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Shock rock is the combination of rock music or heavy metal music with highly theatrical live performances emphasizing shock value. Performances may include violent or provocative behavior from the artists, the use of attention-grabbing imagery such as costumes, masks, or face paint, or special effects such as pyrotechnics or fake blood.
Oct 20, 2023 · Shock rock is rock’n'roll at its most gleefully demented, a place where monsters run free and sometimes play guitars, where topless women blow up cars, mutant ghouls chomp on raw meat, hapless audience members are fed to hungry space-maggots, and dope-smacked singers roll around in broken glass. It’s hell with the lid off, set to a 4/4 beat.
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Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You", he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock.
- Jay Hawkins
- July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
- Jalacy J. Hawkins
- February 12, 2000 (aged 70), Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Alice Cooper. Like rock’n’roll’s answer to Jason Voorhees, Alice Cooperis the man that refuses to die. He’s been decapitated, electrocuted, stabbed, poisoned, hung, you name it – only the latter proving to pose any threat to his livelihood one freak night at Wembley Stadium when a safety wire snapped.
- Papa Emeritus / Cardinal Copia. Sweden’s Ghosthave become rock music’s fastest-growing cult – the sinister ministers headlining festivals, winning GRAMMYs and topping their national charts in the process.
- Marilyn Manson. The Antichrist Superstar. The God Of Fuck. The Angel With The Scabbed Wings. One-time journalist Brian Warner would transition into something that’s been given many names over the years, but as Marilyn Mansonhe terrified America perhaps more than any musician before, and indeed since his rise to infamy in the mid-'90s.
- GG Allin. A performance artist like GG Allin – if indeed such a term applies – simply wouldn’t have been able to exist in today’s world. And for the most part that’s a good thing.
Sep 12, 2020 · Now that we've got that settled, let's take a look at some of the most amazing shock-rock acts and musicians Screamin' Jay Hawkins This is where it all began, and it began more or less...
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Shock rock is a wide umbrella term for artists who combine rock music with elements of theatrical shock value in live performances. 'Shock rock' first appeared as a loose genre term during the early 1970s, referring to glam rock era musicians.
Feb 11, 2021 · By the 1990s, the term "shock rock" had become a catch-all label for bands and musicians who incorporated dark imagery and themes in their music and concerts. From the hot-rods-and-monsters groove of White Zombie to the depressive grind and apocalyptic overtones of Marilyn Manson , the impact of music blended with horror-infused theatricality ...
