TRACK #417:

Halloween Queen by Acid

Our next 3 songs of the season are roughly the same kind of song told in 3 distinct musical styles.

Now they are for sure different songs, thematically, but they each speak on a kind of festive royalty; a Halloween Queen.

One is pretty much just “you’re far out and spooky and man that really turns my gears.” The second is essentially “Shes kinda repulsive and badass and that’s awesome.” And the 3rd? I dunno really. I guess it’s a different flavor of the first one. But we’ll cross that (very wordy) bridge when we get to it.

For now, let’s kick this off right. The first up stylistically, is Heavy Metal. Thematically, it’s the I’m ugly and awesome and fuck you and this song is definitely all 3.

From Belgium speed metal pioneer’s Acid comes Halloween Queen, which can be found on the band 3rd and final studio release, 1985’s Engine Beast.

Acid formed in 1980 as Precious Page but quickly changed their name to Acid and released their first single in 1982. Soon they were releasing full LPs and shredding across Europe with for the likes of Sabbath, Venom and Motörhead. Non-heinous!

Not only were they pioneers in the speed/thrash scene, they were one of the first metal bands to be fronted by a female singer. Her name was Kate De Lombaert and she’s a total badass, a Halloween Queen even, though she is singing in 3rd person her, so maybe this is not exactly autobiographical.

Here she is rocking a Dracula cape and lookin mighty dangerous. Definitely non non-non non-non-heinous.

What better way to wrap up of week of Hallo-Women than with a run of Halloween Queens, and what better Queen to lead the charge than a Halloween Queen herself.

Happy Halloween. Here’s some Acid.