Coming Soon: Rock & Roar! OSR Monsters inspired by classic rock song titles & band names.

[InkwellIdeas]

Eye of the Tiger by Survivor.

I had that on a list of possible magic items in an appendix/extra chapter.

I can't wait to see what Mandy's stat block looks like.

I wasn't thinking of that. It doesn't scream 'Monster' to me... maybe in another possible chapter of NPCs.

 

[renbot]

I'd hate the get bitten by one of David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'd hate the get bitten by one of David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs."

 

[Richards]

Veteran of the Psychic Wars (a psionic soldier?)
Chumbawamba (sounds like it might be a chupacabra variant)
Pigs on the Wing (flying boars?)
Mr. Roboto (some sort of construct, obviously)

Johnathan

 

[Lanefan]

Tygers of Pan Tang
Knights of Cydonia
The Ancient Hyperzephyrians
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
Vampire Beavers
Fine Young Cannibals
White Zombie(s)
Eagles of (the) Death Metal/Eagles of Death (Metal)
The Man on the Silver Mountain
Johnny Blade
Sound Chaser
King Crimson

I thought about Man on the Silver Mountain and decided it sounded more like an NPC than a monster. Ditto The Wizard (Uriah Heep), Holy Diver (Dio), and a bunch of others. King Crimson would fit this bill too.

If we're allowed to get modern enough to include the early-mid 2000s a bunch of Lordi's song titles would work here: Monsterman, Ghosts of the Heceta Head*, etc.

* - I wrote and ran a whole adventure based on this song.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

Space Oddity
Killer Queen
The Thing That Should Not Be
Voodoo Child
Evil Woman
Riders on the Storm
The Unforgiven
Iron Man
Black Dog
Baba O'Riley
War Pigs

Not forgetting Whole Lotta Rosie, the giant shambling mound; perhaps a resentful, dispossessed Rose Garden

 

[sevenbastard]

King of Pain by the Police makes a great end villian.

Duran Duran was already the villian, but could use some stats.

White Snake, obviously.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I thought about Man on the Silver Mountain and decided it sounded more like an NPC than a monster. Ditto The Wizard (Uriah Heep), Holy Diver (Dio), and a bunch of others. King Crimson would fit this bill too.

Well, some NPCs are monsters…especially powerful ones.

Some more:

Blue Meanies
Spirits in the material world
Spiders From Mars
Taniwah (from Split Enz “Dirty Creature”)
The Spider Man (from The Cure’s “Lullaby”)
The Children

Spoiler: Metal Church Video

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I'd really like to see an eggman like creature who is a Walrus Lycanthrope, cat people who somehow put out fires with gasoline, and whatever the hell an Aqualung is.

 

[Lanefan]

Boris the Spider (the Who) - king of the giant spiders

Bullroarer (Midnight Oil) - huge bull with a sonic attack

Dream Weaver (Gary Wright) - another spider, touching this one's webs gives psychadelic effects and hallucinations; its main attacks are illusions and psionics

Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter Paul and Mary) - similar to the Dream Weaver, only bigger and scalier and more stoned

Scarecrow (John Mellencamp) - animated wood-and-straw construct, main attack is fear - unless you are a crow