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Topic: The Darkest Music You've Ever Heard Thread

Posted By: The Pessimist
Subject: The Darkest Music You've Ever Heard Thread
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 20:02

Well the name's in the title. I'll expect a lot of avant-garde, doom and maybe even early blues music? Great if you put those forward, especially if they are groundbreaking, but if you guys post things from a style you'd never expect to be dark, EVEN BETTER.

I'm gonna kick start this whole thing with three songs that are exceptionally dark to me:

THE darkest IDM album I've ever heard (Doll Doll Doll - Venetian Snares) and my favourite song off of it. Brilliant.

Introductory passage to perhaps the darkest Baroque suite ever. Purcell was truly a genius. A very depressed genius at that, nonetheless producing some of the finest music. The rest of Music For The Funeral of Queen Mary sustains this atmosphere, which is why I love it.

Neurosis, the darkest metal band (you don't get much heavier and brooding than their music imho), released their darkest album Through Silver In Blood, and this is by far the darkest song on there. Need I say more? You may need to go watch Slumdog Millionaire after this, because you may be crushed by it

Your turn guys

Can you top those three?

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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 20:17

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...

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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 20:41

Shub Niggurath's La ballade de Lénore

Univers Zéro's La Faulx and Jack the Ripper

Jean Leloup's Le castel impossible (lyrically)

That's some of them...

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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 21:09

The Pessimist wrote:

Well the name's in the title. I'll expect a lot of avant-garde, doom and maybe even early blues music? Great if you put those forward, especially if they are groundbreaking, but if you guys post things from a style you'd never expect to be dark, EVEN BETTER.

I'm gonna kick start this whole thing with three songs that are exceptionally dark to me:

THE darkest IDM album I've ever heard (Doll Doll Doll - Venetian Snares) and my favourite song off of it. Brilliant.

Venetian Snares' Szamár Madár is pretty dark too.

Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 21:12

Henry Plainview wrote:

I'm going to have to nominate Jandek

Ha, thanks!! Any of my suggestions would have been pathetic compared to that guy!! Ouch

I always like "The End" by Nico, very dark & brooding and yet melodic. However, compared to that sh*te by Jandek you provided, "The End" is like something released by the Bangles!!

Another one I enjoy is "Halber Mensch (or ½ Mensch; English: “Half Man”) by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einst%C3%BCrzende_Neubauten - Einstürzende Neubauten .

Typically joyous German music!!

Still, that Jandek bit takes the cake, man!

Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 21:15

Negura Bunget (I'll look for videos later).

Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 21:25

Psychopath - The Edgar Broughton Band
Drip Drip - Comus
Death Disco - PIL
Something I Can Never Have - NIN
Music For Strings Percussion & Celesta (1st Movement) - Bartok
Toccata - ELP
Univers Zero - Pretty much anything
Wild Women With Steak Knives - Diamanda Galas

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Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 21:39

Henry Plainview wrote:

I'm going to have to nominate Jandek

There's actually a wiki page on him, and there's a LOT of info (relatively speaking). And if you want you can find out his real name too.

Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 21:45

DJPuffyLemon wrote:

Henry Plainview wrote:

I'm going to have to nominate Jandek

There's actually a wiki page on him, and there's a LOT of info (relatively speaking). And if you want you can find out his real name too.

Yes, but the fact that there have been only two interviews with him since 1978 speaks for itself, I think.

Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 22:52

Disturbingly hilarious!
Rickity tickity tin....

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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 00:11

DJPuffyLemon wrote:

There's actually a wiki page on him, and there's a LOT of info (relatively speaking). And if you want you can find out his real name too.

Somebody figured out his name, yes, but he has never actually admitted to anybody he is Sterling Smith. He still says "A representative from Corwood Industries" on the back of the live albums and doesn't call himself Jandek at his concerts. I can't help but feel that at least some of that is an act, but nobody would do what he did unless he truly felt what he was expressing.

