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Posted: December 14 2013 at 17:34
The first time I heard the very first Genesis album "from Genesis to Revelation" it scared me. I hadn't heard much of their early stuff yet except maybe Foxtrot. I just wasn't used to it and never heard anything like it before. It sounded very otherworldly to me. Trespass was pretty scarey for me too. Parts of "relayer" especially the gates of delirium were kind of scarey. Also the track "the necromancer" from Caress of Steel by RUSH. Also, maybe parts of Pink Floyd's "ummagumma" album.
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 15:50
The most recent thing I heard that sounded creepy is "Linguaphonie" by Henry Cow. I heard this on Pandora which I use to check out music I haven't heard before.
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 13:55
This thread reminds me, I really sometimes wonder how much which music feels scariest comes down to personal comfort zones and differing cultural norms as much as its own qualities. (and how much you can separate the two is a whole nother question, if also relevant)
A particular example: It has in recent years become a thing for disillusioned metal fans to jump ship to industrial/noise finding it much more intense and challenging... a bandwagon I freely admit to jumping on myself, as you can see in my previous post. I just wonder how big a part of that is the shock of hearing a completely different approach to making dark and disturbing music than I've been familiar with for longer. Consider the case of Ministry going the opposite direction in the mid/late 1980s...
On a similar note, I once heard a person mostly into hip-hop/metal/punk dismiss Whitehouse and other electronic noise this way: "This isn't subversive for the same reason most modern art isn't either, its only audience is a small and extremely privileged one that isn't actually being challenged by the music." Not sure if I agree with that argument, but it does make you think.
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 12:57
Submach1ne wrote:
Guldbamsen wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This one is without a doubt the most scary sounding album out there:
Funny you should mention this, I recently got this album on cd, scary stuff, nature unveiled is anther great one!
Oldschool industrial/noise in general is definitely the kind of music I find most unsettling. Other bands of that variety on ProgArchives that qualify include Coil, Lustmord and Throbbing Gristle. In specific, the Lustmord album The Place Where the Black Stars Hang sounds like what I imagine Cthulhu's got on his iPod!
NON come close at times too, but they're not on PA. (don't think they belong here, and their vibe is very different)
Edited by Toaster Mantis - December 14 2013 at 13:05
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
I only get scared by music if I'm falling asleep and then something particularly jarring comes up...there's one track on Cosa Brava's sophomore album which has glitchy parts which make me jump, coming to mind soonest.
I know exactly what you're talking about! For me It's always been Comus or Can in particular "Peking O"
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 22:53
I only get scared by music if I'm falling asleep and then something particularly jarring comes up...there's one track on Cosa Brava's sophomore album which has glitchy parts which make me jump, coming to mind soonest.
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 17:04
^That was me in about, maybe, 5th grade . And wasn't so much lyrical content as it was the atmoshere. The Thunder, the rain, the foreboding church bells, the distorted guitar, Ozzys voice, plus the cover image was creepy as all hell knows.
Edited by Astral Traveller - January 17 2013 at 17:11
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 17:00
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Surprised no one mentioned Stoah by Magma.
When I was a kid, a lot of songs scared me, Castle Walls by Styx was creepy as a kid when you were riding home from Newport RI in the middle of the boondocks at a quarter to midnight.
Same went for Welcome to Machine, The Happiest Days of Our Lives was scarring to hear before I went to Kindergarden. Especially when my friend explained its meaning to me.
I have a bad connection with Pull Me Under by Dream Theatre. I was in about 4th grade and my dad and I were coming back from my grandfathers house and we hit this thing that made some ungodly noise, and we were listening to Pull Me Under and I was startled by the noise, my dad said he never heard anything like it, and for the rest of the night told me stories of unnatural events happening by the Saugatuck Resevoir which made up the 8 mile stretch of land that we were traveling on. Then he down shifted the car and pulled over and I remember the exact words he said to me. He said "Funny we should stop at this place. This place is called Devils Den Preserve, and this is where all deamons come into the world." (It really is called Devils Den since many of the rock formations look like something straight out of hell." It's funny looking back, but for a while Pull Me Under was a negative song. I'm not sure if he planned that song or not, he doesn't even remember it playing.
And Sabbath's Black Sabbath and E5150 scared the crap out of me at as kid. Im sure theres more, but I can't remember now.
(BTW, Pull Me Under is one of my fav songs now.)
Black Sabbath by Sabbath is pretty scary stuff with that atmosphere and those lyrics "Big black shape with eyes of fire" and the "Oh No!!!" scared me too but it didn't scare the crap out of me
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:48
Surprised no one mentioned Stoah by Magma.
When I was a kid, a lot of songs scared me, Castle Walls by Styx was creepy as a kid when you were riding home from Newport RI in the middle of the boondocks at a quarter to midnight.
Same went for Welcome to Machine, The Happiest Days of Our Lives was scarring to hear before I went to Kindergarden. Especially when my friend explained its meaning to me.
I have a bad connection with Pull Me Under by Dream Theatre. I was in about 4th grade and my dad and I were coming back from my grandfathers house and we hit this thing that made some ungodly noise, and we were listening to Pull Me Under and I was startled by the noise, my dad said he never heard anything like it, and for the rest of the night told me stories of unnatural events happening by the Saugatuck Resevoir which made up the 8 mile stretch of land that we were traveling on. Then he down shifted the car and pulled over and I remember the exact words he said to me. He said "Funny we should stop at this place. This place is called Devils Den Preserve, and this is where all deamons come into the world." (It really is called Devils Den since many of the rock formations look like something straight out of hell." It's funny looking back, but for a while Pull Me Under was a negative song. I'm not sure if he planned that song or not, he doesn't even remember it playing.
And Sabbath's Black Sabbath and E5150 scared the crap out of me at as kid. Im sure theres more, but I can't remember now.
(BTW, Pull Me Under is one of my fav songs now.)
Edited by Astral Traveller - January 17 2013 at 16:49
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