Appreciated mention of Screamin' Jay Hawkins - he doesn't get enough credit. Manimals - Blood Is The Harvest, Antiworld - Comedy of Terrors, TSOL - Dance With Me
Thank you for the kind words! Working on this one got me realising I really need to explore more of those early death rock bands who I enjoy but have only heard the most well-known albums by. I'm sure it's a genre that's gonna come back up on the channel :)
I definitely would have been one of the ones yelling "What about Tiger Army?!" lol. Nice nod at the end. Nekromantix (and by extension, HorrorPops) are a big must, too, if we're dipping into the Psychobilly realm. Once you do that, then there's a whole host of spooky goodness, too. Koffin Kats, Groovy Ghoulies, The Coffinshakers, Mad Sin, etc. Tons of favorites. Great video!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I was originally planning to cover both psychobilly and horror punk, but then I decided not to rush it, and save the psychobillies for another video... Other than the Cramps, of course, since I enjoy any chance to talk about them.
Thanks for the glowing overview of AFI instead of the normal “sellouts” from the “Punk Scene” They have been my favorite band for 20+ years and they deserve as much credit as you gave them. That are so damn talented.
Yeah, they're a great band! I do have some favourite genres, but I am pretty much always supportive of bands experimenting and developing instead of trying to keep doing what their audience expects. I'm always most impressed by artists who show that they can do a lot of different things at a very high level, and AFI is definitely one of those bands. Thanks for the comment!
The lyrics for the version of Party Time on the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack (the Zombie Version) are more in line with the plot of the movie. "Very young, gettin' kicks, Cruisin' 'round, 56, Drinking beer, driving fast, this party is their last, They'll dance on the graves, the lost souls, satan's slaves, They don't know the Acid Rain, it's comin' down to make'em insane! DO YA WANNA PARTY? IT'S PARTY TIME!" TOTALLY different lyrics than the original lyrics.
Horror punk is the best music for this time of year. Just discovered your channel and subscribed immediately, love your videos. I've got so many albums and bands that are great horror punk bands and bands I ALWAYS bust out this time of year.
Thanks for subscribing, and for the comment! I've got one more focused on Halloween coming out soon, but yes, bands like Blitzkid, Misfits, and The Cramps always end up getting a lot of play around here when Halloween gets close.
Nim Vind (canada), The Other (Germany), the Crimson ghosts (Germany ), bloodsucking zombies from outer space (austria), the spookshow (sweden), the spook (germany),
Vim Vind & Wednesday 13 are also solid and fan favorites of the genre. Murderland has a bit of pop to it but still good. The Others is a personal favorite too.
Aside from bands mentioned in the comments like Evelyn’s Casket, 5c Freakshow, check out The Writhers, Batkins, Silent Horror, The Rosedales, Son Of Sam (Davey Havok side band with members of Samhain)
So Davey Havok (AFI frontman) was in the band Son of Sam with members of Danzig and Samhain. Def also check that out. Nice that you mentioned Balzac. I don't know much about Japan's goth and horror punk scene (more into their metal and visual kei) but some years ago I got hold of a compilation called "Japanese Psychobilly Now" with a bunch of neat bands on it. Some of my favorite horror punk and horror punk adjacent stuff that I haven't seen mentioned yet. Ghoultown, One Eyed Doll, The Other, Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 (Wednesday 13 side-project), Demented Are Go, Forbidden Dimension, HorrorPops, Night Birds, Zombie Ghost Train, Rezurex, The Coffinshakers, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Bat Hearse. Something that I want to see but haven't found any examples of is a band combining horror punk with Celtic punk. It makes sense considering the origin of Halloween as a Celtic ritual (Samhain). It's honestly strange that this combo hasn't happened yet. Additionally, I always include these bands in my October playlist. So if anyone's interested in the heavier side of Halloween check them out. All of these bands are some form of metal so slightly off topic from punk and punk adjacent, but they're all horror themed, so on topic for Halloween. Though there's a lot of bands that play horror themed blackened punk/thrash so they kind of fit. King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Hooded Menace, Cultes des Ghoules, Moonspell, The Vision Bleak, Carach Angren, Lucifer, Castle, Old Nick, Deceased, Denial of God, Powerwolf, Ghost, Spiter, Wraith, Devil Master, Midnight, Necromantia, Savage Master, Satan's Hallow, Hell, Attic, Portrait, Mortuary Drape, and of course, Danzig (c'mon this one's a given).
Son of Sam is definitely great! I thought giving Davey two spots on a top six would be a little excessive though :D Yeah, metal has a lot of great Halloween-feeling bands, and I love Mortuary Drape and Hooded Menace. And of course any bands that blend goth and metal are perfect for Halloween, like Unto Others, Type O Negative, etc. Thanks for the recommendations!
I've definitely seen them both considered horror punk, and I was considering the Murderdolls for the list! It's always tough deciding how many bands to include, since the more I talk about, the less time I can spend talking about each one.
I love Murderdolls and all of Wednesday 13's material. I don't know how accurate it would be, but in my MP3 collection, I have all of his material under the "horror punk" genre.
Love that you included Zombina. My favorite horror punk band is Left for Dead. They are a bit more obscure I think and I've only listened to their album "It begins..." but it is pure fun. I can't recall a bad track on there. There's a few bands with that name and an ultra-popular game franchise, but I think you'll find them on youtube if you put horror punk with their name in the search.
Screaming Lord Sutch definetly! Jack The Ripper, She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man, All Black And Hairy, Dracula's Daughter, all of them classic SLS tracks, that deserve far more publicity.
I am truly surprised horror punk isn’t a larger part of punk. The Misfits are such an iconic band. How is horror punk not close to being the default punk?
Wednesday 13 is on the fence between metal, hard rock and punk, but almost every song for the past 20 years is horror themed in one way or another. Their never in the horror punk conversation but should be!
I’m really happy you listed blitzkid. An old band of mine used to play with them way back when. TB and Goolsby were always good dudes and really helpful to younger bands.
That's really cool! They're definitely one of my favourites. And I get the feeling they're good dudes since after I posted this video, they actually shared it on Instagram and Facebook. I felt super appreciative they would go out of their way to do that!
Great video. I really recommend The Karnsteins from Slovakia. Very fast and melodic music. Sometimes words as a tribute to films and literature, sometimes stories they wrote, sometimes urban legends of their country and sometimes very morbid and dark humor.
Don't forget Screaming Dead from the UK. Their first release was on the No Future label, famous for the "A Country Fit For Heros" comp. records. They had some really good tunes.
