Rocktober '00s Song #17: "Evil and a Heathen" by Franz Ferdinand (2005)

Well, my fiends, we've entered Halloween Week -- or Halloweek, if you find yourself unable to control your combinations of words, like me.  That means that, for the remainder of Rocktober, the daily selections will feature songs with dark, demonic, sinister, macabre, devilish, monstrous, or creepy themes.  For the dead will soon be risen!

Today's choice is Scottish rockers' Franz Ferdinand's "Evil and a Heathen," which is off their 2005 sophomore album You Could Have It So Much Better.  Franz Ferdinand's band name itself it a little macabre, as they're named after the man whose assassination started World War I.  The band's self-titled 2004 debut album broke the band onto the scene, with their infectious combination of post-punk, dance rock, and indie rock, and You Could Have It So Much Better kept the train going, topping the album charts in their native Scotland and the UK, going to #8 on the Billboard album charts, and reaching the Top 10 on the album charts in 15 other countries.

"Evil and a Heathen" is a punchy, punky two-minute rocker that appears to be about vampires who travel from Utrecht to Paris to Lake Michigan.