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Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 00:23

Hmmm, this is a low quality live recording - and the band appear to be rather jolly here compared to what their albums sounded like, but at least you get an idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-Ot9NRFQg&feature=related - Munch - Addicted

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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 00:30

The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers is an absolutely masterpiece of blood drenched darkness. Avoiding the gloomy doldrums of most music this depressing, it is by turns savage and dispassionate but never mopey and boo-hoo-hoo- which I think is it why it so depressing. The narrator has lost interest- he contemplates death, gun control, prostution, annorexia, the Holocaust etc and can only respond with impotent anger that is slowly and gradually replaced by a void. That it preceded the real life suicide of lyricist Richey Edwards only adds to the ominous atmosphere.

Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 06:07

Excerpts are available on youtube, but I am too lazy to post them.

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 06:18

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.

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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 06:30

Gnaw Their Tongues. The perfect soundtrack for a night of sweet torture: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4884 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4884

http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&hl=da&rlz=1T4ACEW_daDK363DK363&q=gnaw+their+tongues+youtube&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=e3dlS_zFI4_W-Qauk9ShBw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA4QqwQwAA - http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&hl=da&rlz=1T4ACEW_daDK363DK363&q=gnaw+their+tongues+youtube&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=e3dlS_zFI4_W-Qauk9ShBw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA4QqwQwAA #

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Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 07:01

More Munch - hopefully this link works. http://www.divshare.com/download/10336161-2a2 - Their darkest moment ever .

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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 14:09

lucas wrote:

Excerpts are available on youtube, but I am too lazy to post them.

I love this

Almost like the soundtrack to a war or something. A real soundtrack to a war, with all those REAL emotions (fear, sadness, panic, rage, aggression, doom) that aren't really depicted in most war film sound tracks.

I think that is the darkest death metal I've heard in a long time. Berserker? Brutal? Heavy? No chance. This sound will make you wanna kill babies it's so dark.

In fact the whole album is similar.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25266 - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25266

I couldn't recommend it enough to anyone who digs dark stuff.

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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 15:02

The Pessimist wrote:

lucas wrote:

Excerpts are available on youtube, but I am too lazy to post them.

I love this

And the lyrics are very dark as well :

Je cherchais tes restes et rassemblais tes membres,

Lorsque les pleureuses furent prises de terreur à la vue des serpents,

Innombrables

Qui encerclaient ton torse

Comme des rameaux – ils vivaient d’une vie autre que la leur.

J’en recueillis un au creux de la main et lui montrai le soleil.

Il se figea et resplendit d’or.

D’étranges échos nous parvenaient des Enfers.

Je fis offrande à Perséphone de cette veine pleine d’un sang si noble

Et j’entendis le chant de la terre.

Elle m’accueillit au séjour des ombres.

I was looking for your remains and was assembling your limbs

When the weeping women were frightened at the sight of snakes,

Countless

Which circled your torso

Like branches – they lived a life different than theirs.

I collected one in the hollow of my hand and showed it the sun.

It freezed and shone with gold.

Strange echoes came from Hell.

I offered Persephone this vein full of so noble a blood

And heard the chant of earth.

She welcomed me to a stay among shadows.

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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 16:27

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxjw6ZsHjNU&feature=related - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxjw6ZsHjNU&feature=related this song is probably the darkest i know of or atleast verry dramatic and epic, sad but also dark

Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 16:33

The Cure - Pornography (1982) !!!

Posted By: stonebeard
Date 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.

Also, mentioning Merzbow = failure. Just, FYI.

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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 16:43

Henry Plainview wrote:

I'm going to have to nominate Jandek

That is the most godawful dross I've ever heard. I guess it's dark. 'Grats, Jandek.

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Posted By: Negoba
Date 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...

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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 17:00

From a long long time ago a dark tongue in a sombre cheek!

They didn't actually write this one

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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date 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"

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Posted By: Citizen Erased
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 17:46

I thoroughly dislike black metal for the most part so Katatonia are about as dark as I get.

Even Fantasia scared me as a kid. ;)

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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 10:48

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.

Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 11:17

NJCat_11 wrote:

Disturbingly hilarious!
Rickity tickity tin....