Thanks for watching, and glad you're enjoying it! I'm having a lot of fun making them, and it's nice seeing people enjoying them and bringing up their favourite bands, too.
Another great video! Thank you! This has always been a fav subgenre of mine. It has always felt very "small" in terms of the amounts of bands out there that could fall into the genre, so I was really pleasantly surprised when I saw the title of the vid. Great list! You definitely would've received a few stern comments if you didn't start with Misfits and Cramps. I think The Horrors also deserve a spot on this list. And then my personal favourite, which NEVER gets the recognition despite "Mr. Mental" being used in a lot of films is Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Seriously. Go check out their album Royal Society. You can thank me later ;)
Thanks for the recs! I don't know how, but somehow I'd never gotten around to hearing The Horrors, even though I'd heard of them many times. I listened to both of these this morning and both were quite good! I liked the variety on the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster... despite their band name being ridiculously hard to remember 😆
Same here, it's always interesting to see the different ways one genre can be interpreted, then split into a whole range of styles with different sounds, aesthetics, and scenes surrounding them. I hope you enjoy the bands you check out!
Yeah, Akaline Trio! Calabrese! Both were mentioned. Some random horror punk adjacent stuff I dig is Harely Poe, The Bridge City Sinners, Creepshow, Creature Feature, and this may be controversial, BUT I think Strung Out slips into horror astetic and could fit the bill sometimes.
Ohhh, and The Lillingtons' Stella Sapintene is a great album they do that surfy ramones-core thing but take the coast sound to the cold water of Massachusetts in a cosmic way. If you catch my ftghan. Creeper! T.S.O.L.
Great video. I honestly have ever heard one Balzac album and I never followed up on other music they have done. It's something I will have to check out. Recently I've become a really big fan of Nim Vind and the various groups he has been involved with. There are horror punk elements to a lot of what he does, but I don't think of his music as being completely of the sub genre.
Been listening to Mister Monster a lot recently Definitely recommend Mister Monster - over your dead body ( first version of the album is top tier , let it play from start to finish ) . R.i.p J-Sin Trioxin ..2-4-5 Go!
Great List. Allow me to provide 10 more for you. Dead Vampires - The Day After Halloween - 2010 Messer Chups - The Incredible Crocotiger - 2015 The Meteors - From Beyond - 2007 Nekromantix - Brought Back To Life - 1991 Krewmen - Sweet Dreams - 1986 Southern Culture On The Skids - Zombified - 1998 Bauhaus - In The Flat Field - 1980 Satan's Pilgrims - Siniestro - 2017 The Polecats - Best Of The Polecats - 1999 The Monsters - The Hunch - 2013
First a slight correction, Blitzkid has two lead vocalists, TB and Argyle Goolsby alternate between vocals. As for recommendations: Silent Horror, Nim Vind, Argyle Goolsby’s solo work, The Jasons, Lycotones, Twilight Creeps, and my band Strychnine just put out a horrorpunk single called “Scream” and definitely plan to have more horrorpunk influenced music in the future
Thanks for the correction on that! I did kind of imply TB was the only one, didn't I? That was unintentional :D Good luck with the band, and I'll definitely check out the new single!
Balzac is one of my favorite bands ever, I wish their discography was more easily available here. They're DEFINITELY a great entry into horror punk. I also recommend Germany's The Other. Their album Fear Itself is probably their best work, I'd start there.
I grew up with Horror Punk, still my favourite punk subculture. Then the genre evolved until it generated some weird bands like Calabrese, which honestly is a pretty bizarre band with a fusion of Punk, Hard Rock and Goth Rock. A really obscure Horro Punk band was Shadow Reichenstein. They published two albums between 2001 and 2005, then they disappeared into obscurity (they disbanded with great probability): the first one, called "It's Monster Rock", was a bit more "punk rock" (even Psychobilly at times) for what I remember so it sounded totally different from the next album, "Werewolf Order", which was a bit more hardcore-focused. Then...who knows? They disappeared. Cheers from Italy! 🍻
Tiger army 2 ‘power of moonlite’ is amazing, it was basically inspired by AFI (friends of tiger army) and son of Sam (Danzig super group fronted by AFI’s Davey Havok who was asked to be the singer for the misfits years prior) and even had London may of Samhain on drums. It’s slightly cannon to the Danzig universe.
Oh also since you mentioned AFI and Samhain, there was kind of a Samhain sequel band called Son Of Sam which Davey Havok of AFI provided vocals for, at least on the first album, Songs From The Earth. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who is already a fan of AFI and Samhain.
Left Hand Black is a band from Sweden that's really good who hasn't been mentioned yet from what I see. Approaching 50 lol, I was old enough that I bought Walk Among Us and the Stray Cats first album back in 1982 as my first music purchases. Blitzkid got me back into Horror Punk along with The Other.
Your first music purchases were a bit cooler than mine, considering I think a couple cassette singles by the hip hop group Kris Kross were my first purchases :D The Stay Cats were an excellent band, too, who I rarely see getting brought up. I'm checking out "Lower than Satan" by Left Hand Black right now, and they're a lot of fun. Thanks for the rec!
@@eclecticism-uk you're welcome and props for admitting your first purchase was Kriss Kross lol. Hell Greaser is another good band if you appreciate Pop Punk.
Great video. If anyone can find it I highly recommend checking out Silent Horror’s self titled record from 2014. It features Argyle Goolsby from Blitzkid on vocals and is one of the best and most overlooked albums of the genre. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find.
I meant for them to be in the honourable mentions, but only realised they'd been left out when I was late in the editing process. "In the Dead of Night" is an awesome album!
Technically more of a metal band, but absolutely conversant with all the ones you mentioned is Devil Master. Check out “Satan Spits on Children of Light”, my favorite of their albums. The bands live aesthetic has a slight camp aesthetic that sets them apart from their black metal peers.
Ink and Dagger, the Nerve Agents, and Murder City Devils are three unique sounding bands worth mentioning who draw outside the lines of horror punk, but have the aesthetic, themes and vibe dialed in. Also American Werewolves do a great job with the more expected take on the genre.
Great bands in your video. Hope you'll check us out one of these days. Germany's biggest Goth-Mag called us "Europe's No. 1 Horror Punk band". Our 9th Album is in the making and we hope to return to the states for a tour with it. And back in the days we released the now famous "This is HorrorPunk" compilations on our label Fiend Force Records. Back when almost nobody knew what Horror Punk was...
