Two new tracks and a live cover of “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton”.

Mostly the diehards will enjoy this unique flight of fancy from a set of familiar musicians.

Sixteenth (!) studio effort sees John Darnielle & co. examining the goth subculture.

The 15-track compilation also includes The Mountain Goats, Múm, and Tei Shi.

The Nashville Symphony Chorus lends the pitch-black song some operatic oomph.

The hushed, mournful track evokes John Darnielle’s earliest self-recorded albums.

The Mountain Goats frontman uses the familiar to tell truly unusual stories.

With more information to come during a Facebook Live event later this afternoon.

What started as a joke between The Mountain Goats frontman and the Star Wars director is now a real thing.

Follow-up to Wolf in White Van due out February 7th, 2017.

You might have a few of their “works” framed in your office or bedroom.

A story set in a Video Hut in late-’90s Iowa that “hits that sad/frightening axis.”