What is horror music?

You could say that horror music is the bastard child of Alice Cooper, and cult horror movies. The music focuses on the macabre, the scary, the spooky, murder, necrophilia, graveyards, death, vampires, bloodlust, night time all the fun stuff!. The music itself can be of various styles horror rock, metal, industrial, punk, pyschobilly to name a few. The styles are limited only by the artists perception of the genre, but they all have similar themes and a subject matter drawn from the dark side of life and a fixation with death.