A few years later, Paradise would be followed by KISS’s own campy, B-horror/Sci-fi effort, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park- every bit as bizarre as it sounds. A satirical rejection of mainstream music of that era (which, isn’t that exactly what all heavy metal is?) Paradise gave us Alice Cooper-esque stage theatrics, such as faux body dismemberment, as well as one of the earliest versions of cinematic corpse paint. The sounds and styles of Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, and KISS were domineering the scene- affectionately parodied in Brian de Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise. Other musicians of the era started walking the same, blackened path, as bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest arose in Sabbath’s horror-inspired, metallic wake, and we were then introduced to our first light wave of heavy metal-horror movies.īy the 1970s, metal was shifting from heavier-sounding bands to the more accessible, melodic glam metal, which was reflected within the earliest batch of metal(-ish) horror films. Rejecting the more mainstream hippie culture of the time and wanting to create the musical parallel to horror films, Black Sabbath took inspiration from horror writer Dennis Wheatley and adopted themes of the occult into its lyrics. When metal crusaders Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and their bandmates axed their not-so-metal original band names Polka Tulk Blues Band and Earth for the darker, more favorable Black Sabbath after Mario Bava’s 1963 horror anthology of the same name in the late 1960s, heavy metal- and its match made in hell to horror- was born.
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In honor of the latest heavy metal-horror movie to join the subgenre’s slate, the Alexandra Daddario-starring We Summon the Darknessthat’s arriving on VOD this week, we’re looking at each decade of heavy metal’s progression and relationship to the horror genre.
Just like metal horns and concerts pair so perfectly, these misfit subgenres have been tied together for decades- even coming together as one in the form of “metalsploitation,” (yep, a real term) in which heavy metal music is exploited, satirized, and, most importantly, portrayed lovingly within its own, unique variety of horror films. Blood, Satan, the occult, fighting off zombies, social chaos, violence, death- on the surface, these descriptors sound like your average indicators of our favorite horror movies, however, they’re just as representative of horror’s musical cousin equivalent: heavy metal.
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