Is there any scary music?

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Besides

Slayer
Sabbath
and
Comus?

― kalki, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Halloween looms.

― kalki, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Opeth, kind of.

― Mickey, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

bethlehem

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am listening to SHOW NO MERCY \\m//

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lustmord's Heresy at full blast can be scary.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

some nurse with wound
skincrime
richard ramirez
macronymphoma
sickness

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Give Out Candy With This Playing!

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

monster mash yo

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

DIAMANDA GALAS. SCHREI X.
That is all, over and out.

― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

50 Cent
Tupac
Biggie

― p$.., Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

some cabaret voltaire
some throbbing gristle

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ALL Dashboard Confessional

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Raymond Scott's radio commericals from the late 50's. His music was so dark and bizzare, even by today's standards, and then to think that it was being broadcast to the public to sell product. Sometimes I think the past was way more futuristic and avant then we are today.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

actually p$, last year i had get rich or die trying playing while dishing out the sweet sweet candy

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but i like white zombie usually for such things

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Requiem"--Michel Chion
Rinzelstirn and Gurgelstock (but that's more "disturbing" than scary in my book)

― William Selman, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, look in Mort Garson's work, especially Lucifer Black Mass. Imagine if Switched On Bach was a heavy synth-psych tribute to Satan.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

SPK - Leichenschrei

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

coil

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.marcogiunco.com/dischi/000699.jpg

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking about this question the other day and came to the conclusion that modern orchestral music for me is probably the scariest. Works by Penderecki (The Awakening of Jacob for example) or Ligeti (Atmospheres) have this fantastically eerie quality that no ammount of dark ambient synths, black metal guitars or Noise generators could match. I was trying to work out why this was and concluded that my childhood association with baroque and classical orchestration (my father's music collection) made the sounds of an orchestra resonating in a music hall synonomous with comfort and innocence, and thus to hear that very sound transformed into something spooky, dissonant and disquieting was almost like corrupting the very incorruptibility of my early childhood.
Also because orchestral music rarely has a sense of humour, where metal or noise do. I mean, who can honestly keep themselves from laughing when listening to something like Whitehouse or Merzbow, or Burzum or Stryborg? Its fucking hilarious! Wheareas the sounds of string sections making harshly dissonant drones or brass sections conconting cacophonous walls of sound are brilliantly, seriously sinister.

― Rob McD (Rob McD), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

merzbow is usually a lot less funny than whitehouse, but i think merzbow's humor is more deliberate. whatever that means...

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

UNIVERS ZERO

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

No one's mentioned Dogs Blood Rising. In my book, that's just about the top of the list.

― bvpcvms, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamanda Galas seconded. Also, her "The Divine Punishment" and "Saint of the Pit" albums have some pretty freaky bits.

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloodrock's "DOA" scared the shit out of me when I was about 12 or so.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamanda thirded.

Also Stravinsky's Rite of Spring/Sacre Du Printemps is fulla genuine thrills & chills. (Zubin Mehta & the New York Philharmonic's 1978 version is my favourite of the three I've owned; the fact that it won a Grammy notwithstanding.)

I gots to hear me some Penderecki someday - I keep meaning to.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Penderecki is kid's stuff, Xenakis is the real deal

records that have genuinely FRIGHTENED you (20 new answers, 168 total)

― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

laurie anderson

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, xenakis. big creepy caverns of sound, then bugs scrabblin' under the skin...

― cameron, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

'Also because orchestral music rarely has a sense of humour, where metal or noise'

I find that's lots and lots of orchestral music is hilarious - kagel's 'heterophonie' is dry sounding at first but I laughed quite a lot when I played it again recently. Ligeti is funny, rihm too -- at times I do laugh at it 'cause its so good.

takemitsu's score to 'woman of the dunes' movie (I did a thread) gave me the chill when I saw it earlier this year.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Von's half of the Dark Funeral "Devil Pigs" split CD scares the shit outta me.

― Shotgun Sally, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Slayer are fuckin' great, but they're not scary, sorry.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

COIL: First FIve Seconds After A Violent Death

another vote for D. Galas, Nurse with Wound

― kephm, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I find some 93' darkcore (or gloomcore) to be scary. Not the obvious cliched horror-film sample tunes (dark stranger anyone?), but I've got some 4Hero from 93 which is really quite disturbing. Its got that burnt-out depleted frame of mind which I think is a million times more disquieting than any orchestral score.

