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Top 10 Horror Rock Songs: Rod Usher of ‘The Other’

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Yesterday Bloody-Disgusting broke the standard genre offerings of the music section by bringing you hip-hop artist Ill Bill’s Top 10 Horror Movie list. Today, we’re proud to bring you another in the popular ‘Top 10’ series by having Rod Usher, singer of the German horrorpunk band The Other, give us his Top 10 Horror Songs! Make sure you’ve got your iTunes account ready, as I’m thinking a bunch of your are gonna be buying some songs soon! Check after the jump to read the list!

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The Other have a new album coming out Aug. 30th in the U.S. entitled ‘New Blood’ (those of you in Europe can already pick it up). You can hear their music on the Official The Other MySpace.

1. Bobby “Boris” Picket – “Monster Mash”
The mother of all Horror-Rock Songs and a standard at every Halloween-Party. The audio-version of Universal’s classic monster movies!
2. Screaming Lord Sutch – “Jack the Ripper”
You can’t go wrong with a guy who looks like Lon Chaney in “London after Midnight” and starts a political party which he calls “Offical Monster Raving Loony Party”. And yes, he did write some Horror-Rock classics, too, like “Jack the Ripper” or the equally cool “She’s fallen in love with a monster-man”.
3. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – “I put a Spell on you”
Screaming Jay was a Voodoo-Wildman and the first Rock `n’ Roller to use skulls and coffins for his live-show. He was also a Sex-“Monster“ with at least 55 children.
4. Alice Cooper – “Teenage Frankenstein”
The king of Shock-Rock. There’s too many songs I could have picked by Alice for this list – “I love the Dead”, “Feed my Frankenstein”, “Price of Darkness” – but this is probably the coolest. Too bad he didn’t play it on the tour that THE OTHER supported him on.
5. KISS – “God of Thunder”
My favorite band of all time hasn’t written many horror-themed songs. But this Paul Stanley track became Gene Simmons’ signature song and a spooky Metal classic.
6. Misfits – “Astro Zombies”
Hard to choose a song from the band that wrote ONLY hits and combined Punk-Rock, Goth and scary looks in a way that had never been seen before. “Astro Zombies” features Danzig’s haunting vocals and the “ohhh ohhh”-chorus that became a standard for lots of Horror punk-bands.
7. The Cramps – “Human Fly”
RIP Lux Interior! 
8. Danzig – “Her black Wings”
The voice of Misfits and Samhain with a song from his best solo-album “Lucifuge”. 
9. The Damned – “Shadow of Love”
A romantic-gloomy track from The Damned’s goth-phase in the 80s that spawned such legendary albums like “Phantasmogoria” or “Strawberries”. Without The Misfits The Damned and The Cramps there would be no Horrorpunk-genre. These guys started it all!
10. GWAR – “Vlad the Impaler”
“Scumdogs of the Universe” is Gwar’s best album, every fan will agree with that. Oderus and his boys should stick with songs that have a catchy sing-along character, like ”Vlad the Impaler”, “Sick of you” or the track “Let us slay” from their newest album which sees the scum dogs back in form.
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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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April 9, 2024

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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…

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