Scariest prog albums

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.

Comus - First Utterance

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.



Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - 16 hours 14 minutes ago at 10:31

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.

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)

I don't know half of these...

Would have included Jacula's "Tardo Pede In Magiam Versus"

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.

Edited by Valdez - 11 hours 51 minutes ago at 14:54

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.



Edited by Saperlipopette! - 11 hours 12 minutes ago at 15:33