Voltaire is still relatively unknown in Europe but this could change if the band would decide to start touring over here. Voltaire is also known from the comicbook series Oh My Goth! and Deady. Voltaire has it's already fifth album out with Ooky Spooky, which is a very strong recording, released on the Projekt label of Sam Rosenthal. Voltaire makes some sort of cabaret folk with lyrics with a strong humoristic content. Voltaire has resemblances with regards to thematics and form with artists such as the film producer Tim Burton and in swtyle it is somewhat comparable with Dresden Dolls. Voltaire however is musicwise more versatile and the instrumentation is more rich with a.o. violin,s cello, banjo, guitar and a horns section. Various styles are integrated into the folkmusic, such as klezmer, ska, country, jazz, mariachi and Ennio Morricone atmospheres. Each song tells a little story, while the thematics of the song fit perfectly into the gothic realms. That is if you have some sense of irony, sarcasm and humour in general, since the lyrics are quite hilarious. 'Zombie Prostitute' deals with a zombie whore who seduces Voltaire, so he gets her disease and turns into a zombie gigolo himself. Also 'Cannibal Buffet' is very funny. The story in this song is that Voltaire, who's on a cruise with his fiancee, sinks with the ship and gets stranded on an island where a pair of hungry eyes look down upon their on the beach stranded bodies while they end up being the feast dinner of a bunch of cannibals that luckily did learn some manners: 'Missionaries came to this place. They taught us manners. Now we cannibals always say grace. (prayer) And then we eat your face!'.

In 'Bomb New Jersey' Voltaire tells what he would wish to do to get that garden state, which brings him bad memories regarding the people's mentality, wiped off the face of the earth. : 'I would go tell Jong Il Kim that they're making fun of him in a kimchi-hating town that's known as New Jersey. Better yet I've got a plan. I will convince Pakistan that India can be found somewhere in new Jersey.' en 'It's a place named after a sweatshirt. So what more can you expect, sir? And if you try to express your individuality they will throw you to the ground and they'll kick you in the teeth. Like they did to me' are examples of the very humoristic lyrics with a serious undertone in this song. In 'Day of the Dead' Voltaire gets acquainted with the skeletons of the dead who celebrate their yearly party because hell is full for the moment. This is all packaged into a musical coat which sounds like a zombie Mariachi band is arranging the music to this party. In 'Cantina' Voltaire has an adventure on the planet Tatooine where he went to a cantina just for an orangina, but instead experiences anal rape by Star Wars figures weaponed with light swords: 'All manner of men and beasts were starin' at me. Seems just one week before, their Twylek slave girl walked out the door, and i guess i was the next best thing they'd seen. I was hit over the head by old Han Solo. I'd never guessed that pirate was a homo. I woke up nest to Chewbacca. I was smeared in Wookie kaka...oh, Greedo greedily grabbed his green weenie....he pulled me into Jabba's hut. He stared intently at my butt. And then he Oota-toota'd me with his zucchini'. Musicwise packaged into a country song, for god's sake! Very fucking funny!

Furthermore Ooky Spooky has songs of which the titles speak for themselves regarding the content, such as 'Reggae Mortis' and 'Hell in a Handbasket'. 'Stuck With You' is a duet with Amanda Palmer from Dresden Dolls that deals with a quarreling couple that after having done terrible things to eachother such as drowning kittens, stabbing a mother to death with a Korean banyonet, pulling out the eyes and chopping of the thumb, and with a feelling of sentiment are complaining that they are still next to each other in the grave. . 'Land of the Dead' deals with the adventures of Grim, better known as grim reaper: 'The Minotaur is my butler, the Cyclops my valet. A Centaur drives my chariot that takes me down the way. Over a river made of fire, through a street that's paved in bones. I've got a dozen zombie skeletons to walk me to my throne.....I've got a dragon's blood jacuzzi the Gorgons think is cool and a seven-headed Hydra living in my swimming pool'. This song is also in the opening credits of the Cartoon Network series Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure. Voltaire has managed with this album to show he is on top of his game with genre defying music that takes the cliche themes adressed to the gothic subculture, such as hell, skeletons, zombies, death and the devil, and thematically exploits that to the fullest with humour and very versatile music as his strongest weapon. A very cool album!