New Jersey (USA)‑based dark electro/industrial project Elektrikill, led by musician and producer Steve Vil, returns with Macabre Masquerade — their second full‑length album of 2026, released through Evol Music Group. The 13‑track Halloween opus arrives as a continuous descent into everything that lurks, laughs, crawls, and claws in the dark. Alongside the album, Elektrikill present the official music video for “Parasite (Darkest Fear Mix by Kontrol Phreak)”, further expanding the record’s grotesque, tongue‑in‑cheek horror aesthetic.
With Macabre Masquerade, Elektrikill invite listeners into a celebration where the witching hour never ends — a relentless collision of industrial rhythms, shadow‑soaked electronics, monsters, and macabre humour. Rather than assembling a simple collection of horror‑themed tracks, the album is sequenced as one long infernal party, populated by vampires, demons, werewolves, parasites, restless ghosts, and enough grinding machinery to rattle the cemetery gates.
The release blends brand‑new material, reimagined Elektrikill tracks, terrifying interludes, and remixes by Kill Vector, Kontrol Phreak, and SPKTR, each adding their own flavour of darkness to the masquerade. Musically, the album shifts between pounding EBM, brooding darkwave, industrial‑rock aggression, electronic dance energy, and cinematic horror atmospheres — sinister, but never joyless.
Macabre Masquerade balances menace with twisted humour and dancefloor fire, ensuring the celebration continues long after the last coffin closes. Elektrikill once again prove their ability to turn Halloween into a year‑round industrial carnival — loud, playful, and unapologetically dark. Link
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"We were outsiders, and nobody knew what the fuck was going on. We just listened to this extreme music that nobody else liked, and that made us very strong..." - Mikael Stanne
"Within this darkness, where there's no light at all, the golden raven still shines. It's not like a perfectly cut statue of Michelangelo..." - Val Perun
"This time we're trying not to complicate things too much. We want to have a simple message, but that doesn't mean there will be fewer arrangements or less songwriting..." - Pedro Paixão
"I'm sort of asking questions - where are the heroes? Where's the defiance? Where are the people who oppose this?" - Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill
