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Albums that scare the shit out of you
RenegadeDrizzt
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Mt. Eerie's No Flashlight
My brother purchased this album and was convinced that it was, in fact, a must listen. I was a bit reluctant at first, because he suggested it was best listened to in the dark (I suffer from chronic Night Terrors and anything involving the dark freaks me out). We sat down in my room and popped this little gem into my BOSE. Halfway through the CD I noticed the tears streaming down my face (apparently I had been crying since the third track, but I hadn't realized it). It really just explores so much . . . explores the unknown in various ways. I'd like to describe it as an adventure through the space that exists between light and dark- that space being music. It was quite beautiful, but something definitely disturbed me.
Any albums you dudes find particularly unsettling?
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"Last Rights" by Skinny Puppy. Seriously, just the first track alone.
That backwards playing turn of the century fonograph, cryptic backward masked sample, whispered vocals...mmmm, good stuff
I thought "cryptorchid" on Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson was pretty unsettling.
As was the maxi remix EP of "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails(it has the song that was in the opening credits of Se7en)
Im familair with and listen to a lot of pretty obscure/underground ambient/experimental/noise stuff from Germany and elsewhere, but Im just listing stuff thats on major labels.
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Dude tried to cut his hands off while recording vocals on that album.
Raison D'Etre's The Empty Hollow Unfolds
This dark-ambient album muses on about something that's always interested me immensely, abandoned places. Disturbing, deep, dark, clattering sounds that resonate deeply with sweeping, beautiful melancholic synth scapes... at the same time offset by a faint clattering of metal on metal, for example. Really amazing stuff, highly recommended... you can't go wrong with Raison D'Etre if you're interested in darkwave music.
No shit? Christ, no wonder his vocals are so... piercing. Argh.
However, I'm going to one up him.
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Not all vampires suck blood.
Not all of them die for love.
That record is pretty good, I'd also advise Weakling since that is who Silencer very much wants to be.
Not all vampires suck blood.
Not all of them die for love.
Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape
This record is not music. It is pure ambience and sound manipulation by the man behind Porcupine Tree. It's inspired by the thought that ghosts can communicate with the living through tapes. At times it's soothing, but at other times it's very freaky. At all times, though, you feel a sort of ethereal presence.
Another interesting this is that there is a remix of this album done by Andrew Liles. This one is the one you really want if you want to piss your pants at night. He took it to a whole new level. He used actual sounds that were 'supposedly' ghosts on tape, along with other random weird noises to create this. I listened to it with a friend once with the lights off and we kept looking at each other, frightened, wondering whether the noises were coming from the speaker or from outside.
Bass Communion - Loss
This one isn't as frightening as the remix. "Loss is not about the violent moment of loss, but its aftermath. The crushing melancholia, the endless questions of what if? and why?" It's like Ghosts... except with a lot more piano.
Continuum
This is a collaboration between Wilson's Bass Communion name and VidnaObmana. This one is in the same vein as the previous two. It became really unsettling once I realized that in the background someone was breathing, and that it had been happening since the beginning of the disc.
Car Chase Terror
Hells yeah.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Also: Frederik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
i always find this a scarey listen in the dark, well when i had it one before walking through the city to get home after a night shift a 3am was freaky as hell i tell you, i made sure after that if i was working nights to have more happy upbeat music on
Seriously the most frightening thing human beings have ever produced.
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I always get a bit frightened by Evergrey- Monday morning apocalypse, maybe because it deals with drowning and cold water, my 2 biggest fears. @_@ However I never get scared by music, I listen to music to be pleased by it, not to cower in fear. Same goes for movies, books and roller coasters, what's the fun in being scared?
i just bought that album today. Hope it's as good as everyone says it is.
-Jimi Hendrix
2. Lay on your back on the floor in the dark in front of your speakers.
3. Listen to the next to last track first.
they may not really scare, but they do intrigue me in ways that no one else ever has.
Hopelandish for the most disturbing vox ever *shudder*
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
Only because I'll put it on for atmosphere, and then forget I'm listening to it. When those fucking clocks start chiming, it freaks me out for a sec.
the car's on fire
and there is no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddies with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows
...at least, I think that's the song you're thinking of. If not, it should be.
Ok, I've tried googling Silencer, and Wiki-ing Silencer, to find out more about this. But no luck.
