Scary, Horror Rock Songs for Halloween

This Halloween throw out the old classics and bust out some killer new tunes to turn your tired old kindergarten party into an ire, bloody, creep fest.

Song: "A Gorey Demise"
Artist: Creature Feature
Album: The Greatest Show Unearthed
http://www.myspace.com/creaturefeaturemusic

Curtis RX and Erik X bring a fun and horror-full melody in this alphabetical song. "A is for Amber who drowned in a pool. B is for Billy who was eaten by ghouls. C is for Curt with disease of the brain. D is for Daniel derailed on a train. E is for Erik who was buried alive ..."

Song: "Zombie Graveyard Party"
Artist: Be Your Own Pet
Album: Get Awkward (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdOIBVDnL7o

This four-piece garage punk band from Nashville gets down with "Don't you want to party, party in the graveyard tonight! Life is lame, so let me eat your brain."

Song: "Pet Sematary"
Artist: The Ramones
Album: Weird Tales Of The Ramones

The kings of punk wrote a song that talk's about skeletons dancing and wolves crying. "I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery. I don't want to live my life again."

Song: "Zombie"
Artist: Screeching Weasel
Album: Boogadaboogadaboogada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xHju_74ikE

This Chicago punk-pop band sings about the craziness of the zombie apocalypse. "I'm a zombie and I'm going to get your baby ... I want your brain."

Song: "Halloween"
Artist: Dead Kennedys
Album: Plastic Surgery Disaster/In God We Trust, Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n2Bnh4T8YE

This early American punk band from San Francisco knew how to sing about Halloween. "After Halloween you go to work today, you'll go to work tomorrow, shitfaced tonight. You'll brag about it for months." "So you run back and stuff yourselves in rigid business costumes, only at night to score is your leather uniform exhumed. Why don't you take your social regulations and shove 'em up your ass."

Song: "I, Zombie"
Artist: White Zombie
Album: Astro Creep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

It's no surprise that White Zombie made this list. With their name coming from the 1932 scary movie "White Zombie" starring Bela Lugosi, and being inspired by B-Rated horror movies, this band is sure to creep out your Halloween guest. "I Zombie kill machine, I Zombie never seen, I Zombie never you, I Zombie coming through."

Song: "Night Surgeon"
Artist: Anthony Stewart Head
Album: Repo! The Genetic Opera Soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61r9_f5g_zA

This musical rock opera movie was released in 2008 and has quickly gained status of being the next cult classic horror musical, like Rocky Horror Picture Show. In this song Nathan Wallace, aka Repo Man, is singing about his second personality as the killer Repo Man. "I remember every dying whisper, every desperate murmer. I remember when I gaze upon her, she looks just like you. I remember, I remember! I remember walking every victim with acute precision. I remember every time I hold you, my blunt companion. I remember, I dismember! 'Cause the Claims Medic gives no anesthetic! 90-Day Deliquient get your Repo Treatment! I'm the Masked Horror on your street corner! Make your mama mourn ya! I'm a Night Surgeon! I remember..."

Song: "House By The Cemetery"
Artist: Wednesday 13
Album: Transylvania 90210

This horror punk band's main influence is horror movies - so we put them on our list. "Blood in the cradle, guess your baby's dead. The boogie man came and chopped off its head. Knots in the noose, baby duck, duck, goose. White knuckle paranoia, the stitches coming loose. Now you scream in horror, but there's no need to bother. So raise your hands up high, reach for the sky ..."

Song: "Vampire Heart"
Artist: HIM
Album: Dark Light

This alternative-metal goth band brings us a dark love tune from Finland. "Hold me, like you held onto life, when all fears came alive and entombed me. Love me, like you loved the sun, scorching the blood of my vampire heart."

Song: "If I Was Your Vampire"
Artist: Marilyn Manson
Album: Eat Me, Drink Me (Explicit)

Being that the Church of Satan's founder Anton LaVey bestowed the title of Reverend onto Marilyn Manson, there's no surprise that he made the list. "If I was your vampire, death waits for no one, hold my hands across my face, because I think our time has come. Blood-stained sheets in the shape of your heart, this is where it starts ..."

Song: "Making Christmas"
Artist: Rise Against
Album: Nightmare Revisited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nGKy8DBCc

The film The Nightmare Before Christmas was such a popular movie that thirteen years later eighteen bands covered each song. In this song Rise Against covered "Making Christmas." "HARLEOUIN: Won't they be impressed, I am a genius. See how I transformed this old rat into a most delightful hat. JACK: Hmm, my compliments from me to you on this your most intriguing hat. Consider though this substitute, a bat in place of this old rat."

Song: Witchcraft
Artist: Wolfmother
Album: Wolfmother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXzAu1cggc

This rocking Australian trio brings the some old school hard rock guitar rifts to this amazing song. "Her eyes are the opening to the soul, where spirits lie and secrets can be told. Make her an offer your fortune can be sold. The chains and bangles were ringing aloud, calling out without a sound. She had witchcraft. She drank from the craft."

Song: "Corpse Grinder"
Artists: The Meteors
Album: Halloween Garage Rock

As an older British psychobilly band, this trio plays a dark gruesome song fused with punk rock and rockabilly. "Well, you know I love you, but ain't life a drag? I wanna chop you up fine, and wrap you up in a bag, yeah. Will I see you later, in my refrigerator? I'm a corpse grinder, baby, yeah."

Song: "The Halloween Dance"
Artist: The Reverend Horton Heat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLn80ZzLqSU

Starting off with a creepy witches laugh, this Halloween song by the kings of psychobilly will definitely put you in the Halloween spirit. "You put your hand up around your neck. You run in a circle ..."

Song: "Devil's' Daughter"
Artists: Hank Williams III
Album: Risin' Outlaw

I thought I'd throw some cow punk in the mix. Hank Williams III, being the grandson of Hank Williams, knows how to bring some honky-tonk love with a dark twist. "If the devils got a daughter, she calls me by my name. I'd go to hell and back for her and live a life of pain. Just to see her face. Well, she's just cant be tamed, she's a burning flame."

Song: "Devil's Waiting"
Artists: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Album: Howl

Close out the night with this mellow indie rock song with a southern blues feel by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. "They say there's a passin' where all stand to judge, but the devil's a waitin' with Christ like a son. When the look comes your way best say was I, for the reasons you hold give reasons to die. The calling's impatient and cause never won, but the last one to say it may last through the flood."