Has any Prog Rock ever scared the crap out of you
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Topic: Has any Prog Rock ever scared the crap out of you
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Subject: Has any Prog Rock ever scared the crap out of you
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:52
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What songs have scared the crap out of you ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:56
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You really like that "New Topic" Button? Munly has some creepy stuff. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:58
I have opinions and material I have to get out ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Horizons wrote:Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:58
I am too scared to mention them again :/  ------------- 
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:04
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The ending solo of Yes's "Nous Somme Du Soleil" makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:09
'Temporary Peace' by Anathema. Those loud high-pitched vocals at the end, urgh... ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:22
 It's certainly chilling in a moody way, but scary, ... .
I got one: PF's ... err ... Rick's "Sysyphus, pt. 4". That organ break-out after the soothing Mellotron passage really took me by surprise. It's like as if Antichrist has awoken.
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:25
Read this: "makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up". it didn't scare the crap out of me read above^^^^ ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:30
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"Dead London" from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" album. It's the eerie, suspenseful part (creepy piano, narration) near the end of the story when the Martians are dying, and the sick, electronically processed cries of ULLA! on that track made my heart stop when I was 13, and they still do 30 years later. I don't think I'll ever get used to it. Ditto to what Andrey said about Sysyphus too. That was mean of Rick to do that after 3 minutes of peaceful drift.
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:32
Uh...read your thread title. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:39
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:54
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No. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:57
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Hi,
NONE!
Not a single one!
There is only one piece that I would say could be scary and confusing ... but it's not progressive and folks in here would not get it and listen to it anyway ... and for all we know, it was just an improvisation ... and I do not think that those folks were just being stoned immaculate throwing sound effects together ... to create an image ... or a movie ... depending on how your mind follows things.
Most folks here expect the lyrics to take you away ... and that is the part that will never do it, since none of them have the third dimention to do it right ... and get past the "rock music" concept, to the level of ... really shaking up your spine!
Electric Storm in Hell -- White Noise ... and if you really want to imagine ugly, scary and off the wall, go read Matthew Gregory Lewis "The Monk" ... and come talk to me later! Nothing in rock or classical music, comes close to that kind of visualization ... so harsh that you can hardly film it! ... and I doubt that anyone can create music to it ... or similar ...
Some folks also get all shook up by the first album in Aphrodite's Child's 666 album ... specially the side 2 whole sequence all the way to the seance.
As the saying goes ... it's just entertainment" ... and folks making a lot of this more than it is ... is a waste. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Lima96
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:10
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Yes... Twice actually The other was with Israeli prog-folkers Sussita's first and only self-titled album, also while listening to it for the first time. They don't make any scary music at all, but on this album, after all the songs end, almost 19 minutes of silence come afterwards. I was also reading a book on the other corner of my room (and with high volume again), so I just thought that the album had already ended, when all of the sudden I started listening to some really creepy guys doing the impersonation of a herd of goats... Yes, the band decided to include themselves doing weird goat sounds after 19 minutes of silence. Of course I realised that myunderpants were soiled immediately after this incident.
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:20
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I listen to a lot of music that has dark, and scary themes to it but I think overall the term 'scaring the crap out of me' may be a tad harsh. I've never had nightmares or any other developed freaky phobias caused by my music.
Granted, their are some songs that kind of creeped me out but never really...truely frightened me. Not at all, but I'm curious to what other people have to say on this board. :) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: elbownut
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:49
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Cant think of any music, let alone prog, that scares the crap out of me.
Some prog can be a tad depressing in mood and lyrics but not scary.
That said, listening to some of the lyrics on Comus - First Utterance is a teeny bit scary !!
------------- "Music was my first love and it will be my last" - John Miles "Music" |
Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:57
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First time I heard Careful With That Axe, Eugene as a kid. Also Ash Ra Tempel's debut on copious amounts of LSD can be quite frightening in an overwhelming way. ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:21
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: ProgressiveMike
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:22
| I'm out on a limb, but the Alice Cooper album Killer (in which the group dabbles in prog, specifically Halo of Flies). If you are relaxing with some meds, at the end of the album there is a bit of silence followed by static hell noises. Gets me everytime. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:24
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^^ Holy Crap! That part at the end of Killer is probably the scariest thing I've ever heard. I've had the album for years but I've only ever heard that part twice because I can't bear it again. It would have been the first thing I mentioned, but I didn't because it's not prog. But good one! ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:25
hahaha yeah, Several Species Of Small Furry Animals was scary to me as a kid too, but in a more disturbing, demented way ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:32
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That horrible, horrible voice in the "musique concrete" section of Peter Hammill's "Gog/Magog (In Bromine Chambers)." ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:46
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Bloodrock - DOA....creeped me out as a youngling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0e-JFio2s" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0e-JFio2s
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Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:47
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Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath. I realize alot of people find it funny or corny. I heard it in the seventies and it really scared the crap out of me. Some of the Goblin stuff I find extremely creepy. Profundo Russo, Witch, Suspiria...
