Sung from the perspective of the film’s doomed protagonist David Kessler, who knows love can’t survive his lycanthropic curse, “Love Bites,” like the film it’s centered on, teeters on the edge of camp but is just restrained enough to give the heartstrings an irony-free tug. One of their best is a drastic departure from their usual metalcore sound, the midtempo ballad “Love Bites,” based on John Landis’ 1981 horror classic An American Werewolf In London.
If any band can give the Misfits a run for their money when it comes to incorporating classic horror films into their music, it’s Ice Nine Kills. Featuring Pantera ’s Phil Anselmo (credited as Anton Crowley on guitar) and lyrics as brutal as Fulci’s gore-strewn, apocalyptic imagery, “And You Will Live In Terror” is Necrophagia at their breakneck best. Killjoy, a lifelong devotee of filmmaker Lucio Fulci, pays tribute to the Italian horror master’s most celebrated film The Beyond with “And You Will Live In Terror” from theirs 2000 EP, Black Blood Vomitorium. Necrophagia – “And You Will Live In Terror”įounded by the late Frank “Killjoy” Pucci, death-metal pioneers Necrophagia began using horror film elements from their inception on songs such as the Evil Dead -inspired “Ancient Slumber” from their 1987 debut, Season Of The Dead. Featured on their 1977 album Spectres, BÖC’s ode to the atomic-powered, city-stomping lizard has since been covered by artists such as System Of A Down ’s Serj Tankian and stoner-rock favorites Fu Manchu, proving again and again that you can’t keep a good monster down. Read more: This new ‘Hocus Pocus’ mug comes with its own broomstick spoon Blue Öyster Cult – “Godzilla”įeaturing a thundering riff worthy of Japan’s favorite kaiju export, Blue Öyster Cult ’s 1977 hit “Godzilla” has become a staple of classic-rock radio as well as one of the venerable band’s signature songs.
Hold onto your hearses because we’re exhuming 20 hellish horror movie-inspired hits that are not from the Misfits. Danzig and company are far from the only or the first extreme act to incorporate horror movie themes into their music. With results ranging from the sublime fury of the classic Glenn Danzig -fronted lineup’s “ Astro Zombies ” to the unabashedly ridiculous “ The Devil’s Rain ” of the post- Michale Graves, Jerry Only and Friends era, no band have incorporated direct callbacks to horror cinema better, or on occasion worse, than Lodi, New Jersey’s homegrown ghouls. Beginning with their 1979 single “ Night Of The Living Dead ,” the Misfits have made a career of mining classic, cult and B-grade movies for fodder for their hard-driving, melodic brand of patented horror punk.
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