Horrorpunk UK

Chris · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Northants, England

I first got into it in early 2008 when I saw a cute boy down the skatepark wearing a sparkly fiendskull shirt

Tommy Creep · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 665 Location: Worcester

Did anyone see Lauren on Hollyoaks last week wearing a Misfits t-shirt? It was so awesome...
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MonsterMash · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 220 Location: Darkest Derbyshire

"Hollyoaks"? "Lauren"? These words are strange to me...

Laughing

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Benny Fiendish · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 17 Location: York

From the age of three or four, I became almost obsessed with Nightmare On Elm Street. My parents found this very strange, but always took a 'let him make his own mind up' attitude.

This lead to me stealing all the Nightmare... VHS' from my Dad's collection and watching them for hours on end.

Then I discovered Halloween, Evil Dead and The Exorcist around the age of eight. So horror was a big part of my life as a kid.

When I started secondary school, I made friends with this guy who found out I loved horror movies. He said 'have you heard the Misfits? You'd love them lyrically.'

So, I bought Walk Among Us and I got chills. I couldn't believe how cool this music was and right away bought everything else by them.

From there I found bands like The Damned, Danzig, The Cramps etc. and it's been a constant interest of mine ever since.
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I fell in love with a video nasty...

NatheoftheLivingDead · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 125 Location: Lincoln

I got into the whole "nu-metal" thing fairly early on, which led me to Fear Factory, NIN and towards industrial, including Skinny Puppy. A hot girl at school had a Skinny Puppy patch and a Misfits patch on her bag. Having never heard them, I assumed the Misfits were in a similar vein... :S
My dad overheard me talking about them when I got in from school that day and proudly dug out his first pressing vinyl of Earth A.D. Because I was expecting some kind of lo-fi 80s post-goth industrial style music, the title track blew me away, but I was hooked instantly Razz

I got into AFI by playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and still having a soft spot for nu-metal (obviously including Slipknot and Static-X) I heard about and got into the Murderdolls very quickly. My dad had played me the Damned as a kid, and I got back into them instantly. A little intuition, Google, Limewire, and a few months later, and I was full on into horror punk and deathrock, and have been ever since Razz

But nu-metal is still good, dammit. Coal Chamber, Slipknot and Korn are still proudly represented on my bag in patch and button form...lambast me all you like Razz

"Fuk all tha hataz y'all"

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