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Triceratopsoil View Drop Down

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Posted: October 26 2010 at 20:20

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like

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Posted: October 26 2010 at 22:03

Suspiria-Goblin

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Blood Thrist-Pauline Anna Strom.....Blind lady from the west coast who recorded electronic music in the 80's. Very haunting and I hold it in the highest regard. Contact ZNR RECORDS for a copy.

Nosferatu-Popol Vuh........many sections you will discover are dark and errie. If anything, the ethnic style gives it a more mysterious affect on the listener.

Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You.......more of an errie rocker that starts out with spine chilling piano intro. Supposedly, Vincent Crane wrote the intro while feeling the breeze through his window at night In the end, it reminds me of what became later in years, Heavy Metal.

The Devil-The Enid.....A creepy and humourous piece from "In the Region of the Summer Stars". A true spooky prog instrumental.

Everdance-Curved Air.....the chord progressions are not that errie sounding but, the lyrics are creepy. "Go to the Devil and dance with him"

Attack Of the Titans-Celluloid......from the album Neptune. One of the creepiest instumental pieces ever played on mellotron. contact ZNR RECORDS for purchasing.
Black Mass/Lucifer-Mort Garson......find someone to burn it for you. You will never regret it. The pieces are short and work well when programmed with other spooky prog songs. With all due respect though, the album stands as a traditional landmark for those who raise the Halloween spirit.

One electronic piece to play after midnight when it's dark and quiet yet there ain't no one around to hear ya scream.....is "Midnight Sun" by Wendy Carlos. Another is "Winter"
One of the most errie, mysterious, and disturbing electronic pieces is "In the Shadow oif the Sun" recorded by the non-talented Throbbing Gristle. There are voices throughout the piece which imitate calls of the wicked, winy creepy crying, chants, and bellowed phrases. A vial chours that remains distant in sound and will eventually give you the creeps. The voices are like sounding off across a field or from the distant side of the woods. Satan Cults. It's pretty convincing.

Edited by TODDLER - October 26 2010 at 22:11

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Posted: October 26 2010 at 23:37

Two words:

1. Gog

2. Magog

"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."

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Posted: October 27 2010 at 01:40

Magma - Ghost Dancing (hooh hooh... hooh hooh)

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Posted: October 30 2010 at 00:03

The title track off of Warm Dust's debut album, And It Came to Pass. Wonderful middle section with some strange semi-Biblical recitations and a bunch of tortured screaming.

Also, the eponymous track off of Royal Hunt's album Fear. Again, lots of screaming, and Bible passages read in reverse. When the song finally kicks in properly it's a pretty unnerving affair as well. Amazingly, I first heard Fear on a Halloween...I'd special-ordered the album, and picked it up on All Hallows. It seemed eerily appropriate.

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Posted: October 30 2010 at 02:58

King Crimson - The Devil's Triangle

VDGG - Man-Erg

Yes - Sound Chaser

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Posted: October 30 2010 at 07:14

BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

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Posted: October 30 2010 at 13:48

Spooky Hammond!

"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

"He's up the pub"

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Posted: October 30 2010 at 15:04

I second White Noise's - An Electric Storm in Hell (1969)

Exellent for Halloween! The Visitations (it's about death)

Amazing lyrics in this song.

Edited by Anirml - October 30 2010 at 15:05

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Posted: October 30 2010 at 20:08

Here's a couple a sweets for ya:

Blood Runs Deep-Green Eyed God(1972):Steel Mill

What Are You Doin'-Delusion(1971):McChurch Soundroom

Red Sun-Gravedigger(1972):Janus

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Posted: October 31 2010 at 00:52

How about this list:

1. L'Epice - Dun
2. La Bataille Du Sucre - Ange
3. Hostsejd - Anglagard
4. Skogsranden - Anglagard
5. Le Photographe Exorciste - Atoll
6. Circus Brimstone - The Flower Kings
7. The Waiting Room - Genesis
8. Night On Bare Mountain (Incl. The Black Stone) - Par Lindh Project or Modest Mussorgsky
9. The Barbarian - ELP
10. A Tower Struck Down - Steve Hackett
11. Tigermoth - Steve Hackett
12. E Minor 5/9 Minor/5 - Triumvirat
13. Hinterland - Wobbler
14. A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd
15. Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
16. the whole "Symphonic Holocaust" album - Morte Macabre
17. Black Cat - Gentle Giant
18. the whole"Detta har hänt" album - Gösta Berlings Saga
19. Indiscipline - King Crimson
20. Fracture - King Crimson
21. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. I - King Crimson
22. The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
23. The Mincer - King Crimson
24. Providence - King Crimson
25. One More Red Nightmare - King Crimson
26. (In the) Black Room/Tower - Peter Hammill
27. A Louse Is Not a Home - Peter Hammill
28. Gog Magog (In Bromine Chambers) -Peter Hammill
29. Scorched Earth - Van Der Graaf Generator
30. Killer - Van Der Graaf Generator
31. Darkness - Van Der Graaf Generator
32. White Hammer - Van Der Graaf Generator
33. After the Flood - Van Der Graaf Generator
34. the whole"Pawn Hearts" album - Van Der Graaf Generator
35. My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) - Van Der Graaf Generator
36. Total Eclipse - The Alan Parsons Project
37. Nucleus - The Alan Parsons Project
38. I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project
39. In The Lap Of The Gods - The Alan Parsons Project
40. the whole "Tales Of Mystery And Imagination. Edgar Alan Poe" album - The Alan Parsons Project

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Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:40

Hi,

I hope the guy gives us his list of stuff that he played ... we pretty much put together an amazing list ... I even went out to listen to some of these things listed here ...

Duhh ... Alan Parsons ... from the first album of course, specially since it is all based on Edgar Allan Poe. The last two cuts together would be my choice. From Ange I would use stuff from "Le Cemetiere des Harlequins". I am not sure I would use any King Crimson, though I would use stuff from Robert's solo albums. Peter Hammill, for me, is poetry, not Halloween ... he's not a joke, or fake for me at all -- I stay with the conceptual edge on this one, even though Gog and Magog would fit, but that is more of an inner representation of the mind, than it is anything else. As such, that is not "horrific" for me ... it's just an open mind.

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Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:55

Seance - Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) - Mars Volta
Larks' Tongues... Pt. 1 - King Crimson
Leviathan - Mastodon

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Posted: November 02 2010 at 18:11

Alaska by U.K.

First Black Sabbath album.

Jocelyn Pook's material on Eyes Wide Shut.

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Posted: November 02 2010 at 18:24

Had to check out your thread Trevor as you share your full name with my dad! Wish he lived in Canada as well, so I could visit him and escape the drudge of the UK at the moment.

Anyway, a bit late I know, but to answer your question, I find most stuff by Karda Estra quite chilling. Give 'em a listen...very good, very 'atmospheric'!

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