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Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:54
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Who dares find it funny or corny? That song is the epitome of metal and that riff is pure evil.I think it makes sense that that song could scare someone, the trichord used to be banned by the church because it was the "devil's chord" ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:54
i know about my thread but that was the only thing i could think of at the time ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 19:27
Yes, anything by Merzbow. 
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 19:51
that's exactly what this site is about^^^^ ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 20:44
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For me though, Univers Zero's 'Heresie' album. When I bought this LP I constantly listened to it and, seriously, after the 7th listen, I started having nightmares !!! Honest. Shub Niggurath's 'Les Mort vont Vite' is also pretty scary.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:28
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Matthew Gregory Lewis "The Monk" - an interesting read.... thanks Moshkito... brrrr.... I was shaken by the end of Vengeance's debut album which isjust screaming like someone in hell burning. We played it at youth group really loud at a camp, through the camp's loud speakers, and got in huge trouble by the leaders. I agree that the ULLAAAAAAAAAAA on Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds chills you to the bone. I also jumped out of my skin the first time I heard the opening glass crashing sounds on Gentle Giants In a Glass House album. I had the heaphones on maximum and the glass crashes pierced a hole in my brain. When I first heard Suicide's Frankie Teardrop I was chilled to the bone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wJQkvSoOQ Also was scared with the Scott Walker "The Drift" album esp when the donkey sounds like its being mutilated... cant listen to that at all now. Listen to these chillers with the lights off alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuHfAqz3TFY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJ0_uWjMfk Not prog but: Lastly, I was in the kitchen one night and wanted some music so pressed play and didnt realise my kids had left in the CD player a child's CCD by The Wiggles and at piercing volume I heard them shout "Hi! We're The Wiggles! Want to have some fun?" and I jumped clean out of my socks, you had to peel me from the ceiling. -------------
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:30
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At the end of Pink Floyd's "Grantchester Meadows" when the fly gets swatted. That made me jump one time... that's all I can really think of. Though sometimes when I listen to music at night time, I can get a little creeped out.
Edit: One time I fell asleep while listening to Comus - First Utterance on repeat. I woke up in the the middle of the night to the sounds of "I'll be gentle... I'll be gentle... I'll be gentle". That scared the living sh*t outta me.
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:49
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:58
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I forgot this one too by Scott Walker. Listen on headphones- when it gets to the part where they are punching the meat I get goosebumps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hvHEBLNpI -------------
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Posted By: Sumdeus
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:01
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ooh another good one I just remembered, the first time I heard the whisper in Great Gig In The Sky.. Man that was creepy I was listening to it with headphones but because I was so used to the song I didn't even realize it was the music at first and started freaking out lol ------------- http://sumdeus.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:08
| The most frightening song I've ever heard has to be "An Escape" by Scott Walker. I never watched the LooneyToons the same again. |
Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:23
Oh my god, thanks for reminding me.. That noise is louder than everything else on that album!! Scares me every time!!!! ------------- Check out my FREE album: A one-man project The Distant Dynasty |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:31
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:46
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:48
)Did you check out "Psoriatic"?
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:57
"One Of These Days" by Pink Floyd creeped me out when I was much younger (and high)! 
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 23:11
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"The Knife" by Genesis, particularly the lyrics.
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 23:27
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I was walking outside at might just the other day and played Cervello on the Iphone. That first minute of the album was definitely scary, I found my self going faster . And there are far more scarier bands in prog. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 00:11
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Who didn't jump out of their skin the first time they head the alarms on "Time"?
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 02:18
| ^ That didn't scare me (that I remember). I was rather seriously annoyed by those. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 05:30
Yeah I think that whole album is as disturbing as it gets. its the darkest most foreboding sense of dread put to music. I can never forget that song, Clara, Jesse or Cue. But I wish I could -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 05:56
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One of the precursors of making me get in to prog was ELP's Tocatta...
