10 Songs You Need To Add To Your Halloween 2020 Playlist

10. Love Hate Love - Alice in Chains

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.