DJ Mistress Oscura Presents Subterranean/The Witching Hour

      This is probably my most ambitious mix I have ever done. This also marks 1 year since I been doing this and this has been a long wonderful journey. This massive mega Halloween mix is split into blocks. Consisting with the first block of Halloween goth classics which is followed by part two of the mix which is all new goth tunes for the month. The third segment is filled with Halloween industrial tunes. The final part of this mega mix is the dark metal portion. I use dark metal as a general term of course. This part will consist of higher production black metal to gothic metal to maybe even some death metal . All that lo-fi stuff is reserved for my other mix, The Witching Hour .     Part one is an array of goth , darkwave and post punk tunes fitting for the Halloween season or otherwise generally spooky with markers which you will noticed throughout between songs. These markers are there to help you where you are in this behemoth of a mix such ...

    It's need a full year since I been doing these type of mixes, last year was the Subterranean Halloween mix set, sadly at the time, The Witching Hour wasn't a concept in my mind until the following month. This would be the first proper The Witching Hour Halloween event. Mix set features some classic tunes as well as some current new music fitting for the spooky season as well as some unconventional songs.     I don't post as much death metal as I would like too within my mixes but I'm glad I these two made it onto this special and first of it's kind mix I have done. Haunted is a death metal band from the early 90's, completely underrated with their first self-titled album having a dark horror-like tone with a dark ambient atmospheric intro. With recent times the band reformed and released newer material. The track featured within the mix is from their second release which adds more horror-synth based interludes and a heavy occult-like song structure...

    Here is another round of hybrid goth rock/post punk I've run into. One of the songs featured within this mix was the one that started off my entire kick for trying to find hybrid bands like these. That would be Mexican artist Vestron Vulture during his early to mid career collaborating with also Mexican death metal group Tormental. Phantom was the song that started it all which made me catalog this particular harsh style of goth. The extreme side of metal and goth/post punk colliding together as one. Down these short years it opened a pathway that was more than enough to put together a mix of these two opposites coming together as one.     Last mix much like this didn't contain any post punk so I decided to add a few bands that harken back in my past when the black metal scene was changing as the US and France spear headed the movement to a whole new era of post black metal . The raise of blackened shoegaze or blackgaze as some people called it was an int...