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Gomurisu 
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 Posted: March 06 2006 at 09:45 |
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Dark, melancholic prog is cool. Example of some:
Pink Floyd - Animals & The Wall
King Crimson - Red, Islands & The Power to Believe
VDGG - Pawn Hearts
Rush - Roll the Bones
CMX - Aion
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a#infinity & Yanqui U.X.O.
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
I think King Crimson and VDGG are the darkest prog bands. Some of their songs are very depressing, yet still very good. It's nice to now and then listen to this "dark stuff". Of course not to forget GY!BE, which also has many depressing pieces. So slow, so dark...
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OldFatherThames
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 12:36 |
Without thinknig, I really say one of the most dark album ever is
- Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (What an album!)
And then probably goes
- VdGG - Still life or Godbluff (What albums!)
- King Crimson - Island
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clairvoyant
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:30 |
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Dark:
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
King Crimson - Red
Pink Floyd - Animals
Threshold - Subsurface
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Bern
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:41 |
 Bj-1 wrote:
Yes - The YES Album
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I don't see how this album can be considered to be dark. For me, any album containing Yours is no disgrace, The Clap and I've seen all good people cannot be considered dark. I would add that I voted for I've seen all good people in the Happiest song ever thread 
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RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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Gentle Tull
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:45 |
By the most well known bands.....
Jethro Tull- A Passion Play
Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Gentle Giant- Aquiring the Taste
Yes- I guess Relayer
King Crimson- All of them
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chamberry
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:46 |
OldFatherThames wrote:
Without thinknig, I really say one of the most dark album ever is
- Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra (What an album!)
And then probably goes
- VdGG - Still life or Godbluff (What albums!)
- King Crimson - Island
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I don't find King Crimson's Island to be dark. I see it as moody,
emotional and soft. But the song "letters" is the only dark song in the
album.
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Hemispheres
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:55 |
Gentle Tull wrote:
By the most well known bands.....
Jethro Tull- A Passion Play
Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Gentle Giant- Aquiring the Taste
Yes- I guess Relayer
King Crimson- All of them
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I Dont think yes were ever really dark but there darkest is probably relayer
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SirPsycho388
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:56 |
VDGG - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Eachother
King Crimson - Red, The Power To Believe
Genesis - Trespass
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yes - Relayer???
Rush - Caress of Steel
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Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can
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ANDREW
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 17:58 |
AREKNAMES (ITALY) - Same (2003)
- BLACK WIDOW - Sacrifice (1970)
- ARCADIUM - Breath Awhile (1969)
- ARZACHEL - Same (1969)
- BRAM STOKER - Heavy Rock Spectacular (1972)
- STILL LIFE - Same (1971)
- DR. Z - Three Parts To My Soul (1971)
- GHOST - When You're Dead - One Second (1970)
- HIGH TIDE - High Tide (1970)
- JUNIOR'S EYES - Battersea Power Station (1969)
- LUCIFER'S FRIEND - Where The Groupies Killed The Babies (1972)
- MONUMENT - The First Monument (1971)
- NECROMANDUS - Orexis Of Death (1973)
- WRITING ON THE WALL - The Power Of The Picts (1969)
- ZIOR - Zior (1971)
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Asyte2c00
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 18:00 |
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Red-King Crimson
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Rust
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 18:32 |
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
Tales From Topographic Oceans (Album 2) - Yes
Larks' Tounges In Aspic - King Crimson
Recycled - Nektar
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Edited by Rust
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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Flying Dutchman
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Posted: March 06 2006 at 18:37 |
A Passion Play seems darker than other Tull records to me...
Trespass seems to me to be by far the darkest Genesis albums.
Pink Floyd- Animals, the Wall (which I hate, but it's dark)
And of course, In the Court of the Crimson King- only I talk to the wind has a glimmer of not-darkness. Great album, makes me think of dungeons and glades and such at night time. And I was thinking, that's why prog is so great: the songs mean something on their own, but they also are so moving that they evoke other images in your head.
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ANDREW
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Posted: March 07 2006 at 07:24 |
- CRYSTAL PHOENIX - Same
- MEN OF LAKE - Looking For The Sun
- MALOMBRA - Same / Our Lady Of The Bonres
- RUNAWAY TOTEM - Trimegisto
- DUNWICH - Sul Monte è Il Tuono
- PRESENCE - The Sleeper Awakes
- STANDARTE - Same / Curses And Invocations
- ABIOGENESI - Same / Il Giocoscuro / Le Notti Di Salem / Sono Io Il Vampiro
- IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO - Same / Der Golem
- ST37 - Spaceage
- UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - Rituale Alieno
- GIAN CASTELLO - Taliesin
- E TU VIVRAI NEL TERRORE - Tribute To Horror Movies
- ARS NOVA - The Book Of The Dead
- AKRON - La Signora Del Buio
- SIMON HOUSE - Spiral Galaxy Revisited
- JACULA - In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum
- ANTONIUS REX - Anno Demoni
- SAD MINSTERL - The Flight Of The Phoenix
- GOBLIN - Roller / Suspiria / Profondo Rosso
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jtdotto
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 00:15 |
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the mars volta's frances the mute, de-loused in the comatorium, and the
tremulant EP. i dont think there's a light moment on any of those.
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eloii
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 01:09 |
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o Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 05:36 |
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Rush's darkest albums: 2112, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Vapor Trails
Did anyone mention Tool yet? Everything by them has a very dark quality.
As does everything by King Crimson.
Amon Duul has always struck me as kind of "dark," but I haven't heard
much from them so I'm not very familiar with their overall sound.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 05:43 |
°¨ [ wrote:
¨°]Rush's darkest albums: 2112, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Vapor Trails
Did anyone mention Tool yet? Everything by them has a very dark quality.
As does everything by King Crimson.
Amon Duul has always struck me as kind of "dark," but I haven't heard
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"Tanz der Lemminge" is a very dark album indeed. What else can lines like "Pull down your mask, wolf in the sheep-skin; you ate the dwarf with the iron leg. The glass-eye union is missing him yet." be called but dark?
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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edible_buddha
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 06:36 |
Dark albums ehhhh........
Fell in love with Pink Floyds - The Wall due to its darkness, but for the most part, I dont see too much darkness in prog at all. KC are intense in their mood but I have never felt 'dark' or sombre listening to them.
Some tracks off Sigur Ros () are good examples of 'dark', especially track 5...
And what is a discussion about darker music without mentioning the albums 'Spleen and Ideal' (especially the first three tracks) and 'Within the Realm of a Dying Sun' by Dead can Dance. Maybe not prog, but soo 'beautifully dark' (if that makes sense).
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I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long.
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ryba
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 07:05 |
NetsNJFan wrote:
VdGG/Peter Hammill - all of them |
a lot of them, but not all, those brighter are my most favorite
thus, the drakest are perhaps silent corners..., in camera and over
brighter albums are fools mate, ph7, out of water, still life, fireships
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Zargus
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 07:53 |
KC - Red & Islands
Tool - Lateralus
VDGG - All of em
PF - Animals & a Saucerful of secrets
Genesis - Tresspas
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