With a name like The Wytches, and songs with titles like “Gravedweller” and “Crying Clown,” this surf-doom rock trio from Brighton, UK was born to partake in a Halloween-themed interview with us. So when they were here on 10/27 for their show at Great Scott, we cornered them in the creepiest alley we could find and asked the hard-hitting questions.

This show at Great Scott really put me in that spooky mood you expect this time of year. Dirty Dishes opened the show with an eerie, grungy set. The ambient vocals, pounding drums, and creepy music box effects coming from their synth were mesmerizing.This LA by way of Allston group has a new album coming out in January and it’s going to be great.

Weird Womb came to Boston with higher expectations for a Tuesday night gig, I think. They had, after all, spent their previous week running around NYC for CMJ. After Dirty Dishes left us hexed, Weird Womb blasted the crowd with hard and fast rock n roll. The crowd’s sleepy reaction almost caused lead singer, Dakota Pollock, to launch into a reluctant Adam Sandler-esque joke. Not sure how that would have helped, but the threat was enough to bring up the energy in the room.

The Wytches were just at Great Scott in July — their first US headlining gig ever. Back again for more, a more sizable crowd came out, and The Wytches upped their game. They threw out a brand new song right away, and sprinkled in songs from their LP Annabel Dream Reader. Singer and guitarist Kristian Bell said that played something like six shows last week at CMJ, and I was amazed he could still scream and wail the way he did on stage Tuesday. The set felt even heavier and more visceral than their July gig, which was a good thing. They filled the voids between songs with static and thundering fuzz, before seemingly pulling a song out of the chaos.  They’ve officially broken out of their shell in America and are going to take it by storm.