December 23 was occasion for the annual Holiday of Horror at Chicago’s Reggies Rock Club, a concert tradition put on by one-of-a-kind metal band Macabre. Since their inception in the early 1980s, Macabre has uniquely combined virtuoso metal, stories of serial killers, and dark humor to form a style they call “murder metal.”
Retaining their original lineup of Corporate Death, Nefarious, and Dennis the Menace, they took the stage and pummeled the audience with a career-spanning set list. Included on this year’s set were some songs that Macabre almost never play live. From what I recall, they played (not necessarily in order) Zodiac, Joe Ball Was His Name, Richard Speck Grew Big Breasts, Night Stalker, McMassacre, White Hen Decapitator, The Wheels on the Bug, Albert Was Worse than Any Fish in the Sea, Mary Bell, Iceman, Scrub a Dub Dub, Slaughterhouse, There Was a Young Man Who Blew Up a Plane, Ed Gein, Hitchhiker, Vampire of Dusseldorf.
Check out some photos from the show below.
