Dark Evil Progressive music

cstack3 wrote: 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.

Edited by TODDLER - March 06 2013 at 08:03

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?

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

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.

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!   

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

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

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.

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

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.