Artist · chart history
Ice Nine Kills
Band Boston United States Formed 2002
Ice Nine Kills formed in 2002 in Boston, United States. Ice Nine Kills has 8 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rainy Day”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Ice Nine Kills most often is SiriusXM Octane (National (SiriusXM satellite radio)), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2021.
Ice Nine Kills treat metalcore like a midnight movie marathon, and the Boston band's twin The Silver Scream albums, in 2018 and 2021, are where the idea went full slasher. It began as Ice Nine, a ska punk outfit started by high school friends Spencer Charnas and Jeremy Schwartz, and the name nods to ice-nine, the doomsday substance in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. By 2010 they had traded the upstrokes for breakdowns, and Charnas, frontman and the last founder standing, has steered through a long revolving cast of guitarists, bassists and drummers ever since.
Horror is the hook, but the music won't stay in one room: symphonic swells, big melodic choruses and post-hardcore bite all get dragged into the basement. The Silver Scream, on Fearless Records, reached number 29 on the Billboard 200 behind "Savages" and "A Grave Mistake"; Welcome to Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2 climbed to number 18 with "Hip to Be Scared" and "Rainy Day". Today Charnas is flanked by Justin deBlieck and Ricky Armellino on guitars and Patrick Galante on drums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ice Nine Kills on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rainy Day | 3 | #6 | – | 2021 | |
| 2 | Hip to Be Scared | 1 | #3 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | Savages | 1 | #4 | – | 2019 | |
| 4 | A Grave Mistake | 1 | #6 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | The Great Unknown | 1 | #66 | – | 2025 | |
| 6 | The Shower Scene | 1 | #73 | – | 2022 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | The Great Unknown | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2025 |
| 2022 | 66 | Rainy Day | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2022 |
| 2022 | 73 | The Shower Scene | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2022 |
| 2021 | 3 | Hip to Be Scared | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2021 |
| 2021 | 6 | Rainy Day | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2021 |
| 2021 | 67 | Rainy Day | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2021 |
| 2019 | 4 | Savages | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019 |
| 2018 | 6 | A Grave Mistake | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2018 |
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