Mad Ghoul Radio

Mad Ghoul Radio

by Robert Pastor
Music
Season 3
Season 03 - Episode 15 - Dead By Dawn (Macabre Mix)
No host. No commentary. No survivors. This edition of Mad Ghoul Macabre drops straight into the blood-soaked world of The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II—a full-length mix built from score cues, dialogue fragments, sound design, Deadite chaos, and enough cabin-in-the-woods madness to wake something buried under the floorboards. This is the sound of tape hiss, cellar doors, possessed forests, chainsaws, shotguns, and ancient words that should never be read aloud. Turn it up. Keep the lights low. And whatever starts scratching at the window, do not let it in. #madghoulradio #thepfpn
S3 · E15
Jul 11, 2026
1:00:59
Season 03 - Episode 14 - Exit Wounds & Haunted Signals
Season 03 Episode 14: Exit Wounds & Haunted Signals Episode 14 of Mad Ghoul Radio opens with a little help from friend of the show Dani Filth, then slips into a set built around old obsessions, new curiosities, and the strange machinery that keeps certain sounds alive long after they first crawl into your head. This episode moves through industrial shadows, damaged carnival energy, resurrected rock and roll ghosts, exclusive new music, cult soundtrack memory, and a few left turns that make perfect sense once you’re inside the room. There’s no forced theme this time — just a trip through the shelves with music that connects through atmosphere, history, horror, and that familiar Mad Ghoul Radio feeling of “what the hell is this, and why do I love it?” DJ Robb revisits the early danger and weirdness of Marilyn Manson’s first era, including the lasting Trent Reznor connection, the importance of craft beneath the noise, and what it feels like when a new track unexpectedly pulls you back toward an artist you thought you had drifted away from. The episode also spends time with one of Mad Ghoul Radio’s sacred bands, digging into the renewed activity around a legendary catalog and why certain artists still feel like a secret doorway into punk, garage rock, horror movies, bad taste, and late-night obsession. There is also an exclusive from Phantom Lightkeeper, the solo music project from Justin Beahm, whose upcoming album Four Days at the Precipice continues the haunted, cinematic mood of Shore Ghosts while moving into deeper emotional territory. Justin will be joining the show soon, so consider this a first step into that conversation. From there, the episode shifts gears through heavier electronics, 80s film nostalgia, one of the most fearless voices in modern music, and a final descent into a Trent Reznor-produced instrumental that closes the show with tension, pulse, and cold mechanical beauty.
S3 · E14
Jun 29, 2026
1:02:03
Season 03 - Episode 13 - Camp Blood: The Dead Air Cut (Macabre Mix)
Episode 13 had to go back to the lake. For this installment of Mad Ghoul Macabre, we’re paying tribute to Friday the 13th the only way that felt right: no host breaks, no commentary, and no safety briefing from the counselors. Just trailers, music, screams, stingers, synths, warnings, bad decisions, and the blood-soaked echo of Camp Crystal Lake. There’s something perfect about making Episode 13 the Jason episode. The number is already part of the curse. The franchise turned bad luck into a brand, a calendar date into a threat, and a drowned boy into one of horror’s most recognizable shadows. Across the series, Friday the 13th became more than a slasher franchise. It became a ritual: the woods, the lake, the cabins, the mask, the final girl, the impossible return, and that strange comfort horror fans get from knowing exactly what kind of trouble is waiting in the dark. This episode is built like a straight-through audio nightmare from the entire Friday the 13th universe. It plays like something pulled from an old VHS shelf, a warped tape left behind in a wet backpack, or a late-night broadcast coming from somewhere deep inside Camp Blood. You’ll hear the franchise through its trailers and music, without interruption, letting the atmosphere do the work. No analysis this time. No campfire speech. Just the transmission. So lock the cabin, stay out of the water, and don’t trust the quiet. Episode 13 belongs to Jason.
