10 rock and metal albums recorded in haunted places

Making an album is an exhausting and emotional process, but one that can be made even more emotional and exhausting if there’s a big load of flippin’ ghosts whizzing about the place putting you off your music! At the same time, it makes sense that rock musicians would be attracted to the sorts of places frequented by spooks. The type of person who feels compelled to spend their life creating the kind of art that so frequently deals with powerful emotions, aggression, death, history and planes of existence far beyond our own are unlikely to turn down the opportunity to interact with the spirit world. Also, lots of them are quite drunk.  Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) Recorded at: Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire, England Black Sabbath have always enj...

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