Quad-Cities Goth Rockers Pitch Black Manor Scare Up New Release for Friday the 13th
Pitch Black Manor, the Quad-Cities’ first and only goth rock band, came out strong in 2020 after 25 years in seclusion with “Monster Classics,” and now Pitch Black Manor returns to kill it again with “Night Creeps.”
The new record scares up a gritty tale of a city gripped with unsolved murders and a mad scientist who will stop at nothing to release his minions on the unsuspecting public. Pyromaniacs, back-alley black magic, and serial killers are boiling up a cauldron that the authorities are
Pitch Black Manor is releasing its new record, “Night Creeps,” this Friday, the 13th.
unable to contain. “Night Creeps” “drips with dread and combines sinister synth, glittery guitars, and horror hooks that will hold you in its grips long after the album ends,” according to a band release.
The record is available for pre-order now and the full album will be released on Aug. 13, 2021 — Friday the 13th, of course! Find a copy, if you dare, at http://www.pitchblackmanor.com.
A review of “Monster Classics” in Regen Magazine said: “Indeed, true to its title, the record plays out like a soundtrack album to the greatest Halloween party known to man, where all kinds of spooky revelry abound while a marathon of horror cinema masterpieces plays on a continuous loop in the background.”
A review of “Monster Classics” in Cave Dweller Music said: “The instrumental elements on the album work in perfect tandem with these electronic elements to form a solid sonic blend.”
A new review of “Night Creeps” in Regen magazine says the band “returns bigger, badder, stronger, madder, leaner, and meaner” with its sophomore album.
Pitch Black Manor (which first formed in 1990) reunited last year, led by Joshua Bentley of East Moline, with bandmates Lyle Erickson, and Chad Fifer (now a well-known podcaster with the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast; having such notable return guests as Patton Oswalt and Chris Sarandon). Twenty-five years after their last show in the Quad-Cities, “we found ourselves, like many, scrambling for some meaning and direction during the pandemic so we turned to our Quad-City roots,” Bentley said last year.
They wrote a new album called “Monster Classics,” a 13-song all-Halloween themed album celebrating their shared interest in classic horror monster themes, goth rock music, and friendship.
“Why Halloween? Why now? It’s simple: hope,” Bentley said last year. “Our themes are dark, but the light of creation and friendship through music allowed us to transcend distance.” Fifer lives in Los Angeles and Erickson lives in Des Moines.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/pitchblackmanor.
