Moments in songs that scare the shit outta ya.... (Late night setting)

Dopesick

I'd also like to namedrop the frankly awesome Gnaw Their Tongues. These guys (well, guy, cos it's just a bloke from the Netherlands) are insanely dark and ear-splittingly loud. Unclassifiable and down right nauseating with flourishes of symphonic majesty, bass heavy grind and blood curdling black metal screams. All their tracks are pretty bloody disturbing but this one has been a highlight recently:

You should check out the song titles too. 'Gazing At Me Through Tears Of Urine' is one of the softer ones.

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MAJOR thumbs up for Khanate and Penderecki. Lots of Penderecki influence in Gnaw Their Tongues.

Bucket

Yeah, Gnaw Their Tongues is fucking crazy stuff. His black metal project Cloak of Altering is great too.

Khanate are bloody scary... and don't even get me started on Sunn 0)))...

I'm not going to tell you when the vocals come in, listen to the whole thing and get the shit scared out of you.

This is just a creepy bunch of noises, it's possible that many poos will shoot out if you listen to it late at night in the dark.

This is a bit scary too... upon finding out the guest vocalist was claustrophobic, they locked him in a coffin to record his part.

Amazing guitar tone though.

Philly_Q

It's certainly not a "moment" - it's over 18 minutes long - but the first time I listened to this, on headphones, in the early hours of the morning, it was... disturbing.

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

Bucket

Oh, and all of this. This is just super fucking disturbing.

Supposedly all mental patients, just screaming incoherently. I've heard there's an attempted murder caught on tape in there somewhere. They've done several albums of this. There's an interview with one of the sick fucks here:

http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/making-music-with-the-screams-of-mental-patients-rape-victims-and-kids

Iamnobody

stimpsonslostson;757131" said:

The first time I heard this I was studying late at night… it kinda freaked me out.

I'm not sure any NCaTBS is particularly scarey but can be quite unsettling and challenging listening at times.

Have you heard this live version of O'Malley's Bar?

I do t like some of the narrative changes from the recorded version but performance wise its first class - the demented rambling at the end etc.

DarnWeight

I made a copy of Springsteen's Nebraska LP for a bandmate once.  He was listening to it in the car, and had to jack the volume up for some of the quieter numbers.  He very nearly crashed at the surprise "whoop" Bruce lets out towards the end of State Trooper.

As a kid, I used to hide under the dining room table with my hands over my ears in anticipation of the dreaded "Ooooh-laaaa!" of the death machines in Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.

chrispy108

I just don't 'get' black metal at all. The 'screaming' just makes me laugh and deliberate attempts to shock (crosses on fire, naked ladies, OTT gore, mental patients, corpse paint etc) just come across as silly and trying to hard.

Aidanspaghetti

DarnWeight said:

I made a copy of Springsteen's Nebraska LP for a bandmate once.  He was listening to it in the car, and had to jack the volume up for some of the quieter numbers.  He very nearly crashed at the surprise "whoop" Bruce lets out towards the end of State Trooper.

As a kid, I used to hide under the dining room table with my hands over my ears in anticipation of the dreaded "Ooooh-laaaa!" of the death machines in Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.

My dad used to scare us as kids with that Wotw record.... Unfortunately the word "ulla" translates as apples in Irish. So a troop of aliens stomping around screaming for apples kind of diminished the desired effect....

HAL9000

No one mentioned Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner yet?

That diminished seventh arpeggio near the beginning of Bach's Tocatta and Fugue.

Parts of the second solo in Comfortably Numb.

I don't know the piece well enough to pinpoint it, but there's a pretty dramatic and sudden chord in Mozart's Don Giovanni which is scary first time of hearing.

And unsettling rather than scary - Blue Jay Way by The Beatles - diminished seventh again.

paulads

for me...it'll always be Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"

the music, the lyric, the story, the writer, the pen name, the lot

Emp_Fab

The number of times I've fallen asleep listening to Dark Side of The Moon and then On The Run segues into Time and the alarm clocks all kick off and wake me up like a scalded cat.  So many times that's caught me.  Bastards.

JezWynd

If I can bear to listen to all of it, do I get a prize?

Just kidding. 

I can see the appeal of a live performance and maybe headphones but would you sit around with some mates and a spliff and listen? What would you talk about?!!

RobDavies

Has anyone mentioned "ooooooh - loooooow"' yet?

Bucket

Emp_Fab said:

The number of times I've fallen asleep listening to Dark Side of The Moon and then On The Run segues into Time and the alarm clocks all kick off and wake me up like a scalded cat.  So many times that's caught me.  Bastards.

That reminded me of my all-time favourite album, Ocean Machine by Devin Townsend... the last four tracks form the most glorious half-hour of music imaginable, which one could quite easily drift off into a peaceful sleep to, but then at the very end of the last track... 4:30:

You bastard, Dev...

doogz84

First time I ever listened to Wish You Were Here, the album, I was, erm, somewhat 'chilled'

Sat on my armchair in front of my big stereo and an enormous pair of TDL floorstanders, and had it turned up rather loud.

Got to the end of Have A Cigar, and there's that big "WHOOOOOSH" filter sweep and it gets all tinny and trebly and I got the fright of my life, and thought I'd blown my amplifier.