Thanks for the comment, and for checking out the video! Somehow I'd been missing out on you until people in these comments started saying "How did you leave out The Other?" I've been trying to catch up this last week and love what I've heard so far. Cheers from London!
The first album of the horrors including the single parasyte ist for me one of the best Horrorpunk Albums. Greetings from Germany! Sorry for my bad english😂
@FourteenWords-n4l Yes. They started off a goth-garage-punk band and then moved into a more post-punk sound on their second album, then shoegaze on their third etc They are current going through a NIN / Industrial phase. They are one of my favourite bands ever.
I watched just to see if Blitzkid was included. I’m going to send the link to TB. Argyle Goolsby from Blitzkid is now playing with Calabrese as well. Also check out Children of October and The Big Bad. I played lead guitar for The Big Bad for a bit. Check out the 2014 self-titled album.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing the video with him! They're obviously one of my favourites, and Calabrese as well. Thanks for the recs, I really enjoyed the s/t The Big Bad album... love the horns and doo-wop influence on some of the songs. Cheers!
Actually found this video through Blitzkid's facebook story, haha. Some of my personal favorites are Misfits, Blitzkid, Calabrese, Blood Sucking Zombies from Outer Space, and The Other.Tangentially, Cancerslug and Doyle are also really good options while not strictly Horror Punk.
I've been a huge Balzac fan since 2002. Most of their lyrics are in English, just hard to understand. You can look them up or start picking up on what they say as you listen. My favorite album of their's is Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu.
Id call myself a Misfits aficionado, even though Im not much of a vinyl hoarder. But as a stickler for details: its alright to say that Walk Among Us is their first album (true, in theory, first full length joint/LP) but to follow it up with saying "even though SOME EARLIER MATERIAL LATER SURFACED ON A CD CALLED STATIC AGE" is an affront to Misfits and empirical knowledge as a whole. Static Age = the total result of the jan-feb '78 sessions at C.I. Recordings. From which the breakout '78 single Bullet came. Misfits released like two dozen singles and EPs before 1982, the first being Cough/Cool ('77, Rainbow, NYC). Walk Among Us was basically a compilation of tons of '80-'81 material Glenn remixed and redubbed at less than glamorous studios like Newfound Sound & Mix-O-Lydian, NJ. Cause in the end albums was the only way for a band to make money and until Walk... early '82, they existed thx to money from the Caiafa brothers (mainly Jerrys) dayjob n salaries. He was a manual laborer/machine operator at a plant where his dad was a foreman, it wasnt well paid so he sacrificed much for Glenn to get to live the DIY life, fuck around with artwork & dropping at least one super odd misprinted colored 7'' vinyl a month 1978-1981, paid out of pocket most of their first run. .Its a tangent but from what Ive heard from a local and a early Fiend Club dude Jerry went back to the factory when Kryst the Konqueror failed to be profitable (they stupidly hired session musicians instead of playing on their newfound fame thx to Misfits only successful single at the time, Die Die My Darling '84, and had mfs audition and do music with them for free! Then in '95 after the settle out of court they did a good job of rebooting Misfits. Im a Danzig fan more than a Only fan but Misfits '95-'99 was fun, high energy, kick ass production and they had chemistry live too. Glenn rudely released Die Die My Darling post-breakup himself as the Misfits but whether right or wrong that single was the spark that started the fire and when Metallica covered it and Mother sold 2x gold 5 years after it dropped & ppl got the connectionb, those events made Misfits immortal. Hard to understand now when Cough/Cool 7'' & some prints of Bullet are the most expensive punk vinyls on discogs & ebay, but they struggled their entire run as a band. In spite of shortcomings (Only's Misfits after Graves left was except for 1950s which was fun, an abomination, as well as Glenn's retroactive narcissistic history revisionism + Elvis cover album and his sometimes retarded choice of musicians, like the hack Jerry Montano. Also his belittling of high profile band mates contributions and skills; the way he casually pre-fired Eerie & Christ before the '94 tour, at the bands all time high, was shitty. Joey Castillo - a fantastic & versatile drummer, stayed for 8 years when no one else did and when he finally left for QOTSA (who would give him the co-composing credits he was due) he didnt get any official thx from glenn or even one on thr semi-official the7thhouse dot com for being the bands backbone and his percussion the strongest aspect during the musically underrated but troublesome 1995-2003 era. '77-'83 Misfits songs with Glenns studio "magic" still sounds great but thats because the vox, core material and energy was always A+ so fcuk sketchy production values, shitty acoustics, the string of drummers of which not even all were acceptable at heir best (imo only mr jim, martinez, robo could do the job right) and glenn doing hours of post-prod alone, drowning the core bass/guitar layers with 4-5 of his own. Misfits is the ONLY horror punk band wirth effort. Too bad gothcore fag metal charlatans like avenged sevenfold have their aesthetics thx to Misfits :/
The Groovie Ghoulies, Kepi Ghoulie, Horror Section, Ghost Party, Eaten Back to Life, The Koffin Kat's, Black Cat Attack and The Jasons are all amazing and well worth checking out. A lot of that is solidly in the Ramonescore camp (as much as bands hate that label, it works for a reason...)
For some newer horror punk I’d recommend checking out Silent Horror, the songs “Black Dahlia” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” Nim Vind, the songs “Killing Saturday Night” and “Killer Creature Double Feature.” The Deadlines, songs “Vampires in Love” and “Darlin’ Darlin’”. The Dahmers “Night Crawler.” Kepi Ghoulie “Graceland.”
Haha, I did think about mentioning it, but when I only have a few minutes to talk about a band with as much history and personal importance to me as they have, it's pretty far down my list of priorities.
Please don't take this as advertising, but my channel has the largest collection of horror punk music and related genres on TH-cam. Of course, it is updated twice a week.
Thanks for sharing! My whole goal with this channel is to help more bands get exposure, and your channel looks like a much more in-depth deep dive than I gave on here. And I love how the playlists organise everything by region... There's a lot to explore!
Calabrese, American Werewolves, B Movie Monsters and The Hitchcocks are all great horror punk bands to check out. Of course The Misfits are S tier in all of punk.
Yeah, Misfits are one of my all-time favourites, no matter how deep I've gone into punk. Thanks for the recs, I still need to check out a couple of those!
