It may be merely a corollary of this rule that in Eastern Europe alcoholics are regarded as prime candidates for revenants. People who are different, unpopular, or great sinners are apt to return from the dead. As Paul Barber notes in Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), Interestingly, alcoholism does connect with vampirism. Maybe that’s why he’s dressed up like a member of Mötley Crüe. Radke insists he’s not a vampire, “but I feel like one” and “I sleep all day because I hate the sunlight.” As the lyrics soon reveal, this has nothing to do with genetic disorders like Xeroderma pigmentosum or undead propensities toward bursting into flame, but substance abuse problems, where “whiskey seems to be my holy water” and “my daddy should’ve never raised me on Black Sabbath.” Deep. He owes Russell Brand, Noel Fielding and Short Stack’s snazzy trio a favour. I also can’t help being distracted by lead singer, Ronnie Radke’s hair. This track’s a lot more poppier than I’d expect for a post-hardcore act. It’s awesome.ģ Falling in Reverse, “I’m Not a Vampire” If you haven’t seen the opening scene, watch it here. Either way, this track’s best-known for its use in Blade‘s opening scene. The song is sometimes confused with Warp Bros and Aquagen’s “Phat Bass” and Public Domain’s “Operation Blade” (both 2000), because they sample the Pump Panel remix. The remix was released in 1995 on Pump Panel’s Confusion / Re-Mover single and included on New Order’s compilation album, (The Rest of) New Order, that same year. It’s a remix of New Order’s single “Confusion,” first released in 1983. This is that song-the full-length version. Remember Blade‘s opening scene? The camera ventures into an underground club where everyone’s dancing to a techno song before Blade makes his grand entrance. Davis later recorded the track for his 2007 album, Alone I Play, which seems to be the earliest authorised version of the song I’ve come across.Ĥ New Order, “Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)”īlade: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (1998) Draiman’s version also features in Paula-Maree Cavenett’s “ 10 Songs to Awaken Your Inner Vampyre.” There was apparently a reissue of the soundtrack that featured Davis’ version, but according to Wikipedia, it is “Available via Torrent download only”-which suggests it might have a less-than-legal pedigree. In fact, it’s not Davis’ version of the song that appears on the album’s official soundtrack, but Disturbed’s lead singer, David Draiman-whose version plays over the film’s closing credits. Shankar, who trained with Jonathan Davis to get all of Davis’ vocal inflections down.” Why? Because “Jonathan Davis was not allowed by Sony to provide any vocals for the soundtrack” due to contractual agreements with another label. However, according to kilScene, “Lestat’s vocal performances were actually sung by L. The highly-viewed YouTube video bills Korn as the artist, but it was actually co-written (with Richard Gibbs) and sung by the band’s lead singer, Jonathan Davis, with “Double Violin and Vocal Improvisation by Shenkar” according to IMDb. The accompanying clip is a music video in the the movie. Firstly, this is one of the songs rock star Lestat (Stuart Townsend) sings in Queen of the Damned (2002). Queen of the Damned: Music from the Motion Picture (2002?)īear with me, because attributing the right singer to this song’s a bit of nightmare. Without further ado, let the countdown begin!ĥ Jonathan Davis, “Forsaken” In another listing, the song appeared in a non-vampiric source first, but is popularly associated with a certain vampire movie. I’ve done my best to trace the song’s original album release (keeping in mind that YouTube video titles can veer wildly from their sources), but in one case, that was pretty hard to determine. The list is in ascending order and surprisingly eclectic. Next time, choose an overt title or description. So, apologies in advance to any “obliquely vampiric” or “allegedly vampiric” songs out there. I determined the most popular vampire songs through a highly scientific method: typing “vampire” into YouTube and sorting the results by “view count” in the filter. Kagan defines vampire songs as “those with obvious vampire lyrics, those obliquely vampiric, those allegedly vampiric, those in which vampires are mentioned, and those found on the soundtracks to vampire films.” For the sake of this article, I’ll only list complete songs, not snippets from TV or movie scenes.
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