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Jul 3, 2024 · The greatest rock bands and artists in every conceivable sub-genre, ranked. Over 1K music fans have voted on the 100+ Best Shock Rock Artists, Ranked. Current Top 3: Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein.
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- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- Screaming Lord Sutch
- Arthur Brown
- Alice Cooper
- King Diamond
- Gwar
- Rob Zombie
- Marilyn Manson
- Rammstein
- Ghost
This is where it all began, and it began more or less accidentally. "I Put a Spell on You", Hawkins' most famous piece and arguably one of the most important blues tracks that would shape the future of rock'n'roll, was originally meant to be a mellow ballad. However, when it was time to record the song, the whole band got utterly shitfaced and inst...
Inspired by the horror extravaganza of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, one David Edward Stuch, esquire, reinvented himself as Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, and stepped on stage roughly a decade after Screamin' Jay to follow in his footsteps. Despite his self-proclaimed utter inability to actually sing, Screaming Lord Sutch, alongside his band ca...
The name and deed of Arthur Brown may have fallen to obscurity in recent years, but at the height of his career, he was sharing stages with such immortal contemporaries as Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and The Doors – to name but a few. A member and founder of countless projects, Arthur Brown got the shock horror torch (metaphorically) passed...
The eternally-awesome Alice Cooper never settled down just with dressing up as a coked-up goth Karen from hell, but instead took the performance aspect of shock rock on a whole new level. And so, Alice decided to theatrically stage for himself a myriad of dramatic on-stage executions, including (but not limited to) getting decapitated, hung, electr...
When the Danish musician Kim Bendix Petersen first graced the stage as King Diamond, he gave shock rock a whole new meaning. Toting about in a top-hat and Kiss-inspired face paint with inverted crosses instead of cat whiskers while carrying a skull of a real human being, he was a grisly sight to behold. He even took the on-stage theatrics to a whol...
Gwar one-upped their predecessors by performing in full costume as the fictional alien techno-barbarians led by Dave Brockie as Oderus Urungus. The band would even go on to build an elaborate mythology of portrayed characters, thus bringing their on-stage performance and lyrical content together. Since the band's inception in 1984, Gwar swooned aud...
Although Rob Zombie began his rise to infamy around the same time as Marilyn Manson, the dreadlocked, corpse-paint-wearing horror aficionado never really shocked the mainstream as his colleague, but he more than made it up with sheer creativity. And so, Rob Zombie came up with an unique aesthetic that drew inspiration from vintage horror cinema, '6...
Combining the names of a timeless sex symbol and one of the most notorious serial killers in popular culture, Marilyn Manson had a statement to make right from the get-go. Using the grotesque in his appearance and performance, Manson used his art to put up a dark mirror standing in contrast to everything thought as "good" and "decent" in the Christ...
The Neue Deutsche Harte behemoths from Rammstein are no strangers to controversy. Although a lot of it came unintentionally –from the untimely airing of the music video of "Ich Will" (which depicts band members essentially as terrorists celebrated for their violence) at the night of 9/11 to the band being accused of indirectly inspiring several ter...
Whether you like him or not, Tobias Forge, the mastermind behind the ever-increasingly-popular Ghost, got many things right when it comes to music in general and his chosen field in particular. For all its apparent controversy, shock rock has always been driven by the make-believe – the spectacle of gruesomeness, not gruesomeness for its own sake –...
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Aug 12, 2020 · Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Sure, many of the early progenitors of rock ’n’ roll were deemed “shocking” by the status quo due to a cultural sea change. But the artist known as Jalacy Hawkins, aka...
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- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. A pioneer of shock rock, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins rose to prominence in the 1950s with his classic “I Put a Spell on You.” Wild-eyed and cackling, draped in outrageous attire, Hawkins performed the song after an outpour of grumbles and gurgles in the video below.
- Alice Cooper. Provocateur Alice Cooper has always been one for the theatrical. He has spent his career one-upping himself on stage, incorporating snakes, guillotines, and gallows into his live shows.
- GG Allin. The notorious GG Allin was the most shocking of all rockers. His live shows always bordered on controversial as they involved violence, self-mutilation, and defecation.
- Rob Zombie. Before he was making films, horror mastermind Rob Zombie was crafting his own scary movies on stage. His live shows were filled with elements of horror and suspense as he donned demonic eyes alongside his bloody-mouthed backing band.
- G.G. Allin. Hands down, GG Allin is the king of all things sex, sadomasochism, sleaze, violence, and punk. Some considered him a sadistic psychopath, and a junkie, while others cite him as being one of rock music's most rebellious figure among in the early '80s and early '90s punk community.
- The Mentors. The Mentors began in 1976 in Seattle by fusing the sounds of early heavy metal, and garage rock style punk. After relocating to LA, in 1979, the band found themselves at the forefront of the '80s LA hardcore scene.
- GWAR. How could we not include our favorite intergalactic mutant killers from outer space, GWAR on this list? For over a quarter of a century, this band of aliens has been scorching the planet with live shows that leave fans soaked in blood, puke and alien slime.
- Anal Cunt. Anal Cunt's 'singer' Seth Putnam was known in grind core circles as the GG Allin of grind, and he sure lived up to this name. Anal Cunt was a very extreme, caustic grind core metal band formed in 1988, which was built on a foundation of offending people through music and drugs, lots and lots of drugs.
Nov 12, 2018 · From Screamin’ Jay Hawkins emerging from a coffin to Marilyn Manson stripping down on live television, we’re going through the history of iconic shock rock moments in this Loud List....
Sep 4, 2018 · We doff our caps to the greatest shock rockers in history…. 1. Alice Cooper. Like rock’n’roll’s answer to Jason Voorhees, Alice Cooper is the man that refuses to die. He’s been ...
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