Here are some sort of scary type albums to listen to for the holiday. They are in no particular order.
1-Black Sabbath-s/t
Never gets old and it's creepy at times.
2-Grim Reaper-Fear no evil
I have to be in a mood for this band, but this is the time of year for them.
3-WASP-s/t
It may seem tame now, but this always seemed like a scary type album to me back in the 80's.
4-Electric Wizard-We live
Big, heavy slow sludge and they even used sound clips from the great film Psychomania.
5-Alice Cooper-Welcome to my Nightmare
It has Vincent Price, songs about the dead and more.
6-Lizzy Borden- Love you to pieces
Sort of horror type songs here and there plus it's a pretty good cross between glam and more traditional metal.
7-Mercyful Fate-Don't break the oath
Very eerie atmospheric album
8-King Diamond-Abigail
Like many King Diamond albums, it's a concept album and a horror story of sorts.
9-Slayer-Show no mercy
I love the debut more than most people as I think was very straight forward.
10-White Zombie-La Sexorcisto Devil Music volume 1
It's a bit goofy, but heavy enough and lots of horror movie influences.
11-Candlemass-Epicus Domicus Metallicus
Slow, heavy and very unsettling, but in a good way.
12-Iron Maiden-The number of the beast
Aside from being one of the best metal albums of all time, it also has some horror based songs.
13-Ozzy-Diary of a madman
I remember sitting in my basement as a teenager listening to this over and over.
***This album will get a proper review next week.
Good list. I'll add Godsmack's first CD, an excellent Halloween mood CD overall!
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I also have a question for you and the other readers: can you think of any metal (or just palin rock) artists who were classically trained?
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Great list. I love the White Zombie one, I think the 50s sci-fi stuff in there is cool. David, all I can think of off the top of my head is Geoff Tate (his aunt was an opera singer and tried to get him to go in that direction).
ReplyDeleteDavid-I really don't know of anyone who was classically trained. I may have read of someone at one time, but it's just not something that I have remembered.
ReplyDeleteGreat ones, Ben. I had forgetten also about Eddie Van Halen and some of the guys who played for Yes.
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Love the White Zombie nod. It is a killer album.
ReplyDeleteBTW, David, One that I can think of is Randy Rhodes.
Where's Walk Among Us?!?!?
ReplyDeleteawesome list...but Fantomas' last record before the latest one is the scariest metal I've heard in ages
ReplyDeleteRay, is that Director's Cut? If so, I agree. I couldn't even listen to the whole thing. It was freaky.
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