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Today is the day all the coolest cobwebbed jukeboxes around the globe get to shake to the spooktacular sounds of the season!

Chaputa Records (Portugal) and Ghost Highway Recordings (Spain) dig up 14 greats from the crypt for you on….”The Haunted Jukebox!!!”

The Oxys opted to chip in our cover of The Damned classic, ‘Melody Lee’. We trekked over to Ice Cream Factory Studio in Austin, TX and threw this one down real quick as we had been playing it in our life show. Featuring the classic Oxys’ lineup: Phil Davis, Ginchy, Genocide, Michael Harpel, and Logan Flaherty.

Don’t let The Oxys bring you down. There are 13 other graveyard goodies on this record, and you’ll wanna’ hear them all before you end up six feet under the earth…or in an incinerating furnace. The pre-order is online for purchase (link at the bottom). CHECK IT YO!

Track listing:

1. THE BOATSMEN: Nightmare! Nightmare! video
2. THE CHUCK NORRIS EXPERIMENT: Night Of The Demon
3. CRATER SNAKES: I Like To Die
4. JAKE STARR & THE DELICIOUS FULLNESS: Deviled Eggs
5. LANGHORNS: The Mummys Groove
6. THE MAHARAJAS: Trick Or Torture
7. MÄRVEL: He’s Back
8. THEE MONTGOMERY WARDS: Vivienne’s Web
9. THE MOURNING AFTER: Spring Heeled Jack
10. THE OXYS: Melody Lee
11. THE RIPTIDE RATS: Bone Dancers
12. SATOR: Basement Noise
13. SCUMBAG MILLIONAIRE: Burn You Down
14. UPPLOPPET: He Will Be Back

Ghost Highway Recordings https://ghosthighwayrecordings.bandcamp.com/ / Chaputa! https://www.chaputa.com/ Creepy Compilation
Fourteen songs. Garage, punk, surf, action-rock and a healthy dose of weirdness.

The Haunted Jukebox is a collection of songs for the darker side of rock’n’roll — creepy characters, strange stories, fuzzed-out guitars, pounding drums and the kind of riffs that sound even better when played too loud.

There’s no attempt here to make a polished Halloween soundtrack. This is rougher, louder and a little dirtier. The sort of record that belongs in a late-night bar, on a battered jukebox, at a basement party, or playing through bad speakers while everyone else is asleep.

The Boatsmen get things moving with the straight-ahead rock’n’roll of “Nightmare! Nightmare!”, before The Chuck Norris Experiment bring their action-rock punch to “Night Of The Demon.” Crater Snakes keep things suitably twisted with the fuzz-heavy “I Like To Die,” followed by Jake Starr & The Delicious Fullness and the wonderfully odd “Deviled Eggs.”

Then things take a turn for the strange.
The Langhorns head for the graveyard with the creepy instrumental surf of “The Mummy’s Groove,” while The Maharajas turn up the fuzz on “Trick Or Torture.” Märvel keep the amps working overtime with “He’s Back,” Thee Montgomery Wards bring some lo-fi garage-punk grime to “Vivienne’s Web,” and The Mourning After deliver a darker take on garage rock with “Spring Heeled Jack.”

OXYS add a nastier edge with “Melody Lee,” before The Riptide Rats slow things down for “Bone Dancer,” an instrumental surf number with plenty of twang and a touch of spaghetti-western atmosphere.

From there, Sator bring their unmistakable Swedish punk-rock attack to “Basement Noise,” Scumbag Millionaire hit hard with the dirty rock’n’roll of “Burn You Down,” and Upploppet bring the whole thing to a close with “He Will Be Back.”

Fourteen tracks, all with their own particular kind of trouble.

And while the whole thing obviously fits Halloween season pretty well, there’s no reason to put it away once the pumpkins are gone. The Haunted Jukebox is just as at home on a regular Saturday night, on a long drive, in a smoky bar, at a party that’s gone on too long, or whenever you feel like hearing some rock’n’roll with a bit of dirt under its fingernails.
Because the best jukeboxes aren’t always the ones playing the obvious songs. They’re the ones that make you stop, listen, and reach for the volume.

Feed the jukebox a coin and let the strange stuff begin.
14 SPOOKY TRACKS FROM THE GARAGE AND BEYOND! 

releases October 16, 2026

Buy the album here: https://www.chaputa.com/store/va-the-haunted-jukebox-lp/

The new album is almost done and we’re insanely stoked to share it soon. A European tour in February 2027 is also on the calendar! But first — we’re cranking it back up live. 10/24/26 is when the action resumes.

Our favorite watering hole, Valhalla Tavern, is closing at the end of October, so we’re sending it off properly with a stacked lineup: Riverboat Gamblers, The Oxys, and Outta Grace (featuring Frankie Nowhere from the Flash Boys, Chumps). Show starts at 10 p.m. sharp! Let’s make this one count.

Advance tickets are up. Get em’ here!

Exciting news, everyone! We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be supporting FEAR in Chicago on October 3rd at REGGIES! Joining us will be our awesome friendsTHE EVICTIONS, so you won’t want to miss this banger of a show! See you at the show! TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Poster by Alex Hagen.

After months in the womb we’ve birthed a new beast…

The long-awaited premiere of our new music video for “Long Shadows,” the first single from our upcoming record, Casting Pearls Before Swine, is available now for your displeasure.

Featuring scenes from our favorite stomping ground Liar’s Club in Chicago, and our debut at Atlanta’s Spaghetty Town Records Fest, this found footage is rated “E” for explicit.

Casting Pearls Before Swine is available September 19th on Cleopatra Records.

Things are revving up over here at The Oxys camp! We are pleased to announce that Cleopatra Records will be releasing our third full-length record, “Casting Pearls Before Swine”, on 9/19/25. The album was tracked earlier this year at Ice Cream Factory Studios in Austin and mastered by Jack Control and Maor Appelbaum at Enormous Door. Presales have started, and the link is in the comments. Stay tuned, as we will be releasing videos, singles, and tour dates leading up to the release. Our first set of shows will include Hot Summer Nights in Austin on 7/26 and a Texas/Oklahoma run with Quinn the Brain in late August.

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