1.SCREAMIN JAY HAWKINS
In the 1950's Screamin' Jay was known for his crazy, theatrical performances and macabre imagery. Best known for scary tracks like ''I Put a Spell on You'' and ''Constipation Blues,'' Screamin' Jay was arguably the very first shock rocker. (credit: Frank Edwards/Hulton Archive) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGPhpvqtOc
2.IGGY POP
In a class all his own, Iggy's 1970s psycho stage persona was scary, and not just because of the raw meat, puking and rolling around in broken glass, but because he had a little trouble keeping little Iggy in his pants, if you know what we're saying. (credit: Marty Temme/WireImage)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbLRf0j80wU
3.ALICE COOPER
He welcomed us into his nightmare in the 1970s. Alice Cooper's scary stage show featured guillotines, electric chairs, (fake) blood, and scary snakes. A metal pioneer and born entertainer, some would argue that pretty much every shock rocker since then owes something to Alice Cooper. (credit: Max Schneider/Hulton Archive)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZxRYXZ154
4.KISS
Coming to prominence in the late 1970s, scary KISS wore face paint and costumes and their stage show featured smoking guitars, fire breathing, blood spitting, and pyrotechnics. Not to mention Gene ''The Demon'' Simmons has the scariest, longest tongue in bass player history. (credit: Chris Walter/WireImage)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgsoJrzplUI
5.OZZY OSBOURNE
Before he was the battered shell of a husband you see before you today, and after he was paranoid with Black Sabbath, Ozzy was scary! Every teenaged boy's mother's nightmare. He bit the heads off a dove and a bat. And word is that he was in cahoots with the devil. The DEVIL! (credit: Hulton Archive) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbPWcLode0
6.W.A.S.P.
Nudity! Simulated torture! Raw meat! In the 1980s, metal band W.A.S.P. were such scary troublemakers they were a catalyst for the formation of Tipper Gore's PMRC. (credit: Paul Natkin/WireImage) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3gVs6UG5Q
7.TWISTED SISTER
They were all about teenaged angst, like their 1984 hit ''We're Not Gonna Take It.'' But scary frontman Dee Snider didn't look like the sort of guy you'd want to meet in an alleyway. (credit: Chris Walter/WireImage)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyu7nN3kBnw
8.MARILYN MANSON
Marilyn Manson, who named himself for Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson, considered himself something of an antichrist superstar at one point. In the 90s he was sort of the king of the scary macabre imagery. Boo. (credit: Patti Ouderkirk/WireImage)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKlb8N6TqA
9.SLIPKNOT
Late nineties offering Slipknot relied on nu metal and scary masks. And guess what. It worked. These are the dudes you have nightmares about when you're away at summer camp. (credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1unzN2zsA4k
10.ROB ZOMBIE
A walking horror show with industrial, punk metal leanings, Rob Zombie has also made something of a scary name for himself as director of such films as ''House of 1000 Corpses'' and ''The Devils Rejects.'' (credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdhVT9OfLQ
11.LORDI
Also apparently known as ''The Finnish Monsters'' and ''The Monsters of Finland,'' scary metal band Lordi won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with a record 292 points, which is scary enough on its own. (credit: MJ Kim/Getty Images)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VzdtmrP6Y
WHO SHOULD HAVE MADE THE LIST
12. GORGOROTH
While not the best sounding band in the industry, these self proclaimed messengers of the devil have been banned from Poland for displaying decapitated sheep heads at one of their performances and current frontman Gaahl went to jail for assaulting a man who assaulted him. That's not the weird part, apparently Gaahl tortured the man for hours, including some acts inflicted upon the mans genitalia. In the same incident he supposedly drank the man's blood from a cup. For more about his weirdness check out the True Norwegian Black Metal documentary in the Forge-Tube.
13.VENOM
No Black Metal band worth its salt cannot say that they don't owe a certain amount of thanks to these pioneers of the aggressive, droning, dark, Black Metal sound. Proclaiming themselves Satanists, these British metalheads carved a path that later would be followed by the likes of Mayhem, Dimmu-Borgir, and countless other Black Metal bands.
what about GG Allin
ReplyDeleteScreaming Lord Sutch, who introduced the UK to psychobilly and shock rock. Screamin Jay was his major influence. And Screaming Lord Sutch was a major influence on the British invaders in the 1960s. About half of 'em played in his band, The Savages.
ReplyDeleteBlue Oyster Cult. Not scary looking but terrified right-wing christians with "Don't Fear the Reaper" and their rep as Satan worshipers.
Arthur Brown. Anyone who wears a flaming pope's hat... fi-ER!!!