Dark Evil Progressive music

Most of the RIO and Zeuhl subgenres are filled with dark themes. Namely, Guapo, Nebelnest, The Residents, Art Zoyd. You won't find much skipping through a flowery meadow there.

IQ - The Road of Bones

I'd second Aluk Todolo and Morte Macabre - great suggestions.

Elend was new to me and I very much liked that piece - will investigate further.

In addition:

Athanor, Vos Cités Sont Des Tombeaux - a great modern addition to the Franco-Belgian axis of evil which brought us Shub-Niggurath, Present and Univers Zero. See: http://athanor.bandcamp.com/

Yeti, Things to Come and Volume Obliteration Transcendence

Tarantula Hawk, two untitled albums

Zu, Carboniferous

Guapo, Five Suns and Black Oni

Edited by Mascodagama - June 28 2014 at 16:30

Check out these guys, they're kinda new and I think they're what you're looking for.

Delirium Cordia by Fantomas or some of the albums by Devil Doll.

The darkest things in my collection that would qualify (though some blur the line from prog into doom metal)

Gnaw Their Tongues and sometimes Abruptum absolutely. Some others I'd include would be Asmus Tietchens, Emprical Sleeping Consort, Black Mountain Transmitter, Edward Ka-Spel, Giancarlo Toniutti, Zoviet France, and H.N.A.S. Most of this stuff clearly isn't in the metal zone, and arguably not in the progressive House, but this weird ambient stuff is the creepiest stuff I can think of, and I have no respect for da rulez of da threadz coz rulez be for foolz.






Additionally, I find some of the stuff from composers like Xenakis, and Takemitsu to be quite creepy regardless of whether or not the composer intended for the pieces to be creepy. Some of this stuff can easily considered boring or downright hilarious, so I have quite a bit of respect for people who can consistently make music that is eerie and downright dodgy.

Kati wrote: 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

cstack3 wrote: 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) 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.

Hmm...tried reading through the first couple of pages, but got lazy so maybe these have already been mentioned:

Edited by UMUR - March 08 2013 at 02:29