Is Univers Zero´s Heresie the darkest album ever?

Scott Walkers' The Drift is THE DARKEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME. Seriously. It is truly nightmarish.

I guess I have some dark albums to listen to... fortunatly I´ve run out of weed! 

Black Mass/Lucifer.....by Mort Garson is a special dark electronic album. It has never offically been released because some major criminal domestic record label is either not leasing the rights to an independently owned prog label or the Garson family (hope to God), is planning to release Mort's entire back catalog soon. .....For the last 2 decades there has been no sign of this recording ever being released on any label. That is a total disgrace when you think of all the electronic recordings that have been remasterd, rehashed, retrashed, bonus this, bonus that, re-recorded, slip case, digi-pack, Japanese gatefold, and this one is left in the dust? What a bunch of high on the hog a...holes we have running the business. Believe me....this one is truly a unique dark collection of recordings from the master Garson.

I don't know most of the candidates offered by others here so I can not judge. It is allways a problem to answer such a question. One needs to hear every album ever made (and that is impossible). I can claim that "Les morte von vite" and "The fall of the house of Usher" are not as dark as Heresie (and the same with every KC, VDGG and Magma album I heared and at least with the first 2 I heared quite a few).

The most impressionable dark record for me was..."In the Shadow Of the Sun" by Throbbing Gristle.

Not the typical affair with T.G. except for the noise. The voices which are heard on the recording are chantings, bellowed chours, screams, and are all from a distance. Picture yourself sitting at the edge of an extremely huge open field which leads into wooded areas. As you sit you can hear the rites progress but, from a distance which creates more of an errie effect. Something I often experienced as a child. It will creep you out. The whole idea of sound distance instead of chants recorded up front like in Heresie creates something of a realization which is chilling.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Peter Hammill in the 1999 version is extremely dark.



Also Offering's "A Fïïèh" album. Unfortunately I can't find sound examples for that.

And "the soundtrrack to Roman Polanski''s "Macbeth" by the Third Ear Band. Here a few examples:




Edited by BaldFriede - August 12 2010 at 09:29

The darkest album in the Rock genre?  Maybe (and I've listened to Zeit.)

Henry Plainview wrote: Nah, Penderecki is way darker, and then there's also noise. You probably only think that because you're high.

I agree. Penerecki's sixties-compositions might be the most terrifyingly dark music I know of. Probably because unlike UZ, its never about being dark. Still, I find Heresie (and Zeit) wonderfully dark as well. But not as eh... cathartic...

Haven't heard any noise that's profoundly dark like Threnody, Dies Irae, De Natura Sonoris..., but I got to admit I'm neither an expert or the biggest fan of the genre. Its brutal at times, but most of the time I don't "believe" in it enough to feel its darkness.

I used to think so but KD's Coyote has overtaken it now.

up there... but some Sunn 0))) gets atleast as dark especially live! Mayhem always seems super dark, but mabe because of the back story more than the music its self