Some good early stuff to check out is The Undead - Act Your Rage. And T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me. Some newer Japanese stuff to Check out is Melon Batake a Go Go. They're all over the place, but check out Horror Billy Nights, Nightmare Before Vampire, Idol from Outer Space, and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. They also do a cover of "She Said"
Zombie ghost train; R.I.P. was a great horror punk/ psychobilly song. I had the album once upon a time but cant remember the name. Koffin kats was also very good
Dig the Black Widow mention: Sacrifice (and the “Return to the Ssbbat” rerelease) is a fantastic album. Propagandhi fans will recognise “Come to the Sabbat”: this is the original. I was expecting a Necromatix or Horrorpops mention too. I guess Psychobilly is technically it’s own thing, but arguably it can be traced back to artists like The Cramps who brought that 50s influence into punk.
Thank for the comment! Oh yeah, "Return to the Sabbat" is really cool. There were a handful of really interesting takes on psychedelic/folky horror in the UK before metal became a thing, with Comus being another really good one. You know, my first list was a lot more heavy on psychobilly, but then I started realising nobody calls The Cramps 'horror punk,' even though I've always thought of them as an essential horror punk band. So I'm gonna just save psychobilly and cover it as a separate topic, even though I had to give The Cramps a shout in this one anyway!
i recomend the brazilian band Zumbis do Espaço, the biggest horror punk band from Brasil, they sing in portuguese, reference a lot of classic horror movies and has some influences of country and rockabilly in some songs, my recomendation of an album would their 5th release: Destructus Maximus, which have a song called rejeitados pelo diabo, inspired by Rob Zombie movie, the devil rejects Zumbis do Espaço discography: - A Invasão - Abominavel Mundo Monstro - Aberrações que Somos - Aqui Começa o Inferno - Destructus Maximus - Nós Viemos em Paz - Em Missão de Satanas - Monstros Dominantes - A Furia Selvagem
German Band of the 80s/90s: ROSTOK VAMPIRES. Their sound is a bit more Metal influenced and the lyrics are not always pure Horror themed. Try the "Transylvanian Disease" Album released on Nuclear Blast, when it still was a Hardcore-Punk Label.
Thanks for the recommendation! For anyone else wanting to check this out, I couldn't find it on streaming in the UK, but it is on TH-cam (of course): th-cam.com/video/HXYBKE_GCgQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8CGRXSmRniAR9oJf
Would add Zombie Ghost Train album "Glad Rags & Body Bags" - rockabilly mets the Misfits. Singers voice and the bands lyrics have an early Misfits vibe. Would check out the song R.I.P. from the album.
Alkaline Trio is excellent! I never got very into the post-Danzig Misfits, although I did see them live not long after American Psycho, and it was an awesome show
Solid list, definitely an awesome genre to dive into…. Do you have Lego hair…. It’s always so nice. Just curious
Thanks, glad you enjoyed! Funny you would ask, because I am in fact Lego. Stay tuned for makeup tutorials on how to make your Lego face look human.
@@eclecticism-uk I KNEW IT, YOU'RE A LEGO!!!😂
Appreciated mention of Screamin' Jay Hawkins - he doesn't get enough credit.
Manimals - Blood Is The Harvest, Antiworld - Comedy of Terrors, TSOL - Dance With Me
I loveee The Damned & Dave Vanian !!!🖤🖤🕸️⚰️🦇
The Damned are amazing! Definitely one of my favourite early punk bands🖤
I love how you mentioned every little detail, touching the “death rock” goth sound, Christian Death, and AFI. Great video!🙏🏽
Thank you for the kind words! Working on this one got me realising I really need to explore more of those early death rock bands who I enjoy but have only heard the most well-known albums by. I'm sure it's a genre that's gonna come back up on the channel :)
I definitely would have been one of the ones yelling "What about Tiger Army?!" lol. Nice nod at the end. Nekromantix (and by extension, HorrorPops) are a big must, too, if we're dipping into the Psychobilly realm. Once you do that, then there's a whole host of spooky goodness, too. Koffin Kats, Groovy Ghoulies, The Coffinshakers, Mad Sin, etc. Tons of favorites. Great video!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I was originally planning to cover both psychobilly and horror punk, but then I decided not to rush it, and save the psychobillies for another video... Other than the Cramps, of course, since I enjoy any chance to talk about them.
@@eclecticism-uk Nice! I'll definitely check that out if/when you do that one!
Can't forget the brains and coffin draggers
I figured if you listed the Cramps then psychobilly was fair game.
The Other from Germany are quite good.
I recommend the „This is Horror Punk“ conpilations. 😁
She's a Ghost is a great song. I like how The Other lands into the horror visuals.
Thanks for the glowing overview of AFI instead of the normal “sellouts” from the “Punk Scene” They have been my favorite band for 20+ years and they deserve as much credit as you gave them. That are so damn talented.
Yeah, they're a great band! I do have some favourite genres, but I am pretty much always supportive of bands experimenting and developing instead of trying to keep doing what their audience expects. I'm always most impressed by artists who show that they can do a lot of different things at a very high level, and AFI is definitely one of those bands. Thanks for the comment!
The lyrics for the version of Party Time on the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack (the Zombie Version) are more in line with the plot of the movie. "Very young, gettin' kicks, Cruisin' 'round, 56, Drinking beer, driving fast, this party is their last, They'll dance on the graves, the lost souls, satan's slaves, They don't know the Acid Rain, it's comin' down to make'em insane! DO YA WANNA PARTY? IT'S PARTY TIME!"
TOTALLY different lyrics than the original lyrics.
Horror punk is the best music for this time of year. Just discovered your channel and subscribed immediately, love your videos. I've got so many albums and bands that are great horror punk bands and bands I ALWAYS bust out this time of year.
Thanks for subscribing, and for the comment! I've got one more focused on Halloween coming out soon, but yes, bands like Blitzkid, Misfits, and The Cramps always end up getting a lot of play around here when Halloween gets close.
@@eclecticism-uk I should've waited until the video was over before I opened my big trap Haha
EVERYONE needs to check out the band CREEPER.
they're a new, current band from the UK that is AMAZING
@@septymesk7721 Creeper is awesome! I’ve been saving them for a different episode, but I’ll be covering them soon
Nim Vind (canada), The Other (Germany), the Crimson ghosts (Germany ), bloodsucking zombies from outer space (austria), the spookshow (sweden), the spook (germany),
Excellent list.
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Thank you!!
Yes!! 45 Grave and The CRAMPS !!!!!
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Both amazing bands! The Cramps is an all-time favourite for me
Roky Erickson and the Aliens and even the 13th Floor Elevators are all really good. Evil One. Gremlins Have Pictures. Don’t Slander Me. All good stuff
After the demise of Calgary's Color Me Psycho, in 1988 Tom Bagley formed Forbidden Dimension which is still around today.
