Mad Ghoul Radio

About Mad Ghoul Radio

Welcome to Mad Ghoul Radio! This is where eerie electronic beats collide with the spine-chilling echoes of horror cinema. A space for music lovers, film fanatics, and anyone drawn to the darker side of life. With a collection of over 5000 records, 4000 CDs, and 7 terabytes of music files, you'll find everything from electronic and industrial, to library music, soundtracks, metal, dance beats, and jazz. Expect album reviews, deep dives into obscure tracks, and discussions about the music that deserves more attention. On the film side — it’s pure horror obsession. With a collection of over 6000 films, you’ll get in-depth reviews, recommendations, and passionate debates about the best (and worst) the genre has to offer. Beyond music and movies, this page is fueled by a love for Halloween, ghost hunting, dark tourism, vinyl collecting, and even the occasional conversation about wine, Scotch, and life as a hospital CEO. Mad Ghoul Radio is also part of the Prescribed Films Podcast Network (PFPN) — a community dedicated to supporting independent creators and horror fans everywhere. Join us! Let's celebrate the music, the movies, and the madness together.

Publisher

Robert Pastor

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Apr 2025

Latest episode

9 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Season 03 - Episode 20 - Detroit Residue

   Season 03 - Episode 20 - Detroit Residue Fresh off a trip to Detroit, DJ Robb comes back to the basement with a little concert noise still stuck in his head. Episode 20 starts with Rob Zombie, but not where most people would expect. Robb goes back to the earliest days of White Zombie, before the major-label records, before MTV, and before the sound most people associate with the band had fully formed. From there, the episode moves through industrial rock, dark electronic music, soundtrack cuts, strange late-night grooves, and a few records pulled straight from the shelves. There’s also some talk about Marilyn Manson’s current live show, the surprise of seeing The HU in person, and why some artists still matter decades after you first heard them. The rest of the set gets darker, dirtier, and more mechanical as the night goes on. Streetlights. Warehouses. Old records. Detroit residue. And, as always, the basement closes with Nine Inch Nails.

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   26 Aug 2026

   Season 03 - Episode 19 - Somewhere After Midnight

   Episode 19 finds Mad Ghoul Radio back in freeform mode, drifting through one of those late-night sets where the records start making their own decisions. We begin in the strange, oppressive world of an obscure 1980's horror score before moving into post-punk, goth, psychedelic rock, archival discoveries, instrumental surf, spy music, haunted exotica, and downtempo electronics. There are a few deep cuts, a few recent vinyl pickups, some long-buried material, and plenty of music that sounds like it belongs to a movie that never existed. No strict theme this time. Just a dark room, a stack of records, and a signal getting stranger as the night goes on. Somewhere between a horror soundtrack, a crooked lounge, and a bad decision after midnight!

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   21 Aug 2026

   Season 03 - Episode 18 - Psych Ward Soundscapes (Macabre Mix)

   This episode of Mad Ghoul Macabre is not a traditional horror mix. Psych Ward Soundscapes takes a much stranger route — a disorienting trip through the empty corridors of an abandoned mental institution, built from horror film scores, psychiatric dialogue, trailers, environmental recordings, early electronic music, and heavily manipulated tape. Expect fluorescent hum, distant machinery, locked doors, therapy sessions, rolling carts, voices bleeding through walls, and music that often feels more like a recovered experiment than a song. A large part of this episode dives into musique concrète and early tape composition — artists cutting, looping, reversing, stretching, and physically manipulating recorded sound decades before sampling became commonplace. Tod Dockstader, Pierre Schaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Delia Derbyshire, and others become part of the architecture of the ward, alongside cues and voices pulled from films centered on institutions, confinement, treatment, and psychological collapse. This one is deliberately unconventional. There are long stretches without rhythm. Sounds appear, disappear, repeat, and deteriorate. Voices surface where they shouldn't. Some recordings feel clinical. Others feel damaged. At times, it may be difficult to tell where the movie dialogue ends and the music begins. That is the point. Think less playlist. More recovered reel-to-reel tape discovered in a locked room at the end of a condemned hospital wing. Turn the lights down...Put on headphones....And whatever you hear coming from the room next door… Don't answer it! #madghoulradio #thepfpn

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.3 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 12 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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