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Posted: March 07 2013 at 23:05

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Posted: March 07 2013 at 21:36

I would hope so, seeing as they are dark evil progressive rock. LOL

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Posted: March 07 2013 at 21:35

Has Devil Doll been mentioned?

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Posted: March 07 2013 at 00:38

Starhammer wrote:

Darker than black itself.

Damn that is vile monster of an album!

Heh, listening to it now in my office, and loving every bit of it!

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Posted: March 07 2013 at 00:10

Sheavy wrote:

Theres hardly been anythying in this thread that I truly consider dark, evil, or scary. That Mort Garson album is, frankly, a joke

. I agree with Dobermensch's review of it. Nothing remotely evil about it...

I quite disagree, you have to remember the times that Garson composed it (late-1960's). I grew up in that era, and there was quite a bit of paranoia regarding Satanism and Satanic cults. This was reflected in TV shows such as the amazing episode "The Sign of Satan" on Alfred Hitchcock, http://imdb.com/title/tt0394086/ Satanism was also explored on "Thriller" and other US TV shows and was quite present in the mainstream media.

The thinking on this in the US was quite paranoid, and the Charles Manson Family murders in 1969 brought this Satanism-frenzy to quite a crescendo. This is all lost now over forty years later, but it was quite real at the time and, to many, terrifying.

For Mort Garson (a Canadian) to take such a plunge when he did (1971) is nothing less than remarkable. Listen closely to "Incubus" with headphones, keeping this definition in mind...try to get into the composer's head, it is rather disturbing.

in·cu·bus

n. pl. in·cu·bus·es or in·cu·bi (-b

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1. An evil spirit supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep.

2. A nightmare.

3. An oppressive or nightmarish burden.

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 23:24

davidk wrote:

I would like to find some new prog bands with a very Dark atmospherical feel to their music. Something Similar to maybe early King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, or Comus, but it can be completely different. Just something with a dark evil feel, that can give somebody the creeps. I saw a post similar to this on another website, but it was no help. Please nothing like Tubular Bells, although I love Mike Oldfield.

King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator do not have an evil feeling to me whatsoever, quite the contrary I feel good and awesome listening to them certainly not evil

thus I cannot add/comment here

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 23:07

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Guldbamsen wrote:

Just remembered. Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust. From what you´ve listed, this should be right up your alley.

Great re-workings of old horror movie scores soaked in mellotron and a very Crimsonian feel to it.

This is amazing! Reminds me a lot of King Crimson. Do you know any other bands that use Mellotron in a similar type of way?

Two Mellotrons plus many analog synthesizers were used to construct this underground melancholic masterpiece.

Btw, are you familiar with Goblin?

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 16:35

And while we're on Current 93, don't forget "Homotopy For Marie" by Nurse With Wound. Couldn't take it more than once.

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 15:38

Theres hardly been anythying in this thread that I truly consider dark, evil, or scary. That Mort Garson album is, frankly, a joke

. I agree with Dobermensch's review of it. Nothing remotely evil about it...

This is stuff that is dark, evil, and scary. Works best with headphones on and closed eyes.

Lustmord

This Two Tom Waits' are super terrifying.

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 11:26

davidk wrote:

Guldbamsen wrote:

Just remembered. Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust. From what you´ve listed, this should be right up your alley.

Great re-workings of old horror movie scores soaked in mellotron and a very Crimsonian feel to it.

This is amazing! Reminds me a lot of King Crimson. Do you know any other bands that use Mellotron in a similar type of way?

You can't go wrong with the early Anekdoten albums. They too have that mellotron induced shafts of light vibe going on.

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 11:19

Try Aragon, their first 3 album are much dark and cold, the use of guitars isn't so present and sometime the voice become evil when the singer cry out and scream, superb these long pieces, much dark and dramatic!

My nickname has been inspired from them LOL

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Posted: March 06 2013 at 08:00

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moshkito wrote:

Hi,

Here's a small list ... some of it I am not sure it is/was that progressive. I had to scramble me brains to remember some of these.

Lucifer - I have the LP but have to listen to it again. If I remember it correctly it was an interesting experiment through the synthesizer and a strange concoction of sounds. Don't wuote me on this one. Haven't heard it in some time.

Hope this helps.

Interesting coincidence, I used to have the LP and hadn't heard it in decades, so I dug it up on Youtube.

Good Heavens, this Mort Garson chap was a genius! Quite dark also, check out his song "Incubus"....the entire LP is available on YouTube.

He was a innovator ..pioneer of electronic music I wasn't fond of the subject matter/concept of the album and bought it based on my personal interest in early development of electronic music. I've always wondered if "Leave the Driving to Us" from Mort Garson's The Wozard of Is sounding like Pink Floyd's "On the Run" was a coincidence. Ron Geesin and Roger Waters had a deep interest in the 60's electronic music in America. Mort Garson was closely associated with Paul Beaver and Bernard Krause who pioneered the synth in the 60's.

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Posted: March 05 2013 at 20:20

moshkito wrote:

Hi,

Here's a small list ... some of it I am not sure it is/was that progressive. I had to scramble me brains to remember some of these.

Hope this helps.

Interesting coincidence, I used to have the LP and hadn't heard it in decades, so I dug it up on Youtube.

Good Heavens, this Mort Garson chap was a genius! Quite dark also, check out his song "Incubus"....the entire LP is available on YouTube.

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Posted: March 05 2013 at 14:17

Great topic. Excuse me for being late. I discovered some great bands here. I would like to add Gnaw Their Tongues. They are surely something that people into dark, evil and menacing music should check out.

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Posted: November 17 2011 at 10:44

Hey Runaway dude, I like your reviews.

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Posted: November 17 2011 at 09:16

I highly recommend Agalloch(I dont know if anyone has mentioned this band yet..). They are very 'dark and evil'. Try out ashes against the grain and Mantle. Superb albums. They fall into folk/prog/post rock/ and some black metal elements.

Some Porcupine Tree stuff(In Absentia), and Opeth.

This should start you off.

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