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 06:10
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I remember that as a boy The Crucifixion from Jesus Christ Superstar felt a bit creepy and we would have stopped the playing there were not for the fact that the closing track afterwards John 19:41 was so beautiful that we always played the whole thing till the end and got used to bear with The Crucifixion short fragment. Not about myself, but when I played YesSongs as a kid, my father and grandma always felt uncomfortable with the section of Wakeman's solo which emulates the sound of an ambulance siren, they thought it was disgusting and always asked me to skip it or turn the volume down. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 14:33
First time I saw PF was at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972 ... and they were using, at the time, what they called "quadraphonic sound", which meant speakers all around hte audience, not just in front of you.
I had a cold, and ears were half plugged up. And there are wind sounds that you are hearing, and since it is one of those Hollywood end of summer nights, a slight breeze is par for the course ... and before I noticed it, they got louder and I looked around and thought nothing of it. It was now almost 10 minutes of this, I thought ... and before long you hear the sound get louder ... and now I can tell it is from the apeakers ... and then that bass note. And the note "moves" from the left to the right and behind you ... and the wind is counter that note ... and yeah ... best opening of a concert I have ever seen ... absolutely magnificent!
You can NOT duplicate that kind of experience ... even in the remastered versions, that are total crap, and do not add to the experience ... because the folks that put it together did not think about the experience ... only thought about the clinical stitches!
But it was never scary ... my only musical scare'dom was "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" ... and the 2nd listen, I absolutely loved it ... and that was how far and how much my mind got opened up to "music", and what it could bring to you as an experience. It was .... way too mental before hand! ... now I knew the difference! AND I was already aware of this difference in theater, film and literature, but had not seen/heard it done with music ... and there is was ... music that almost came to match the 3rd dimention for me! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 14:36
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This one is without a doubt the most scary sounding album out there: ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 14:41
^^^ AAAAUUUGGHH!!  ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 15:18
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AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMGGGGGNNNNN ------------- 
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: December 24 2012 at 17:35
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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 ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 26 2012 at 13:45
Becuase I was already aware of this in literature, with its many different writers the world over and how more modern writers were bending genres, this kind of stuff was easy for me. Next I looked for the same thing in film, and by the time you make sense of a Godard, or Truffaut or Fellini, you come to understand the nature of most stuff that is "scary" ... which in many/most cases is the "surprise" at seeing something that unsettles you ... or reading it ... or hearing it ... but guess what the experimental groups in theater were already doing with lights? ... and have you ever checked out those amazing sets of the Beiruth Opera house for some Wagner works and other plays? ...
Now, seeing a version of this in music, was what I was looking for, that led me to all these groups that we discuss and further, and why, I am not in awe of some of these bands, whose work is ... so so so ... soso! ... boring! Specially when you are relying for Ozzie to tell you that is scary -- and that is the standard and idea that most people have, if not the one about using a stupid number or other!
One of my favorite books, is called "The Art of Dreaming" ... and that is a book, that most folks here will NEVER touch, look, or even try to read 10 pages. Basically, that is the best and most serene and complete vision of "dreaming" that I have ever seen since Lilly or Monroe some 60 years ago! ... but in there, there is a real well described thing ... the "knowable" and the "unknowable" ... and the essence is ... we are taught to hate and dislike and specially, MISTRUST the unknowable ... and if there is one thing that we miss in this equation, is ... if it is "unknowable", no one would know it ... thus, someone showing it to you, or telling you about it? ... superfluous and silly! Otherwise known as "hot air".