LOVE FORBIDDEN DIMENSION
I don't know how I've missed this band for this long, but they're awesome!
Vim Vind & Wednesday 13 are also solid and fan favorites of the genre. Murderland has a bit of pop to it but still good. The Others is a personal favorite too.
Very interesting video... definitely subscribed and look forward to more 😁👍
Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
Aside from bands mentioned in the comments like Evelyn’s Casket, 5c Freakshow, check out The Writhers, Batkins, Silent Horror, The Rosedales, Son Of Sam (Davey Havok side band with members of Samhain)
So Davey Havok (AFI frontman) was in the band Son of Sam with members of Danzig and Samhain. Def also check that out. Nice that you mentioned Balzac. I don't know much about Japan's goth and horror punk scene (more into their metal and visual kei) but some years ago I got hold of a compilation called "Japanese Psychobilly Now" with a bunch of neat bands on it. Some of my favorite horror punk and horror punk adjacent stuff that I haven't seen mentioned yet.
Ghoultown, One Eyed Doll, The Other, Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 (Wednesday 13 side-project), Demented Are Go, Forbidden Dimension, HorrorPops, Night Birds, Zombie Ghost Train, Rezurex, The Coffinshakers, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Bat Hearse.
Something that I want to see but haven't found any examples of is a band combining horror punk with Celtic punk. It makes sense considering the origin of Halloween as a Celtic ritual (Samhain). It's honestly strange that this combo hasn't happened yet.
Additionally, I always include these bands in my October playlist. So if anyone's interested in the heavier side of Halloween check them out. All of these bands are some form of metal so slightly off topic from punk and punk adjacent, but they're all horror themed, so on topic for Halloween. Though there's a lot of bands that play horror themed blackened punk/thrash so they kind of fit.
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Hooded Menace, Cultes des Ghoules, Moonspell, The Vision Bleak, Carach Angren, Lucifer, Castle, Old Nick, Deceased, Denial of God, Powerwolf, Ghost, Spiter, Wraith, Devil Master, Midnight, Necromantia, Savage Master, Satan's Hallow, Hell, Attic, Portrait, Mortuary Drape, and of course, Danzig (c'mon this one's a given).
Son of Sam is definitely great! I thought giving Davey two spots on a top six would be a little excessive though :D
Yeah, metal has a lot of great Halloween-feeling bands, and I love Mortuary Drape and Hooded Menace. And of course any bands that blend goth and metal are perfect for Halloween, like Unto Others, Type O Negative, etc. Thanks for the recommendations!
Not sure if it’s considered but I really dug Murderdolls/Wednesday 13
I've definitely seen them both considered horror punk, and I was considering the Murderdolls for the list! It's always tough deciding how many bands to include, since the more I talk about, the less time I can spend talking about each one.
Such great music miss joey. Wednesday 13 was amazing as well
I love Murderdolls and all of Wednesday 13's material. I don't know how accurate it would be, but in my MP3 collection, I have all of his material under the "horror punk" genre.
The first Murderdolls record is a horror punk classic. RIP Joey and Ben.
Alkaline Trio is a personal favorite. Good Mourning or Crimson are great first stops. Thanks for your work!!
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, those are both great albums, too. They were definitely a consideration for the list!
TSOL’s “Dance With Me” is killer!
Definitely one of the early defining horror punk albums!
My favorite punk rock album of all time
Calabrese greatest band and brothers. Always a great show
Love that you included Zombina. My favorite horror punk band is Left for Dead. They are a bit more obscure I think and I've only listened to their album "It begins..." but it is pure fun. I can't recall a bad track on there. There's a few bands with that name and an ultra-popular game franchise, but I think you'll find them on youtube if you put horror punk with their name in the search.
Love this genre, and anybody mentioning Zombina and the Skeletones is ok in my book! (They have a new album dropping soon, too!) Thanks for the vid!
Yeah, I'm excited for the new album! The songs on Bandcamp so far have been excellent. Cheers!
I missed
The coffin Shakers
Screaming Lord sutch &
Frankenstein dragqueens from Planet 13
Greetings from germany
Screaming Lord Sutch definetly! Jack The Ripper, She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man, All Black And Hairy, Dracula's Daughter, all of them classic SLS tracks, that deserve far more publicity.
I am truly surprised horror punk isn’t a larger part of punk. The Misfits are such an iconic band. How is horror punk not close to being the default punk?
Wednesday 13 is on the fence between metal, hard rock and punk, but almost every song for the past 20 years is horror themed in one way or another. Their never in the horror punk conversation but should be!
Never deep dive into horror punk but I absolutely love the misfits and that horror punk/hardcore era of AFI.
I’m really happy you listed blitzkid. An old band of mine used to play with them way back when. TB and Goolsby were always good dudes and really helpful to younger bands.
That's really cool! They're definitely one of my favourites. And I get the feeling they're good dudes since after I posted this video, they actually shared it on Instagram and Facebook. I felt super appreciative they would go out of their way to do that!
IMO
Cramps - Legendary FM Broadcasts - Club 57 , NYC 18th August 1979 45 Grave - Autopsy (1987 comp)
Misfits - Earth A.D. / Wolf's Blood (1983)
Great video. I really recommend The Karnsteins from Slovakia. Very fast and melodic music. Sometimes words as a tribute to films and literature, sometimes stories they wrote, sometimes urban legends of their country and sometimes very morbid and dark humor.
I love Balzac!!! I discovered them back in the early 2000’s when they put out a few albums under Misfits Records and I’ve been hooked ever since
Don't forget Screaming Dead from the UK. Their first release was on the No Future label, famous for the "A Country Fit For Heros" comp. records. They had some really good tunes.
Great list!! Great channel! Keep it going man. Love this shit.
Thanks for watching, and glad you're enjoying it! I'm having a lot of fun making them, and it's nice seeing people enjoying them and bringing up their favourite bands, too.
Another great video! Thank you! This has always been a fav subgenre of mine. It has always felt very "small" in terms of the amounts of bands out there that could fall into the genre, so I was really pleasantly surprised when I saw the title of the vid. Great list! You definitely would've received a few stern comments if you didn't start with Misfits and Cramps. I think The Horrors also deserve a spot on this list. And then my personal favourite, which NEVER gets the recognition despite "Mr. Mental" being used in a lot of films is Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Seriously. Go check out their album Royal Society. You can thank me later ;)
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Thanks for the recs! I don't know how, but somehow I'd never gotten around to hearing The Horrors, even though I'd heard of them many times. I listened to both of these this morning and both were quite good! I liked the variety on the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster... despite their band name being ridiculously hard to remember 😆
I was waiting for you to mention Balzac ha. Also give the last Lillingtons album a go.
