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There's a lot of music out there that I'd describe as dark and haunting but I struggle to think of any music I'd say is actually "scary" aside from maybe some horror film scores. I recently became aware of Lustmord whose stuff is pretty interesting though at times it might be a stretch to call it "music" per se https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW-ZbEHeICw. Everyone feel free to post their favorites! Don't be scared. Er, or do be scared I guess.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIrpLBShe1A One maybe unexpected genre which immediately came to mind is hip hop. The story told through the lyrics is pure horror and crafted like one. That backing beat is classic Carpenter which is not entirely what you're looking for but there's a reason that sound is so memorable eh??
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Jan 19, 2023 07:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20qC3qgpps SUNN O))) kind of sounds like what they play in hell while they're waiting for Doomguy to show up. Awesome idea for a thread btw, why not introduce people to weird avant garde music styles??
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Jan 19, 2023 07:59
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Really terrible how Alice Glass was treated, the result though for a while was Crystal Castles became an outlet of pure personal expression for her until she left. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As4aai8FfZA (warning, this one actually is violently loud) edit: For reference, her latest solo album was co-produced by HEALTH and is directly about her experiences so she's doing well now but it's a heavy listen. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 08:04
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CJacobs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIrpLBShe1A Bwahaha this one leans a little kitsch but I love it. And yeah some people might not think of hip hop as dark and spooky but it can get there, Mobb Deep comes to mind for me. Edit: Oh geez this "'96 Neve Campbell" track is putting a big ol' smile on my face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq-hODfHPf0
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Jan 19, 2023 08:16
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the, uh "vocals" in Aphex Twin 'Gwarek2' get me every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRy3uRhNJ4 the bass vocals in Bjork's 'Submarine' also creep me out. deep voices in general really https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JEhNiMW8vY 'Hamburger Lady" by Throbbing Gristle was my introduction to original industrial music, also apparently according to google it inspired some sort of notable creepypasta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih-xzWGKPA there's also an album i'm actually trying to find again. it was entirely just long-form samples of news clips or interviews or various audio recordings of people describing horrible violent traumas, stuff like 911 calls and poo poo, but completely removed from their individual contexts. so it is just this unrelenting miasma of human terror. it was made in the 80s or even the 70s, compiled and packaged as a musical album, which is what made it stand out to me amongst the modern day landscape of 911 Call Compilations on Youtube. I swear it was called "Victims" or something, but i'm having a hell of a time finding it again
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Jan 19, 2023 08:28
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Edit: Oh geez this "'96 Neve Campbell" track is putting a big ol' smile on my face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq-hODfHPf0 YOU'RE SO WELCOME LOL, WHAT A POST/USERNAME COMBO
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Jan 19, 2023 08:30
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the Bunt posted:the, uh "vocals" in Aphex Twin 'Gwarek2' get me every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRy3uRhNJ4 it feels a little bit like rats are running around in my headphones. Aphex twin rules. edit: Haha I recognize some of the early sounds from Silent Hill (the timestamped yelp is one), that's the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0Im48hjRk&t=4s CJacobs fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 08:36
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CJacobs posted:YOU'RE SO WELCOME LOL, WHAT A POST/USERNAME COMBO LMAO I didn't even realize!
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Jan 19, 2023 08:39
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CJacobs posted:Really terrible how Alice Glass was treated, the result though for a while was Crystal Castles became an outlet of pure personal expression for her until she left. Thanks for your recs and the background info. Music at its base level is all about pattern recognition and that kind of predictability and sense of satisfaction can be at odds with feeling scared - like in the above link, it sounds unsettling until the precise moment the beat kicks in... thing is that's also the moment it starts getting real good! Similarly, Nine Inch Nails is definitely gloomy, but it's when you free Trent Reznor from having to make a song that it starts sounding "scary." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpxuJbVaBA (Could also be because Trent Reznor just doesn't have a scary-sounding voice)
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Jan 19, 2023 08:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJjKwbJado
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Jan 19, 2023 08:53
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Totally agreed about pattern recognition and how it can turn 'noise' into 'music' in an instant and the human brain is really cool for being able to do that. The Hotline Miami track Run is my favorite example, where for the first ~30 seconds anyone I push it on is very uneasy, then gets real quiet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imCm6CrNZ8
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Jan 19, 2023 08:57
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Anything by the late Krzysztof Penderecki makes me pretty spooked. If you've seen The Shining, you've heard these, but not in their entirety. His compositions tend to get more unsettling the longer you listen. Bloodborne soundtrack got nothing on Penderecki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMLxF93u5Yw He even invented his own way of writing music for this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtq5iCxCIdU
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Sourdough Sam posted:Anything by the late Krzysztof Penderecki makes me pretty spooked. If you've seen The Shining, you've heard these, but not in their entirety. His compositions tend to get more unsettling the longer you listen. Bloodborne soundtrack got nothing on Penderecki Twin Peaks Season 3's representation of July 16, 1945 (yes, that July 16, 1945) needs to be seen and heard to be believed honestly. Absolute horror for the forseeable future all of mankind represented beautifully. It just loving keeps going. Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima couldn't have been a more perfect song choice.