S3 · E13
Jun 15, 2026
53:47
Season 03 - Episode 12 - Mad Ghoul Radio - Somewhere Deep in the Stacks
Episode 12 of Mad Ghoul Radio begins in a dark and familiar place: the fluorescent hum of a nearly empty grocery store, the doors locked, the aisles quiet, and danger somewhere just out of sight. From there, DJ Robb leads another late-night journey through the music that gives him life, pulling together a shadowy mix of deep cuts, downtempo grooves, cult favorites, strange detours, and artists who live just outside the obvious. This episode moves with the feel of a crate-digging séance. It drifts from eerie atmosphere into heady rhythm, from underground discoveries into warped rock energy, and eventually into a strong Bowie thread that leads to a perfect closing moment tied to one of the most legendary live collaborations in alternative music history. Like the best episodes of Mad Ghoul Radio, Somewhere Deep in the Stacks is less about playing the expected and more about following mood, instinct, and obsession wherever they lead. It is a transmission for listeners who love soundtrack thinking, forgotten gems, late-night records, and music that feels like it was waiting to be found. Turn the lights down, let the shelves close in, and step a little farther into the stacks.
S3 · E12
Jun 7, 2026
1:16:18
Season 03 - Episode 11 - Mad Ghoul Radio - Dead Air: Transmission from the Zombie Wasteland (Mad Ghoul Macabre Mix)
Season 03, Episode 11: Dead Air: Transmission from the Zombie Wasteland The dead are back on the dial. This episode of Mad Ghoul Radio crawls into Zombie Films Part 3 with another Mad Ghoul Macabre Mix, built from the rotting bones of undead cinema, apocalyptic dread, mall panic, graveyard tension, viral rage, black comedy, and late-night soundtrack weirdness. We start in familiar cemetery soil, where the dead first learned to walk in American nightmares, then move through the blood-smeared evolution of the zombie film. From bleak remakes and modern outbreaks to pub-crawling survival plans, video game horror, and full-blown end-of-the-world infection panic, this mix follows the genre as it mutates. You'll hear atmosphere, score cuts, undead audio debris, and enough graveyard energy to keep the basement lights flickering. It’s tense, grimy, occasionally funny, and crawling with that special kind of soundtrack dread that only zombie movies know how to deliver. Lock the doors. Check the windows. And whatever you do, don’t trust the guy who says it’s only a bite. #madghoulradio #thepfpn
S3 · E11
May 27, 2026
1:04:14
Season 03 - Episode 10 - Mad Ghoul Radio - Everything in Its Fright Place
Episode 10 of Season 03 of Mad Ghoul Radio marks the season hitting double digits with an episode built around strange transmissions, damaged memory, underground club energy, industrial grit, and late-night soundtrack atmosphere. Titled “Everything in Its Fright Place,” this episode moves from eerie analog nostalgia into nervous post-punk, coldwave machinery, cinematic synth tension, and the debut of Remix Re-Animator, a new segment that compares an original track with a remix and looks at how the same idea can take on a completely different life. A strange, moody, and restless episode for the late-night frequency.
S3 · E10
May 20, 2026
55:13
Season 03 - Episode 09 - Mad Ghoul Radio - The House Remembers (Mad Ghoul Macabre Mix)
Season 3, Episode 9 drifts into the dark hallway, where the floorboards complain, the doors close by themselves, and every room feels like it knows something you don’t. This edition of Mad Ghoul Macabre is a long-form haunted house mix built for late-night listening. No chatter. No safety lights. Just a continuous trip through cursed architecture, ghostly rooms, family secrets, and the kind of houses that don’t want visitors leaving in one piece. Haunted house films have always hit a little differently. They take the one place that’s supposed to feel safe and turn it against you. The walls listen. The basement waits. The attic keeps trophies. Sometimes the ghost is the problem. Sometimes the family is. Sometimes the house itself has been hungry for decades. This episode leans into that feeling: old staircases, locked rooms, dead air, séance smoke, possessed hallways, and that awful little pause right before something moves in the dark. And making this one extra special, the episode features a killer bumper from David Arquette, actor, horror icon, and official friend of the show. A perfect voice to help open the door before the house swallows us whole. Turn off the lights.,,,,Leave one lamp on.....Do not go upstairs. And whatever you hear behind the wall, don’t answer it.
