Dark, scary and intense
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Topic: Dark, scary and intense
Posted By: profanatio
Subject: Dark, scary and intense
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 23:31
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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? ------------- Mike |
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 23:33
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 23:34
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Univers Zero--Heresie. Pretty much has a copyright on the words "dark" and "scary." -------------   |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 23:49
Totally agreed. Anyone find GYBE! to be extremely dark and scary. |
rileydog22 wrote:Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 01:14
nah |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 01:20
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NeBeLNest, Present, Thinking Plague, Dave Kerman |
Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 01:52
Comus - First Utterance!  I love this album to an unhealthy degree. Dark prog folk with unsettling lyrical themes, and often shifting between beautiful and intense passages. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 02:05
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Comus' First Utterance is one of the best of the best, though I could understand some finding it too 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. |
Posted By: profanatio
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 02:14
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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. ------------- Mike |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 02:36
Any http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/phpBB2+viewtopic-t-3635-start-0-sid-e4a2ae71a6d6c1e35a9c962c1748488b.html - 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. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date 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 fear .------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 06:05
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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 - 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 |
Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 10:41
| Art Zoyd - Phase IV and Les Espaces Enquiets . Brilliant Stuff |
Posted By: CaincelaOreinim
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 11:10
| Scott Walker's recent stuff...I still don't think I've gotten through any of it... |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 15:47
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!
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 15:50
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hi-posi - soul of hippopotamus
relentlessly frozen grim wastelands of irrepressibly gloomy suicidal nightmare-inducing TERRORPOISON ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 08:15
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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: ../album.asp?id=15190 - LUSTMORD — The Place Where The Black Stars Hang ../album.asp?id=4433 - 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 ../artist.asp?id=1295 - TANGERINE DREAM is quite disturbing as well. Check them out too. ------------- 
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Posted By: Roskisdyykkari
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 08:38
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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 in the tidal destruction the moral melee. |
Posted By: bundy
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 07:28
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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. ------------- They who know do not speak! They who talk do not know! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 07:42
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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.... ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 08:06
I hate camping because it's dark and scary in tents.   ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 08:09
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If you think you might like something really dark and ambient, try Steve Roach's Darkest Before Dawn. Sounds like the cold darkness of empty space. It's a single piece running over one hour.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 09:44
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1999 version) by Peter Hammill
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |