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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 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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