Getting back into the blogging swing … I’ve got a few things to respond to (I’ve been tagged … YIPES!), but first … one of my all time favorite topics.

Zombies.

I’ll have you know I LOVE zombies. Terrifying, infected, brain-munching killers that just keep coming in wave after wave. Survival horror. Oh yeah. The first time I fired up Resident Evil 2 on the original Playstation it was a magical immersion into that world. Been hooked ever since.

Uncle ponders Zombie-killing music. This is a topic near and dear to my horror-loving heart.

So top Zombie killing songs? Oh, so many to choose from. Let’s start with a little Bud Dwyer tribute that should be toward the tops on everyone’s list … It has those low and slow moments for when you’re reloading and catching your breath, and those furious refrains when you’re emptying the magazine into the heads of a horde of on-rushing undead. While the subject of the song doesn’t quite match up to the task, tell me this doesn’t sound as if though you’ve just emptied a magazine only to realize it’s done nothing to stop a zombie advance:

Now that the smokes gone
And the air is all clear
Those who were right there
Got a new kind of fear

Next up … a looooong time ago, I was wandering around some independent music store and made it to their “electronica” bin. Now, I’ve been known to listen to some Leather Strip from time to time just for a bit of that hardcore electronic drum & bass type stuff. It’s excellent coding music. I can’t code with some idiot singing all sorts of crap in my ear, so I have a very particular selection of coding music that I keep around for the occassion.

So I’m wandering around and I notice a CD by a band called “Lunatic Calm.” The album is “Metropol.” Sounds like a winner. Never heard them before, don’t know anything about them, so I pick it up hoping to get a pleasant surprise.

I got a hard kick in the nuts instead.

I’ve been in love with them ever since. I’d describe them as audiological cyberpunk. A few years later some movie comes out called … oh what was it … Something about some guy named Neo and a bunch of giant human-harvesting robots. This song was on the soundtrack. Anyway, Lunatic Calm ended up being all over the place and with good reason. When I want to whip myself up into a fury before any type of competition, I listen to this. Loud.

Next up. Man, I’m so conflicted on Trent Reznor. There’s no denying he’s produced some seriously ass-kicking stuff. But the guy’s a tool. For the sake of my Zombie Onslaught Soundtrack, however, I’ve got to give a wide-open free pass to Head Like a Hole.

The video’s corny. The song’s corny, but with a groove like this and lyrics like this:

Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I’d rather die
Than give you control

I mean … come on. That’s perfected zombie-battling prose right there. It’s the soundtrack for that final moment … our hero is a mere 50 yards from a train station he needs to reach in order to escape. Before him is a field of hungry undead. He hits the ground. Dirt kicks up from his feet. Grits his teeth, swings the gatling gun up in front of him, recites some cheesy “come and get it” type line, and dives into the carnage …

That’s really all I can do for now. Three offerings with many more that are completely worthy. Firestarter by Prodigy. Shoot to Thrill by AC/DC (though that’s a little too “light” for my zombie-battling tastes).

Man, what a fun exercise. One of these days I’m going to create the perfect zombie-killing music mix, grab some of these, and listen to it loud on the way to the range.