For Halloween, Nashville indie rock musician Eric Slick released a five song, orchestral suite, covering Rob Zombie’s very un-orchestral hit, “Dragula.” The project started as a joke. But Slick took the piece so seriously that it transcended to a work of art.

Eric Slick’s parents didn’t let him watch cable TV as a kid. “They were afraid it would give me brain rot, which it eventually did” Slick said. But in 1998, they allowed it. To their horror, Slick turned on MTV and saw Rob Zombie’s goth metal hit “Dragula.”

“It’s sort of like Tom Waits singing over an industrial beat about the Munsters.”

It’s true. Dragula is the name of a car driven by Sam Dracula of The Addams Family. Zombie wasn’t as seriously scary as other nu metal acts, like Maryln Manson. It was more camp and spoke to Slick,

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