Do they have a website? That story is seriously so crazy I need to read more.
but Set Fire to Flames is always good for a little spooky ambience.
http://www.diagnoselebensgefahr.com/
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
If you've never heard it, it's a transcript of a man talking about how he escaped from area 51 on a medical leave, and he goes into the finer details of what's really going on. The whole time the guys sobbing and totally breaking down. The line that gives me chills is
[spoiler:c0dec405a2] "...What we're thinking of as aliens, they're, they're extradimentional beings that an earlier precursor of the space program made contact with..."[/spoiler:c0dec405a2]
But, of course, I've always been extraordinarily paranoid about aliens. Creepy dark eyed bastards.
More interesting is the history of the clip used in the track. it was originally a supposed hoax that was phoned into the Bell Art radio show (nortorious for talking about the paranormal) in California. At the point where the clip ended on the show, though, a rolling blackout promptly struck, cutting off the caller. This was back when rolling blackouts were common in Cali, so it could have been a coincidence. But the implications if it wasn't a coincidence are rather creepy as hell.
On a side note, want to test your will power? Try listening to track "Over" from the first Silent Hill OST in a dark room. At high volume. Just try to see if you can resist the urge to mute that bastard about 2 minutes in. The dangerously unsettling washing machine of doom beckons.
Suicide's first album sounds like nothing else in the world. Music doesn't terrify me too often, but that album sends chills right down to your core.
One compliment I always give Suicide is that they are pretty much unprecedented. Most other music, no matter how strange or 'out there', can trace it's influence back at least several generations. Suicide just came out of nowhere and fucked everything up.
I was also looking for some info on this, and apparently that photo of him is in the album booklet and this was their only album before he was put in an asylum.
PEDRO! Geez, haven't seen you around.
I didn't like Silencer at first, figured they were just some skram bm band trying to get in on the depressive act. Then, I found out about Nattramn's mental conditions and got intrigued, so I listened again. The music is pretty solid, clean, depressive bm, and if you appreciate strange singing, Nattramn's got it. He's nowhere near as impressive as, say, Bethlehem were, but he's also something you won't hear everyday.
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
Which would support my theory of crazy lead singer being their unique selling point. Really not my kind of thing.
As for albums that scare me, I'm not sure, but there are some album that make it sound like your phone is ringing or something is happening in the background that can be creepy. You think you hear someone talking to you, or walking around, while you are listening to music, but heir is no one there.
Haha, I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes I'll be at home by myself listening to some tunes on the headphones and then I'll hear a voice yelling out my name.
Trips the fuck out of me.
This one fucked me up, BIG TIME, when I was about 7 years old:
I spent the next 3 years in love with Queen's music though...
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Specifically, Iggy Pop reading The Telltale Heart. Sounds cheesy, but it works. The whole album is very good, if you like Poe.
I was going to come in here and post that exact album. I disliked it at first, but one night I decided to sit in the dark and listen to it through headphones. It got to me so badly that I started to see things moving out of the corners of my eyes. And then I started seeing things moving in front of me.
Man that was cool.
I don't have much to add that's really disturbing, but this album:
(Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar)
has a couple of unsettling tunes along with a strangely dirge-like (love song?). Lots of drone and vocoder vocals on Akuma no Kuma make for a great album. Now if only I could find Sunn O)))'s The Black One...
EDIT: Zeni Geva and Ruins are fairly disturbing as well, but first you have to be able to listen to them. Some people need to be taught the difference between the creation of good unsettling music and being so weird and dischordant that you come off as being either untalented or too arrogant for you own good.
And whoever nominated East Hastings by GY!BE gets a hero cookie. Whoa.
Oh yeah, Delerium Cordia by Fantomas is also pretty freaky.
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Bugs in particular. It's not hardcore, not really loud or anything.
It's just a simple, fucking frightening accordion solo with a monologue about "I got bugs". You can feel the guy who's speaking growing more and more upset about the bugs, and for me it's just horrible to listen to.
Then again, I listened to this when I was twelve, and the music I had been exposed to consisted of Dave Matthews, The Cranberries, REM, and other comparably vanilla stuff. Opened my eyes, you might say.
Nine Inch Nails, Further Down the Spiral.
They're all remixes of The Downward Spiral, and are less cohesive thematically, but damned if it doesn't put chills down my spine.
The remixes of Mr. Self-Destruct and Eraser are tremendous.
"needyoudreamyoufindyoutasteyouuseyouscaryoufuckyoubreakyou"
But the real clincher is at the heart of it all, the "remix" by aphex twin. Deep ominous brass ebbing over a constant machine-like churn. This is what you find at the heart of the spiral: oblivion.
Richard James' music has a way of making the listener feel so isolated, not in that fantasy escapist way, but more in an alienating uncomfortable way.