Land of the Dead (Voltaire song)
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"Land of the Dead" is a song by the dark cabaret
artist Voltaire
. It has a soft rock
- type sound to it, while keeping to the usual 60's style music. It was written for the opening credits of the movie Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure.
TV movie Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, and was played during the opening credits. Voltaire also wrote a song for an episode of the TV Series, "BRAINS!
", for the episode "Little Rock of Horrors". The song explained the story and told the episode as it was going on.
Both groups reach the resting place of Horror's Hand, where the Horror himself (a living statue that cut off its hand) puts them in a race. Grim's group wins the race, and they get the hand. However, Boogey steals the hand but is defeated when he discovers he isn't scary. After, Grim gets his job back from Numbuh 3 and everyone learns that the always had everything they'd always wanted. In the end, a naked, cut-up Billy comes from 2 weeks in the future to warn them if Mandy gets a hold of the hand, she will have the world at her command in 2 weeks. The end credits roll.
Afterwards, Billy returns to the future but is horrified to discover nothing has changed. The Lord of Horror is not Mandy; rather, Fred Fredburger somehow stole Horror's Hand and took over the world. Despite his new power, he is still the same mutant, green elephant.
Dark Cabaret
Dark cabaret may be a simple description of the theme and mood of a cabaret performance, but more recently has come to define a particular musical genre which draws on the aesthetics of the decadent, risqué German Weimar-era cabarets, burlesque and vaudeville shows with the stylings of post-1970s...
artist Voltaire
Voltaire (musician)
Voltaire , is a popular dark cabaret Cuban-American musician...
. It has a soft rock
Soft rock
Soft rock is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock music to compose a softer, more toned-down sound. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes...
- type sound to it, while keeping to the usual 60's style music. It was written for the opening credits of the movie Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure.
Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
The song was written by Voltaire for the Cartoon NetworkCartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
TV movie Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, and was played during the opening credits. Voltaire also wrote a song for an episode of the TV Series, "BRAINS!
BRAINS!
"BRAINS!" is a song by the dark cabaret artist Voltaire. It has been described as having a '40s swing sound, which is in contrast to the much more European folk sound of many of Voltaire's older songs. It is also sometimes incorrectly entitled"Brains!"...
", for the episode "Little Rock of Horrors". The song explained the story and told the episode as it was going on.
Movie plot
After Grim is stripped of all powers thanks to the Boogeyman suing him for misusing his powers, Grim, Billy, Mandy, and Irwin are sent off to be exiled. Boogey takes them aboard his ship to be tossed into the lava-filled River Styx, while Numbuh 3 of the Kids Next Door becomes the new Grim Reaper. Boogey's main plan is to steal Horror's Hand, an object capable of transforming its holder into the scariest and most powerful being in existence. The four escape and plan to steal Horror's Hand for their own various reasons.Both groups reach the resting place of Horror's Hand, where the Horror himself (a living statue that cut off its hand) puts them in a race. Grim's group wins the race, and they get the hand. However, Boogey steals the hand but is defeated when he discovers he isn't scary. After, Grim gets his job back from Numbuh 3 and everyone learns that the always had everything they'd always wanted. In the end, a naked, cut-up Billy comes from 2 weeks in the future to warn them if Mandy gets a hold of the hand, she will have the world at her command in 2 weeks. The end credits roll.
Afterwards, Billy returns to the future but is horrified to discover nothing has changed. The Lord of Horror is not Mandy; rather, Fred Fredburger somehow stole Horror's Hand and took over the world. Despite his new power, he is still the same mutant, green elephant.