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    Posted: August 22 2021 at 14:23
Spooky, dark, scary, evil....

I'll post them, especially because the live version of "No Quarter" is spooky. The jam from around the 9 minute mark is killer. It's all together, but there's some cool communication with Page/Bonham/Jones, and sounds independent at times, kinda jazzy... Speaking of jazzy, Bill Ward of Black Sabbath played many songs with a jazzy version, and those Middle-Eastern sounding riffs by Tony Iommi really gave it a dark sound - playing a half-tone as opposed to a whole-tone.. And to think this was probably because of Tony's accident is pretty interesting.

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
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Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (extended)


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Songs and a couple instrumentals:

Comus - Drip, Drip
Igor Wakhevitch - Materia Prima
Black Widow - Come to the Sabbat
Goblin - Suspiria
Message - Dreams and Nightmares (Nightmares, and Dreams)
Coven - Satanic Mass (sorry, 1969)
Lucifer’s Friend - Lucifer’s Friend

A bit late, but I want mention Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead

King Crimson's Red, Gentle Giant's The House, The Street, the Room, and Van der Graaf Generator's Darkness all have some evil riffage.


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Just take the whole 'First Utterance' album by Comus and if this one doesn't give you the chills, then I don't know what your problem is. LOL
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Curved Air - Piece of Mind

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The music of Magma is often extremely spooky, especially when they do one of their extremely long build-ups where the tension becomes almost unbearable until it is finally released. This is especially so for live versions of their songs. Two examples:


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Pink Floyd - One Of These Days
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You could pick just about anything from Alice Cooper's first few albums. This is certainly representative, and quite creepy....
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Always got kinda spooked by "21st Century Schizoid Man", "Nights in White Satin", the main Tubular Bells opening theme (even before I associated it with The Exorcisit), "A Trip to the Fair", Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys, and "Crime of the Century" (the song; it's so stark). 

"Gates of Delirium" has some Tolkein-esque sections and, of course, several Peter Gabriel and Peter Hammill performances I still find eerie/spooky. 

Then along came Univers Zero and everything else paled in comparison…




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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Always got kinda spooked by "21st Century Schizoid Man", "Nights in White Satin", the main Tubular Bells opening theme (even before I associated it with The Exorcisit), "A Trip to the Fair", Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys, and "Crime of the Century" (the song; it's so stark). 

"Gates of Delirium" has some Tolkein-esque sections and, of course, several Peter Gabriel and Peter Hammill performances I still find eerie/spooky. 

Then along came Univers Zero and everything else paled in comparison…




Interesting you mentioned The Moody Blues, because I came here to post "Melancholy Man", which I find their most spooky.

The Moody Blues - Melancholy Man
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I think "Midas Man" by Renaissance is as chilling as any song I can think of
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About five and a half minutes into Supper's Ready there's a creepy part with little girls singing. Trespass also creeped me out the first time I heard it and not just the knife.

You also have PF's Echoes and maybe even a few songs by Yes believe it or not. Also, some early King Crimson. 


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Lily & Maria - There'll Be No Clowns Tonight
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Parts of "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers" are quite eerie, and pretty much the whole of "Pawn Hearts" would terrify a small child. But it's not a Halloween type terror, it's a medieval Europe type terror.
 

 
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Parts of "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers" are quite eerie, and pretty much the whole of "Pawn Hearts" would terrify a small child. But it's not a Halloween type terror, it's a medieval Europe type terror.
 

 



Speaking of VDGG part of the track "after the flood" was considered by one music critic to be "one of the scariest moments in the history of prog rock." That was because of the distortion used on Hammill's voice. Technically that album was recorded in the sixties though. 
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part 2 of Heaven and Hell - Vangelis has some proper spooky goings on especially the section sometimes referred to a 'Intestinal Bat'.

Technically not valid as it's 1980 but I can't resist throwing in Keith Emerson's Inferno soundtrack. Some very cool scary stuff on that. 
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