Frank Zappa ’s famed and fiery Halloween 1978 residency at New York’s Palladium will be the focus of an upcoming box set, the latest in a long series of live albums revolving around the guitarist’s favorite holiday.

Halloween 78 , out Oct. 24 via Zappa Records/UMe, will be released in a series of formats, including a 5-CD Super Deluxe Edition that features Zappa’s entire October 31, 1978, performance as well as a bonus gig from earlier in the Palladium residency on October 27.

The box set is the fourth in the series of Zappa Records’ trick-or-treat-related releases, following 2017’s Halloween 77 , 2019’s Halloween 73 , and 2020’s Halloween 81 . Like those previous sets, Halloween 78 comes complete with a Zappa-inspired monster mask, this time fashioned after the devil, complete w

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