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Is there any holiday more tailor-made for heavy metal than Halloween? Of course not! And so, below, we offer up 10 tunes to soundtrack the spookiest day of the year. Happy trick or treating...
1. Rob Zombie, “American Witch” What’s Halloween without a few witches? This tune, off Zombie’s third solo album, Educated Horses, is about the 17th-century Salem witch trials.
2. King Diamond, “Halloween”
King Diamond is a band so perfect for October 31 that you can even get Halloween-themed[1]merch[2]. This song is from King Diamond’s 1986 debut album, Fatal Portrait. And for a guy who has been wearing face paint for more than three decades, it’s hardly surprising to hear him sing the words “Every night to me is Halloween.”
3. Type O Negative, “All Hallows Eve”
“Pumpkins grin in their despair”… “Spiderwebbed and glazed in frost”… Welcome to the most depressing Halloween ever, courtesy of the “Drab Four,” the one and only Type O Negative.
4. Ozzy Osbourne, “Bark at the Moon”
Ozzy’s werewolf get-up in this clip is enough to bring you to tears…of laughter. But despite the high camp of the clip, the song, with Jake E. Lee on guitar, is a killer. Awoooooooo!
5. Helloween, “Halloween”
Given their band name—not to mention the fact that their mascot was a demented-looking jack o’ lantern with spindly green arms—it only made sense that Helloween would eventually write a song about the spookiest of holidays. Across more than 13 minutes of classic German power metal, the band lays out a tale of well, trick or treating, basically. And singer Michael Kiske warns of the dangers of getting a trick: “Bad luck if you get a stone / Like the good