Written By Kevin McScreamy
Welcome To Metal Lair’s Seven Deadly Screams, The Halloween Edition of Seven Deadly Songs
Welcome to Seven Deadly Screams, your Halloween special edition of Metal Lair’s weekly feature Seven Deadly Songs, where seven demonic ditties ascend from the bowels of Hell to haunt your eardrums with their diabolical delights.
All seven infernal incantations are from albums and EPs unleashed upon an unsuspecting public between the 27th of October and the 2nd of November, with particular attention paid, of course, to October 31st.
All our selections tie in with the season, and were chosen for that reason, so apologies to any bands releasing particularly good albums and EPs this week who were overlooked for not being spooky enough. (It’s not as if my recommendation is going to do you any favours anyway so don’t sweat it!)
In this weeks Seven Deadly Songs a special mention goes to the Welsh black metal/dungeon synth band Enshroud, whose EP Despise The Light (released on October 31st via Nocturnal Curse Records) has a vampire and a giant bat on the cover.
There’s a song on it called Corpses Piled High, which is a reference to a quote from the former British prime minister Boris Johnson, the mention of whose name fills me with more dread and loathing than anything Halloween could throw at me.
Californian grindcore band Gutsaw’s EP Fuck Me I’m Undead via Slam Worldwide is also worth a shout, not least because that’s a great title. Speaking of great titles, there’s also Something Happened on The Way to Hell by New Jersey death metal crew Chained to The Dead via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. I’m sure Phil Collins would approve! Anyway, on with the list!
Black Soul Horde – Lady of Shadows
We start off Seven Deadly Songs with some Hellenic heavy metal, with a heavy emphasis on the first syllable of Hellenic. This is certainly a suitable offering for the season. Spooky band name? Tick! Spooky song title? Tick! Released on Halloween? Perfect! The Athens-based band are to release Symphony of Chaos, their fourth full-length album, on October 31st via Vinyl Store, and it’ll be a petrifying platter if its predecessor, Horrors From The Void, is any kind of measure.
Lady of Shadows starts with a riff that would be perfect for Beavis and Butthead to play air guitar to, but it opens up into fast-paced melodic metal of the kind that Judas Priest were treating us to in their Painkiller era.
Extra Halloween points are earned by the album cover, which features werewolves, mummies, vampire bats and much more horror-related imagery to boot, so I simply had to include it.
Blackthorn – Nightshade Crypt
Next on Seven Deadly Songs, we turn to Russia for some symphonic/blackened gothic metal – which is just Halloween all over, isn’t it? All-female quintet Blackthorn – not to be confused with the Irish ballad group of the same name – dropped the video for Nightshade Crypt about a month ago, and it’s basically a mini horror movie.
The song forms the perfect soundtrack for horror, from its chilling opening chants, through the combination of eerie operatic vocals and demonic howls, to the plaintive strains of the violin in its dying embers. There’s no better musical accompaniment for an evening of frightening fun.
The band’s fourth full-length album Hexsecratus will be released independently on October 31st, and quite frankly, there’s no better day of the year to release it.
Bloody Moon – Deadly Rendezvous
What could be more fitting for our Seven Deadly Songs Halloween edition than a deadly rendezvous under a bloody moon? This little gem comes to us from Finland, which seems to be establishing itself as the world’s epicentre of high-quality heavy metal.
In this instance, we have blackened melodic death metal for your devilish delectation, courtesy of this fresh-faced young trio, who are to release their second full-length album, Lost & Damned, via Inverse Records on October 31st.
Having said all of that, this particular track sounds like good old-fashioned thrash metal to me, with a bit of folk metal in the chorus, and a pinch of hair metal in the pre-chorus, and that’s an appetising little concoction to be brewing up in the cauldron, as far as I’m concerned!
Grave Ghoul – Cathedral of Tombs
How could our Seven Deadly Songs list possibly be complete without the inclusion of Grave Ghoul? The British death metal marauders are releasing their debut album, Gruesome and Macabre – bonus Halloween points for that title – on All Hallow’s Eve courtesy of Dismal Fate Records.
