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anael

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 14:57

easy:

-Arachnoid

-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 16:44

THE MARS VOLTA...but you already know that one judging from your name

but also FANTOMAS-Delirium Cordia is great

BebieM

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 18:31

New one: Discipline, excellent, in the vain of VDGG

GY!BE is great too, so is A Silver Mt. Zion

Violenza

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 19:52

I second Univers Zero.

I find Henry Cow and the Art Bears quite dark as well.

I've never thought of VdGG as being dark though, just melancholic.

MANTICORE

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 20:10

JACULA-Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus

MORTE MACABRE-"Symphonic Holocaust" a lot of songs inspired in a horror films.

Just look the cd covers.!

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 20:14

tremulant wrote:

I love dark sounding Prog. By this I mean stuff like King Crimson's "Red", Tool's music in general and Yes's "South Side of the Sky".
I would like some recommendations on this particular sounding Prog.
Oh, and I'm not really interested in Prog Metal, even though it is dark sounding alot of the time.

Thank you!

Anekdoten - Nucleus

Anekdoten - vemod

... Go check them out!

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 20:16

MANTICORE wrote:

JACULA-Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus

MORTE MACABRE-"Symphonic Holocaust" a lot of songs inspired in a horror films.

Just look the cd covers.!

I am still searching for that JACULA album.. havent heard it yet.. I'm eager to hear it!! Have you heard of liquid scarlet yet (I'm really going apesh*t about this band.. Totally in love with it.. scandinavian stuff you know?!)

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Cinema

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 20:28

Some of the best 'dark' progressive music I've ever heard and heartily
recommend:

Somnambulist - The Paranormal Humidor

Somnambulist - Somnambulist

Anglagard - Epilog

Anglagard - Hybris

5uu's - Crisis in Clay

5uu's - Hunger's Teeth

Citizen Cain - Playing Dead

Citizen Cain - Somewhere But Yesterday

And if you consider Yes' Southside of the Sky 'dark,' then their Relayer
album should be right up your alley. It's definitely the darkest of all Yes'
albums.

MANTICORE

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 20:52

Radioactive Toy wrote:

MANTICORE wrote:

JACULA-Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus

MORTE MACABRE-"Symphonic Holocaust" a lot of songs inspired in a horror films.

Just look the cd covers.!

tHE CD COVER THAT APEEARS ON YOUR SIGNATURE CALLS MY ATTENTION AND I SEARCH INFORMATION BUT THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC DOES NOT INTERESING ME

sorry about my engllish

PEACE.!

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`Ubu

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 22:04

Try Art Bears, In Praise of Learning by Henry Cow and all of Chris Cutler & Fred Frith duo recordings, also Univers Zero and Art Zoyd ..

"..So what´s the speed of dark?.."

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Posted: November 25 2005 at 22:47

To me, Genesis Trespass is as dark and eerie as an album could get. The only album by them with that special quality. Parts of it would've - could've - been nice backing music for movies about ghosts or hauntings. I sometimes wish that Genesis would've stayed with that sound longer than they did, or at least expanded on it more afterward.

LDL

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Posted: November 26 2005 at 01:09

ldlanberg wrote:

To me, Genesis Trespass is as dark
and eerie as an album could get. The only album by them with that special
quality. Parts of it would've - could've - been nice backing music for movies
about ghosts or hauntings. I sometimes wish that Genesis would've stayed
with that sound longer than they did, or at least expanded on it more
afterward.

I agree with you about Trespass. I also think The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway is dark. Certainly the story of Rael is very dark and disturbing.

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Posted: November 26 2005 at 07:53

MANTICORE wrote:

Radioactive Toy wrote:

MANTICORE wrote:

JACULA-Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus

MORTE MACABRE-"Symphonic Holocaust" a lot of songs inspired in a horror films.

Just look the cd covers.!

tHE CD COVER THAT APEEARS ON YOUR SIGNATURE CALLS MY ATTENTION AND I SEARCH INFORMATION BUT THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC DOES NOT INTERESING ME

sorry about my engllish

PEACE.!

Contemporary music ?? Like morte macabre, anekdoten for example?? There are bands still active you know, and LS is from 2001...

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Posted: November 26 2005 at 08:09

What about The Flower Kings, The Pink Floyd

(as if you didn't already know that!), some tracks off Transatlantic like 'We All Need Some Light Now' and the last segment of 'Full Moon Rising'...great dark stuff!
Oh, there's also Peter Hammil (not sure if he's considered prog or not) but his stuff is pretty dark.

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tremulant

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Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:23

Wow!
Thanks alot everyone, now I have alot of research to do; looking into these bands.
Should be fun!

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Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:46

Sweedish band are good in that

You can add in the same line of Anekdoten Anglagard and Morte Macabre Landberk; more hard to find but excellent.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 00:06

I've always though that King Crimson sounds dark in general

herbie53

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 00:12

Progfans wrote:

Sweedish band are good in that

You can add in the same line of Anekdoten Anglagard and Morte Macabre Landberk; more hard to find but excellent.

To these 4 incredible bands I will add the norwegians WHITE WILLOW, KVAZAR & MIKROMIDAS...

The last album by WHITE WILLOW is very dark and dense... the title is "Storm Season"...

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 03:33

tremulant wrote:

I love dark sounding Prog. By this I mean stuff like King Crimson's "Red", Tool's music in general and Yes's "South Side of the Sky".
I would like some recommendations on this particular sounding Prog.
Oh, and I'm not really interested in Prog Metal, even though it is dark sounding alot of the time.

Thank you!

i know exactly what you mean about 'southside of the sky', i had a fairly distrubing dream about that song recently. van der graff generator's "Pawn Hearts" is incredibly dark, and takes a long time to get into, but when you do, believe me, its amazing (its their only album i have right now, but thats only because im broke).

king crimsons first album is also really dark and disturbing, and of course "dark side of the moon". im really interested in the darker side of things myself.

i want to go into greater detail about this stuff later, but im going to bed now.

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tremulant

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 03:52

Plastic Man wrote:

i know exactly what you mean about 'southside of the sky', i had a fairly distrubing dream about that song recently.

Oooh! I'd like to hear about it!

van der graff generator's "Pawn Hearts" is incredibly dark, and takes a long time to get into, but when you do, believe me, its amazing (its their only album i have right now, but thats only because im broke).

Yeah, I really should listen to VDGG more, maybe I will get into it...

king crimsons first album is also really dark and disturbing, and of course "dark side of the moon". im really interested in the darker side of things myself.

Awsome, I'm like that too, there's just something about that sort of stuff that just draws me in and interests me highly.

i want to go into greater detail about this stuff later, but im going to bed now.

I look forward to it.

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