10 Songs You Need To Add To Your Halloween 2020 Playlist

It looks like the time of spooks is finally upon us. For as much as it seems like a children's holiday, there is something about Halloween that still puts even the bravest of adults on edge from time to time. Even if you don't get swept up in the horror of it all, you're going to need some tunes to set your night off right.

Right off the bat, there's no reason to put all of the obvious picks on this list. There might be songs that go with the season, but there's no sense in me telling you that Thriller works with Halloween... everybody knows that. What we're trying to find here is the more off the wall songs that put you on edge in a bit of a different way. Whether it's the grim subject matter that they portray or the creepy aesthetic that they give off, these songs are the overlooked jams that don't always find their way onto the spooky playlists.

With decades under some of their belts, these are the songs that deserve to come out of the shadows and scare the public all over again. It might be a little scary at times, but that never hurt anyone, now did it? Enjoy listening... and happy hunting.

As grunge started to overtake the mainstream in the early '90s, Alice in Chains were something a little bit different. Rather than the hard rock stylings of Pearl Jam or the punkish aggression of Nirvana, Alice was much more in tune with the darker sounds of rock and roll, whether it be from metal, goth, or anything in between. The band would end up reaching their dark pinnacle on Dirt, but their scariest stand alone song came a little bit before.

Across the band's album Facelift, the songs are much more metallic than their later work, but Love Hate Love is something much different. With one of the creepiest guitar riffs Jerry Cantrell has ever laid down, the vocal performance by Layne Staley is what really pushes the song to the brink. As the track plods along, Staley pushes himself from genuine unease to agony at a moment's notice, almost as if singing this song is his own version of a musical exorcism.

Rather than making you bang your head, this song puts you into a horrific sonic space, almost as if you're trapped in the basement of a serial killer as Staley sings Sweet little angel, you should have run. Complete with no set resolution, Love Hate Love is the real horrorshow to come from the alt-rock world.