During the 1980s and early 1990s the magazine placed many thrash and glam metal acts on the cover ( like Mötley Crüe, Slayer, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Poison, and Venom ) but later discarded them when grunge acts such as Nirvana rose to fame.

Spike also notes that Dracula's fame has done more damage to vampires than any Slayer.

STP scored one of its biggest hits since the success of Core and Purple with the single " Sour Girl ", fueled by a popular music video starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.

ESP found fame by providing guitars for guitarists who went on to become leading exponents of thrash metal music in the 1980s, along with Jackson Guitars and Dean Guitars, including Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth.

Lestat's fame as a recognizable vampire character was referenced in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Buffy came face-to-face with the real Dracula in the season five episode " Buffy vs. Dracula ".

In Season Five's Fool for Love, Spike's resemblance to Billy Idol was depicted ( though not acknowledged in dialogue ) during his flashback fight with the Slayer Nikki Wood in 1977, at which time Spike's attire and hair mimicked Idol almost perfectly, several years before Idol's fame.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

For the film Judgment Night, he did a duet with Slayer on the track " Disorder ".

Besides fronting his own band and rap projects, Ice-T has also collaborated with other hard rock and metal bands, such as Icepick, Motörhead, Slayer, Pro-Pain, and Six Feet Under.

* Rather unlikely but very popular is the connection to a dragon saga ( see Lindworm ) and the connection with the monastery of Saint George the “ Dragon Slayer ” founded in Limburg.

In October 2009 Lemmy performed vocals and bass on a cover of " Stand by Me " with Dave Lombardo of Slayer on drums and produced by DJ and producer Baron.

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

Shows with fantasy and horror elements drew much influence from The X-Files, and generally attracted large audiences, most notably Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( and spinoff Angel.

Some horror shows use common horror tropes such as vampires with more conventional dramatic forms like the heroic myth ( for example Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) or even gothic romance ( Dark Shadows ).

Gellar stated that she was screen tested eleven times ( originally auditioning for the role of Cordelia ), before she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, mostly vampires.

Gellar sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode " Once More, with Feeling ", which spawned an original cast album.

They were engaged in April 2001 and married in Mexico on September 1, 2002 in a ceremony officiated by Adam Shankman, a film director and choreographer with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

( For a time, this was the most of any American-produced television series except for Star Trek and Dark Shadows with its 30 or so novels published between 1966 and 1971, though there have now been more original novels published based upon Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In 2001, UPN acquired Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell for their final seasons from The WB in a public bidding war between the two with producing studio 20th Century Fox Television.

In its later years, as part of the network's desire to maintain its own unique identity with its own unique shows, UPN had a policy of " not picking up other networks ' scraps ", which was a strong argument when fan pressure was generated in 2004 for them to pick up Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which had been dropped from The WB.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Hard rock, heavy metal, and glam metal became some of the most dominant music genres of the decade, peaking with the arrival of such bands as Guns N ' Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, Europe, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Mötley Crüe, and virtuoso guitarists such as Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Along with the other potentials, her Slayer nature is activated in " Chosen ".

His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite and he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibor.

Willow transitions into Dark Willow in " Villains ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) | Villains ", with Tara's blood splattered on her neck

In the film, she is a high school cheerleader who learns that she is the Slayer ( a Chosen One gifted with the strength and skills to fight vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness ).

Buffy reluctantly undergoes training in her abilities by Merrick, and as her responsibility as the Slayer causes her to become alienated from her valley girl peers, she finds friendship and romance with fellow outcast Pike ( Luke Perry ).

She must also deal with the introduction of rebellious new Slayer Faith ( Eliza Dushku ), who becomes increasingly destructive and disloyal over the course of the season.

In the fourth season ( 1999 – 2000 ), Buffy balances her Slayer duties with her new life as a college student at UC Sunnydale.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, Buffy continues slaying vampires in San Francisco but discovers a new threat: creatures dubbed " zompires " by Xander: feral and nearly mindless vampires created when vampires sire people after the destruction of the Seed, as demons can no longer enter this dimension to fully possess their bodies.

The band has stated that their primary influences include Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Sepultura, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Helmet, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, Pink Floyd, Primus, Tool, Ministry, Mr. Bungle, Biohazard, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, and Jane's Addiction.

They were one of the early thrash metal bands to sign to a major label ( Atlantic Records, in 1986 ), though Overkill would not achieve commercial success until they popularized " thrash " in the late 1980s with their contemporaries Anthrax, Exodus, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Testament.

Although it is debated whether fanfiction about canon lesbians such as Willow and Tara of Buffy the Vampire Slayer counts as " slash ", their relationship storylines are more coy than heterosexual ones, which entices Willow / Tara femslash authors to fill in the gaps in the known relationship storyline.

Later on the game you get to choose a subclass, named Asura, which is a Slayer who loses their eyesight and gains magical power.

The band has stated that they also wanted their CDs to be placed in stores alongside their favorite band, Slayer.

They are most noted for composing the theme tune to the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and for their 1997 single " Van Halen ", a tribute to the band of the same name, which attracted significant radio airplay and led to their first major record deal with Arista Records.

Buffy vows to mend their relationship and starts spending more time with her sister, whilst still trying to shield her from her life as a Slayer – much to Dawn's disappointment as she is eager to help Buffy in her duties.

He was cast in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after being suggested for the role to Marti Noxon by one of Boreanaz's neighbors, after walking his dog past their house.

The popular Joss Whedon series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, with their continuing serial plotlines, could be described as treading a path first laid by Dark Shadows.

Although teen fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel both ( Roswell, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, would end up being revived by rival network UPN ).

Reviewing the 2003 Slayer box set Soundtrack to the Apocalypse, Adrien Begrand of PopMatters described the album as " their most underrated, and on this set, its five selections show how highly the band thinks of the record.

In 2006, Slayer's producer Rick Rubin lent production to Metallica's then-untitled Death Magnetic album, instead of Slayer for their album Christ Illusion.

Text in the book The Great Rock Discography said that it was released after the band had gained popularity, saying " Slayer had finally made it into the metal big league and summing up the first blood-soaked chapter of their career, the group duly released the live double set.

Brutal Noise joined forces with local promoter Albert Morales from ShowNet and produced concerts like Iron Maiden, Pantera, Sepultura, and Slayer, paving the way to promote local acts on their shows.

* Gene Hoglan was a light technician for Slayer during their early days.

Reviewing 2003 Slayer box set Soundtrack to the Apocalypse, Adrien Begrand of PopMatters dismissed the effort as " easily the weakest album in the Slayer catalogue ", while Westword Onlines Michael Roberts dubbed the record their " biggest mistake.

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

" When a girl pulls out her hair due to supernatural forces in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Where the Wild Things Are ," the character Xander remarks, " People are going all ' Felicity ' with their hair ," while in the One Tree Hill episode " The Desperate Kingdom Of Love ," when Lucas walks up to Keith at the beach, his uncle says, " Nice job, Felicity ," referring to his new shorter haircut.