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ELO's Fire On High freaked me out as a kid when I heard it on a classic rock radio station. This song starts horrifying then gets awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Ndi2HUheg
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When I was a kid, NIN's 'Closer' scared me. I couldn't have put into words why exactly, and still can't, I just remember it seeming scary. I knew what loving was, but he was being very scary about it, and the music was scary.
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This thread made me remember when I was a teenager a couple of my friends and I took LSD and smoked weed in the woods. We had a boombox with us and put on Lustmord. It was a 20+ minute track that was just an ominous bass pulse and a deep voice repeating “it is the night of the demon”. We started wandering around and the further we got from the boombox and the sun started going down the spookier it got. That was fun. Some of the more experimental metal bands I like can be quite scary, if you are willing to let metal be metal and not just laugh at how silly it can get. I’m mostly talking about the overall sonic effect more than lyrical content which is often difficult or impossible to understand. Striborg is a one man metal project from Tasmania that delivers some pretty spooky vibes. Something about the brittle distorted out of tune guitar sound, goth-y synth and the guy’s snarling animal vocals add up to something real loving weird. This dude has dozens of albums but this is the first one I was introduced to. It has a few actual jump scares in it if you let it lull you. https://youtu.be/1w8um-0hUHc Portal is a band whose whole thing is being scary as gently caress. Their albums are a punishing experience. Maybe you think a death metal band wearing hoods and nooses while playing 8 string guitars and a singer with a grandfather clock for a head is scary, maybe you don’t. I have read comments from people who have said they felt sick after seeing them live. I hope to experience that some day. https://youtu.be/emrBZZtGFgI For something non metal, I recommend Jandek’s early work for a more intimate, unsettling and haunted feeling. This poo poo makes my skin prickle. It helps that for most of Jandek’s career he was a complete mystery who this guy even was but he kept putting out albums from a PO box year after year. https://youtu.be/eAYs3sDcbbM Here is a documentary about the mystery of Jandek https://youtu.be/4sbDwdXaS3c Bonus anecdote: A friend of mine saw SUNN))) live once and claimed to have been brown-noted by them and almost didn’t make it to a toilet in time.
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i listen to all kinds of "dark" noise industrial metal etc music but honestly some of the most unsettling stuff ive heard in recent years is the soundtrack from the tv show Chernobyl, by Hildur Guðnadóttir. especially the way it combines with the shows sound design. its just so anxiety inducing, and really brilliant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM_HhU_CV44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZM87N-3ob0 also, a bit dramatic, but i love lingua ignota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ZweG__q-w back in the mid 90's i was in tower records and saw an album i never heard of with a sticker on it that said "this is the most frightening music ive ever heard" - brian eno. so i had to hear that. its actually a really beautiful record and they only made this one album (then one of the artist's died). there's nothing else like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iw34CD3lZo Earwicker fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Turn all the lights off in your house at night except for a TV on mute with nothing but static and listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVCQPPAx8Y
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Jan 19, 2023 20:00
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Delia Derbyshire's 'Invention for Radio no.1: The Dreams' is pretty spooky, 'Sea' is my favourite for the boy's dream at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJS5PU1Ztw Akira Rabelais does some weird poo poo too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8He1xBsIIR4
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Jan 19, 2023 20:21
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Justice Yeldham's music isn't so bad. Until you notice his instrument is a sheet of broken glass hooked up to an amplifier, and that he plays it with his face. for blood.https://youtu.be/kqB5ign5i_g?t=66 Zybourne Clock fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 20:23
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I like Ulver and SUNN 0))) but their collaboration is viscerally unpleasant in spots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWO_uvZbXCU Diamanda Galas is a good choice. Plague Mass is probably her best work and in context it's pretty drat scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0Le8qZTVo The opening to Emperor's "Anthems to the Welkins at Dusk" works pretty well too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfCfaEltheA
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Zybourne Clock posted:Justice Yeldham's music isn't so bad. Until you notice his instrument is a sheet of broken glass hooked up to an amplifier, and that he plays it with his face. "Yes, that's right, Doctor, this man is sane. You see, I can tell because at around the point where he starts chomping into and then licking the sheet of now thoroughly jagged glass to produce yet further heinous musical sound, he does not offer a single shard to the audience."
