10 Best Halloween Songs From The Last 10 Years

Spookiest Line: You were a walking, talking corpse at best

The debut album from PVRIS (pronounced 'Paris') leaned into scary imagery on a number of tracks without every really getting too spooky. In Fire though, so many of them combine in an evocative narrative that it must be a quintessential part of any alternative Halloween playlist.

Though they missed the golden age of emo, PVRIS' first album packs one hell of an angsty punch. The internal demons of St. Patrick and the suffocation in Smoke both make them candidates, but Fire just overwhelms them.

Metaphorically talking about someone trying to justify their own mistakes, or possibly seek undeserved forgiveness once the damaged is done, Fire tells a nightmarish story that's surprisingly light on immolation. Instead, it features somebody burying themselves alive, and choking on the dirt they've packed over themselves as they scream for mercy.

While not as traumatically torturous a listen as that summary suggests, this is definitely a one for the grown up parties only. Although, playing it at a kid's party and giving them unholy nightmares that will scar them forever does feel very Halloween. Maybe it's perfect after all.