Macabre, "Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)": With a voice that distinctive it's no wonder that Jay managed to land a lot of narration work, everything from the History Channel to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. But he had a special place for serial killers, having narrated documentaries on the likes of Albert Fish and a 2004 film called H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer.

Holmes used the distraction and surge of population surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to build himself a murder hotel. All told, he confessed to the killing of 27 people, but may have a body count as high as 200. Metal band Macabre pays tribute to the psychopath in this track from Gloom. True to title, Holmes would strip flesh from his victims and sell their skeletons to medical schools.

Jungle Book, "The Mighty Hunters": One of Jay's best known characters was as the tiger Shere Khan from the Jungle Book. He took over the role from George Sanders who committed suicide in 1971.

Jay played Khan in the sequel, in many cameo appearances, and in my favorite, the spin-off cartoon TaleSpin. That was the place that he really shone, as in that universe Khan was a Randian businessman who was sometimes an antagonist, but maintained a respectful and even friendly relationship with Baloo despite trying to out-compete him.

Shere Khan had a song in the original Jungle Book script, but like most of Terry Gilkyson's work it was replaced after being deemed too dark and frightening. This is an original demo of the tune.

Tony Jay, "Hellfire": As far as I know, this is Jay's only song, but man what a song it is! Jay was on a roll playing Disney villains at this point, having both the Shere Khan gig and a small role as the asylum owner in Beauty and the Beast, but in 1996's Hunchback of Notre Dame he got star billing as Judge Claude Frollo.

"Hellfire" is one of the greatest Disney villain songs ever, and it damn near got the film bumped up to PG with its subjects of hell, damnation, and most of all the powerful lust felt by Frollo for the gypsy Esmeralda. It's a terrifying, dark sequence that rivals "Night on Bald Mountain" in its Satanic genius. I hope it stands as a final proof of the premise of this article... that Tony Jay, may he rest in peace, was metal as fuck.