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Horror Show is the sixth studio album from the American heavy metal band Iced Earth, released June 26, 2001. It is a theme album based on classic monsters and horror-movie icons, including Dracula, Frankenstein, and the ghost from Phantom of the Opera. It was the first Iced Earth album to feature drummer Richard Christy, and the only album to feature Steve DiGiorgio on bass, though he did not tour with the band. Horror Show is usually considered Iced Earth's only straightforward power metal release, as little of the thrash metal influence from the band's earlier works is present. This album also featured more prominent usage of Matt Barlow's multi-layered vocals as a center point for the songs.
There was a special limited-edition 2-CD set. The second CD featured the instrumental track " Transylvania" (an Iron Maiden cover) along with an interview with bandleader/rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer. There is also a single-disc version with "Transylvania", but without the interview. The song "Dracula" includes the line "the blood is the life", a quote from Deuteronomy 12:23. However, it is likely lifted from the 1992 version of Bram Stoker's Dracula which also features the line. As in "Dracula", many of the lyrics are lifted straight from the movies they were inspired by. Unlike other releases, it features much writing from Matt Barlow.
By the end of the song "Damien" there is a section where Jon's reversed voice repeats the message that is also in the middle, silent section of the song. So, if the song is played backwards, the true message can be heard. This kind of reversed voice was also done by Iron Maiden by the beginning of their song "Still Life" of their fourth studio album " Piece of Mind".
Horror Show is the debut EP by Springfield, IL rock band The Graduate. The album was self-produced and released independently in May 2006. After the CD's release, The Graduate were signed to Icon MES Records.
Horror Show may refer to:
- The Horror Show a 1989 supernatural horror film
- Horror Show (EP), a debut EP by rock band The Graduate
- Horror Show (album), an album by Iced Earth
- Gregory Horror Show, a anime
- The Rocky Horror Show, a long-running British stage musical
- Zee Horror Show, a television show
- Horrorshow (band), an Australian hip-hop duo
- Horrorshow (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Horror Show (Graydon Creed), a fictional character in the Age Of Apocalypse Marvel Universe
- Horror Show, a song by Canadian Gothic Synthrock band The Birthday Massacre (band)
- Horrorshow, a song by English rock band The Libertines
- "horrorshow", a word in Nadsat, the fictional language used in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
- Derived from хорошо (khorosho), a Russian language word meaning "very good."