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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | Horror and science-fiction cinema, Violence, cartoonishly, Death, Teenage romance, subverted | 100% | ×1 |
| Normal How long should a song be? | up to 2.5 min | 83% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 91% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, about 1, length 1 out of 9. Horror punk leads the next by 1 point. 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 91%
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 -
Rockabilly 87%
Rock and roll filtered through white country music: slapped upright bass, Sun Studio echo and a vocal hiccup. It gets rediscovered every couple of decades.
4 steps from Horror punk, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Rockabilly
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
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 9.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 9.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 9.
- Normal put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Progressive rock, Krautrock, Acid rock. Worth 1 of 9.
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.