WELCOME TO HELL

Doug Bradley isn’t the only horror heavyweight to dabble in metal…

BILL MOSELEY

Famed for his roles as otis Driftwood in rob Zombie’s House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects (not to mention 3 From Hell – see page 39) and Chop Top in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Bill went Full metal when he teamed up with Phil Anselmo for an unlikely (and, in all honesty, pretty solid) new music project. having apparently wanted to work together for years, the pair finally released their debut EP in early 2017 on Phil’s own housecore records. released under the moniker of Phil & Bill, Songs Of Darkness And Despair was unveiled to solid reviews.

SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE

The iconic actor and Metal Hammer Golden

God alumnus, whose portrayal of Dracula in the hammer horror series has become a part of horror lore, became so fascinated with metal that he ended up releasing two albums of the stuff – 2010’s Charlemagne: By The Sword And The Cross and 2013’s The Omens Of Death. he also released a couple of metal Xmas EPs (no, really) and made appearances with the likes of manowar and rhapsody of Fire. “A good concert from a metal band is exhilarating! like nothing you’ve ever heard before!” he told us in his 2010 interview alongside Tony Iommi. legend!

ROBERT ENGLUND

You know him as the blade-gloved, dreamhaunting Freddy Krueger of the A Nightmare On Elm Street series, but did you know that robert Englund also once appeared on a heavy metal record made by a band inspired by… um… him? Swedish horror thrashers F.K.Ü. – AKA Freddy Krueger’s Ünderwear – managed to rope the actor into narrating on their 2009 album

Where Moshers Dare. Singer larry lethal says the experience was a hoot, gushing: “You can only imagine what an honour it is for us. he’s such a professional yet extremely funny, so the recording was a real blast.”