Also I've heard some Faust which gave me the creeps - don't know the name of the album but its on see through vinyl with a skeletal hand superimposed over the top. It sounded like the kind of noises you'd expect to hear from a Ouji board session thats gone disastorously wrong.

Marc
http://bassnation.uk.net/

― marc dauncey, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Black Sabbath were particularly scary either. They rocked, certainly, but never gave me the fear. Something about four working-class yoiks who drank lots of lager and did tons of coke...I don't find that scary (or at least not in an occult-bothering sort've way).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I'm buying the idea that music can be scary

― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

No wait, you haven't said what isn't scary about Comus yet.

xpost

― walter, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

that's mostly true dada -- but under a certain set of circumstances music can work like that i think.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I put a Spell on You", "Frenzy"

― avery_schreiber, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually:

Edward Barton - I've Got No Chicken But I've Got Five Wooden Chairs

I can't work out if this is scary or funny ir both

― Serghei Daduismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

jimmy scott sometimes gives me the chills

― kephm, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamanda thirded. Plague Mass, brrr. It annoys me that I can't play it with other people in the flat.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

london-muziq
i find this horrifying.

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for Diamanda Galas--Schrei X, or Wild Women With Steak
Knives.
George Crumb!

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i got stoned and listened to some new American Tapes releases that freaked me out while lying in bed.

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Merzbow is like a massage

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Swans, The Birthday Party, and Robert Ashley's "Purposeful Slow Lady Afternoon"

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Coil still scares me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jad Fair's "The Zombies of Mora-Tau."

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I scared a guy at work with Li'l Markie.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

leadbelly's in the pines

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Opinion seems to differ on Suicide's Johnny Teardrop, but I have to say that Vega's screams always makes me feel nervous.

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"make"

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

music from Dario Argento films is useful for Halloween though I've never tried to track it down

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

'suspiria' OST is readily available.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Throbbing Gristle's "Journey Through a Body" sent a buddy of mine into panic attacks, but then again, he was high on salvia.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"COIL: First FIve Seconds After A Violent Death
another vote for D. Galas, Nurse with Wound

-- kephm (keph...), October 19th, 2004."

I think you'll find it's '...Minutes...', but it would be cool if it became a hit, and they did a Throbbing Gristle and sped it up to last 5 seconds on their next album.

The Fall's 'Mansion'/'To Nkroachment: Yarbles' is scary, but in a cheesy way. 'The Impression of J. Temperence' is scary.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the raincoats' "dont be mean" gives me the creeps. not really FRITE NITE or anything though.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Thursday, 21 October 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I agree on the orchestral stuff. I also once got pretty freaked out by Dead Can Dance, "In The Realm Of A Dying Sun" while having a bath (sorry for the visual!) But another time, it was just beautiful, so dunno, a mood thing?

And a CD I once had (still have probably) by some unknown black metal band called Unholy was quite scary. But it was also reasonably atrocious.

― piers (piers), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also,

Scariest moment on an album?
Music which has scared you (no I was scared by insert name of band you weren't scared by but wish to make lame joke about type answers please)
top 100 albums to play really loud and scare the shit out of yourself with in the dark
scariest record

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

bauhaus - party of the first part

― metfigga (metfigga), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Mescalinum united is pretty scary.

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 21 October 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

Yes.

http://exeterrecordclub.com/2013/10/30/halloween-special-gnaw-their-tongues-for-all-slaves-a-song-of-false-hope-ians-choice/

― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 15:46 (twelve years ago)

Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, "For Stringquintet and Asstrumpet" (first 16 mins or so of the youtube below). Hard to know exactly what is going on in the recording but the screaming sounds scarily genuine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3t_oSfdBI

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)

skinny puppy - last rites
Wendy carlos - beauty and the beast

― brimstead, Thursday, 31 October 2013 02:34 (twelve years ago)

beauty IN the beast

― brimstead, Thursday, 31 October 2013 02:35 (twelve years ago)

miranda july

― brimstead, Thursday, 31 October 2013 02:36 (twelve years ago)

lots of ccm, probably.

― brimstead, Thursday, 31 October 2013 02:37 (twelve years ago)

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