Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls is the debut album of horror punk

Horror punk

Horror punk is a music genre that mixes Gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid imagery and lyrics, which are often influenced by horror films...

 band Murderdolls

Murderdolls

Murderdolls is an American horror punk supergroup, founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California. The band line-up consists of core members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison. Former members include Ben Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin & Tripp Eisen....

. It was released in 2002 by Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records is an American record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.-History:...

. The album reached #40 on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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, and sold 100,000 copies in the U.S.

The original pressing of the album featured 15 tracks, with a later re-release containing 6 additional bonus tracks.

Track listing

Credits

• Wednesday 13
  Wednesday 13
  Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 , is a rock musician from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Murderdolls...
  
   – lead vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Joey Jordison
  Joey Jordison
  Joey Jordison , is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work as the drummer for the nu metal band Slipknot. He grew up in Waukee, Iowa with his parents and two sisters, and was given his first drum kit at the age of 8...
  
   – lead and rhythm guitar
• Tripp Eisen
  Tripp Eisen
  Tripp Eisen Tripp Eisen Tripp Eisen (born Tod Rex Salvador June 29, 1965, also known "Tripp Rex Eisen" or "Rex Eisen", is an American musician, best known as the former guitarist of the industrial metal band Static-X...
  
   – rhythm and lead guitar
• Eric Griffin
  Eric Griffin
  Eric Michael Griffin is an American rock guitarist. He is most famous for playing bass in the horror punk band Murderdolls and guitar in Wednesday 13...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Ben Graves
  Ben Graves
  Ben Graves is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. Originally from Martin, Tennessee, he was the lead singer in a high school band whose other members would become the platinum-selling hard rock outfit Fuel...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

Previously recorded versions

In total 12 of the tracks were previously recorded by Wednesday 13's band Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13

Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13

Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 are a horror punk band from North Carolina. The band was formed in 1996 by Wednesday 13, who recruited friends and former Maniac Spider Trash bandmates Seaweed and Sicko Zero...

 and 1 from an earlier band, Maniac Spider Trash. Some of the lyrics were rearranged as well as song titles for the Murderdolls project (For example "Hooray for Horrorwood" was renamed "Dead in Hollywood"). Wednesday 13

Wednesday 13

Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 , is a rock musician from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Murderdolls...

wrote all of these tracks.