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Last Friday, Beef Warehouse had our themed club night 'It's All About...' – this week we only played songs about monsters. Considering Halloween is round the corner, and I just spent a whole day exploring songs about monsters, I thought I'd would share the findings as they seemed to be so rich and are considered a bit low-brow.

Metal has always of course been devote followers of anything remotely monster: From the outset – Led Zeppelin 2: Ramble On a few Tolkien references in the last verse, to today’s entire Mastodon output.

There is Monstering in order of the theatrical: Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie, is without fail the reason why I first picked up 'Stranger in a Strange Land' – ‘look at this cool monster dude’ and dorms everything the band do. Alice Cooper's hit, 'Feed my Frankenstein' performance in Wayne’s World, pretty much sums up why Metal bands like Monsters.

But some bands take it beyond a reoccurring theme and it becomes the entire concept of the band. KISS, of course, were only ever  about theatrics with flaming guitars spitting blood and ‘that’ makeup. But more recently, Eurovision Song Contest winners, Lordi, won it in full regalia. Then there's latex-suffering GWAR, whose highlight of the set includes a chainsaw-welding Penguin. Glenn Danzig thinking he is a wolf however is just a bit weird. Especially with such a shiny chest.

But not all metal is about monsters, unlike Pyschobilly, which is almost as definition is Rockabilly with monsters. The Cramps, argueably the figurehead of the movement, look straight off the set of The Munsters. They inspired a horde of followers of the movement from our very own Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, to uber-stylish Danish lads and lasses, Horrorpops.

Looking at an old set of Horror Top Trumps and seeing who likes what, it would seem that Witches are solely the domain of blues with a distinct voodoo and New Orleans audio twists, from 50’s Kip Tyler’s – 'She's My Witch', and The Rattles – 'Witch', and John Mayall's 'Witch'. Well, of course there are exceptions; you wouldn’t quite call Donovan blues, but the tune does have that Voodoo sound and is my personal Monster favourite song: 'Season of the Witch'.