So it would have been remiss of me to leave them out, especially as the accompanying video for Cathedral of Tombs, while not particularly gruesome, is certainly macabre. This is old school death metal that sounds as though it could have come out of Florida in the early 1990s. In fact, it’s almost as Floridian as my editor at Metal Lair, despite the band hailing from the same Western European archipelago as me.
Evil Beast – To Kill With My Justice
This is a solo project by a Japanese vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who calls himself Lord Metal. That fact alone is enough to make me want to include his work on Seven Deadly Songs. More importantly, this is an outstanding bit of speed/thrash metal that is speedier than the Shinkansen and heavier than a sumo wrestler.
And the fact that he’s named the project Evil Beast ticks the Halloween box nicely! To Kill With my Justice is taken from His Lordship’s debut full-length album, Summoning The Beast, which was released on October 27th under the auspices of Invasion of Solitude Records. It also features a song called Evil Thrash Warfare. How many more reasons to check it out could you possibly need?
Mägo De Oz – La Tierra De Nunca Jamás
Take my hand. We’re off to La Tierra De Nunca Jamás with… Does that mean Wizard of Oz? My Spanish is a bit mierda. The album title, Malicia: La Noche De Las Brujas, means Malice: The Night of The Witches if I’m not mistaken, and that’s clearly a reference to Halloween, so I’m including it in this weeks Seven Deadly Songs.
Mägo De Oz have actually been around since the late 1980s, originally operating under the name Transylvania 666. And here they are with an album, released on October 30th via Warner Music Spain, that is dedicated to that most metal of yearly events.
They were tailor-made for this week’s list, then! This latest album is, incredibly, their 18th full-length opus in a career with many other releases besides.
It offers a veritable witches’ brew of folk, power metal and hard rock from a band with the kind of longevity and productivity that makes me wonder if they’re actually human. They might be the undead, though Spain is probably not the easiest place to avoid the sun.
Precious Blood – Bludgeoned & Charred
We draw a deathly veil over the events of the Unholy Night with Bludgeoned & Charred, the first single from the debut full-length album of New York doom metal trio Precious Blood.
The album is called False Prophets, and was released independently on October 29th. This is very much a traditional take on doom metal, adhering mostly to the Black Sabbath blueprint, but with the occasional foray into fast-paced extremity.
Frontman AJ’s clean vocals are actually scarier than his gutturals, sounding like a cross between Glenn Danzig and Dracula – not that the latter would welcome any kind of cross.
And with the mention of that iconic doyen of darkness (I’m talking about Danzig) we conclude our special edition of Seven Deadly Songs. We thank you for joining us, and wish you great success with your trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween!
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FAQ: Seven Deadly Songs (October 31st 2025)
Q: What is Seven Deadly Songs?
A: Seven Deadly Songs is Metal Lair’s weekly roundup of the heaviest new releases across the metal spectrum from black and death to doom, thrash, and speed metal. Each week we spotlight seven standout tracks you shouldn’t miss.
Q: When does Seven Deadly Songs update?
A: We post a new edition every week, typically highlighting releases from Monday through Sunday. This edition, Seven Deadly Screams, The Halloween Edition covers October 31st to November 6th 2025.
Q:Where can I find the best new metal songs?
A: Right here. Seven Deadly Songs is your go-to source for discovering the latest metal tracks including fresh black, death, thrash, doom, and speed metal releases, all curated in one place.
Q: How can I listen to the songs featured?
A: Every featured track links out to the artist’s official release, streaming platform, or label page so you can dive deeper and support the bands directly.
Q: Does Metal Lair have other weekly series?
A: Absolutely. Try Deep Cuts Metals Hidden Gems for rare, overlooked tracks or unreleased demos and our Metalhead Horoscopes shows you what the stars have in store, translated into metalhead language and paired with a lucky song of the week.