Schoolyard Heroes

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

Discography:

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

Schoolyard Heroes provides examples of the following tropes:

• 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"