Dark Prog

I think that every Prog band has had dark moments. I'm not sure what this post is asking. Are you talking about the key of the song? Minor keys are quite dark. Or do you mean the lyrics? With issues such as suicide or death? Or do you mean both? I am guessing you mean both.

Anyways, here are some bands with dark moments:
Pink Floyd(The Wall)
Genesis(The Lamb, Trespass)
King Crimson (I haven't heard all of the albums, but what I have heard here, it's dark)
Porcupine Tree(The song Waiting Phase One(which you can listen to here) is dark)

There are countless other bands that have dark moments. Only Marlyn Manson that I know is completely dark and depressing. Unless you can prove me wrong.

King of Loss wrote: If you want some Dark Prog Metal, Try Evergrey, it will blow your brains out

Yes, especially The Inner Circle.

Other great dark and melancholic prog metal albums:

• Green Carnation - A Blessing In Disguise
• Noekk - The Water Sprite
• Opeth - Still Life
• Tool - Lateralus
• Fantomas - Fantomas

 

tremulant wrote: 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! Okay, here goes.  My schedule right now is set up so that I have to wake up really early for a class, and when that class is over, I come back home and sleep for about 3 hours and then go to my next class.  These mid-day naps have led to some of the weirdest dreams I've ever had.  So here's what happened, I slowly fell asleep and then started to dream.  In this dream, I was laying in bed, listening to Southside of the Sky.  Then I drifted off to sleep (in the dream! It was a dream within a dream...My theory is that this exponentiated the dream experience!).  So in this dream within a dream, Southside was running through my mind.  But it was as if I was hearing something completely new in the song.. It got to the middle section, but before all the vocal harmonies, there were words being said really mysteriously from all around the stereo spectrum, much like the weird and scary talking that appears all over 'Dark Side of the Moon' and also at the beginning of the second part of 'Thick as a Brick'.  They were describing like a big structure of some kind with a big hallway, it seemed like it might have been the halls running through a football stadium or something.  But the voices were really scary.  Well anyway, I woke up, looked at my clock and it said something like 4:00 AM.  Then I woke up again (remember, it was a dream within a dream) and it was like 1:00 PM, and I was like "Wow, that was weird." It's really hard to explain how disturbing it was to me at the time.  But I later realized that what could have triggered this odd dream was an actual part of the song in which a mysterious vocal part does occur.  It's around 1:15 on the song, during the line "To somewhere we could lie".  If you listen really closely, there is some other vocal being said during that line, it's impossible to tell what it is.  But I think that's what does it for me on that song, moreso than the music, it's the vocals that are especially haunting.  The way that, when Anderson says "eternityyyyyy" and then it pans way over to the left side and, if you imagine a really fast game of Pong, the "ya" goes back and forth really quickly, that's kind of scary.  I could go into even more depth about some of these parts and more stuff in the song and how scary it is to me, if anyone cares to hear 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... Believe me, and everyone else here when we say that you MUST listen to this band! I've got another story about that album actually, if you want to hear it.  I listened to "Pawn Hearts" like 3 or 4 times when I first got it, and I thought it sucked.  Then a few months later, I listened to it again, 3 times in 3 days in a row and on the 3rd day it hit me (that's what that story is about). [quote] 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.

"In the Court of the Crimson King" scares me so much that i wet myself when I hear it...Well, not really, but again, if you want me to go into detail about that particular album I would like to, but this post is alreay so long.

BebieM wrote: New one: Discipline, excellent, in the vain of VDGG GY!BE is great too, so is A Silver Mt. Zion

Glad to see someone else suggest Discipline. Unfolded Like Staircase will take you on on a very dark journey indeed.

...and I must agree with those opinions on VdGG...Godbluff and Pawn Hearts are extremely dark.

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

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

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.! 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?!)   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...

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.

 

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.! 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?!)

 

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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