Eerie Prog Recommendations

Here are 2 examples that I like, the latter being eerier.

I'll be happy if some recommendations come, in the light (or shadow) of these two songs.

The obvious choice is Comus' First Utterance, but you could also try Curved Air's Phantasmagoria or the creepy soundtrack to The Wicker Man by Paul Giovanni and Magnet. 

Edited by someone_else - March 24 2021 at 07:01

dr wu23 - Dead Can Dance: I liked it. Thanks! Very good cover art too.

Nogbad_The_Bad - Shub Niggurath: Definitely interesting, some atonality there I presume and it gets quite macabre. Eerie indeed, and at times disturbing/unnerving. Is the hooded figure in the cover wearing a COVID-19 mask, or is it for the bubonic plague?  Univers Zero's song (or EP or album, whahtsoever) is a bit too long for me to listen to now, but it seems more ambient type of an eerie song. I'll give it a thorough listen later. (I know this band but couldn't remember hearing this song.) Present: Very good musicianship and a creepy atmosphere. Is its genre apocolyptical jazz or jazz/rock combustion? Poor guitars... 

siLLy puPPy - Morte Macabre: Starts off very good, but I guess it is a full-length album, and I'll again listen to it in its entirety later. Archaia: The same. In French language I guess? This also seems nice! Klaus Schultze and Deathspell Omega. Both are like masters in their genres. Though, I rather appreciate than like the latter.

Awesoreno: Get Out of My House by Kate Bush: I wouldn't call it "eerie", but a darkly mysterious song. I liked it. BTW, the Saens song that I gave as an example was not actually frightening too (which means it embodies the strangeness aspect of the word more dominantly). Or even if it is so, it's gotta be an adventurous and thrilling sort of eeriness. 

DamoXt7942 - Horde Catalytique Pour la Fin: It starts off VERY weird, and I'll again listen to it later. Mahogany Brain: A cinematic inception that would suit an eerie scene of a horror movie. The spoken vocals are impressive. I liked this one too!  Semool: Bizarre. Underneath the pleasant tones, I sensed an uncanny tension. Like the person in the cover, it feels like having an odd daydream. Really, very interesting if not outright eerie.

dauinghorn - Popol Vuh: I like this band, and this is a really nice song by 'em.

Psychedelic Paul: Comus... an obvious choice indeed, that I'm already familiar with. Curved Air - Phantasmogaria. I checked the title track, and I want to believe that you don't really deem it as eerie.  The Wicker Man and its sounctracks... Absolutely love 'em!

chopper - Tool is the epitome of uninterestingness in music, for me.

someone_else - Tusmorke: A good band (except for how its name sounds) and a good song. I wouldn't call it eerie, though. Planxty: Not eerie but AWESOME. I'll probably dig this band. I remember hearing of them, but haven't given a proper listen. (I surely know this ballad.)

Thanks everyone!





Edited by Shadowyzard - March 24 2021 at 07:49

^ I've listened to this years ago. Very creepy indeed.

That's my favourite song by Espers, mainly because I'm a big fan of 

Blue Öyster Cult 

 too. 

Shadowyzard wrote: Planxty: Not eerie but AWESOME. I'll probably dig this band. I remember hearing of them, but haven't given a proper listen. (I surely know this ballad.)