Really good stuff. I love how music genres branch off from one another. Im gonna check out some of these
Same here, it's always interesting to see the different ways one genre can be interpreted, then split into a whole range of styles with different sounds, aesthetics, and scenes surrounding them. I hope you enjoy the bands you check out!
Yeah, Akaline Trio! Calabrese! Both were mentioned. Some random horror punk adjacent stuff I dig is Harely Poe, The Bridge City Sinners, Creepshow, Creature Feature, and this may be controversial, BUT I think Strung Out slips into horror astetic and could fit the bill sometimes.
Ohhh, and The Lillingtons' Stella Sapintene is a great album they do that surfy ramones-core thing but take the coast sound to the cold water of Massachusetts in a cosmic way. If you catch my ftghan. Creeper! T.S.O.L.
ROCK ON! -davey 👹
@@Calabrese666 hell yeah!
thanks to this video I discovered Schoolyard Heroes, what a fantastic band
The Undead with Bobby Steele (formerly a Misfit). Jersey is the birthplace of Horror Punk :)
Great video. I honestly have ever heard one Balzac album and I never followed up on other music they have done. It's something I will have to check out. Recently I've become a really big fan of Nim Vind and the various groups he has been involved with. There are horror punk elements to a lot of what he does, but I don't think of his music as being completely of the sub genre.
His name's come up a few times already in these comments, so I'll have to check him out! Thanks for the rec :)
Been listening to Mister Monster a lot recently Definitely recommend Mister Monster - over your dead body ( first version of the album is top tier , let it play from start to finish ) . R.i.p J-Sin Trioxin ..2-4-5 Go!
J-Sin passed? That’s a shame. I met him a bunch of years ago at a DMV renewing my license
@@mattbrown2137 unfortunately yes on Dec 14 2018. He was a good dude
Great List. Allow me to provide 10 more for you.
Dead Vampires - The Day After Halloween - 2010
Messer Chups - The Incredible Crocotiger - 2015
The Meteors - From Beyond - 2007
Nekromantix - Brought Back To Life - 1991
Krewmen - Sweet Dreams - 1986
Southern Culture On The Skids - Zombified - 1998
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field - 1980
Satan's Pilgrims - Siniestro - 2017
The Polecats - Best Of The Polecats - 1999
The Monsters - The Hunch - 2013
I would also recommend BLOODSUCKING ZOMBIES FROM OUTERSPACE. They dance the line between psychobilly and horror punk.
Monster Mutant Boogie all day.
BZFOS is amazing
True Sounds of Liberty.
Definitely The Rosedales, literally anything but Once Upon A Season is classic
Great show!!!
Zombeast brotha. Good stuff. Great video
Thanks for watching! I've seen their name come up, but haven't tried them out yet.... they're added to my queue now though :)
Clicked to see if Cancerslug was here. Cancerslug neeeds to be here!
First a slight correction, Blitzkid has two lead vocalists, TB and Argyle Goolsby alternate between vocals. As for recommendations: Silent Horror, Nim Vind, Argyle Goolsby’s solo work, The Jasons, Lycotones, Twilight Creeps, and my band Strychnine just put out a horrorpunk single called “Scream” and definitely plan to have more horrorpunk influenced music in the future
Thanks for the correction on that! I did kind of imply TB was the only one, didn't I? That was unintentional :D Good luck with the band, and I'll definitely check out the new single!
Calabrese from AZ! JUST SO MUCH FUN.
Balzac is one of my favorite bands ever, I wish their discography was more easily available here. They're DEFINITELY a great entry into horror punk. I also recommend Germany's The Other. Their album Fear Itself is probably their best work, I'd start there.
Somehow I'd never heard The Other until after releasing this video, but now I'm catching up. They're quite good!
Son of Sam is an incredible horror punk band that deserves more recognition, and they happen to be one of my favorites in the horror punk scene.
Yeah, "Songs from the Earth" is a great album!
I grew up with Horror Punk, still my favourite punk subculture. Then the genre evolved until it generated some weird bands like Calabrese, which honestly is a pretty bizarre band with a fusion of Punk, Hard Rock and Goth Rock. A really obscure Horro Punk band was Shadow Reichenstein. They published two albums between 2001 and 2005, then they disappeared into obscurity (they disbanded with great probability): the first one, called "It's Monster Rock", was a bit more "punk rock" (even Psychobilly at times) for what I remember so it sounded totally different from the next album, "Werewolf Order", which was a bit more hardcore-focused. Then...who knows? They disappeared.
Cheers from Italy! 🍻
Tiger army 2 ‘power of moonlite’ is amazing, it was basically inspired by AFI (friends of tiger army) and son of Sam (Danzig super group fronted by AFI’s Davey Havok who was asked to be the singer for the misfits years prior) and even had London may of Samhain on drums. It’s slightly cannon to the Danzig universe.
THERE S KOOL 2 BAND L P OF THE CURE " IN-BETWEEN DAY"IS MY FAVORITE AND THE DAMNED TOO👀☠️💀💀💀
Oh also since you mentioned AFI and Samhain, there was kind of a Samhain sequel band called Son Of Sam which Davey Havok of AFI provided vocals for, at least on the first album, Songs From The Earth. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who is already a fan of AFI and Samhain.
Thanks for the comments. Yeah, Son of Sam is excellent!
Left Hand Black is a band from Sweden that's really good who hasn't been mentioned yet from what I see. Approaching 50 lol, I was old enough that I bought Walk Among Us and the Stray Cats first album back in 1982 as my first music purchases. Blitzkid got me back into Horror Punk along with The Other.
Your first music purchases were a bit cooler than mine, considering I think a couple cassette singles by the hip hop group Kris Kross were my first purchases :D The Stay Cats were an excellent band, too, who I rarely see getting brought up.
I'm checking out "Lower than Satan" by Left Hand Black right now, and they're a lot of fun. Thanks for the rec!
@@eclecticism-uk you're welcome and props for admitting your first purchase was Kriss Kross lol. Hell Greaser is another good band if you appreciate Pop Punk.
Great video.
If anyone can find it I highly recommend checking out Silent Horror’s self titled record from 2014. It features Argyle Goolsby from Blitzkid on vocals and is one of the best and most overlooked albums of the genre. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find.
Wow, you're not kidding. Three copies on Discogs, the cheapest for about 190 pounds!
Blitzkid are at the very top for me. No contest. Also: The Vladimirs, Serpenteens, T-Virus and Nim Vind!
