Here’s the worst thing about Halloween: assuming your name isn’t Wattie Buchan, Marilyn Manson, or those squeegee people from the Casualties, it only comes once a year.

But what a glorious time of year it is. Just like Christmas, it’s a couple of weeks of crazy anticipation and excitement, days spent gorging oneself on the sounds of Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and the Misfits. Nights, meanwhile, are for watching The Evil Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and the impossibly brilliant Sleepaway Camp.

Then come the start of November, it’s all over—which is to say if your pumpkin is still out on the porch it’s now a full-blown fruit fly magnet. And don’t event get us started on why Samhain has to come only once a year.

For those with a taste for the darkness, it’s not all awful news right now—assuming you’re able to forget about COVID-19, the start of the fall monsoons, and the continued existence of former American dictator Donald Trump.

Vancouver Princes and Princesses of Darkness known as Actors have given the world a new video, which also serves as an appetizer for the upcoming sophomore full-length Acts of Worship.

“Love U More” starts with a neon-flutter synth line and then heads straight for the dance floor of Vancouver’s dearly departed Luv-A-Fair. As if that wasn’t great enough, singer Jason Corbett sounds like a man whose favourite things include Manchester graveyards, everything released on 4AD in the ’80s, and nail polish six shades of none-more-black.

Visually, “Love U More” lands somewhere between Night of the Living Dead, The Crow, and the Downtown Eastside the morning after Mardi Gras. Which makes it perfect, or course, for pretending that it's still Halloween for just a few more days. Still, it’s really time to get that pumpkin off the porch, and not just because the candle inside is currently floating in two inches of November-monsoons water.