S3 · E9
May 10, 2026
1:18:50
Season 03 - Episode 08 - Mad Ghoul Radio- From the Greenhouse to the Flood
Season 03 Episode 08 throws the rulebook out the window and follows instinct instead. No rigid theme. No countdown. No carefully curated lane. Just a late-night stack of records and tracks that felt right together, even when they probably should not. This episode moves through cinematic industrial chaos, avant-garde guitar work, underground post-punk, left-field electronic music, post-rock atmosphere, club energy, and a few emotional turns that hit harder than expected. It starts in strange territory and keeps evolving, moving from experimental sound design and forgotten underground stories into dancefloor detours, film score textures, and deeply personal musical connections. There are stories throughout this one that make the music hit even harder, including a legendary collaboration tied to one of the most important albums of the 1990s, a tragic figure from the San Francisco underground whose work still feels dangerous decades later, a record label obsession worth exploring, and a powerful full-circle moment involving a climate documentary soundtrack that quietly becomes the emotional backbone of the episode. The title From the Greenhouse to the Flood hints at where things eventually land. What begins as playful experimentation slowly drifts into something more reflective, touching on environmental collapse, uncertainty, reinvention, and the strange beauty hidden inside darker music. And because tradition matters around here, the episode closes exactly where longtime listeners expect it to. With Trent. Always Trent.
S3 · E8
May 6, 2026
56:55
Season 03 - Episode 07 - Mad Ghoul Radio- The Italian Undead (Mad Ghoul Macabre Mix)
Episode 7 marks a return to the Macabre format, a continuous mix built to be experienced without interruption. No talking. No breaks. One uninterrupted descent. The focus this time is Italian zombie cinema, a corner of horror that stands apart for its atmosphere, pacing, and sound design. These films lean into mood over logic, letting dread build slowly before pushing into chaos, and the music plays a central role in that experience. The set pulls from across the Italian zombie landscape, guided by composers like Fabio Frizzi, Goblin, and Stelvio Cipriani, alongside deeper cuts that longtime fans will recognize without needing them spelled out. Some selections come from widely known classics, while others emerge from more obscure corners of the genre. Together, they create a consistent tone built on decay, tension, and unease, capturing the sound of a specific era in horror filmmaking. This mix is designed to run straight through. No skips. No interruptions. Just a slow, deliberate descent into the world of Italian zombie horror.
S3 · E7
Apr 29, 2026
1:13:02
Season 03 - Episode 06 - Mad Ghoul Radio - Record Store Day 2026
Season 03 Episode 06 dives headfirst into the chaos and thrill of Record Store Day 2026, built entirely from what actually made it out of the crates and onto the turntable. This episode captures the full experience, from relying on connections to secure releases to finally digging through what was left and finding unexpected gems. It moves through a wide spectrum of sound without warning, shifting from atmospheric and cinematic to abrasive, stripped-down, and deeply political, all tied together by that shared moment of discovery that only comes from physical media. Along the way, there is a focus on reinterpretation and rediscovery, whether it is live recordings that breathe differently, long out-of-print material finally getting proper vinyl treatment, raw demo sessions that reveal the origins of iconic songs, or reworked versions that completely change how familiar tracks feel. The episode also leans into personal history, reflecting on formative listening experiences and the lasting impact of artists who shaped the way music is heard and understood. It all builds toward a closing stretch that highlights how some artists continue to evolve decades into their careers, reshaping their sound in real time and proving that nothing is ever truly finished. This is not a highlight reel of Record Store Day hype, but a curated snapshot of what it actually feels like to chase music that still matters.
S3 · E6
Apr 27, 2026
1:12:02
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