Lehrer was a genius! What about "We Will All Go Together When We Go"? A funny song about nuclear war …

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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 11:33

This. The video is not too cheery either. Stern Smile

Posted By: refugee
Date 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.

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Posted By: cstack3
Date 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.

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!

Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 13:49

I have to go more commercial and say Ulver's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell... some twiisted tunes and vocals in there...

Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 20:39

Vompatti wrote:

This. The video is not too cheery either. Stern Smile

Ah, yes, those sunny, cheerful Germans!! Thanks for posting that video, I'd never seen it before!

Excuse me as I saw my Manson fretless bass in half with a power saw whilst playing onstage!!

Posted By: soundsweird
Date 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.

Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 03:00

Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop"

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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 03:25

Void ov voices, the opening one man-band for some of Ulver concerts.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=134580 - http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=134580

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Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date 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.

Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 10:50

If you survived Sunn O))) you might wanna try Continuum (collaboration between Steven Wilson and Dirk Serried) - Construct 4.

Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 12:38

Scott Walker - The Drift

Also:

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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 13:53

townes van zandt is an absolute reference in country/folk, his album 'our mother the mountain' is an absolute masterpiece

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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 14:06

Not to mention, depressing as hell. Here is another good "dark" country song:

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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 16:19

Kayo Dot's new album was pretty dark.

http://www.bluelambencydownward.com/ - http://www.bluelambencydownward.com/

Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: February 15 2010 at 09:06

Monoliths & Dimensions by Sunn O))) made me want to shoot myself for the first half of the record (not in a bad way though, it's an amazing album)
Very,very intense stuff to listen to

Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date Posted: February 15 2010 at 09:50

Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

Monoliths & Dimensions by Sunn O))) made me want to shoot myself for the first half of the record (not in a bad way though, it's an amazing album)
Very,very intense stuff to listen to

No sh*t, it's their best album so far! (possibly even best of 2009)

Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 15 2010 at 09:54

idiotPrayer wrote:

No sh*t, it's their best album so far! (possibly even best of 2009)

I still prefer Black One I think, but yeah, that is one hell of a dark band. I love they way they wear robes on stage as well

Scary people man.

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Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date Posted: February 15 2010 at 10:18

The Pessimist wrote:

idiotPrayer wrote:

No sh*t, it's their best album so far! (possibly even best of 2009)

I still prefer Black One I think, but yeah, that is one hell of a dark band. I love they way they wear robes on stage as well

Scary people man.

Yeah I wanted to go and see them live in Helsinki this year but I almost killed myself when I realized it had the age restriction 18

Posted By: Ajattara
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 04:33

At the moment I'm listening to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and I find it quite dark. A lot of the modern classical music is dark too.

Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 06:01

This song is very, very dark indeed; especially in light of this being the last song recorded by Ian Curtis before his suicide. His voice has a distant ghostly feel to it and lyrics like ‘’Caressing the marble and stone’’ make it seem like he’s in his tomb. I can’t listen to it often.

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:05

Perhaps not really that dark although definetely a dirge! (towards the end you get a glimpse of Florence,Zebedee and chums behind the band which perhaps detracts from the general misery and darkness

)

Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:16

Some traditional folk songs (especially English folk, as covered by Steeleye Span) can be very dark, lyrically if not musically. There's a preponderance of gruesome murder, infanticide, etc, in English folk

(See "Long Lankin" for just one of numerous examples.)

Nick Cave can be VERY dark....

I suppose death metal is the darkest music I've ever heard -- though I can't stomach the stuff.

For prog that I like, some King Crimson is very dark.

Generally, I avoid the dark, and gravitate toward the "light" and the uplifting in art.

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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:23

this is dark and sad song very moody and atmospheric

Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:46

^ Oh, as for classical, how about Albinoni's "Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ"?

Very mournful (but beautiful)!

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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:47

Then there's the Death March, as played on the street at Easter in Italian neighbourhoods....

