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    Posted: December 02 2007 at 23:31
Hi, I was just listening to Devil Doll's masterpiece "The Girl Who Was Death" and was wondering what the most intensely dark and scary prog you guys have ever heard. Its not hard to imagine that a dark spirit may have presided over the Devil Doll sessions and I do remember either Robert Fripp or Wetton saying that they felt a tangible dark presence hovering around the "Red" sessions. Both albums are very dark and intense yet tinged with moments of sublime beauty, wonderful vocal melodies and and breathtaking musical passages. Can anyone add to the list?
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Univers Zero--Heresie. 

Pretty much has a copyright on the words "dark" and "scary."

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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

Univers Zero--Heresie.  Pretty much has a copyright on the words "dark" and "scary."


Totally agreed. Anyone find GYBE! to be extremely dark and scary.
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Originally posted by ProgBagel ProgBagel wrote:

Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

Univers Zero--Heresie.  Pretty much has a copyright on the words "dark" and "scary."


Totally agreed. Anyone find GYBE! to be extremely dark and scary.


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Comus - First Utterance! Big%20smile

I love this album to an unhealthy degree. Dark prog folk with unsettling lyrical themes, and often shifting between beautiful and intense passages.


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Comus' First Utterance is one of the best of the best, though I could understand some finding it too disturbing sick.

Another recommendation (to go with Univers Zero's Heresie) is Present's Le Poison qui Rend Fou and Triskaidekaphobie.

Though perhaps not dark enough for people: Arachnoid - Arachnoid is a wonderful album and Jacula is worth a listen.
Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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Thanks guys! I'm writing all of these down and getting them. I love this stuff! As long as there is a sense of beauty and refinement.. the darker the better!! I take it you are into Devil Doll? "The Girl Who Was Death" is phenomenal.
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Any The Prisoner reference gets my thumbs up!



Great album... I became aware of it it because of The Prisoner -- had researched The Prisoner references in music.  "The Girl Who was Death" being one of my favourite episodes.
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Points: 15049 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2007 at 04:33
Check out OCTOBER EQUUS from Spain,very dark and intense.GUAPO-"Five Suns" is dark with lots of mellotron,MORTE MACABRE,although i don't find it that scary myself. Check out more DEVIL DOLL,SYRINX is both dark and amazing. "Heresie" has been mentioned and is the first album that came to mind.GOBLIN is another band you might fearLOL.
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Not prog, but do check this out:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Works-Peter-Maxwell-Davies-Sir/dp/B000001PCI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1196679899&sr=1-1
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Art Zoyd - Phase IV and Les Espaces Enquiets . Brilliant Stuff
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Scott Walker's recent stuff...I still don't think I've gotten through any of it...
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Points: 31664 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2007 at 15:47
Originally posted by Chameleon Chameleon wrote:

 
 
Yup, but don't forget,
 
 
Shub-Niggurath - Les Mortes Von Vite
 
 
Shub-Niggurath - C'etaient de Tres Grands Vent
 
 
Triskaidekaphobie/Le Poison Qui Rend Fou
 
You have to search a lot to find something darker and gloomier than this stuff. The Shub-Niggurath albums especially are even darker and bleak than Heresie!
 
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hi-posi - soul of hippopotamus
 
relentlessly frozen grim wastelands of irrepressibly gloomy suicidal nightmare-inducing TERRORPOISON
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Check out some electronic stuffs, like the dark wave genre. You'll be sure to find some dark, scary and intense music in there. One of the most known example of the genre: LUSTMORD — The Place Where The Black Stars Hang


FRIPP, ROBERT — The Gates Of Paradise isn't really electronic prog, but the atmosphere's the album creates (specially The Gates Of Darkness songs)are very disturbing. I've had nightmares because I was thinking it was just soft and nice ambient sounds, but oh was I wrong...

Early TANGERINE DREAM is quite disturbing as well. Check them out too.

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Points: 133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2007 at 08:38
Porcupine Tree is pretty dark. I don't know if it's "scary", but at least it's very dark. Especially Fear of a Blank Planet.
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
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Points: 189 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2007 at 07:28
Good to see another Devil Doll fan.
The obvious answer is complete your Devil Doll collection. Only 4 more albums to go. They are all essential but I would get Dies Irae next and then Eliogabulus.
 
Try some Lacrimosa next. They employ the sane sprechteganst (sp?) vocal style.
 
Second the Morte Macabre recommendation. Be aware the album is instrumenal
 Also try Standartde; Curses and Invocations owes a lot to Atomic Rooster
 
White Willow: Sacrement absolutley gorgeous dark pastoral prog.
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It helps to have pictures with the music, to reinforce the scariness - like Bernard Herrmann's scraping strings for the shower scene in Psycho. Tool's MTV video for Sober from Undertow. The most disturbing for me, without pictures, is White Noise's The Visitation (ex. An Electric Storm) - but I don't get that scared....
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