Venturing into the Crypt...

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 7. My list would not be complete without a Hawkwind track...

Hawkwind - Angels of Death

I had hoped to include Virgin of the World as the first part of a 1:2 punch. They are adjacent to each other and run into each other... that song deals with being "undead"! Anyway I can;t find YT video which combines the two.

[Vyn]

No 7:

Cthulhu Dawn by Cradle of Filth. Really, though, the entire Midian album would fit this list.

[Charger]

My 7th will be about horror that can come upon sailors if they venture near the wrong island.

This is from the very first SAVATAGE album, that was called SIRENS and the song...oddly enough is also called SIRENS!

There's quite a lot going on for such a short song...with a lot of tempo changes and soft vs hard parts. Love it!

[Zzzptm]

Heading back to the mid-80s and METAL CHURCH... "Watch the Children Pray"

Chilling song that gives me the chills every dang time I listen to it

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 8

Iced Earth - The Phantom Opera Ghost

3rd song - so far - on this list from IEs Horror Show. I was thinking about Maiden's similarly themed song but then listened to this again and realised it's pretty much as good as the other two songs we've had earlier. This song has co-lead vocals by Yunhui Percifield as "Christine"!

[Vyn]

No 8:

Horrorscope from Overkill.

I had stopped paying attention to these guys for a while when they came out with the album from which this song comes from (and is named for). Decided to give them a listen since I heard they had a new guitar lineup going on.

[Charger]

For my 8th pick it's all about ZOMBIES!

And Anthrax knows as well as anybody that you need to FIGHT 'EM TIL' YOU CAN'T!

I'm throwing in this killer live version from Wacken few years back!

[Zzzptm]

Love the live stuff...

My 8 is Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Spellbound"

Pure 1981 Goth Rock. Heavy and aggressive and ample clues that things aren't right in the upstairs bedrooms...

[Vyn]

My No 9 may not qualify. No doubt it fits the rules, but I cannot find a vid of this thing. I guess Glenn Danzig really doesn't want it online anywhere.

Anyway, the second song from Samhain's first LP Initium is called Black Dream. I can't pipe the tunes from my home to this messageboard, but here are the lyrics:

Murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun
A kick in the head, a gouged out eye
Your intestines explode and your eyeballs pop
And the taste of your blood will drive me on
You see I get what I want, and I want when you bleed
'Cause the things I can cause have the seal of the dead
In humanity's fading glow
All murder, all guts, all fun
Whose little arms encircle me to make me think of love
Whose supple body aims to be a limbless bloody stump
Do you, do you, do you realize
That I like this thing I am
All murder, all guts, all fun
Because I like when chests are torn apart
The way that heads come off
And the way that art starts to imitate life
At the end of a gun
At the edge of a knife
And all murder, all guts, all fun
Go
Whose little arms encircle me to make me think of love
Whose supple body aims to be a limbless bloody stump
Do you, do you, do you realize
That I like this thing I am, come on I'll kill you
All murder, all guts, all fun (x8)

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
I had something like that on an earlier thread, fortunately I had alternatives


Pick number 9 - what's the scariest time of the year!!!

Helloween - Halloween

Probably the only Helloween song I *really* like!

[Charger]

My second to last one is another song from the master himself mr. ALICE COOPER!

I am and always have been arachnophobic....when I see a spider it needs to go...splat...squash...DEAD! So songs about spiders always create some special horror for me...and this is about one of the deadliest of them all...THE BLACK WIDOW!!

[Zzzptm]

The Damned performing "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" from A Night of a Thousand Vampires

Verrrrrrrrrrry disturbing, and it works well with how the lads have aged. Brilliant performance and stagecraft.

[Vyn]

No 10 on this cold Friday is compliments of the band Pentagram.

The song is When the Screams Come

It has a YouTube video, like 99% of music these days. Except Samhain, and the Paul Chain song I was going to post. Bastards.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 10. And I changed my mind on what it is going to be. I was think of Wake the Dead by the Damned but instead I went with...

Wiseblood - 0-0 Where Evil Dwells

Technically this is a second pick from Foetus as it's JG Thirlwell in another of his personas! The song seems to suggest random murder perhaps in the name of satanism!

[Charger]

My final pick will also be about Zombies! I like zombies!

This comes from the magnum opus of the swedish Power Metal legends HAMMERFALL and it's the opening track of the album Infected and it's called PATIENT ZERO

It's about the beginning of a Zombie virus outbreak from the point of view of the Patient Zero. Killer tune from a suberb album!