There’s by no means been a time when rock and metallic music wasn’t influenced by horror and these must-see horror flicks are completely metallic!

From early – and comparatively tame – progenitors corresponding to Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and KISS to newer and extra excessive acts (White Zombie, King Diamond, Autopsy, Cannibal Corpse, Ice Nine Kills, Mortician, and many others.), these kinds are famously dominated by artists whose songs, art work, music movies and stay theatrics revel within the macabre.

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What’s much less usually acknowledged is the inverse relationship: scary movies that – whether or not by way of their actors, soundtracks, plots or another affiliation – connect with our favourite ferocious genres. Sure, Alice Cooper and Dokken’s work on 1986’s Jason Lives: Friday the thirteenth Part VI and 1987’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, respectively, are legendary. Yet, there’s a lot extra to the intersection of scary films and heavy metallic that’s value celebrating.

On that word (and in anticipation of the Foo Fighters’ completely bonkers upcoming entry into the sphere, Studio 666, which arrives on Feb. 25), listed here are 10 headbanging horror movies you merely have to take a look at with associates.