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BD Special Treat: Avenged Sevenfold’s ‘Top 10 Halloween Songs’!
We’ve got a special Halloween treat for you to kick off this holiday weekend. Beyond the break you’ll find the “Top 10 Halloween Songs of Avenged Sevenfold”, a list compiled by the entire band with an explanation for each selection by rhythm guitarist and harmony vocalist Zacky Vengeance! You can enjoy a sample of each track by scrolling to the bottom. Happy Halloween!
MM did a great job covering this song from The Nightmare Before Christmas. You can tell he wanted to make sure he did the song justice and I think he did.
You definitely need something satanic on Halloween. This is what it sounds like when demons and goblins dance and then violently decapitate you.
This song is probably everyone’s favorite. When I saw the video as a kid I was scared.
This is from the most twisted album I’ve ever heard. It’s called “Murder Ballads” and is a fucking masterpiece. This song tells the tale of a man’s family being brutally murdered in gory detail with the man narrating it. The twist is is that the killer is actually…
This song is so in-your-face and reminds me of the days when A7X was just starting out and me and Shadows would be at Bionic records waiting to get our hands on EPs like this.
Any song about killing your girlfriend then sodomizing their corpse then returning back as a zombie should be in your Halloween playlist.
Our drummer the Rev turned me on to the Residents. This is from the album entitled “Freak Show” and it always makes me feel like I’m in some Carney nightmare.
I think this choice pretty much speaks for itself…
This is one of those bands that were so raw and dirty that their presence alone was scary. Spencer Moody, the singer, looks like a serial killer, and the song is about bodies hanging to scare off pirates and shit, which was once a real concept.
To me this is the ULTIMATE Halloween party song. In fact, it’s the theme of my party this year. It’s light-hearted, yet spooky, and the musicianship of Elfman/Bartek cannot be matched.
Movies
Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.