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For6luca 
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 Topic: Darkest Prog Bands
Posted: August 15 2011 at 05:13 |
Dark suns Disillusion Opeth Tool Winds Zero hour
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Xaxaar
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Posted: August 14 2011 at 20:28 |
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Univers Zero for Heresie.
Edited by Xaxaar - August 14 2011 at 20:28
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Gandalff
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 12:40 |
 Antennas wrote:
WOW, this is something like a 'name all of Antenna's favourite bands'-thread! 
I'll definitely check out the bands named here that I don't yet know about, I get the feeling it might well be worthwhile.
But eh... how come nobody has yet mentioned Anathema? Their (fantastic!) Alternative 4 album surely deserves a mentioning.
"I dance with angels, to celebrate the holocaust..." if THAT isn't dark, then nothing is!
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Oh yes, I totally agree! Anathema came first on my mind. Then Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, Arachnoid, Henry Cow, Maudlin Of The Well, Kayo Dot etc, etc...
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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Mr. Maestro
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 10:06 |
^They are indeed, but that doesn't mean Godspeed is "hipster nonsense."
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"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."
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progvortex
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 23:36 |
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VDGG is ten times darker than that Godpseed hipster nonsense
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Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it?
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Antennas
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:23 |
WOW, this is something like a 'name all of Antenna's favourite bands'-thread!
I'll definitely check out the bands named here that I don't yet know about, I get the feeling it might well be worthwhile.
But eh... how come nobody has yet mentioned Anathema? Their (fantastic!) Alternative 4 album surely deserves a mentioning.
"I dance with angels, to celebrate the holocaust..." if THAT isn't dark, then nothing is!
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 Jesus never managed to figure out the theremin either
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Mr. Maestro
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:15 |
Brutha2 wrote:
Pineapple Thief (Little Man)
Big Big Train (The Difference Machine)
Demians (Building an Empire) |
Really? TDM always sounded very somber and melancholic to me, and it does have a very potent emotional effect on the listener - it always leaves me feeling emotionally drained - but it always just seemed too cathartic, too emotional to ever be genuinely depressing. Still my favorite album, though.
By the way, I know Peter Hammill isn't technically a band, but the stuff he did on The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage out-darknesses anything he ever did with VdGG, in my opinion.
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"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."
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Ruby900
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 09:41 |
NotAProghead wrote:
King Crimson comes to mind first. |
Agreed!!
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 13 2010 at 21:08 |
Opeth Porcupine Tree Meshuggah OSI Haken (a new band) Symphony X Kamelot
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sydbarrett2010
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Posted: August 09 2010 at 05:01 |
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opeth
porcupine tree
black sabbath (its not actually a prog band but its the darkest)
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Fieldofsorrow
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Posted: May 30 2010 at 06:54 |
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Gorguts spring to mind.
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Groovy teenage rock with mild prog tendencies: http://www.myspace.com/omniabsenceband
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idiotPrayer
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Posted: May 30 2010 at 06:46 |
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pink floyd "animals" and some old stuff eg "set the controls" and "careful with that axe eugene"
some bass communion and continuum
tangerine dream "zeit"
black sabbath "black sabbath"
burzum (not so prog i guess but filosofem is a masterpiece)
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Caliban
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Posted: May 29 2010 at 14:48 |
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Not prog but if you want really dark and disturbing:
Khanate
Xasthur
Leviathan
Gnaw Their Tongues
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Ronnie Pilgrim
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Posted: May 28 2010 at 07:11 |
Emerson, Lake and Palmer? Did anyone notice how dark they look on the cover of Love Beach? 
Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - May 28 2010 at 07:16
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kole
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Posted: May 28 2010 at 02:37 |
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Devil Doll, definitely. It's mind-blowing.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 23:49 |
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Shub Niggurath?
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freudiana
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 23:39 |
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Here are a few dark bands I know:
Gargamel
Gosta Berlings Saga
King Crimson
S.B.B
Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill
Atoll
Ange
Anglagard
Anekdoten
Sinkadus
Wobbler
Discipline
Dun
Univers Zero
Tangerine Dream
Guapo
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
How about those bands?
Edited by freudiana - May 23 2010 at 23:52
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bucka001
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Posted: March 27 2009 at 09:58 |
Pawn Hearts may be dark, but there is a sense of joy I feel in listening to it, as if you could tell the musicians were having a ball making it. Indeed, the band was often falling over with laughter during playback; not laughing at the music, but rather just hearing how f*'d up it sounded: "What the f* are people going to make of this?"
I never find VdGG depressing. Even the supposedly dark stuff can be uplifting. Plus, they rock (especially from Godbluff on).
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jc
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 27 2009 at 05:06 |
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shouts out to High Tide (bunch of thugs), Arkham (the original doom prog), Unexpect, Pharoah Overlord
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superprog
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Posted: March 27 2009 at 04:58 |
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hahah i recall startin a thread on dark fusion and got some pretty interesting recommendations. hahah darkest prog record i can think of is VDGG's Pawn Hearts thats it.......maybe Pink Floyd's Animals?
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