Song of the Night (#5) Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter to The Slaughter

I love my Heavy Metal music, yes I do! Tonight's selection is the aptly titled "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter", a tale of horror as menacing, bloody and cheesy as it sounds.

No debate concerning the Best and Most Influential Bands of Heavy Metal is complete without the inclusion of Iron Maiden. Born kicking and screaming from The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Maiden unarguably shaped the nascent Heavy Metal genre with their theatrical tales of horror, war, mythology and misanthropy. Thanks to Iron Maiden and their Eighties peers (Judas Priest, Venom etc.), Heavy Metal became the terrifying beast it is today.

Interestingly, this song isn't revered like many of Maiden's past classics (eg Number of The Beast, Two Minutes to Midnight). Written by vocalist Bruce Dickinson for inclusion in one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (hell if I know which one), Bring Your Daughter is an often hilarious and tongue-in-cheek ode to that franchise's mythology. More Monster-Mash than Mass-Murder, it is as exhilarating as it is entertaining.