10 Darkest Albums In Rock Music History

The only problem with dark albums is that horror tends to have an expiration date. All you have to do is look at some of the movies from the '80s to see how not every horror movie is meant to be the cinematic answer to Citizen Kane or anything. Every so often though, you can find yourself going back into lovable territory. Just take it from the OG of shock rock.

After being the villain of many a disgruntled mom back in the day, Alice Cooper was flat broke and was banking all of his success on this album, which went on to become one of the foundational sounds of shock rock. Though not every song is necessarily meant to sound scary, there's definitely a macabre streak to every song on here, like Cold Ethyl being a rock and roll tribute to a girlfriend who's a corpse, or the tender ballad of domestic abuse Only Women Bleed.

When he wants to though, Cooper can touch on some pretty dark stuff, especially towards the tail end of the record where you hear songs like Stephen, which sounds like looking into the mind of this demented killer and seeing where it all went wrong. Not necessarily the most unsettling record of them all, but you have to pay due respect to the man who paved the way for the rest of us.