13 Metal Songs That Should Be On Every Halloween Playlist

"Nothing brings out the metalhead in everyone like Halloween. The spookiest of holidays suddenly makes every Chad and Karen a dabbler in the occult, and covers innocent suburban lawns with gore-drenched zombies and web-suffocated spider victims. Meanwhile, actual metal fans are for one month a year surrounded by all the skulls and demons they could ever ask for — and, for once, other people genuinely want to know what they’re listening to. Halloween is the only holiday where metal isn’t just accepted, it’s appropriate."

But what songs are necessary seasonal listening? Metal is so inundated with darkness and witchcraft that locking down exactly which bands and songs to blast can be tough.