In 1979, a film originally envisioned as an affordable Star Wars clone hit cinemas in the UK and scared the hell out of British audiences. Equal parts slasher flick, psychological thriller, and jarring body horror epic, the film introduced audiences to both a new way of telling a classic scary story and a nightmarish monster the likes of which no one had ever seen. What director Ridley Scott and creature designer H.R. Giger didn’t know was that their creation inspire some of the most brutal, disturbing music in the world. But to this day, that film, Alien, is a landmark in horror cinema, and continues to haunt the minds of some of extreme metal’s most intense musicians. “I was eight, and recall every science fiction and horror mag at the time ...
