Satan Said Dance: Six Songs for the Devil on Halloween

October 31st. It's a day for candy, costumes, and pumpkins, right? Well, if '80s slasher films have taught us anything, it's also a time for Satan to take your soul, or something, right? (Unless you're a virgin teen... isn't that how it works?) While the origins of Halloween have no definitive version -- some say it harkens back to the Celtic festival of Samhain; some say it draws from the Christian feast on All Hallows Eve -- it's indisputably a day to raise some hell. In honor of Halloween, here are six songs (get it? SIX?) for Satan.

1. "Satan Said Dance" by Clap Your Hands Say YeahThis song might chant the Dark Lord's name more than any other song out there, including ones written by metal bands. That can't make James Hetfield feel good. Brooklyn-based quirksters Clap Your Hands Say Yeah paint a portrait of the afterlife, with frontman Alec Ounsworth singing, "And I know it is not how you thought it would be / No whips, no chains, just dancing, dancing, dancing." If you have two left feet, it makes for an apt description of hell.

In a 2004 interview with the Montreal Mirror, vocalist/bassist Tom Araya admitted the band members aren't really Satanists, but that they find the subject interesting. And in 2014, guitarist Kerry King and assistant tour manager Jess Cortese rescued a kitten from the freezing cold, so really now, how evil could they be?

3. "Satan Gave Me A Taco" by Beck

Back in 1994, on his Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Beck released this track, documenting how, "Satan gave me a taco / and it made me really sick." Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Why would you eat that thing anyway? That's what you get for making fun of his haircut.

4. "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

Apparently the stairway to heaven, takes you straight to hell when played backwards: in the early '80s, evangelical broadcaster Paul Crouch discovered some odes to Lucifer when the Led Zeppelin single is played backwards. Was it intentional? Well, guitarist Jimmy Page has a long-running obsession with the occult, even buying the home of famed Satanist Aleister Crowley and publishing Crowley's writings with his independent publishing house. But vocalist Robert Plant says otherwise, "Who on Earth would have ever thought of doing that? You've got to have a lot of time on your hands to even consider that people would do that."

5. "Me And The Devil Blues" by Robert JohnsonLegend has it, back in the 1920s, blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in exchange for his guitar-playing prowess. He only released 29 songs during his brief career, but they went on to influence the greats, like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and more. Eerily, Johnson passed away at the age of 27, just like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse, to name a few. Could it be the work of the Devil? As Johnson sings in this iconic track, "And I said, hello Satan / I believe it's time to go."

6. “665” by SoundgardenIn the darkest message of all, Seattle's own Soundgarden bow their dark heads to... Santa? Oops. Written by bass player Hiro Yamamoto, the song mocks the idea of Satanic messaging hidden in backwards music. Or maybe it just pledges their allegiance to the other dude who dresses all in red and invades your home.