Halloween Metal Albums
So out of curiosity, being halloween time, since I enjoy metal, I searched "Halloween Metal Albums" and became increasingly appalled by each list I read. I mean, someone actually recommended Lordi, who have awesome costumes and no musical talent.
So here's my definitive Halloween Metal Album list, which I painstakenly researched my archives to compile. Also which I will probably not agree with in a year's time, maybe even a week's time:
1. Portal - Outre Just got into this band. This album is scary. All hope is lost and you cannot do anything about it scary. Plus they look awesome onstage.
2. Pyramids - Pyramids This album tricks you in the beginning. It's starts off as very dream-like shoegaze that transforms into what feels like a nightmarish descent into Hell.
3. Blut Aus Nord - MoRT This album gives you a sense of being lost in the dark. It gives you feelings of uneasiness. Of being trapped.
4. King Diamond - Fatal Portait The Candle has an awesome organ intro and there's a song called Halloween. Plus this album summons evil.
5. Possessed - Seven Churches This opens with a tribute to The Exorcist called the Exorcist, even playing Tubular bells on guitar! Evil fucking death metal!
6. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today This harks back to a time when people were actually scared of satanists and black masses and sacrificing naked women on black altars. If you like Black Sabbath, British horror films or Argento films, you'll like this.
7. Coffins - Buried Death The guitars buzz like chainsaws and everything sounds like it was recorded inside a crypt. Plus there are fucking zombies on the cover!
8. Danzig - Danzig I though Danzig IV Glenn is Halloween.
My brand new 2011 halloween comp:
http://soundcloud.com/brosupremo/hallowmix-2-the-deadening/s-BKf8z
I was starting to get worried when I wasn't seeing any Danzig but you got it.
I've got no idea if you've listed the band name first or the album name first.
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Saw Danzig in concert last year and he pretty much looks like the middle guy now. He's in his fifties by now, so I figure it's hard to stay buff.
Also the band names are first, with a link to their myspace page if you wanted to sample their music.
My brand new 2011 halloween comp:
http://soundcloud.com/brosupremo/hallowmix-2-the-deadening/s-BKf8z
I had thought I'd seen a Misfits midget group before but nothing shows up on google for them. Maybe i was just thinking of Mini-KISS.
Now that you say it I'm pretty sure I saw that somewhere too.
hard to stay buff? Jerry Only still looks like a muscle bound freak.
Self improvement comes from trimming away the shit, not building up on top of it.
Some nice pics, Portal are awesome.
List needs more Samhain! If you're including Danzig, you gotta include Samhain. November Coming Fire is totally halloween.
Also it's not metal, but T.S.O.L - Dance With Me is pretty halloween appropriate.
Well this is kind of my forte'. You see Halloween is my favorite time of the year.. any year. It is the celebration of the Fall Equinox, Samhain, a time when spirits and demons can walk amongst us to play and dance. A time for us to mock our own mortality. A time to taste a bit of the "other side" and walk the ancient lines. That being said here are some bands I suggest for the mood.
1. The Original Soundtrack for the first "The Crow" movie. The second crow soundtrack is pretty good too.
2. My Dying Bride all albums are very doomy but the best is "Turn Loose The Swans"
3. Type O Negative, again any album, especially "Bloody Kisses" and "October Rust" albums.
4. My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult "Confessions of a Knife" album.
5. Cradle of Filth- foremost black metal group. Try "Dusk and Her Embrace" and "Cruelty and the Beast". New album is not so bad as well however it doesn't have the eerie orchestrations.
6. Tiamat- "Skeleton Skeletron" and the newest album "Amanethes"
7. Evereve
8. Acid Bath
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
The Original Musical Score for The Crow is better than any of their soundtracks.
Add HOODED MENACE to this list. They play an awesome mix of death and doom metal. Slow and heavy and evil as fuck. And just check out how metal that logo is!
This is from their debut album, Fulfill the Curse.
My brand new 2011 halloween comp:
http://soundcloud.com/brosupremo/hallowmix-2-the-deadening/s-BKf8z
I actually don't know any of these bands.