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Posted: January 31 2010 at 16:35
Univers Zero - Heresie (all other UZ albums I've heard I consider random nonsense that cannot be scary in the least) Lustmord - Anything I've heard. Bonus points for the story related to Metavoid (Saw it on 4chan once, can't find a solid retelling)
Oh yeah, and the Stalker album isn't as dark as the above, yet it gets mentioned all the time (even though Lustmord is on it.
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Posted: January 31 2010 at 16:43
Henry Plainview wrote:
I'm going to have to nominate Jandek
Not just because of the music, but because of the story of the artist. Jandek has, over the last 30 years, self-released sixty albums that can only be mail ordered from him directly for $8 each (as he doesn't have a website) or from the hippest online retailers. From what I hear, most of them are in the same vein as that song, and he never appeared in public as Jandek until 2004, and he still won't tell anybody what his real name is. What kind of mental state do you have to be in to record 60 albums of that...
That is the most godawful dross I've ever heard. I guess it's dark. 'Grats, Jandek.
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Posted: January 31 2010 at 17:00
stonebeard wrote:
Univers Zero - Heresie (all other UZ albums I've heard I consider random nonsense that cannot be scary in the least) Lustmord - Anything I've heard. Bonus points for the story related to Metavoid (Saw it on 4chan once, can't find a solid retelling)
Oh yeah, and the Stalker album isn't as dark as the above, yet it gets mentioned all the time (even though Lustmord is on it.
Also, mentioning Merzbow = failure. Just, FYI.
Heresie sounds like a art horror flick soundtrack. The rest sound like music. Just bought the new one...
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Posted: January 31 2010 at 17:27
If not Jolene then Emma?
It was a cold and dark December night when I opened up the bedroom door to find her lying still and cold upon the bed A love letter lying on the bedroom floor It read, "Darling I love you but I just can't keep on living on dreams no more (Darling I love you) I tried so very hard not to leave you alone (That's right) I just can't keep on trying no more"
Early blues for me would be Lightnin' Hopkins with songs like "Awful Dream". Then again there are various dark aspects to Mississippi delta and Chicago in general regarding the lyric content. Univers Zero are mysterious sounding. Zeit by Tangerine Dream is a favorite. Black Mass/Lucifer by Mort Garson is scary and the usage of the synth after all this time doesn't sound very dated to me. Some of the pieces are theme based on the subject of Demonology. Throbbing Gristle did a soundtrack titled "In the Shadow of the Sun". Some of the most mysterious and dark soundscapes and quite errie to the ear. George Crumb's Black Angels is one of the darkest pieces for me. The version that is performed by the Concord String Quartet is like a fine wine as the version by Kronos Quartet flows in a different way and somehow effects the enjoyment of the piece for me. It needs to be more subtle and that doesn't happen on the Kronos
recording.
Jeff Grienke is my all time favorite composer of dark electronic music. His early titles are essential. "In Another Place", "Timbral Planes", "Changing Skies". He claimed to be influenced by the industial sounds of his hometown. I suppose those sounds can also apply to a town with Satanic sing song chants. He is like the ultimate for a mood swing or desire to hear dark errie soundscapes on a dark windy night.
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 11:39
Slartibartfast wrote:
Just about anything by The Residents of course. The darkest album in my collection, which is dark in a really subtle way: Steve Roach's Darkest Before Dawn.
You’re absolutely right about The Residents. I once saw them live, and afterwards it felt like I’d been beaten up by Mike Tyson. Btw, I’m glad nobody has mentioned VdGG. I actually find them quite uplifting: In Hammill’s songs I always find a spark of hope. Not so with The Residents.
He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 13:44
refugee wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
Just about anything by The Residents of course. The darkest album in my collection, which is dark in a really subtle way: Steve Roach's Darkest Before Dawn.
You’re absolutely right about The Residents. I once saw them live, and afterwards it felt like I’d been beaten up by Mike Tyson. Btw, I’m glad nobody has mentioned VdGG. I actually find them quite uplifting: In Hammill’s songs I always find a spark of hope. Not so with The Residents.
I was also mulling the Residents over for this thread!! I was thinking of "Eskimo," what wild stuff!
Their band reaction to the theft of one of the eyeball-heads (replacing them with skull masks) was brilliant!
Takes me back to the old days....Nash the Slash, the original Butthole Surfers, etc. Lots of dark negativity back in the 80's!
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Posted: February 02 2010 at 00:12
I would go with Nick Drake's last recordings, the four songs that appear on "Time of No Reply" and also on "Made to Love Magic". "Black-eyed Dog" is probably the darkest of the four. Just acoustic guitar and a tortured voice. That's as bleak as anything I've heard.
For a bit less bleak and a bit more depressing, try Piano Magic, especially some of the songs sung by Glen Johnson. Try "The Journal of a Disappointed Man" from the "Opencast Heart" EP.
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Posted: February 14 2010 at 10:45
Probably some Sunn O))), like Cry for the Weeper. Go to Youtube watch it, buy the cd, or whatever.
Disclaimer: Do not listen in a dark, small room. Do not listen to it close to any sharp. May lead to suicide or self inflicted injuries. I am not responsible for the consequences caused by the music.
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