Lizzy Borden

Named after the perpetrator of an infamous 1895 double murder that yielded the equally notorious skipping-rope rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one," Lizzy Borden is a theatrical Los Angeles-based heavy metal band that, like Alice Cooper before them, is named after the band's frontman. Signed to Metal Blade in 1984 and employing a lethal blend of horror stagecraft, blazing riffs, and glam-infused melodic might, the band enjoyed success in the mid- to late '80s with the album's Love You...