50 Best Rock Songs About Vampires

Best Rock Songs With Vampire Themes

There’s a strange pulse in songs that circle around vampires. It’s half danger, half seduction, and it crawls under the skin before the first chorus hits. The guitars don’t sound sharp by accident—they snarl, like they’ve been waiting all night for someone to open a window. You can feel it in tracks that drip with late-night swagger or lean into that eerie calm right before something snaps. These aren’t campy Halloween soundtracks. They’re messy, dark, sometimes romantic in a way that feels wrong but fits too well to skip.

Not every track draws fangs outright. Some play with the idea of hunger or obsession or the kind of attraction that leaves a bruise. You can hear it in riffs that linger too long, in lyrics that flirt with danger like it’s a dare. The best ones hit that sweet spot where the human part and the monster part start to blur, and the melody keeps digging. Some of these cuts aren’t literally tied to vampires at all, but they live in the same shadow. The same restless craving that keeps things alive long after they should have burned out.

There’s something addictive about it, the way these songs hold that darkness without trying to clean it up. You could drop them next to any late-night playlist and they’d still sound alive, still pulling at something under the surface. They sit comfortably next to pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that chase the same pulse, the same uneasy charm. These tracks capture that bloodrush, that strange tension between thrill and ruin. Here are the best rock songs with vampire themes for your next playlist.

1. 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' by Bauhaus

2. 'Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)' by Concrete Blonde

3. 'Cry Little Sister' by Gerard McMahon

4. 'Possum Kingdom' by Toadies

5. 'Vampires Will Never Hurt You' by My Chemical Romance

6. 'Nosferatu' by Blue Öyster Cult

7. 'Night of the Vampire' by Roky Erickson

8. 'Vampire Heart' by HIM

9. 'Love Bites' by Judas Priest

10. 'Closer' by Kings of Leon

11. 'Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But' by Arctic Monkeys

12. 'I'm Not a Vampire' by Falling In Reverse

13. 'Release the Bats' by The Birthday Party

14. 'Love Song For A Vampire' by Annie Lennox

15. 'Vampira' by Misfits

16. 'Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)' by Type O Negative

17. 'Vampire Blues' by Neil Young

18. 'Love You to Death' by Type O Negative

19. 'Vampires' by Godsmack

20. 'Lost in the Shadows (The Lost Boys)' by Lou Gramm

21. 'Vampires' by The Midnight

22. 'Vampires' by Pet Shop Boys

23. 'We Drink Your Blood' by Powerwolf

24. 'Vampire Money' by My Chemical Romance

25. 'At Dawn They Sleep' by Slayer

26. 'Dracula's Daughter' by Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages

27. 'Tear You Apart' by She Wants Revenge

28. 'Vampires' by Fastball

29. 'Red Eyes And Tears' by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

30. 'Bloodline' by Slayer

31. 'Vampire' by Sinéad O'Connor

32. 'Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)' by Stevie Nicks

33. 'Vampire' by Wimps

34. 'The Vampire' by Buffy Sainte-Marie

35. 'Heaven's a Lie' by Lacuna Coil

36. 'Love Like Winter' by AFI

37. 'Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood' by Don Hinson and the Rigormorticians

38. 'Vampire Club' by Voltaire

39. 'Kiss Me Deadly' by Lita Ford

40. 'We Only Come Out at Night' by The Smashing Pumpkins

41. 'Taste of Blood' by Mazzy Star

42. 'Living Dead Girl' by Rob Zombie

43. 'Vampire' by Dr. Dog

44. 'Walk in the Shadows' by Queensrÿche

45. 'She Breaks The Skin' by Purr Machine

46. 'I Drink Blood' by Rocket From The Crypt

47. 'Return of the Vampire' by The Coffinshakers

48. 'The Thirst' by LáGoon

49. 'Vampires By Rumor' by The Killers

50. 'Vampires' by Adam Ant