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    Posted: February 12 2009 at 20:07
What is the darkest prog band you know? Dark means dark lyrics, music or concept. My darkest prog bands:

Sleepytime Gorrilla Museum
Opeth
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Porcupine Tree
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For sound: Shub-Niggurath
For lyrics: Van der Graaf Generator
For concept: Comus
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well , right now i could think of two very dark bands..

devil doll and the landberk side project symphonic holocaust..it is pretty chilling stuff..

 
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Please define "dark"...
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Saviour Machine ( well everything is dark and apocalyptic. Music, concept and lyrics)
Anekdoten ( great dark music)
Virus, Ved Buens Ende, Dødheimsgard ( weird and dark music/ lyrics).
 
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King Crimson comes to mind first.
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Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Please define "dark"...


Definations will and should be individual. Nobody can define "dark" for you. Use your imagination.

Art Zoyd
Igor Wakhevitch
Shub Niggurath
Peter Frohmader
Univers Zero
Heldon
Archaïa
Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill
King Crimson
Guapo (three latest)
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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

Saviour Machine ( well everything is dark and apocalyptic. Music, concept and lyrics)
Anekdoten ( great dark music)
Virus, Ved Buens Ende, Dødheimsgard ( weird and dark music/ lyrics).
 

Oi, you reviewed Enslaved and Sigh and then failed to mention them!

Yeah, Black Metal is called that because the music is at least supposed to be dark. Progressive Black Metal bands know how to back that claim up with musicality too.
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Opeth
Van der Graaf Generator
Univers Zero
Virgin Black
In the Woods...
Drawn
Miasma and the Carousel of Hedless Horses
White Willow




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If you want dark, you can do no better than this band from my native Italy - Jacula:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=202551

Jim's review is a true labour of love, and perfectly captures the essence of the album.

Anyway, very much unlike the stereotype most people have of Italy, Italian prog can be very dark indeed. Another good example is the one-shot band Pholas Dactylus, whose music was influenced by both KC and VDGG, and whose lyrics... Well, they have to be heard to be believed!
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Green Carnation is pretty dark, too, along with some aforementioned bands.
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Van der Graaf Generator
Discipline
King Crimson (especially the Wetton years)
Marillion (mainly Fish-era, but some of the h-era stuff is pretty dark too)
 
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Edited by Rocktopus - February 14 2009 at 04:08
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

If you want dark, you can do no better than this band from my native Italy - Jacula:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=202551

Jim's review is a true labour of love, and perfectly captures the essence of the album.


I thought of them, but I think their debut  is quite horrible. (and Antonius Rex, which I thought were the same band, but apparently not). So I left them out because the thread asked for dark bands not albums.

But Tardo Pede... is a progressive, dark masterpiece.

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:


Anyway, very much unlike the stereotype most people have of Italy, Italian prog can be very dark indeed.


O yes. Il Balletto di Bronzo, Art Fleury, Cervello mm. Even Banco, Le Orme, Biglietto, Celeste... most have a natural, dark but mainly melancholic feel. Unlike the darkness of say Univers Zero and Shub Niggurath (and of course Black Metal, but it rarely succeeds imo) which is much more about being dark and creating a dark atmosphere.
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Van der Graaf Generator
Discipline

King Crimson (especially the Wetton years)

Marillion (mainly Fish-era, but some of the h-era stuff is pretty dark too)

 


I especially agree with Discipline. They are REALLY dark.
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Univers Zero, Shub Niggurath... Well, it leads us to Magma. Even This Heat can be pretty anguishing.
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Mono is pretty suicidal stuff.

Agalloch is cool combination of black metal darkness fused with post rock darkness, very depressing outcome. It's like Burzum collaborating with Mono. The Mantle is in my top ten.
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Originally posted by pianoman pianoman wrote:

What is the darkest prog band you know?



For me it's Shub-Niggurath.
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Is Meshuggah dark?
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Ditto with mobby back up the page a piece: Devil Doll Thumbs Up
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