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    Posted: September 24 2005 at 05:16
Seeking recommendations of dark prog from any time period. In a way of King Crimson having a dark nature to their music.

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Originally posted by antibiotic antibiotic wrote:

Seeking recommendations of dark prog from any time period. In a way of King Crimson having a dark nature to their music.

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Van der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill are an obvious choice. nothing is darker than Peter Hammill's opera "The Fall of the House of Usher". Magma and Univers Zero are very dark too.


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Il Balletto Di Bronzo's Ys is a very dark 1972 opus!
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by antibiotic antibiotic wrote:

Seeking recommendations of dark prog from any time period. In a way of King Crimson having a dark nature to their music.

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Van der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill are an obvious choice. nothing is darker than Peter Hammill's opera "The Fall of the House of Usher". Magma and Univers Zero are very dark too.

yeah, I agree. I would say that Univers Zero is FRIGHTENINGLY DARK....I just discovered "Heresie" and I wouldn't recommend to listen to it with the lights off...
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Anekdoten and Anglagard (or are they not so dark, anyone? I can't think at the minute) are two popular Scandinavian examples. Devil Doll are pretty melodramatically dark, too.
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MORTE MACABRE

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Tool - Lateralus.
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I'll recommend the two darkest Van Der Graaf Generator albums:

  • H to He, Who am The Only One
  • Pawn Hearts
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  • Godspeed You Black Emperor
  • A Silver Mount Zion
  • Rachel's (ok this is not prog but classical/contemporary but shares concepts with prog. btw, they're really different from crimso)
  • Tarentel
These four bands may not suit you but as :
  • I'm a crimso fan
  • I love dark and sad stuffs (lot of minor keys)
... I guess you may share the same sensibility towards music, or at least a part of. If only one, pick Godspeed. This is not about being the best from the 4, but I discovered Gybe while looking for music that can be compared to "Starless" (long instrumental with violin/cello...)


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Try Anathema especially their album 'A natural Disaster' its so dark and gloomy but at the same time full of stunningly beautiful atmospheric tunes.

Or as Goose recommended the Swedish band  Anekdoten which have a Crimson influence with a touch of Radiohead.
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Thanks for the replies. Keep them coming.

Some of the more obvious ones I know: VDGG, Tool, GYBE!, Anathema, Devil Doll...

But thank you for the replies anyway. I shall check out the stuff I haven't heard before.

d.o.k. : Have you heard a Finnish band called Skepticism? It's funeral doom, but you may be interested in checking them out seeing as you're a fan of Godspeed.
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>>antibiotic. Not at all I'm gonna check that out.
Oh, that's cool, a website offers mp3 downloads  : http://www.anus.com/metal/skepticism.html.
As soon as downloaded,  i'll listen that, thanks !


EDIT : oh sh!t, there are 3 mp3s... but 1 min lasting and 32kbps ! Btw i still can hear something and indeed it seems quite interesting. Thanks again.


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Neurosis (not really prog, but dark and amazing)
Behold... the Arctopus

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could it be said that specifically pink floyd's "Animals" could be called "dark"

 
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Goblin for sure as they did mostly record for italian horror movies

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Most post-rock bands (primarily Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion and Mogwai).  If you don't mind some heavier moments, try Peccatum's Lost in Reverie.
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Points: 3484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2005 at 19:35
Discipline...Unfolded Like Staircase for some dark american prog in the 90's.
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basically...if it comes out of Sweden, it's dark...
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The two Gnidrolog albums surely deserve a mention here.

Also, Cervello
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