You could call Death Valley High an alt-industrial rock band, but that sterile term ignores the band’s kooky sense of humor that’s evident in its latest set, CVLT [AS FVK], out November 4 on minusHEAD Records. Produced by Grammy-nominated Ulrich Wild (who has experience with scary, industrial rock, having produced several White Zombie and Deftones tracks) the band describes the new album as “traditional goth magic and modern alternative majesty” … or you know, you could label it in more positive terms, such as “doom electropop.” In many ways, their sound is perfect for Halloween as we know it — fun, slightly scary and immensely enjoyable.

After all, vocalist and guitarist Reyka Osburn says it doesn't take much for him to scare people: “I'm 6'1" and look scary, so most people want to walk on the other side of the street.”

To celebrate today’s holiday, Osburn lists his Top 5 Creepypastas stories and discusses them in this Myspace exclusive. “You can go down the rabbit hole with Creepypastas,” he said. “The fright can be addicting. I've done it many times; especially with videos. But you can really ick yourself out!”

He also talks about Death Valley High’s band origins in the interview below. Enjoy!

Hometown: I spent my formative years up in Sacramento, CA.

Homebase: I live and grind in San Francisco. The band is based out of here.

Why are you called Death Valley High?

It's a play on the Sweet Valley High book series. The idea was a dark, parallel universe to the school. An alternate under-side where the "doom and gloom" kids play.

Describe your music to someone who's never heard you before.

First, I always say, "we're ROCK." Then I normally say, "but we're harder than that... It's more like PUNK." If they're still listening, I segue into the dancey side of our music, "It's like DARK '80s ELECTRO PUNK with some METAL." The best explanation I've seen of us recently is "Californian electronic/industrial disco noisefucks."

How did everyone in the band meet?

We met through other bands; sometimes sharing stages too. We'd play shows together, go to bars and clubs together. Combining efforts just seemed like the right thing to do.

Who are your biggest musical influences?

Currently it might be Drake! [laughs] But that might just be because I like his producer(s)! Personally, I love big nasty synths, tribal drums and dark sounds. Everything from Bauhaus and Suicide, to HEALTH and NIN.

Did you always want to play music?

I started off wanting to play drums, but I had found a friend's acoustic guitar in a trashcan when he moved away. It was just sitting there on top of all of his other belongings. I don't know what made me grab it, but ever since I could tune the thing, I was "writing" songs. At first, I was teaching myself metal songs, but my first composition wasn't even metal, it was a love song about the girl next door.

Did growing up in Sacramento and now living in the Bay area influence your music?

Sacramento was a boring city to grow up in. The music scene was really all we had. I dreamed of moving to SF since there were many more like-minded people in The City back then. So, we instilled as much of the "Bay Area DIY" ethos into our local scene as we could. But even then, it wasn't all California. We all still had mad love for Chicago noise rock and UK Post-Punk. All of that influenced my output.

Who would you love to collaborate with?

Maybe somebody like Diplo or Evian Christ. Just to see what we could come up with. We're about to go on tour with some of my biggest musical heroes, Killing Joke. So maybe something will come of that?

Why is your album called CVLT [AS FVK]?

It's a traditional gothic term, mixed with something current; "Occult as a Mother Fucker." We were wanting to say something undeniably "us" and we tend to dip into dark sarcasm over dark sentimentality. We don't think there's any better title for our attitude, at least at this moment in time.

If you were a hashtag, what would you be?

Probably something like #ALTOGETHEROOKY or #OFCORPSE

Of corpse! That’s awesome. Do you have an awesome Myspace-related story as a musician?

I would record Death Valley High demos on my laptop and put it on MySpace! You can reach a wide audience from around the globe just from being in other people's Top 8! In fact, we recently toured in Germany with the band Unzucht just because their drummer loved our song "DVH the Movie" on our MySpace!