It’s that time of the year again that the whole world is interested in the darker side of the world… Samhain, Hallow’s Eve, Halloween is upon us! We found this the ideal time to have a look at the love story between horror and metal, rock and industrial music. There’s an ocean of things we could discuss here. There are horror themed bands, bands with releases with a horror theme, horror movies with metal and rock inspired soundtracks, musicians giving directing and/or acting in a horror flick a try,… Because we don’t want to scare you away with an article that goes on for ages, we’ll be selecting a small partition to take a look at this year and come back on a different section every coming Halloween. This year we’re focusing on…

Horror Movie Soundtracks of the 21st Century

The past 17 years there has been quite some horror movies having metal music integrated in them and have those songs together with some extra awesome tracks on the official soundtrack. You could even find a trend in which one artist/musician/band made the actual score of a movie with every single song having a big role in the story or atmosphere. The following list brings you an overview of some of the great soundtracks to put on while you get ready for your Halloween activities… Enjoy!

Queen of the Damned

Resident Evil

Underworld

Saw

Freddy vs Jason

Freddy vs Jason

One last major horror movie that took use of the well-established link between the darker side of imagination and heavy music, was the crossover between the classic slasher franchises “Friday The 13th” and “Nightmare on Elm Street”. In “Freddy vs Jason” we get serial killers Freddy and Jason in a fight to the death. The score itself was mostly performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, though 3 tracks were actually recorded by Machine Head. The soundtrack featured a lot of bands that were “hot” at the time and makes for a pretty awesome compilation album. What makes the soundtrack most notable, is the fact that 14 out of 20 tracks on the album were previously unreleased by the bands.

Tracklist:
1. How Can I Live – Ill Niño
2. When Darkness Falls – Killswitch Engage
3. The Beginning of the End – Spineshank
4. Sun Doesn’t Rise – Mushroomhead
5. Condemned Until Rebirth – Hatebreed
6. Snap – Slipknot
7. Army of Me – Chimaira
8. The After Dinner Payback – From Autumn to Ashes
9. Leech – Sevendust
10. Bombshell – Powerman 5000
11. Welcome to the Strange – Murderdolls
12. Out of My Way – Seether
13. Inside the Cynic – Stone Sour
14. Swinging the Dead – DevilDriver
15. The Waste – Sepultura ft. Mike Patton
16. Middle of Nowhere – The Blank Theory
17. Ether – Nothingface
18. Trigger – In Flames
19. 11th Hour – Lamb of God
20. (We Were) Electrocute – Type O Negative