I recommend THE ORDER OF THE FLY. Check Out their songs 'Rot' and 'Children of Nuclear Armageddon'.
The Dahmers from Sweden are worth checking out
I meant for them to be in the honourable mentions, but only realised they'd been left out when I was late in the editing process. "In the Dead of Night" is an awesome album!
@@eclecticism-ukThe Dahmers are definitely worth more than an honorable mention! 💀
Technically more of a metal band, but absolutely conversant with all the ones you mentioned is Devil Master. Check out “Satan Spits on Children of Light”, my favorite of their albums. The bands live aesthetic has a slight camp aesthetic that sets them apart from their black metal peers.
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Ink and Dagger, the Nerve Agents, and Murder City Devils are three unique sounding bands worth mentioning who draw outside the lines of horror punk, but have the aesthetic, themes and vibe dialed in. Also American Werewolves do a great job with the more expected take on the genre.
Forbidden Dimension without a doubt !!!
Great bands in your video. Hope you'll check us out one of these days. Germany's biggest Goth-Mag called us "Europe's No. 1 Horror Punk band". Our 9th Album is in the making and we hope to return to the states for a tour with it. And back in the days we released the now famous "This is HorrorPunk" compilations on our label Fiend Force Records. Back when almost nobody knew what Horror Punk was...
Thanks for the comment, and for checking out the video! Somehow I'd been missing out on you until people in these comments started saying "How did you leave out The Other?" I've been trying to catch up this last week and love what I've heard so far. Cheers from London!
SUGOY DESUNE BALZACG💀💀💀
Art of drowning is a great way to get my like in your video
It's an amazing album! They've made more than their share of amazing albums, haha
The first album of the horrors including the single parasyte ist for me one of the best Horrorpunk Albums.
Greetings from Germany! Sorry for my bad english😂
Somehow I've never gotten around to exploring The Horrors... I'll check that album out! Greetings from London, thanks for watching and commenting!
@@eclecticism-uk ol' blighty? Innit?
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Yeh aren't they the mad looking lads from the UK that came out in the early 2000's??
@FourteenWords-n4l Yes. They started off a goth-garage-punk band and then moved into a more post-punk sound on their second album, then shoegaze on their third etc They are current going through a NIN / Industrial phase.
They are one of my favourite bands ever.
@@eclecticism-uk Check all of their albums as they changed their sound with each release.
I watched just to see if Blitzkid was included. I’m going to send the link to TB.
Argyle Goolsby from Blitzkid is now playing with Calabrese as well.
Also check out Children of October and The Big Bad. I played lead guitar for The Big Bad for a bit. Check out the 2014 self-titled album.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing the video with him! They're obviously one of my favourites, and Calabrese as well.
Thanks for the recs, I really enjoyed the s/t The Big Bad album... love the horns and doo-wop influence on some of the songs. Cheers!
ROCK ON! we love our Goolsby. -davey 👹
One of the first horror punk bands that I listen to was the early version of TSOL. People always seem to overlook them.🎉
TSOL is awesome, especially those first two albums!
Actually found this video through Blitzkid's facebook story, haha. Some of my personal favorites are Misfits, Blitzkid, Calabrese, Blood Sucking Zombies from Outer Space, and The Other.Tangentially, Cancerslug and Doyle are also really good options while not strictly Horror Punk.
Wow, I had no idea they'd SEEN the video, let alone shared it! That's awesome, thanks for mentioning this :)
The Traveling Vampire Show by Calabrese was my introduction to horrorpunk so I would definitely recommend that album as well.
Yeah, that one's great! I really enjoyed the new album, too.
Murderdolls - Beyond the Valley. Killer album that feels like Motley Crue meets Misfits.
Ah, that's another one that almost made the list! They're very good, and also show a different side of horror punk.
@@eclecticism-uk definitely. They straddle the metal-punk line close
Nobody mentioned this band, but they are my favorite in the genre.. Hour of the Wolf
I've been a huge Balzac fan since 2002. Most of their lyrics are in English, just hard to understand. You can look them up or start picking up on what they say as you listen. My favorite album of their's is Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu.
Misfits, Calabrese, The Other and Blitzkid
Id call myself a Misfits aficionado, even though Im not much of a vinyl hoarder. But as a stickler for details: its alright to say that Walk Among Us is their first album (true, in theory, first full length joint/LP) but to follow it up with saying "even though SOME EARLIER MATERIAL LATER SURFACED ON A CD CALLED STATIC AGE" is an affront to Misfits and empirical knowledge as a whole. Static Age = the total result of the jan-feb '78 sessions at C.I. Recordings. From which the breakout '78 single Bullet came. Misfits released like two dozen singles and EPs before 1982, the first being Cough/Cool ('77, Rainbow, NYC). Walk Among Us was basically a compilation of tons of '80-'81 material Glenn remixed and redubbed at less than glamorous studios like Newfound Sound & Mix-O-Lydian, NJ. Cause in the end albums was the only way for a band to make money and until Walk... early '82, they existed thx to money from the Caiafa brothers (mainly Jerrys) dayjob n salaries. He was a manual laborer/machine operator at a plant where his dad was a foreman, it wasnt well paid so he sacrificed much for Glenn to get to live the DIY life, fuck around with artwork & dropping at least one super odd misprinted colored 7'' vinyl a month 1978-1981, paid out of pocket most of their first run.
.Its a tangent but from what Ive heard from a local and a early Fiend Club dude Jerry went back to the factory when Kryst the Konqueror failed to be profitable (they stupidly hired session musicians instead of playing on their newfound fame thx to Misfits only successful single at the time, Die Die My Darling '84, and had mfs audition and do music with them for free! Then in '95 after the settle out of court they did a good job of rebooting Misfits. Im a Danzig fan more than a Only fan but Misfits '95-'99 was fun, high energy, kick ass production and they had chemistry live too.
Glenn rudely released Die Die My Darling post-breakup himself as the Misfits but whether right or wrong that single was the spark that started the fire and when Metallica covered it and Mother sold 2x gold 5 years after it dropped & ppl got the connectionb, those events made Misfits immortal. Hard to understand now when Cough/Cool 7'' & some prints of Bullet are the most expensive punk vinyls on discogs & ebay, but they struggled their entire run as a band.
