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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
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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 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 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 17:39
I just thought of another one. There's some parts of PF's "atom heart mother" suite that I think are pretty scarey. About half way into it. The chorus part is pretty creepy too and sounds like it could be from an old horror movie. Also, parts of "echoes" by the same band. Maybe a subtitle for this thread could be "careful with that prog Eugene."
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 19:09
Bass Communion - 'Ghosts On Magnetic Tape'. One of many side projects from Steven Wilson. Minimalist experimental-electronic where he has included 'recordings' of hauntings/ghosts and other weird sounds (sourced from where, I don't know) but they add a totally dark ambience to proceedings which is *very* eerie to listen to, especially on the other side of mid-night, in the dark.
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 23:17
[King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (practically the whole album)]
The metallish guitar riff that starts the album and the sounds that lead right into it always sounded like they could have been on a horror movie soundtrack. LTIA pt 2 has sounds towards the end that sounds like the gremlins from the movie Gremlins. I never even saw the movie until recently even though I always thought that and when I finally saw it it only confirmed what I always thought. Yep, definitely Gremlins. RED has some scarey music and so does SABB especially "mincer."
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Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:31
I can't say that any album scared the crap out of me, but then again if it did, I wouldn't be listening anymore , but I thought Tangerine Dream's Zeit was one of the creepiest albums I've ever heard.
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Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:53
Cristi wrote:
I can't say that any album scared the crap out of me, but then again if it did, I wouldn't be listening anymore , but I thought Tangerine Dream's Zeit was one of the creepiest albums I've ever heard.
I think Klaus Schulze's Irrlicht is way more unsettling, being a rather dissonant take on the same basic idea. If I recall things correctly, KS' disagreements with Edgar Froese over how to execute that concept was what fuelled his departure from TD.
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Posted: December 15 2013 at 10:57
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The glass-breaking sound in Amarok scares the s*** out of me
If you spend time reading other things, or seeing a few films, stuff like this goes right by you, and you end up ignoring it. Mike has already said that he threw everything and the kitchen sink into it and didn't care what came out (so to speak!), and that should give you an idea that its intent was just ... free form anything that you do not know how to react to until you hear it.
In film, a lot of this "scary" stuff is more prevalent! You can think of Roman Polansky using the camera as a rapist in Tess, which is downright scary, and gives the novel a whole other theme that is true as well! Or you can catch a Gaspar Now film, that uses a gun sound at moments that don't make sense, and you literally jump out of your seat and half the audience walks out because it is downright unsettling! Or you can go read Matthew Gregory Lewis and realize that too much of the stuff listed here is just kid stuff! Oh, what the heck, go read "Our Lady of Flowers", if you have the courage, and then follow it up with "Briefing for a Descent into Hell".
All of a sudden, a lot of this stuff is really smalll and not very good! It's feelings and "ideas" about scary and horror are quite insipid and sanitized, to the point that you know there is no truth in it whatsoever. If you can't tell, it is because you are waiting for someone to tell you otherwise, I think!
There are other arts that have taken this stuff further, but we keep waiting for a picture or a word or a sound effect to be the bringer of the surprise to you!
It's all a factor of how tuned you are. If you are inerly tuned, none of these things will ever scare you, but if your attention is on heaven knows what, there is just about everything out there that will scare you, starting with looking in the mirror!
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Posted: December 17 2013 at 07:20
Comus discography actually scare me a lot. I mean, sure Black Widow might have chilling lyrics on their debut album, but Comus? they combined both weird and scary on both of their albums.
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Posted: December 17 2013 at 07:27
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Actually. You know what really kind of creeped me out when I was 5 or 6 was the flute outro on Strawberry Fields by the Beatles. Not prog, but still scary. Would fast forward that part of the song for years. Lol
Beatles on their experimental years is already scary in terms of their music lol, also i found Revolution 9 to be quite creepy and morbid
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Posted: December 19 2013 at 10:43
For me, a more recent example is, while not a sudden scare but more of a sneaking sense of worry and eeriness, from "Drag Ropes" on the Storm Corrosion album. Even after multiple listenings, the sinister way the otherwise ever so kind lines "I was immortal but I am your friend / To stay and be beside you / Always here (I grieve for you) / I'm always with you now" are delivered happens to make me feel like screaming.
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Submach1ne wrote:
Maybe a subtitle for this thread could be "careful with that prog Eugene." 
