The 2024 election cycle did a number on all of us. And that includes Boo Dudes, Nashville’s kayfabe kings of Halloween and aptly self-described occult contemporary fright rock band.

Cast your mind back through the howling wind and driving rain to last spooky season , when guitar wolf Ghastly Mike Hackenslash and bassmummy Jesse Boo were going head-to-head in the election for supreme leadership of Cancelvania, the home of all canceled entities to which they had been banished. In a shocking turn of events, the toad population of Cancelvania — seemingly emboldened by the pro-toad propaganda buried in the Dudes’ 2024 release Toad/Retoad — turned out in force and, uh, elected themselves. Boo was forced to abdicate and flee; Hackenslash, whose physical and mental health remains in question

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