"Transylvanian rock band" (ahem), The Fangs, have released a single called, "Vampire Empire" (2009).
It asks a compelling question: "How many bites does it take, does it take, to get to the center of your love?":
One can only hazard a guess.
Anyway, while we're on the subject of vampire-themed music, let's take a look at mixtape suggested by Leonard R. N. Ashley's deeply-flawed The Complete Book of Vampires (London: Souvenir Press, 1998), p. 153.
Be wary of turning it into a commercial release, however, as he warns he'll "sue in the best pop tradition".
Here's his primary tracklist, numbered, by me, for your convenience:
It asks a compelling question: "How many bites does it take, does it take, to get to the center of your love?":
Anyway, while we're on the subject of vampire-themed music, let's take a look at mixtape suggested by Leonard R. N. Ashley's deeply-flawed The Complete Book of Vampires (London: Souvenir Press, 1998), p. 153.
Be wary of turning it into a commercial release, however, as he warns he'll "sue in the best pop tradition".
Here's his primary tracklist, numbered, by me, for your convenience:
- Alice Cooper's "Fresh Blood"
- Autopsy's "Fiend for Blood"
- Bathory's "Woman of Dark Desires"
- Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
- Birthday Party's "Release the Bats"
- Blue Oyster Cult's "Tattoo Vampire"
- Coroner's "Nosferatu"
- Dark Theater's "Undead"
- Dark Throne's "Transylvania Hunger"
- Dupont's "Screamin' Ball at Dracula Hall"
- Entombed's "Blood Song"
- Excruciating Pain's "Nosferatu"
- J. Geil's Band's "Fright Night"
- Grave's "Riboflavin Flavored Non-Carbonated Polyunsaturated Blood"
- Iron Maiden's "Transylvania"
- LA Guns' "Hollywood Vampires"
- Legendary Pink Dots' "Casting the Runes"
- Mazzy Star's "Taste of Blood"
- Mercyful Fake's "Return of the Vampire"
- Motorhead's "Waltz of the Vampire"
- Shroud's "Lovers' Bones"
- Siouxie and The Banshees' "We Hunger"
- Sting's "Moon over Bourbon Street"
- Warfare's "Screams of the Vampire"
- Wire's "Feed Me"
- Dada (1982)
- Acts of the Unspeakable (1992)
- Under the Sign: The Sign of the Black Mark (1987)
- Bela Lugosi's Dead (EP) (1979)
- The Birthday Party, Junkyard (1982)
- Blue Öyster Cult, Agents of Fortune (1976)
- R.I.P (1987)
- The Dark Theater, Matters of Life and Undeath (1990)
- Darkthrone, "Transilvanian Hunger", Transilvanian Hunger (1994)
- I'm not certain at the moment, but the band was The Duponts, and it appears to have been released as a single in 1958. See also Allmusic article on the band. Song also appears as, "Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall).
- Wolverine Blues (1993)
- Thou Shall Choose (1992)
- J. Geils Band, Fright Night: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1985)
- 45 Grave, "Riboflavin Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood", Autopsy (1987)
- Iron Maiden (1980)
- L.A. Guns did release a 1991 album of this name, but no songs of this name, as their discography reveals.
- The Legendary Pink Dots, Any Day Now (1987)
- She Hangs Brightly (1990)
- Return of the Vampire: The Rare and Unreleased (1992)
- Dirty Love (1989)
- The Shroud, Drowning Dreams (1992)
- Hyæna (1984)
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)
- Properly called War Fare, Ashley seems to have combined two of their songs into one. Their 1990 album, Hammer Horror, has two tracks of a similar name: "Scream of the Vampire: Part 1" and "Scream of the Vampire: Part 2".
- The Ideal Copy (1987)
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