Zombies. Roaming the earth in a never-ending quest for blood. Lurching across the screen in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead or surging in latter-day splatterfests like World War Z.

Videogames. Graphic novels. Television shows based on graphic novels. But those aren’t the only places the undead haunt. They’re on stage, too. Playing musical instruments. Singing. Selling merch.

The glut of band reunions—from Oasis and the Pixies to Slayer and the Misfits and every one-hit wonder in between—is overwhelming. Some of these resurrections result in great live shows, maximum fan satisfaction, occasionally even respectable new music. Others are a shameless cash grab, an overpriced ticket for an underwhelming experience.

Dax Riggs knows this. “My first duty is to not fuck up,” he says.

Riggs is the singer for Acid Bath, the Louisiana sludge band he cofounded in 1991. A band that, until very recently, hadn’t played a show in nearly 30 years. A band that few people outside of the metal underground even knew about. A band that, today, in 2025, is stacked high on the bill at huge festivals like Sonic Temple and Welcome to Rockville.