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I remembered another one that spooked me good as a child. My mom had this record by John Hartford (who later went on to do a lot of the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou and has a cameo in the film). He mostly did light hearted folky banjo stuff. I got the record out to play a song on it that I liked but I ended up putting on the wrong side and this gruesome horror song came on. Vivid descriptions of hellish torment that would not be out of place in a Slayer song. I love it. https://youtu.be/oAxTLZKmFLI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5Px3_RJ3w This one always stuck in the back of my mind, nowadays I think it's exploitative and in incredibly bad taste (wow the band name is the german term for a PoW camp with the letters G.H added at the end, standing for Global Holocaust. So thoughtful! After finishing 3 albums they renamed the project to GULAGGH. Deep commentary!) From my understanding the members are an anonymous collection of Dutch black metal artists or whatever and they use audio from patients in psychiatric hospitals. Per their page on Discogs: "According to interviews they used these vocalists because they wanted "the pain and hatred in the vocals to be real and not acted". They call their 'music': 'Misanthropik Nihilistik Audio-Terrror'" I don't think there's anything worth celebrating here, but the "authenticity" of it all really stuck with 14 year me. I remember showing it to a classmate in drama class once when he asked me for dark songs. He would lock himself in the janitors closet with the lights off blasting this on his ipod on repeat for at least 30 minutes on show nights to help him get into character (He played the devil in a 5 minute sketch about finding Jesus, his part of the sketch was like 45 seconds long, and his role had no lines)
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Jan 19, 2023 21:23
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massive spider posted:Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtVQ0Y4oTqQ
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Jan 19, 2023 21:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrl25m07bgY Scared the hell out of me when I was like 13. Not that I was only 13 when it came out, I am not that old, I listened to it in the late 90’s. Don’t bother listening to it without some nice Sennheiser headphones, it won’t scare you otherwise. Edit: the fear it induces is one of overindulgence, of losing one’s mind, of overdosing, of suicide. Nigmaetcetera fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jan 19, 2023 21:26
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the Bunt posted:'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 I think I hate it
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Jan 19, 2023 21:55
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How does one post Country, as a whole? Serious post, this track from the Godzilla 2014 Soundtrack is loving haunting, it's legit a whole horror film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuVdc477hw. For more cacophonous crescendos the ones in A Day in the Life by The Beatles unnerve me.
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Jan 19, 2023 21:58
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Ethel Cain's track "Ptoleamea". It's based on the last circle of hell in Dante's depiction of hell. It's towards the end of a concept album where a girl runs away from home (and the songs are small-town pop kind of stuff),and the album gets darker and darker. This track is where she's hallucinating on drugs, a long way from home, before she decays in an abandoned attic, is frozen, and then her murderer eats her. Normally artistic stretches (most concept albums) don't get me but by the time I got to this part, I was pretty rattled. A high point is where the devil is speaking to her and she says the word "stop" over and over until she shrieks STOP!!! and it turns into kind of a dark ambient dirge!  https://youtu.be/-VmFiiDedU0
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some of that aphex twins music is sort of spooky like the grass and the trees. check out The Night Monitor for extended spooky vibes. a newish project by neil scrivin with a pretty big back catalog at this point. they use real world paranormal events as inspiration. the first album This House Is Haunted is a good place to start, legitimately spooky stuff. https://youtu.be/ffLx3K0f-vc
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in a classic 2010’s era pass me the aux cable moment I played this https://youtu.be/qYG0tKyz0lo while being the only white guy on a car trip and everyone got really weirded out and asked if I was an electronic vampire
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Jan 19, 2023 22:07
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If I were to pick a Mr Bungle song it would be My rear end is on Fire.
