Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Polls
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Scariest prog albums
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Scariest prog albums
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12
Poll Question: What is the scariest prog album in this list?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [4.76%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [4.76%]
7 [33.33%]
2 [9.52%]
1 [4.76%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [14.29%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [9.52%]
3 [14.29%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [4.76%]
You can not vote in this poll

Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
omphaloskepsis View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 19 2011
Location: Texas
Status: Offline
Points: 6878 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote omphaloskepsis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2025 at 06:57
Two albums that scared me...
Skinny Puppy- "Too Dark Park"
Butthole Surfers- "Hairway to Steven"

I'd never heard Heresie before.
I listened to half of it today.
Mellotron Storm is spot on...pretty scary music. So, I bought a copy.

Edited by omphaloskepsis - May 03 2025 at 07:06
Back to Top
Guldbamsen View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Retired Admin

Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23112 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Guldbamsen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2025 at 07:56
I think Anna Von Hausswolff fits a thread like this. I believe Jim (Finnforest) described the music as being too ‘red’ back when I recommended her…and that is actually a rather befitting description; red music.
Sounds like some sort of pagan ceremony emanating from a haunted church, complete with church organ.
From this list I’d say Comus is the most ‘scary’ or dark album.
Another folky album that feels just as spooky is the selftitled debut by Exuma. Highly recommended if you dig some dark Calypso vibes with your folk music.
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams
Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Prog Folk

Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20585 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2025 at 10:07
Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:


I'd never heard Heresie before.
I listened to half of it today.
Mellotron Storm is spot on...pretty scary music. So, I bought a copy.


SHB-NIGGURATH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtmL5K2p3pA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tjLqEPxe2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it-YdoyfOvs





Edited by Sean Trane - May 03 2025 at 11:03
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
Back to Top
Mellotron Storm View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: August 27 2006
Location: The Beach
Status: Offline
Points: 14350 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mellotron Storm Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 7 hours 38 minutes ago at 08:47
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I think Anna Von Hausswolff fits a thread like this. I believe Jim (Finnforest) described the music as being too ‘red’ back when I recommended her…and that is actually a rather befitting description; red music.
Sounds like some sort of pagan ceremony emanating from a haunted church, complete with church organ.
From this list I’d say Comus is the most ‘scary’ or dark album.
Another folky album that feels just as spooky is the selftitled debut by Exuma. Highly recommended if you dig some dark Calypso vibes with your folk music.


Great pick David! Anna's vocals and that church organ. Dead Magic is an incredible work and she comes by her talent honestly, with a father who has been creating experimental music for decades. Love the cover art as well for her live one with the spider webs etc. She's into trying to make us feel uneasy.
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
Back to Top
questionsneverknown View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 22 2009
Location: Ultima Thule
Status: Offline
Points: 605 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote questionsneverknown Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 4 hours 21 minutes ago at 12:04
Lots of albums here that I love.

I went with Scott Walker's The Drift. Whether or not it's scary, it is certainly intense, and as much as I love the idea of what Walker was doing in those later albums, I really, really have to be in the right mood to listen to them. They are unnerving to say the least.

In the same category I'd put the output of Gnaw Their Tongues and a number of works by Nurse with Wound.

In contrast, my damaged brain could listen to the likes of Pawn Hearts or Tago Mago most days.
The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love

The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough.

--Robyn Hitchcock
Back to Top
Floydoid View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2007
Location: Planet Prog
Status: Offline
Points: 2122 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Floydoid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2 hours 30 minutes ago at 13:55
Just about anything by Diamanda Galas scares the doo-dah out of me.
"Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.160 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.