Universal Studios Hollywood is adding new music from Slash and Ice Nine Kills to its 2026 Halloween Horror Nights lineup, expanding the event’s mix of original haunted houses and horror properties. The separately ticketed event will run on select nights from Sept. 3 through Nov. 1, with the latest additions including “KILLceañera: Music by Slash” and “Terror Tram Starring Art the Clown.”
Slash, Guns N’ Roses guitarist and songwriter, composed the score for “KILLceañera,” an original haunted house built around Lola, a teenager whose quinceañera becomes an elaborate revenge ritual. The attraction incorporates Latin American folklore and features an original song, “15 Candles,” performed by Lola inside the house. Creative director John Murdy said the performance marks the first time an original song has been performed by a character within a Halloween Horror Nights haunted house.
Ice Nine Kills, meanwhile, will provide original music for the Terror Tram, which this year is being taken over by Art the Clown from the “Terrifier” franchise. In the attraction, Art arrives on the Universal backlot with a bag of presents, realizes Christmas has come too early and commandeers the tram for a murderous holiday celebration. The band’s music will give familiar Christmas songs a darker treatment as guests encounter Art and his twisted versions of seasonal classics.
The 2026 Hollywood lineup also includes haunted houses based on “Sinners,” “Stranger Things 5,” “Hellraiser” and “Evil Dead Burn,” along with the return of “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” and the original “Dead, Deader, Deadest.” The event will feature scare zones including Fortnitemares, Hackerz, Blood Bog, Shriek of the Banshee and Murder of Crowz, as well as the returning “The Purge: Dangerous Waters” stunt show.
The collaboration continues the growing relationship between Ice Nine Kills and the “Terrifier” franchise. The band previously released “A Work of Art,” a song connected to “Terrifier 3,” whose music video starred David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown. With Slash contributing a score to one original house and Ice Nine Kills soundtracking another attraction, music will play a prominent role in Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2026 Halloween Horror Nights.
For more information and to purchase tickets to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, visit www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/Halloween
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