Album review: Wednesday 13 – Horrifier

You really do have to admire Wednesday 13​’s dedication to wishing it could be Halloween every day. Or, actually, simply carrying on as though it is. Now nine solo albums in and, as ever, in love with all things macabre, scary and squishy, the one-time Murderdolls frontman has clearly never lived a day in his life that wasn’t spooky, and Beelzebub bless him for it.  With such a long habit, it’s unsurprisng that Wednesday is solidly reliable for this stuff. Like Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper before him, the Duke Of Spook’s music here is just one element of what’s being cooked up. Fitting somewhere between Zombie’s industrial stomp and occasionally the razorblade sleaze of WASP, tunes like Insides Out and You’re So Hideous are the vehicle for Wednesday to unleash his metal ...

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