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Posted By: Kojak
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 16:27

Sex Gang Children were a bit spooky, although they might be a bit try hard..
Nine Inch Nails and Tool, of course..
Scott Walker and Nick Drake both had very dark moments in their music
Alien Sex Fiend...
Throbbing Gristle did play with the dark stuff

Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 16:43

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Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 16:54

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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:05

I'm still not over Practice Makes Perfect by Wire. One of the spookiest songs ever.

Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:12

Anything from Negura Bunget or Gnaw Their Tongues, especially the latter. GTT is some of the scariest stuff I've ever heard.

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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:48

Dunno if they've been mentioned yet:

Also, to brighten this thread up LOL

Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 22:23

The outro to Strip The Soul by Porcupine Tree.

Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: August 05 2010 at 14:51

The first thing that came to mind was Elend, but then it got mentioned, surprisingly. But anyway, here is a song from "Les Ténèbres Du Dehors" , a concept album, it's about a man's journey through hell (I think). Inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Divine Comedy.

My favourite song is The Luciferian Revolution. Extremely dramatic and dark.

The style is neoclassical. The album is uneven in my opinion.A bit too much screaming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fUhFSr-Qg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fUhFSr-Qg

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Posted By: (De)progressive
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 11:47

Triptykon?

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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 11:55

Rush.

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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 12:23

I heard of a black metal band whose vocals were recording taken from a mental hospital. The music sucked, but it was genuinely frightening.

I think Coil deserves a mention. Great creepy cover by them.

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Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 13:15

i love coil. rip john balance

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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 15:49

Elliott Smith's music is pretty damn dark at times, especially his eponymous and Either Or albums. I must say that I'm not really surprised the guy took his own life.

Brilliant stuff though.

Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 16:39

virgin prunes

diamanda galas

khanate

disembowelment

elend

chaostar

lukaszewski's and liszt's via crucis

penderecki

jerry goldsmith's OST for omen

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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 20:54

Not many songs have genuinely creeped me out, but this one did. Imagine hearing this in a dark room...

Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 20:58

Then there is the darkest song of all time... Tongue

Posted By: cannon
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 22:20

I don't need to say anything. the song says it all:

Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 22:47

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 23:10

No Mean City Parts 1 & 2 by Nazareth

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 23:23

Hellhammer who later became Celtic Frost

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 06 2011 at 23:56

Zappa

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 00:11

One of my favorite King Crimson songs.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 00:38

Metal Inquisition by Piledriver.

This album is a horror metal classic.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 00:43

Amittyville Horror Theme

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 00:48

Rod Serling's Night Gallery Theme.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 00:58

Mercyful Fate

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 01:17

Poltergeist Theme

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 01:53

Lazuli does Zappa

Posted By: Porcupinetheater
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 20:36

Quite dark lyrically speaking.

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Posted By: El Pollo Guerrera
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 23:21

The darkest music I've heard was Gnaw Their Tongues. Sounds to me like a soundtrack of a diseased mind. It sounded like it was just a mishmash of random sounds stuck together, but I read in an article that it was all written and recorded to sound like that.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 14:44

Deicide - Dead By Dawn - Heavy as a magnetar,

My very first Yes song: The Gates Of Delirium.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 15:08

The mighty Napalm Death!

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 15:23

Doom Song by The Plasmatics.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 15:51

Motorhead!

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 15:58

Blue Oyster Cult

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 16:16

Venom

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 16:20

Event Horizon Theme

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 18:03

Blue Oyster Cult with Deadline

Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 19:56

Lou Reed - Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EPuWnDELrg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EPuWnDELrg

Brilliant but incredibly depressing album.

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 18:01

valravennz wrote:

Lou Reed - Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EPuWnDELrg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EPuWnDELrg

Brilliant but incredibly depressing album.

I know I heard that one once. Sad Song to me is the most depressing one.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 18:09

Wormwood by The Residents .

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 18:23

Butthole Surfers - 22 Going On 23

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 18:37

Frank Zappa - Keep It Greasy and Outside Now

Warning: Profanity

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 18:51

Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan - Disturbing The Priest

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 18:57

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 19:03

Cannibal Corpse - Death Walking Terror