Horror rock

Horror Rock is a rock sub-genre that incorporates horrific themes and ideas usually found in books or movies into the music, a lot of Horror Rock is also greatly influenced by early doo-wop music of the 40s and 50s. Horror Rock became famous in the early 1980s with the arrival of the Misfits. The Misfits are credited with being one of the first horror rock bands, playing what they called horror punk, though horror punk is one of the most famous and more prominent horror rock sub-genres; horror rock covers many different genres of the rock spectrum including: Metal, Rockabilly, and Gothic rock.

Artist Rob Zombie helped popularize horror rock starting in the mid 1980s with his band White Zombie, one of the first metal bands at that time to incorporate horrific themes full time into their music. In 1998 Rob Zombie went solo and released his fist solo album Hellbilly Deluxe, this gained much attention and helped to bring horror rock to the public. One year before the release of Hellbilly Deluxe the long broken up band the Misfits released their first album with new lead singer Michale Graves, the album was entitled American Psycho and was named after the popular and controversial book by Bret Easton Ellis

List of bands
*45 Grave
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*Blitzkid
*Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space
*Burning Image
*Calabrese
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*The Cramps
*The Cryptkeeper Five
*The Damned
*Dead End Drive In
*Dead Next Door
*Diemonsterdie
*Evil I
*Gorgeous Frankenstein
*The Graveyard Boulevard
*The Independents
*The Gutter Demons
*Horror Story
*Koffin Kats
*Kommunity UK
*Left For Dead
*Michale Graves
*Misfits
*Mister Monster
*Murderland
*Nim Vind
*Nuke And The Living Dead
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*The Phantom Limbs
*The Rosedales
*Rob Zombie
*Spook
*Skeletal Family
*T.S.O.L.
*The Vladimirs
*Zombie Ghost Train

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