“Everything sucks, life is a drag, I wish I was dead.”
Are you or one of your loved ones experiencing vivid thoughts of Vampira? Are you or anyone you know obsessively dying your hair black while humming the theme song to
The Munsters? If fantasies of horror and destruction are occupying your thoughts…we may have just what you’re looking for!
Nothin’ quite scratches that itch like a horror punk list leading into the new year, and I, Bobby Calabrese, am here to help. Occult rock, Satanic doo-wop, horror punk? However you define the evil side of rock and roll, this is bad music for bad people!
Horror Punk: the conversation always starts with the Misfits. No exceptions. They are the originators, the ones who took 50s garage pop and laced it with the most gruesome things Glenn Danzig s mind could imagine. But that doesn t mean the conversation ends at the Misfits there s a lot more out there. That s why we tapped Anders Manga of occult rock duo Bloody Hammers to get you more acquainted with things.
My intro to horror punk was actually via Metallica. When I was a kid, a friend of mine from the neighborhood had a copy of their
Garage Days Re-Revisted EP, which had a cover of The Misfits’ Last Caress on it. I’d never heard of Misfits but knew I had to find some of their records. This was pre-internet so that meant going from record store to record store digging through crates until you found something.
Horror Punk: the conversation always starts with the Misfits. No exceptions. They are the originators, the ones who took 50s garage pop and laced it with the most gruesome things Glenn Danzig s mind could imagine. But that doesn t mean the conversation ends at the Misfits there s a lot more out there. That s why we tapped Anders Manga of occult rock duo Bloody Hammers to get you more acquainted with things.
My intro to horror punk was actually via Metallica. When I was a kid, a friend of mine from the neighborhood had a copy of their
Garage Days Re-Revisted EP, which had a cover of The Misfits’ Last Caress on it. I’d never heard of Misfits but knew I had to find some of their records. This was pre-internet so that meant going from record store to record store digging through crates until you found something.