The Only Emo Halloween Playlist You'll Ever Need

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For those who lived a full and wonderful emo life way back when the emo was strong and alive in us all. Maybe for Halloween, you can dress up as your emo self from way back when...or you never changed...and that’s fine too?! And to all the emos who are stilll not jumping when they go to shows - this playlist is for you.

The ultimate theme of this is nostalgia but did I mention that yet? There are some old classics and a few recent ones too. Without further ado let's get into the true spirit of the holiday as an emo current or former.

Here is to a very emo Halloween everyone; don’t forget to write about this in your diaries. This is the only emo halloween playlist you'll ever need.

1. Dead by My Chemical Romance

I mean how can you have a Halloween without Gerard singing about being dead. A good ole’ classic MCR sing-a-long that’s not Welcome to The Black Parade but hey we jam to that too and don’t worry it may show up somewhere in this playlist anyway.

2. Deadwalker Texas Ranger by Sleeping With Sirens

If you’re thinking about being Chuck Norris for Halloween just remember that Halloween dresses up for Chuck Norris’s birthday. Just keep that in mind. Now moving onto track number 3 we can’t have an emo Halloween without the trill voice of that one band most of us may have forgotten and they’re covering a song by Danny Elfman who wrote the songs for The Nightmare Before Christmas.

3. Jack’s Lament The All-American Rejects Cover

Yes, this needs to go on there because you can’t throw in a lament for the most emo Halloween party you’ll ever attend. No one will be dancing, smiling, or laughing. They’ll all just stand there hiding deep beneath the layers of eyeliner and wrist bands.

4. Baby, You’re a Haunted House by Gerard Way

You didn’t forget that MCR’s own Gerard, the very one who sang the first track on the list had his own sid project, did you? Well, he did and he released this jam in 2018 so we can say it’s still fresh. This one will at least get some of your emo bangs flipping to the beat. Then we’ll keep those bangs swaying a little bit for the next track.

5. You’re So Creepy by Ghost Town

I mean this is the ultimate emo love song so if you’re crushing who happens to look eerily like you is at the party then use this song to your advantage. Go on. Go over to that crush and just stand there awkwardly looking out of the corner of your eye, that is of course if you can see through all that eyeliner.

6. We fell in love in October by Girl in Red

So now that some awkward connection was made, details were exchanged and the exchange of photos of you guys looking up at the camera will commence. Don’t forget to talk about how great the playlist was at the party that you met at. Make sure the first show you go to is one of MCR’s reunion shows.

7. I’m Not a Vampire by Falling in Reverse

Now those emo bangs are really doing the flip. This is now turning into a headbangers ball, did anyone ever go to that or watch it? For an emo kid if the bangs flip at least 3 times or more during a single song you are getting somewhere. They like to think they’re not vampires but let’s be real at least 90% of the emos here all came wearing fake vampire teeth and they’re probably clicking their snake bits on them as we read this.

8. Monster (feat. blackbear) by All Time Low

I mean if you haven’t made a TikTok to Monster are you even an emo kid at all? If you’re one of the older more seasoned emos and you’ve lost touch with the inner emo this is a newer one. A trend was going around where people would lip-sync to the song and there would be a cut to them turning into a monster. There were some pretty great transformations like some of them are even at this party so…

9. Miss Murder by AFI

Yes, 2006 was the year this track came out and stayed on repeat on those old Ipods we carried around. I mean you can’t get enough of that click wheel though, right? This will really take the ultimate emo Halloween to a whole other level of nostalgia and of course rethinking our life choices. Maybe next time we’ll dance when we go to shows because emos don’t go to concerts they go to shows.

10. Helena by My Chemical Romance

Most definitely we are going back to MCR my friends and which one of you or your friends dressed like Helena from the music video if not for Halloween then when you went to one of their shows?

11. Anthem of Our Dying Day by Story Of The Year

Would you scream this song in someone’s face if they were there or here? An appropriately titled song for the occasion. Throw in that scream and that early 2000’s breakdown and you’ve got yourself an emo Halloween anthem.

12. Baby, You Wouldn’t Last a Minute on That Creek by Chiodos

Remember when emo bands had whole novels for song titles? Chiodos is no longer and some of the younger gen will not even know who Craig Owens is but that’s okay. He’s still actively making music and that’s all we need. This needs to be played at every emo Halloween party or gathering. A gathering of emos?

13. So Cold I Could See My Breath by Emery

This is one of those ones that can get a whole room of emos to sing along. Not quite like My Chemical Romance can but still a sing-along nonetheless. It’s just the emotions in the vocals you know?

14. A Little Less Sixteen Candles A Little More Touch Me by Fall Out Boy

Back to those song titles that were needlessly long. Reminiscing on the days when Pete Wentz happened to make a really good vampire. Anyone coming to this emo Halloween dressed as the Pete Wentz vampire or the Patrick Stump vampire slayer? Someone’s gotta do it.

This playlist is going to end at 15 and then the designated Spotify moderator will take on requests. So to end the ultimate emo Halloween playlist you can’t leave without an absolute banger that will, without a doubt get every emo singing and swinging that fringe.

15. Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

It begins the piano slow and soft, ears perk up under all that hair...

“When I was a young boy…”

This is when things at the party, gathering, or wherever this playlist is being played gets real.

l. The drums and guitar build and here we go!

“Sometimes I get the feeling she’s watching over me….”

Fists are in the air and now we’re screaming “We’ll carry on! We’ll carry on!” The song ends and for the emos that have just enjoyed 50 minutes of one of the best Halloween playlists you’ve ever heard, here are three cheers to All Hallows Eve. Now, you go on to watch Hocus Pocus because you just do Halloween right.