In spite of shortcomings (Only's Misfits after Graves left was except for 1950s which was fun, an abomination, as well as Glenn's retroactive narcissistic history revisionism + Elvis cover album and his sometimes retarded choice of musicians, like the hack Jerry Montano. Also his belittling of high profile band mates contributions and skills; the way he casually pre-fired Eerie & Christ before the '94 tour, at the bands all time high, was shitty. Joey Castillo - a fantastic & versatile drummer, stayed for 8 years when no one else did and when he finally left for QOTSA (who would give him the co-composing credits he was due) he didnt get any official thx from glenn or even one on thr semi-official the7thhouse dot com for being the bands backbone and his percussion the strongest aspect during the musically underrated but troublesome 1995-2003 era. '77-'83 Misfits songs with Glenns studio "magic" still sounds great but thats because the vox, core material and energy was always A+ so fcuk sketchy production values, shitty acoustics, the string of drummers of which not even all were acceptable at heir best (imo only mr jim, martinez, robo could do the job right) and glenn doing hours of post-prod alone, drowning the core bass/guitar layers with 4-5 of his own. Misfits is the ONLY horror punk band wirth effort. Too bad gothcore fag metal charlatans like avenged sevenfold have their aesthetics thx to Misfits :/
The Groovie Ghoulies, Kepi Ghoulie, Horror Section, Ghost Party, Eaten Back to Life, The Koffin Kat's, Black Cat Attack and The Jasons are all amazing and well worth checking out. A lot of that is solidly in the Ramonescore camp (as much as bands hate that label, it works for a reason...)
FINALLY someone mentions the Groovy Ghoulies!
The Phantom Limbs -- Applied Ignorance album (on Alt Tentacles) is fast paced organ-forward example of the genre.
For some newer horror punk I’d recommend checking out Silent Horror, the songs “Black Dahlia” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” Nim Vind, the songs “Killing Saturday Night” and “Killer Creature Double Feature.” The Deadlines, songs “Vampires in Love” and “Darlin’ Darlin’”. The Dahmers “Night Crawler.” Kepi Ghoulie “Graceland.”
Blitzkid...Fifty Two Ways...The Renfields...the Jasons...Children of October...Tiger Army....that one AFI album lol
Calabrese has to be one of the best!
thank u so much! -davey 👹
Got through a whole segment on The Cramps without a single mention of the Wednesday dance. Nice.
Haha, I did think about mentioning it, but when I only have a few minutes to talk about a band with as much history and personal importance to me as they have, it's pretty far down my list of priorities.
Well done, sir. I enjoyed that very much. Thx. You get a sub from me, and I look forward to your future videos.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks, and thanks for subscribing!
Balzac is best.
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Thanks for sharing! My whole goal with this channel is to help more bands get exposure, and your channel looks like a much more in-depth deep dive than I gave on here. And I love how the playlists organise everything by region... There's a lot to explore!
@@eclecticism-uk thanks for the kind words)
Thank you for the honorable mention! -- you pronounced CALABRESE correctly. APRRECIATE CHA! --- dig deeper into Calabrese, I dare ya. -davey 👹👹👹
Wow, thanks for the comment! Keep up the good work, love you guys!
5cent horror show is a lot of fun. I think they’ve only got a couple EPs but solid stuff.
@@Danger_d0351 Thanks for the rec, that’s one I’ve not heard of before!
Calabrese, American Werewolves, B Movie Monsters and The Hitchcocks are all great horror punk bands to check out. Of course The Misfits are S tier in all of punk.
Yeah, Misfits are one of my all-time favourites, no matter how deep I've gone into punk. Thanks for the recs, I still need to check out a couple of those!
@eclecticism-uk AW is a local punk band. Saw them open for Doyle. Been a fan since.
Some good early stuff to check out is The Undead - Act Your Rage. And T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me.
Some newer Japanese stuff to Check out is Melon Batake a Go Go. They're all over the place, but check out Horror Billy Nights, Nightmare Before Vampire, Idol from Outer Space, and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. They also do a cover of "She Said"
Zombie ghost train; R.I.P. was a great horror punk/ psychobilly song. I had the album once upon a time but cant remember the name.
Koffin kats was also very good
Silent Horror are still going strong after they parted ways with Argyle Ghoulsby. Silver Screen is a solid release the whole way through.
I remember the days of wearing a misfits shirt and nobody knew who they where.
Dig the Black Widow mention: Sacrifice (and the “Return to the Ssbbat” rerelease) is a fantastic album. Propagandhi fans will recognise “Come to the Sabbat”: this is the original.
I was expecting a Necromatix or Horrorpops mention too. I guess Psychobilly is technically it’s own thing, but arguably it can be traced back to artists like The Cramps who brought that 50s influence into punk.
Thank for the comment! Oh yeah, "Return to the Sabbat" is really cool. There were a handful of really interesting takes on psychedelic/folky horror in the UK before metal became a thing, with Comus being another really good one.
You know, my first list was a lot more heavy on psychobilly, but then I started realising nobody calls The Cramps 'horror punk,' even though I've always thought of them as an essential horror punk band. So I'm gonna just save psychobilly and cover it as a separate topic, even though I had to give The Cramps a shout in this one anyway!
i recomend the brazilian band Zumbis do Espaço, the biggest horror punk band from Brasil, they sing in portuguese, reference a lot of classic horror movies and has some influences of country and rockabilly in some songs, my recomendation of an album would their 5th release: Destructus Maximus, which have a song called rejeitados pelo diabo, inspired by Rob Zombie movie, the devil rejects
Zumbis do Espaço discography:
- A Invasão
- Abominavel Mundo Monstro
- Aberrações que Somos
- Aqui Começa o Inferno
- Destructus Maximus
- Nós Viemos em Paz
- Em Missão de Satanas
- Monstros Dominantes
- A Furia Selvagem
German Band of the 80s/90s: ROSTOK VAMPIRES. Their sound is a bit more Metal influenced and the lyrics are not always pure Horror themed.
Try the "Transylvanian Disease" Album released on Nuclear Blast, when it still was a Hardcore-Punk Label.
Thanks for the recommendation! For anyone else wanting to check this out, I couldn't find it on streaming in the UK, but it is on TH-cam (of course): th-cam.com/video/HXYBKE_GCgQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8CGRXSmRniAR9oJf
Would add Zombie Ghost Train album "Glad Rags & Body Bags" - rockabilly mets the Misfits.
Singers voice and the bands lyrics have an early Misfits vibe. Would check out the song R.I.P. from the album.
Alkaline Trio- Good Mourning and Misfits-Famous Monsters are my 2 favs of this genre
Alkaline Trio is excellent! I never got very into the post-Danzig Misfits, although I did see them live not long after American Psycho, and it was an awesome show