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man i've been a consumer of noise and drone for a long time and this thread has made me realize i dont really buy into the genre much when artists all trying to be scary or disturbing i just listen to EARTH and let me imagination fill in the scary stuff
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when you're about to fast travel to work in the morning, but the menu is greyed out and then suddenly the combat music starts playing but you don't see anyone around
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Jan 19, 2023 22:54
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This song used to gently caress me up as a kid https://youtu.be/3Fn36l_z3WY Also this as a kid. I feel like it got used in lots of 90s movie trailers https://youtu.be/IyFpZ5MZ7kk
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Akhlys - The Dreaming I is basically made for this thread. Consummation is really overwhelming, specially after the heavy stuff actually kicks in at around 2:20, and *then* when it really kicks in at around 3:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zZssYFiNY Talk about overwhelming. Reminds me of basically half of Blut Aus Nord's discography. Lots of cool stuff going on this thread 
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Man, this is all some scary poo poo! Pretty cool, but for those that need a little break, here's a nice tranquil and soothing piece for you before we get back to the ghoulish audiophile fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-eOK8iqDM
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sigher posted:Serious post, this track from the Godzilla 2014 Soundtrack is loving haunting, it's legit a whole horror film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuVdc477hw. For more cacophonous crescendos the ones in A Day in the Life by The Beatles unnerve me. This sounded REALLY familiar and so I followed up on that "Additional themes by György Ligeti" credit in the description and found that it indeed interpolates a composition by Ligeti ("Requiem," I believe) that was also used in all the monolith scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs Star Trek II also did a pretty cool riff on it :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAv6tgg1ps0 Here's some more of Ligeti's material used in 2001, which also qualify for this thread! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2o83cSYTpg
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Ibexaz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5Px3_RJ3w This starts out irritating, then the more it goes on it becomes funny in spite of itself, and then it goes on so long that it's no longer funny anymore and it really is effectively disturbing, then after that it gets irritating again, and then it's gone on for so long that it becomes funny again, and on and on...
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The music folks listen to these days is all scary. Such a bad influence
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the Bunt posted:'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 yeah i went through a very edgy phase but Hamburger Lady is no fun
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This may not be as much "scary" as it is "extremely brutal". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoi5USOyPgc
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:This sounded REALLY familiar and so I followed up on that "Additional themes by György Ligeti" credit in the description and found that it indeed interpolates a composition by Ligeti ("Requiem," I believe) that was also used in all the monolith scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs Holy poo poo, I never made the connection and I love 2001. Thank you for this post.
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sigher posted:Holy poo poo, I never made the connection and I love 2001. Thank you for this post. My pleasure! I actually hesitated before posting cuz I thought it might come off smartalecky, like "lol that music you like is a ripoff" (even if so, it's not like it was original in 2001 or Star Trek either). Glad to help!
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Idk if I'd say they are outright scary but there are a few Primus songs that I find very unsettling, "Bob" is probably the most prominent. Pork Soda in general was kinda a dark album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikKophOlAkM E:also, https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx free hubcaps fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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Tim Whatley posted:Also this as a kid. I feel like it got used in lots of 90s movie trailers I recall this one a lot in the 90s, too, though it was always strictly wondrous for me, like entering a cave of magic crystals or something. Though now that you mention it, it does seem a bit deceptive, like it's a cave that'll set off a booby trap if I foolishly touch one of those magic crystals...
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Black Wings by Tom Waits is scary in kind of a fun atmospheric way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PsVkwC1Jmo
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Here's the whole "Requiem" by György Ligeti (excerpt used in 2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawSCvuGj4o Stanley Kubrick really liked this composer. Excerpts from "Musica Ricercata" were used in Eyes Wide Shut. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKNwMtFgVQ2vSiXCnX0qIzYLms3MxFb5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDN_3EkWN8 Bula Vinaka fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:
Not sure if you realize how true this is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8iU7abqkQ
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Once upon a time, a buddy of mine lent me a CD he thought I'd find "interesting" Not knowing anything about it, I first listened to it with my housemate, while stoned, in a secluded house, at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gB9_cdJq4o
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Geogaddi by Boards of Canada is genuinely unnerving at times https://youtu.be/vDkHR80rNtw
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Sourdough Sam posted:ELO's Fire On High freaked me out as a kid when I heard it on a classic rock radio station. This song starts horrifying then gets awesome. This reminds me how the beginning of that 70s "Dream Weaver" song always creeped me out as a kid. It sounds like Jamie Lee Curtis has just discovered the bodies of all her murdered friends or something. Then the rest of the song is, well, it's not as scary.
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