This is the main reason why a lot of the music listed here, in posts about "dark" something or other, are so bizarre ... you might as well start your search for the light, so you have a chance to find the dark ... but that dark would not be stupid enough to be so visible .... and sold to you for a dollar! In other words, even the notion of "darK" and "evil" is not clear ... and consequently, so little of this music is a valid concern ... but it's fun to see kids beating off on their little instruments, sometimes, isn't it? ... you take the picture so you can remember it, when you are 75 and the kid was 10! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Canterzeuhl
Date Posted: December 26 2012 at 13:59
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Eros - Dun
Only the first few times I heard it though. If this thread is willing to accept classical music, 'Ameriques' and 'Arcana' by Edgard Varese. Scary stuff. |
Posted By: awaken77
Date Posted: December 27 2012 at 06:29
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some parts of VdGG Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers suite are scary, especially if you listen it with closed eyes and trying to hallucinate btw, there was a Swiss band in 70thies (don't remember the name), which is scary. It souds similarly to VdGG instrumentation ( organ, woodwinds, no guitar) , but with more scaring vocal and more avant influences
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Posted By: kimmokristian84
Date Posted: December 27 2012 at 06:39
| I dont know if it scared the crap out of me, but progressive electronic band from the 70s called Throbbing Gristle is really sick and scary sounding stuff. |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 27 2012 at 09:36
| Blue Jay Way, too, with its supposedly "paul is dead"-related backing vocals used to scare me. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 27 2012 at 10:44
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strange nobody have mentioned the Devils Triangle by King Crimson or Picture of the City, both quite scary and dissonance also Alucard by Gentle Giant can get your hairs stand if heard for the first time im a sissy but the Waiting Room scared me abit for the first time, it have a certain angsty feal to it that gets me sometimes -------------  
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 27 2012 at 15:34
kind of reminds me of Diamanda Galmas experimentations. No, the most scary prog-related album ever composed is Elend's 'a world in their screams' : ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 28 2012 at 10:18
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Skinny Puppy's album "Last Rights" is very scary! And If I might add, I feel majority of "Last Rights" skirts the hemline of prog rock. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 28 2012 at 10:23
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I think this song "A Hymn to the Morning Star" by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is scary. Check out the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFd91CXfc0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFd91CXfc0
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: December 28 2012 at 14:32
The album cover alone has greatly grabbed my attention. I wanna listen.  ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: December 28 2012 at 14:42
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Current 93? ^ ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: January 12 2013 at 16:50
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"Every nerve is torn apart!!!!" I heard that about a million times but it still gets me
------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: January 12 2013 at 17:17
| Not out of myself, and not necessarily cr@p, but I did hear some people describe Storm Corrosion as "Halloween-creepy" |
Posted By: myaku
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:16
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Posted By: Submach1ne
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:19
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Zeuhl/Rock in Opposition can be on par with extreme metal in scariness!
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Posted By: Submach1ne
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:27
Funny you should mention this, I recently got this album on cd, scary stuff, nature unveiled is anther great one!
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Posted By: Astral Traveller
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:48
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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.) ------------- 
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 17:00
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  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Astral Traveller
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 17:04
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^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. -------------
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. -Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Submach1ne
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 18:34
You know, I was just about to post that! Song starts at 3:28 |
Posted By: Submach1ne
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 18:42
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is great, but if you think that's scary, check out that it leads into. Univers Zero was a big influence on sleepytime gorila museum, all their song are very creepy/ Sorry about the gratuitous posting in this thread, I just find this thread very relevant to my interests.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 22:53
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: thepanda56
Date Posted: January 21 2013 at 18:06
| Red by King Crimson. It's like the soundtrack to pyramid head's nightmares. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 21 2013 at 18:07
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: January 21 2013 at 23:28
really that riff makes me laugh but in a good way ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: January 21 2013 at 23:47
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 By: cstack3
Date Posted: January 22 2013 at 00:36
"Red" is a blast to play, I love to play the song on either guitar or bass! Check out my chum John Goodsall's version, recorded in a small club....the man can WAIL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq96pr-nv3Q" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq96pr-nv3Q |
Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 09:56
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The glass-breaking sound in Amarok scares the s*** out of me
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Posted By: The Glide
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 12:38
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Never really got scared of music, although Can - Aumgn seems appropriate for this thread. ------------- I've created an atmosphere where I'm friend first, boss second. Probably entertainer third. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 12:57
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) ------------- "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 |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 13:50
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Soft Machine - Facelift King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (practically the whole album) Pink Floyd - Most of "A Saucerful Of Secrets" album ...and stuff by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
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Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 13:55
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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. ------------- "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 |
Posted By: poeghost
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 15:50
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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. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date 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. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date 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."  |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date 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. |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 22:54
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First time I listened to El Ciervo Vulnerado that deep backwards voice scared me :(
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Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: December 14 2013 at 23:17
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[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." |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: December 15 2013 at 01:01
| ^ Crimso are a 'walk in the park' compared to Univers Zero....... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:31
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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 By: Chris S
Date Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:40
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Faust....." A wonderful wooden reason..."
Careful with that axe Eugene.....more spine chilling than anything else Hackett's - Tower Struck Down is unsettling ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:53
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. ------------- "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 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 15 2013 at 10:57
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!
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Posted By: JellySucker
Date Posted: December 17 2013 at 07:20
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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 By: JellySucker
Date Posted: December 17 2013 at 07:27
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 ------------- I print dank quality M E M E stickers ° ͜ʖ ͡ - last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/jellypanini facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProgRockTime |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: December 17 2013 at 09:50
at 7:45 I think that was one of the few times I've actually been creeped out by music. It caught me off guard. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: Kobaek
Date 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. |
Posted By: Talbot
Date Posted: December 19 2013 at 11:38
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The end of this is chilling, especially considering their use of astral projection. |