History Music / IceNineKills

* ContinuityNod: "Rocking the Boat" name-drops all of the band's previous albums in the lyrics, and was also co-written by (and features a vocal cameo by) founding band member Jeremy Schwartz.

* HighSchoolDance: The video (and lyrics) of "Hell in the Hallways".

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The one in "Bloodbath & Beyond" is about Dracula, but the music video "The Fastest Way To a Girl's Heart is Through Her Ribcage" features a vampire who kills people in a shower of blood and can apparently be killed via hanging. [[spoiler:Or not.]]

* MurderBallad: "The Greatest Story Ever Told", "Stabbing in the Dark", "Your Number's Up"...

* AlbumTitleDrop: Bizarrely for the trope, the titles of the band's first four albums are all dropped in the same song, "Rocking The Boat" off ''The Silver Scream'' (i.e. the fifth album, which doesn't get its own title drop).

** "Thank God It's Friday" ends with a calm solo, which abruptly transitions to some harsh guitar riffs along with the hook, to symbolize the first film's Jump Scare ending.

* LastNoteNightmare: The stabbing sounds and dying screams and gurgles at the end of "Your Number's Up".

* VocalTagTeam: Charnas typically does all clean vocals on their records, whereas scream duties are shared between him and at least one other band member, e.g. Justin [=DeBlieck=] on ''The Silver Scream''.

* PunBasedTitle: "Enjoy Your Slay", "The Plot Sickens", "Tess-Timony", "Merry Axe-Mas", "Bloodbath & Beyond", etc.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: "The Nature of the Beast".
-->''Where is the end? What have we done?''\\
''We're what we swore we'd not become.''

* {{Cosplay}}: After the release of ''The Silent Scream'', the band would dress as horror movie characters in concerts, (see page image).

* IdenticalStranger: Frontman Spencer Charnas bears a passing resemblance to a young [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Till Lindemann]].

* HalloweenSongs: They've made a career our of horror-themed music, and they even have a song dedicated to ''Film/{{Halloween}}'' specifically ("Stabbing in the Dark").

* LastNoteNightmare: The stabbing sound and dying screams and gurgles at the end of "Your Number's Up".

** "She raised him right", from the same song: "raise" as in "take care of a child" and "bring back from the dead".

* AxCrazy: Unstable characters appear in every other song, but the ones that specifically have to do with axes are "Merry Axe-Mas" and "Enjoy Your Slay".

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness:

* BackFromTheDead: The narrators of "The American Nightmare" and "A Grave Mistake".

* GratutiousSpanish: "Merry Axe-Mas" ends with a shout of "¡Feliz Navidad!" for some reason.

* {{Pun}}: Their songs are heavy on wordplay, with lyrics like "your neck is up next" and "don't hesitate to axe".
* PunBasedTitle: "Enjoy Your Slay", "The Plot Sickens", "Tess-Timony", "Merry Axe-Mas", "Bloodbath & Beyond", etc.

* CoverVersion: They regularly cover pop songs, with notable examples being "Thriller", "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Jason's Mom" (a parody of [[Music/FountainsOfWayne "Stacy's Mom"]]).

* MetalScream: Type 1.

* DarkerAndEdgier: They started out as a ska punk band, then shifted into pop-punk, and ''then'' into metalcore.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Ice Nine Kills started out as a ska punk band, and while traces of the genre can be found in their later music (i.e. the brass section in "IT is the End"), they have moved far away from it. Tellingly, the band no longer keeps their first album on streaming platforms.
* GenreMashup: While metalcore is a genre mashup in itself, INK's work also includes elements of showtunes, orchestral music and ska punk.

* Cosplay: After the release of ''The Silent Scream'', the band would dress as horror movie characters in concerts, (see page image).

''And mail it to your mother''