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Jan 19, 2023 09:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Dd8g_COsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5TjlGuVBs Skinny Puppy + à;GRUMH... Their only collaboration. 1988
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Jan 19, 2023 09:12
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A composer and a luthier got together to take some of the concepts of the Waterphone (a dissonant instrument popular in horror film soundtracks and The Matrix), and some other creepy things, and make a novel and unsettling instrument: The Apprehension Engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90hjuduWZ0 I actually really want one, it would be awesome to have something like this in a live electronic music setup. Extremely my poo poo. And I just discovered the luthier lives here in Toronto, and a friend of mine might know him really well. :O
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Jan 19, 2023 09:29
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the Bunt posted:there's also an album i'm actually trying to find again. it was entirely just long-form samples of news clips or interviews or various audio recordings of people describing horrible violent traumas, stuff like 911 calls and poo poo, but completely removed from their individual contexts. so it is just this unrelenting miasma of human terror. it was made in the 80s or even the 70s, compiled and packaged as a musical album, which is what made it stand out to me amongst the modern day landscape of 911 Call Compilations on Youtube. I swear it was called "Victims" or something, but i'm having a hell of a time finding it again Jesus this sounds terrifying. Sampling spoken word clips might be borderline cheating but it can definitely be effective. Three 6 Mafia (under the name "Prophet Posse") once sampled the intro to Scream (I swear I'm not just thinking about Scream 24/7) and at first it seems pretty kitschy but as it goes on and you keep hearing muffled crying of Drew Barrymore in the background you start disassociating it from the film and it just becomes a woman being menaced over the phone and it becomes unsettling if you let it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufqca0ALD_8
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Jan 19, 2023 09:30
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drat you goons are hardcore! Some good creepy poo poo. Trying to think of an example that is obviously "musical" throughout, one I think qualifies is the Giygas music at the end of Earthbound, partly because it gives the impression of a bunch of sound effects that just happen to be in rhythm and harmony with each other. (My favorite segment on loop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0H8-QzjTeY (The whole sequence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYb9kSCkjE8
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Jan 19, 2023 09:58
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A lot of songs off Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIajxtdRhEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEJ4RwRcs9o
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Mister Speaker posted:A composer and a luthier got together to take some of the concepts of the Waterphone (a dissonant instrument popular in horror film soundtracks and The Matrix), and some other creepy things, and make a novel and unsettling instrument: The Apprehension Engine. "The Apprehension Engine" is one killer name. The low tones remind me of the Blaster Beam used most famously in the early Star Trek movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u24aSJFUioE&t=57s
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Jan 19, 2023 10:46
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Wizard Master posted:A lot of songs off Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans The links weren't working for me for some reason, I found some alternates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saNjIBPmzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHKl41ogfO0
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Jan 19, 2023 10:48
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There was that one ceremony scene with all the boobies in Eyes Wide Shut that had the low-pitched backwards singing. That music creeped me out real good.
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Jan 19, 2023 10:50
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not scary but spooky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWACMGTtIA
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Jan 19, 2023 11:12
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Vaguely recall the Chedsey review at Satan Stole My Teddybear beginning with "hoo boy, now THIS is evil" or somesuch. Maybe not the terror of noise, but a symphonic take on uneasy music. Elend's The Umbersun album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYlnbXid6Tw&list=PLLI5srTNpJsNlwF0kTUgfneyVpwbLGkr9 The name of the song "In the Embrasure of Heaven" has been garbled and the garbled name has trickled down to various music services.
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Jan 19, 2023 11:51
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This Symmetry track always put me on edge. It sounds like there's maybe some kind of doppler or pitch-shift thing going on that feels eerie to me: https://youtu.be/9KvImi2BsWU The Dark Souls II title music does something similar at the very beginning, like the song is melting or something. Just slightly eerie and unsettling. https://youtu.be/dKQ3aIPP7-0
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Jan 19, 2023 12:33
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"Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide scared the heck out of me the first time I heard it as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_dXp0eF8s0
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FrumpleOrz posted:"Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide scared the heck out of me the first time I heard it as a kid. Good pick. Eerie and bleak as hell, but with actual jump scares!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everywhere_at_the_End_of_Time Alzheimer's: The Album(s) The last bit reflecting a final moment of clarity before breaking apart into noise then silence is horrific RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 14:14
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Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA
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Jan 19, 2023 14:16
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My kids told me to change the song because it was too scary. Pussies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5h1_6TUvcQ
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Jan 19, 2023 14:39
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This is a long one but it will stick with you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKxR5wQLk4 from the same album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzCfmlQ9pc
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I don’t think it’s that scary tbh. Maybe like desolate primordial haze. There’s like a little warmth to it even.
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RBA Starblade posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everywhere_at_the_End_of_Time Dude the segment where an entire, unbroken track plays... a few tracks pass in its normal fashion... and then that exact track plays again unaltered including the title if you check the liner, legitimately frightened me coming from a family with a history of alzheimer's. It got me drat good. I didn't even realize.
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Jan 19, 2023 15:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmF3zZSK8oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJiyOPmsJs everyone wear hats now fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 16:34
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First thing that comes to mind is the first section of the Bane boss music from Arkham Origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iqWLd5DWpQ And then The Prowler's Theme from Into the Spiderverse is threatening as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhlZ-cPO0Xw BWEEEUUUUGH.
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Lisa Germano's ...A Psychopath scared the absolute poo poo out of me the first time I heard it. It includes a 911 call of a home invasion and touches on Germano's own real-life experience with an obsessed fan
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