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Music: Schoolyard Heroes

Schoolyard Heroes are a Punk Rock band from Seattle, Washington and released three albums between 2003 and 2007. The band split up in 2009.

Discography:

The Funeral Sciences (2003)
Fantastic Wounds (2005)
Abominations (2007)

Tropes relating to the band:

After the End: "Cemetery Girls"
Album Title Drop: In "Centaur: Half-Man Half-Motorcycle"
Anti Christmas Song: "I Want Your Soul For Christmas"
Battle of the Bands: Schoolyard Heroes competed in a Christian one, which they were kicked out of for covering a song by The Misfits.
Body Horror / Facial Horror: "The Girl Who Was Born Without A Face". Oh, and it might be named after a real person. (link not for the squeamish)
Came Back Wrong: "Cat Killer"
Careful With That Axe: The end of "Beautiful Woman Hunter"
Demonic Dummy: "Attack of the Puppet People"
Early Installment Weirdness: Their demos and The Funeral Sciences contained very little of the horror themes the band eventually became known for.
Gendercide: "Cemetery Girls"
Harsh Vocals: Particularly on Fantastic Wounds.
Indecipherable Lyrics: At her harshest, Ryann can be quite difficult to understand.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: Their old demos used to be on Megaupload, but now they're a bit more difficult to find.
Long Title: "Bury the Tooth of the Hydra and a Skeleton Army Will Arise" and "The Mechanical Man vs. the Robot from the Outer Limits"
Looped Lyrics: "The Last Man on Earth"
Lyrical Dissonance: "Boyfriend". A nice calm song about wanting someone's boyfriend to die.
- "Kill 'Em All", in which Jonah sounds disturbingly enthusiastic about the idea of shooting up his school.
Metal Scream
Nightmare Fetishist: The entire band, of course.
Non Appearing Title: A lot of their songs.
One Woman Song: The demo version of "Blood-Spattered Sundress" is called "Thea".
One-Woman Wail: Ryann has done this in a few songs.
Raising the Steaks: "Cat Killer"
Serial Killer: "Serial Killers Know How to Party", and probably "Beautiful Woman Hunter"
Shout Out: A lot of their songs count as this.
- "Michael Dudakoff: American Ninja" is one to the American Ninja movie series
- "Contra" is one to the video game of the same name.
- "They Live" is named after the movie.
- "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" is named after a Twilight Zone episode.
Soprano and Gravel: Ryann and Jonah, on occasion.
Surprisingly Gentle Song: "The Last Man on Earth"
Zombie Apocalypse: "Dawn of the Dead"