We usually stick to a single Classic Cover each day, but it’s Halloween and there were a few songs that crept out of disturbed graves this year…
Canadian goth/darkwave project Double Eyelid has just released a version of AC/DC’s “Night Prowler” as a one-off single for Hallowe’en on October 22, 2021. The track made its premiere on Rue Morgue Magazine.
With lyrics that provide a first-person narration from the perspective of a murderer, ‘Night Prowler’ was a ‘deep cut’ on its release in 1979, but became the cause of controversy for AC/DC some 6 years later due to tabloid claims that serial killer Richard Ramirez (coincidentally known as the ‘Night Stalker’) considered it his theme song.
Double Eyelid’s take on the track for 2021 is a glammed-up version with slinky industrial underpinnings – think Aladdin Sane period Bowie with a drum machine. Bon Scott’s rough and ready street punk has been left behind in the 80s – this “Night Prowler” is an oversexed vampire who kills with style.
Double Eyelid are currently working on an LP for release in Spring 2022.
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