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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"I'm quite obsessive, and when I work on music, I can overwork and get myself in trouble. I always had a breakdown when I finished an album, because I drove myself to the brink." - Mick Moss
"We're fucking vampires, you know? The desire to stay young forever is always there. But alienation — that definitely comes from being a non‑human person." - Lee Margot
"When I found the goth scene and the music and everything around it, I slowly started to find my true self again. I'm fascinated by Satanism - not because I worship Satan..." - Gözde Duzer
"It's a dark album. According to me, it's the darkest yet in our discography. It's also very suggestive, very introverted, less direct, and might be less friendly..." - Daniel Moilanen
