Scariest prog albums
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Topic: Scariest prog albums
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Subject: Scariest prog albums
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 09:59
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A curated list of what I think are prog scariest albums. I could have also included albums that are not on this website, such as Basinski's Disintegration Loops, Boards of Canada's Geogaddi or Panda Bear's Person Pitch, all of which I think would fit in the progressive electronic sub-genre. ------------- Eclectic/RIO/RPI/Canterbury |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 10:09
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Yikes, that's a lot of my favourite albums. Love almost all of them, and not scared by most of them... or any of them really, but grossed by, say, Comus' "Drip Drip" and of course Swans can be disturbing to very disturbing on that album. Heresie is creepy.. Igor Wakhvetich's Docteur Faust I will mention as one other. Don't know which is scariest, Fist Utterance (love its pagan folk horror qualities), Heresie... ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 10:13
Comus - First Utterance 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 10:19
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Zeit (sorry, I'm predictable) ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 10:25
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I don't know all (or even most) of these but I went with Pawn Hearts because just the concept alone of A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers makes it scary. First Utterance is weird and wacked out but not sure how scary it actually is. A few I would add would be: Rush -2112 and Caress of Steel Pink Floyd - Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Meddle Yes - Relayer and Tales from Topographic Oceans (the live version of ritual is weirder and scarier than the studio version though.) Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Genesis - Trespass (maybe more eerie and dark than scary though) King Crimson - Islands and Larks Tongues in Aspic VDGG - H to He and The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other Ok, I'll admit that most of the above aren't necessarily truly scary but they all have at least one scary moment (or song) in them or have something dark or unsettling about them. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 10:38
| I went with Comus. Although I feel L'Albero del Veleno - "Tale of a Dark Fate" is scarier. |
Posted By: Gnik Nosmirc
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 11:01
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I'm going to be honest, having made that list, I'm not scared by most of them, that being said I probably wouldn't be scared of the scariest album. I'm simply not easily scared. Feeling uneasy would be a better expression than being scared as far as these albums are concerned. ------------- Eclectic/RIO/RPI/Canterbury |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 11:38
Scariest album ever . . . ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 11:42
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Ys is really dark too. I'd choose Håxan or Herèsie, but I didn't listened to some of the albums here (Swans, Boredoms, Scott Walker, TD, Brainticket, The Mars Volta, Motorpsycho and Amon Düül) ------------- You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 12:26
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As far as I know these, I'd say Comus in the absence of Shub-Niggurath's Les Morts Vont Vite. ------------- 
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Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 14:34
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I don't know half of these... Would have included Jacula's "Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus" |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 14:41
I play Shub-Niggurath as part of my Horror October. |
someone_else wrote:Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 14:44
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Diamanda Galas made some scary Satanicky panicky stuff . Worked with John Paul Jones on an album. Also a band called Demon made a scary album about apocalyptic visions (like that hasn’t been done before). Of the bands you have listed I’ve heard most and some are not scary at all. I thought “deloused in the comatorium was pretty scary, not so much Francis the Mute. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 14:55
| I love Häxan most but I played it so often, I find it quite comforting now. I haven't got Heresie to that level yet, so that's what I vote for. Soundtrack for the Blind would be a good choice as well. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 15:11
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Nice selection. I know these are very dark and all, but scary? I don't know, I mostly just enjoy them. Zeit can actually make me a little unconfortable at times though. So I voted for that. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 01 2025 at 15:52
Any Ayreon albums are so bad that they're scary as hell  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |