"Dark" Albums

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

All "Jacula" and "Antonius Rex" albums are very dark.
King Crimson - "Starless and Bilble Black" is dark, too.

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

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!!!

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.

    

Exactly

Joy Division both albums !!!!! : Unknown pleasures and Closer !!

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

Plastic Ono Band is actually a very dark yet completely pissed off album.

PRESENCE and AREKNAMES (from Italy)

Edited by ANDREW - April 23 2006 at 20:41

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