With Halloween simply across the nook we obtained the chance to attach with one in every of our favourite horror hounds, Figure. For the previous decade he has had an enormous profession touring the globe along with his distinctive mixture of drumstep, dubstep, and freaky synths, scares, and samples – a profession that has discovered him collaborating with Universal's Hollywood Horror Night's for happening SEVEN years now. He's additionally had a track in Season 11 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and a launch on Skrillex file label OWSLA.

Now that October is right here, Figure simply dropped one other installment beneath his Monsters umbrella this previous Friday, October 12th. Titled The Asylum, the album is a 13 observe creep present that includes the likes of Dack Janiels and Hatch, and replete with a number of the scariest samples and sounds we have heard in fairly a while. Figure will you should definitely preserve you in your toes with this new launch as Halloween creeps nearer.

Check out our interview under and tell us what you consider the album within the feedback!

How did you provide you with the idea for the album? The Asylum, Patient 138 and Doctor Death. There are so many attainable references, however what tales, motion pictures, or actual life cases impressed this album?

For the previous .. virtually 10 months I’ve been watching each film and studying about Asylums, medical doctors gone fallacious, outdated methods of surgical procedure I might discover. I even obtained to remain in an outdated Asylum (that has been on all these Ghost looking reveals) alone, for three days. It was extraordinarily heavy and one thing you'll be able to’t get from simply studying and watching about it.

You have a number of reoccurring collabs throughout your Monster's albums. How did these come about? Anyone, you notably like working with? Anyone you'd wish to collab with sooner or later?

I collab with whoever I’m associates with on the time, or possibly when somebody sending me a draft of an concept that I like and what to work on.

What is your favourite observe on the file?

That must be between Shock Therapy and Lobotomy.

Having created so many horror based mostly songs and creations – what have you ever realized about what it takes to make a observe really creepy, or scary? Any assets you've got leaned on within the making of those albums?

Well, it’s about making a story, scene, and the atmosphere. There is a distinction of somebody tossing a vocal pattern that claims one thing creepy, and making a creepy vibe from the get-go. It’s concerning the intro as a lot as it's concerning the drop.

You're now on the ninth launch of a Monsters file – what do you see as the way forward for the sequence? Do you propose to proceed it? What are you doing to maintain the sequence from turning into stale?

Well, that is and isn’t Monsters. Monsters is a sequence of themed songs. The Asylum is an idea album throughout the Monsters sequence if that is smart, an audio film in methods. I at all times attempt new issues and attempt to keep out of the present field of what’s happening within the scene. I believe that's one thing that retains it from getting stale and never repetitive.

How has your collaboration with Universal's Hollywood Horror Nights been going? Have folks been receptive to your music? Is that collaboration ongoing – if not what did you be taught from it?

It’s such a enjoyable venture to work on. It’s been about 7 years now and yearly is as clean because the final if no more. We are like minded so we each know what to ask from one another. Sometimes they use my older music across the park, whereas on the identical time I'll make them customized issues for sure areas or straight up full dubstep tracks which are just for them and you'll solely hear within the park.

Do you have got any future tasks you'll be able to speak about?

I’m on tour with Megalodon proper now, the BloodBath tour. It’s been so enjoyable up to now!

A enjoyable one – what's your favourite scary film villain of all time?

That's a tricky one. Modern movie-wise, I might say Death Head and Sex head from 31. Classic sensible, I’d say Creature of the Black Lagoon