Something Wicked This Way Comes is the very first offering from Creepshow Productions. What is to become a yearly offering, this compilation is jam-packed with 16 amazing exclusive tracks.
A must have for anyone that’s appreciates quality dark-end music, whether it be dark-end stalwarts The Mercy Cage, NUTE, Chris Matthews (of Headless Chickens and Children’s Hour fame), newcomers Nullity, Radia or The Shudder Club or Australia’s biggest gothic export Ikon.
Offered as a special 6-panel CD with the wonderful and original artwork by Ben Nightingale (including access to 5 bonus tracks) or as a digital download in high quality MP3.
6-Panel CD - $25.00 Click here to purchase
Digit Download - $15.95 Click here to purchase
Tracklisting
1. The Shudder Club - Feeder (Ano mix)
2. Melody Fallen - Frankie (and Alice)
3. This Theory Of Static - The Fall
4. Nullity - Consecration
5. Radia - Civilized (Creepshow mix)
6. N.U.T.E - Old Friends New Foes
7. Dekline - Psychomentia (Introverted)
8. Chris Matthews & Robot Monkey Orchestra - Sugar Hit
9. The Hydra Theory - N 5 Fifty
10. The Mercy Cage - The Jewellery Thief
11. Haluciagea - Skyward (Faker Spaces remix)
12. Ikon - Torn Apart
13. Crash-Scan - Lucid Daylight
14. Keller Kinder - Labyrinth (Creepshow edit)
15. johnnychrome feat. Jordan Reyne - Alien Radio Station
16. The Tenth Stage - Travelogue
Check out some of the tracks here
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Reviews.
Nocturne Issue 2 - 10/10
This album is a superbly compiled masterpiece of New Zealand's leading Alt/Goth/Industrial talent. This CD slips in and out of ambient, trance-like, classic Goth sounding tracks into the hard thumping beat that is EBM and Industrial sound. Stand out tracks (if there can be such a thing) is the hypnotic 3rd track 'The Fall' by This Theory Of Static, The Shudder Club with the heaviest keyboards I've ever heard and of course the fan favourite The Mercy Cage with 'The Jewellery Thief'. But in all honesty each track holds it's own and yet merges together to create a smooth flowing trip through the darkest, most atmospheric groups NZ has to offer.
A must have NZ classic for sure.
Reviewer - Simon Ripley
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Slauterama Magazine - 9/10
This CD impressed the hell out of me. I never thought that New Zealand talent was capable of a compilation album of dark music so polished, professional, catchy, and just down-right excellent.
The packaging and music production is the best I have ever seen from a New Zealand release, no contest. Congratulations Creepshow Productions! A brilliant compilation.
If your music collection extends beyond Heavy Metal, then definitely check this out.
Reviewer - Brendon Williams
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KiaOra - Air New Zealand Inflight Magazine
A dark compilation of Kiwi and Aussie talent from new label Creepshow Productions. Don't let the words "gothic", "dark wave" or "industrial" put you off. Flick aside assumptions and give this a spin. Loud.
This is creative - at times creepy and disturbing - stuff with raw energy, black humour and ideas to burn.
Reviewer - Shelley Howells
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NZ Musician
This is a colourful package of 16 industrial and 'dark-end' tracks from around the country (and a token Australian offering from the enduring Ikon) wonderfully designed and decorated by Ben Nightingale. And the fun doesn't stop at the packaging. Track after track I waited for the good times to end, for the one dud song to bring it all down, but it never came. Instead I marvelled at the production, the ingenuity and those dark, deep beats. To be honest I'd never heard of most of the featured acts but came away a fan of all of them. Twist my arm for the standout track and I'll have to say the very first track, The Shudder Club's Feeder (Ano Mix), hooked me. If you like your music a bit darker you can't go wrong with this debut compilation from Creepshow Productions, available now as an impressive looking CD package, or digital download, with bonus tracks available online.
Reviewer - Alistar Wickens
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Real Groove - 3/5
Some days all you want is to draw the bedroom curtains and lurk around in the darkness - this all-NZ compilation from the mysterious Creepshow Productions allows listeners to bask in its Antipodian gothic/industrial blacklight glow. With a tantalising selection of unfamiliar names (other than Chris Matthews of Headless Chickens fame), Something Wicked is a selection of oft-obscured NZ gothiness with many tracks being suprisingly upbeat and dancey, offsetting the gloom to an almost disappointing degree.
I prefer melodramtic-sounding songs by The Shudder Club or Matthews' drug inspired Sugar Hit as well as frantic efforts by The Hydra Theory. Other tracks have an unsettling tendancy to veer off into late '90s industrial dance territories with sometimes fun (Keller Kinder) and sometimes terrifying results. A feeling of datedness to the drum programming lets down a few songs, one track (Haluciagea) sounds similar to Minuit or Strawpeople!
Pretty entertaining listening - if you're brave enough to crawl into the local shadows, this could be a fine place to start.
Reviewer - Chris Cudby