Your way in
Horror punk 1979
Punk with B-movie horror imagery, baritone vocals and mutant doo-wop choruses.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- New Jersey, USA
- Tempo
- 160-200 bpm
- Song length
- 1.5-2.5 min
- Written about
- Horror and science-fiction cinema, Violence, cartoonishly, Death, Teenage romance, subverted
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Horror punk | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1979 | 56% | ×1 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | Horror and science-fiction cinema, Violence, cartoonishly, Death, Teenage romance, subverted | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 89% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, era 1, about 1 out of 4. Horror punk leads the next by 5 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Ramones, Ramones 1976
Ramones - Ramones. Fourteen songs in twenty-nine minutes, not a wasted note.
- 2The one to put on first
Misfits, Walk Among Us 1982
Misfits - Walk Among Us. Thirteen horror songs in twenty-five minutes.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Punk rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Horror punk's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Deathrock 84%
The American version, more punk and more theatrical, with tribal drums and horror-movie imagery.
4 steps from Horror punk, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into Deathrock -
Gothic metal 78%
Death-doom that adds keyboards, romance and female vocals. It popularised the beauty-and-the-beast formula.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Horror punk.
The way into Gothic metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 4.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 4.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.