Day of the Zombie is a rock opera originally written in 2003-2004. The songs were castoffs from a screenplay I wrote the in same year, songs that didn’t exactly fit the plot of my zombie martial-arts musical opus Fist of the Zombie. Still, I felt compelled to write them by impulses not entirely clear to me. And unexpectedly, when I put them together in a certain order they told an entirely different, but somehow coherent, story.

I taught them to some other musicians, and before I knew it, we had a band, filled with amazing artists from the thriving mutant underground of Oakland, CA; including members of Thee Hobo Gobbelins, Clan ov thee Bleeding Eye, International Maggot Theater, Nommo Ogo, Extra Action Marching Band, and legions of related projects. Day of the Zombie has been presented as a touring band and as a radio drama, toured alongside Thee 999 Eyes Ov Endless Dream Freak Show, and premiered as a musical play I co-directed with Noah Mickens in 2006 at Someday Lounge, then again in 2007, at Dante’s Inferno.

The plot involves mad scientists, super-computers gone awry, time travel, and the destruction of human civilization, all within the first ten minutes of show. And then the real fun starts.

–Lyrics if you’re into that sort of thing.

The plot involves mad scientists, super-computers gone awry, time travel, and the destruction of human civilization, all within the first ten minutes of show. And then the real fun starts. 

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