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Today is the day that the dead rise or is it tonight on the eve of Halloween. I may not be sure about the my facts but as trick or treaters knock on doors, some inviting and some really not, there is trepidation, insane joy and real frights to be had. S.O.S by The Marshmallow Ghosts and featuring the Casket Girls is the perfect tune to add a fun creepy air to the occasion. Not as frightening as S.O.S by the Jonas Brother, it still rates high on the fright-O-meter. The dirty synth lines with dissonant notes dropping into half step hell and the Casket Girls adding perfect punk flavored vox. The beat drives in a kind of 90's pop stake through the heart. Yes. S.O.S.
Read the complete Press notes below because they have the song's back story in all it's gory, I mean, glory.
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Today The Marshmallow Ghosts have shared their new single "S.O.S." featuring Casket Girls. Casket Girls Elsa Greene says, "S.O.S. Is about living inside your head. Where mild anxiety can morph into delusion. In the same space. Where imagination and 'reality' collide. Dreams can be just a real as waking life. Hence the anxiety...We are obsessed with Marshmallows and Ghosts and Ryan." The 11th annual Marshmallow Ghosts Halloween album, The Old Witch's Cavern, out today features collaborations from Casket Girls, Kid Dakota, Dreamend and more, this year's release comes with an incredibly bizarre backstory.
Older Georgia natives might remember the legendary haunted attraction, the Old Witch’s Cavern, which operated out of Port Wentworth from May 1972 till its tragic closure in early October 1973. It was an ahead-of-its-time dark ride that dared customers to creep inside a rickety wooden mine cart for a ghastly tour through an underground maze of ghastly ghosts, ghouls, and goblins.
The far-out tourist trap was the brainchild of “Freaky” Fred Crimpens, a New Jersey hippie transplant who inherited the property from his great uncle and vowed to open the most bizarre haunted house ever assembled. With its psychedelic neon Frankenstein laboratory, werewolf family picnic, and final descent into a red hot hell-themed dungeon filled with horned mannequins and ear-piercing screams, it was an unforgettable assault on the senses which ultimately lead local church groups to protest its place in the tiny community.
When a devastating fire burnt the attraction to the ground, Crimpens believed arson was the origin especially after he received dozens of death threats from conservative townsfolk. Not long after his insurance claim was denied, Crimpens drowned in the Savannah River. Police ruled the death a suicide and the Old Witch’s Cavern was closed indefinitely.
Now long gone, only a few pictures of this ambitious attraction still exist, but what we do have is the unbelievably strange recordings that played during the tour. The voiceover artist who played the Old Witch, local Savannah radio DJ, Christine Peterson, was given the master copies after Crimpen’s unfortunate demise and her granddaughter sold them to us in the summer of 2018. The fact they still play feels quiet supernatural, indeed.
For this year’s Marshmallow Ghosts record, we present a real treat. Fred Crimpens may be dead, but he’s here in spirit, to collaborate with Graveface Records from beyond the grave for an absurdly evil album that’s perfect for an October evening. The Marshmallow Ghosts took the most haunting and peculiar parts of the Old Witch’s Cavern audio masters and sampled them for this year’s release. So sit back, crank up the volume, and drown your sorrows in the crackling shrieks, screams, and crackles of the Old Witch’s Cavern. Rest in peace, Freaky Fred.
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