this. In my mind, it’s a true depiction of what it would be like.”
The Road
“It isn’t a zombie movie, per se, but it really is. There’s no undead walking, but it might as well be. That truly is a post-apocalyptic future that I can wrap my brain around, and I feel like that’s probably how it would be. No one would even really know—shit is just going to stop. Just imagine for one second if all the power just went off—if the grid turned off, for whatever reason, and nobody knew why, and they couldn’t get the power back up. How long would it take for society to just devolve into complete and absolute chaos? Less than a week. There would be riots, and the world would be over in a week, if even that long. The book is an amazing depiction of the bleakest, darkest possible future of this planet—and certainly a possible future that I hope I don’t see in my or my child’s lifetime. The movie captured the essence of the book, although the book still for me… I can think about it and I’ll start to freak out a little bit. Cormac McCarthy’s book boiled down to the simplest love between a father and his child and the knowing that this isn’t going to last and what am I going to do? There’s no hope. There’s no happy ending. For me, the book is a masterpiece.”
Here at Revolver, we love zombies. The more disgusting, decayed, and hungry for human brains, the better. So, of course, we loved season 1 of the AMC TV show, The Walking Dead. The second season of the series is currently in production in the Atlanta area. Set to includes 13 episodes, it will premiere this Fall. Check out the first clip from the new season below and let us know what you think in the comments!
]]>“At this moment, I’m standing on a stretch of post-apocalypse interstate in Georgia,” Executive producer, writer, and director Frank Darabont commented from the set, ”littered with abandoned cars and blessing my good luck to be reunited with our amazing cast, and our fantastic directors and crew. Across the board, there are none better. It’s great to be shooting again. I think we’ve embarked on a great season.”
Check out the stills below:
