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The Wizard 
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 Posted: April 23 2006 at 19:21 |
Plastic Ono Band is actually a very dark yet completely pissed off album. 
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oracus
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 18:43 |
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Lift your skinny fist like antenas to heaven By Godspeed you! black emperor
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Maverick
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 15:31 |
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Well.
I think Dream Theater "Train Of Thought" is a dark and heavy album.
Also, most of Pain Of Salvation's works are dark too.
Some of King Crimson's albums are dark.
Latest Porcupine Tree's alums are somehow dark (just look on their covers).
Van Der Graaf Generator (especially, Peter Hammill) issued some dark albums.
And, of course, nowadays we have a dark band from Poland - Riverside. Thiers works are dark, but very emotinal and pure.
Edited by Maverick - April 23 2006 at 15:32
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In PROG We Trust
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Pafnutij
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:27 |
 Violenza wrote:
Anything by Univers Zero or Shub-Niggurath |
Agreed, although I don't like either of them.
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yeppp
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:54 |
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Joy Division both albums !!!!! : Unknown pleasures and Closer !!
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Marc Baum
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:07 |
Progdrummer05 wrote:
I think EVERGREY has done some pretty dark albums ESPECIALLY THE INNER CIRCLE gah man when i heard that for the first time their were chills running through my body |
I love that album, one of my favourite dark albums in whole metal! 
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"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT
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oracus
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 09:54 |
chamberry wrote:
Godspeed you! black emperor's F#A#infinity is a very dark album and
most of it is thanks to the naration but their darkest and menacing
album is Yanqui U.x.o.
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kloparto
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Joined: May 02 2005
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 09:51 |
Comus first utterance is the darkest album i've ever heard.
"Hymen hunter, hands of steel, crack you open and your red flesh peel
Pain procurer, eyes of fire pierce your womb and push still higher
Comus rape, Comus break sweet young virgin's virtue take
Naked flesh flowing hair her terror screams they cut the air"
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:58 |
Ed_The_Dead wrote:
No one mentioned Opeth... Still life or Ghost Reveries... Actually anything, even Damnation Songs like the Moor or The Grand Conjuration are dark and evil as hell!!! |
I mention Damnation a while back
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slowfire85
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:34 |
Look to the French:
Arachnoid- s/t
Flamen Dialis- symptome-dei (some scary sh*t)
Pulsar- Halloween
Island-pictures
Goblin- Roller, Profondo Rosso, tenebre
Eccentric Orbit- Attack of the martians
Noekk- the water sprite
Devil doll- dies Irae
Edited by slowfire85 - April 23 2006 at 08:36
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What is prog rock ?
It is music that does progress. Progressive music takes a riff, turns it inside out, plays it upside down and the other way around, and explores its potential.
K.Emerson
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chamberry
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:21 |
Some other dark albums that haven't been mentioned are some of the
soundscapes that Robert Fripp like The Gates Of Paradise since the
album is divided into "the gates of paradise" and "the outter darkness"
the outter darkness parts songs has some very creepy sounds 
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Bj-1
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 06:45 |
Soul Dreamer wrote:
Bj-1 wrote:
Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He and Pawn Hearts
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson - Islands, Starless and Bible Black
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
Supertramp - Supertramp
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Soft Machine - Fourth, Fifth
Dream Theater - When Dream & Day Unite, Awake
Shadow Gallery - Shadow Gallery
Yes - The YES Album, Tales From Topographic Oceans
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The Yes Album a Dark album??? With "I've seen all good people" and "Yours is no disgrace"??
Tales DARK??
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Maybe it's just me, but I think both have a darker feel to them than the other Yes album. On the other hand, I have listened to TYA and TFTO a lot when it's night, so maybe that's the reason... 
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 06:38 |
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All "Jacula" and "Antonius Rex" albums are very dark.
King Crimson - "Starless and Bilble Black" is dark, too.
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 05:22 |
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Opeth - Damnation is dark and it's their best album in m y opinion
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BaldFriede
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 02:37 |
The Crow wrote:
I really don't understand very well the people here...
"Trespass" and "Nursery Crime" are dark album? "Close to the Edge"?
"Roll the Bones"? Sorry, but I disagree with a lot of people here...
Some really dark prog albums:
Everything of Devil Doll. Maybe the darkest prog band ever...
Green Carnation "Light of Day, Day of Darkness". One of the most dark and depressing albums I've heard...
Lacrimosa. This band is really dark, nor Pink Floyd and Yes...
The prog albums by Death, like "Human" or "Individual Thought Patterns".
Some albums of After Crying are really dark and depressive too...
Really, I can't explain how people consider dark some albums like "The Yes Album" and "Caress of Steel"... |
Well, "Nursery Cryme" IS a dark album. Just look what the songs are
about: "The Musical Box": A boy is beheaded with a crocket hammer and
appears as a ghost. "Harold the Barrel": A man cut's off his toes,
serves them for tea and jumps from a window. "The Fountain of
Salmacis": Nymph loves unwilling demi-god and merges with him into a
strange creature. "The Return of the Giant Hogweed": Evil plants take
control (the Giant Hogweed does indeed exist, by the way). You don't
call that dark?
High Tide are a very dark band. Just listen to their albums "Sea Shanties" and the self-titled 2nd one.
The "Macbeth" soundtrack album by the Third Ear Band is very dark too.
Edited by BaldFriede - April 23 2006 at 03:41
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 01:09 |
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If you read into it, a lot of Pink Floyd albums are pretty dark...but I love the lyrics for "Animals" (esp "Dogs") . As for other dark albums, Dream Theater's "Awake" is pretty dark....and "Ok computer" is dark...or at least depressing
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Tenth Chaffinch
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 01:00 |
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Forest, Tool, and Univers Zero are pretty Dark bands. As are Henry Cow and Slapp Happy. I'd have to say a good dark album is KC's Red. It's a pretty dark album with songs like Starless, and the eerie instrumental Providence. Pink Floyd's dark album is most definately Animals, with its sinister sound and its constant attacks on social and political issues.
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The Crow
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Posted: April 01 2006 at 05:14 |
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I really don't understand very well the people here...
"Trespass" and "Nursery Crime" are dark album? "Close to the Edge"? "Roll the Bones"? Sorry, but I disagree with a lot of people here...
Some really dark prog albums:
Everything of Devil Doll. Maybe the darkest prog band ever...
Green Carnation "Light of Day, Day of Darkness". One of the most dark and depressing albums I've heard...
Lacrimosa. This band is really dark, nor Pink Floyd and Yes...
The prog albums by Death, like "Human" or "Individual Thought Patterns".
Some albums of After Crying are really dark and depressive too...
Really, I can't explain how people consider dark some albums like "The Yes Album" and "Caress of Steel"...
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hamham
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 21:56 |
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besides Katatonia's completely dark discography, my vote is for Arcturus' The Sham Mirrors and Kamelot's The Black Halo as well as Light of Day, Day of Darkness from Green Carnation
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Prog-man
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 21:55 |
ARENA - "THE VISITOR"  
(Listen to "The hanging tree", and you'll see...)
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