Hellraiser (song)

Song infobox
Name = Hellraiser


Artist = Ozzy Osbourne
Album = No More Tears
Released = October 19, 1991
track_no = 7
Recorded = 1991
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 4:51
Writer = Ozzy Osbourne
Zakk Wylde
Lemmy
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Duane Baron
John Purdell
prev = "S.I.N."
prev_no = 6
next = "Time After Time"
next_no = 8
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Motörhead singles
Type = single
Last album = "The One to Sing the Blues"
(1991)
This album = "Hellraiser"
(1992)
Next album = "Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me"
(1993) "Hellraiser" is a song written by Ozzy Osbourne, his guitarist, Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy, the frontman of heavy metal band Motörhead. The song was written for Osbourne's "No More Tears" album and despite being one of the most well known Ozzy Osbourne songs, the song was not released as a single.

The song is written in verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus form. The last verse echoes the lyrics of the first four lines, and duplicates the last two lines, of the first verse. Each of the four line chorus begins with "Hellraiser," followed by a six syllable tag.

Motörhead recorded the song in 1992 for the movie "", and it was later released as the A-side of their 1992 "Hellraiser" single and "The '92 Tour EP". [Burridge, Alan "Illustrated Collector's Guide to Motörhead" Published: 1995, Collector's Guide Publishing ISBN 0-9695736-2-6.] It was also on their album March or Die.

A trailer for the first Painkiller game had the soundtrack of Hellraiser; X-Play complained "it did not fit with the game." A higher quality re-recording of the "Hellraiser" track is featured in the popular 2004 video game, "", on its in-game radio station "Radio: X."

Not to be confused with the 1973 hit single 'Hell Raiser' by British glam rock group The Sweet.

Personnel

*Ozzy Osbourne - vocals
*Zakk Wylde - guitar
*Bob Daisley - bass
*John Sinclair - keyboards
*Randy Castillo - drums

References