Opening with funerary church bells, the Aussie rockers rip into one of their sickest riffs on this Back In Black classic – which takes on an even weirder resonance when you remember that this album was recorded in the wake of (and is titled in reference to) former singer Bon Scott’s unexpected death.
Melding metal with pounding industrial electronics and an audio snippet of horror icon Christopher Lee, Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” – named after a car from the TV show The Munsters – is an unstoppable demon of a tune, and just about as demonically fun as metal gets. “The Time Warp” – The Rocky Horror Picture Show CastĮven if The Rocky Horror Picture Show is too willfully weird for your tastes, just try to not take a jump to the left or a step to the right when this deliriously catchy romp starts. Santana’s swampy mixture of blues, Latin, rock and jazz on their cover of “Black Magic Woman” (originally written by Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green!) is as bewitching now as when they released it in 1968.Ģ0. With a bass line so heavy Lucifer himself probably felt the reverberations, Van Halen’s ode to fast-living – complete with David Lee Roth’s banshee hail – kicked off their first album and had teenagers around the world throwing up the devil horns. When Disney re-released the beloved 1993 flick The Nightmare Before Christmas in digital 3D in 2006, shock rock icon Marilyn Manson lent a deranged vocal performance to a song originally performed by a ghoulish assortment of ghosts, skeletons and a clown with a tear-away face.
With urgent strings and ominous vocals, this fist-pumping anthem from Ohio rockers Starset is a nice Halloween companion to their other spookily-titled smash hit, “Monster.” The ska-flavored “Dead Man’s Party” is proof that you don’t need Weekend at Bernie’s to boogie with the deceased. The Smashing Pumpkins Get Spooky in Halloween-Inspired 'Silvery Sometimes' Video: Watchīefore composer Danny Elfman crafted The Simpsons theme song and began his fruitful pairing with filmmaker Tim Burton, he was in a delightfully wackadoo new wave band with his brother called Oingo Boingo.