Sometimes when I'm really fucking bored I go about and read some ghost stories if i've got nothing better to do. I'll turn off the lights and put on some metal and try to freak myself out, thing is, most of my metal collection is thrash, death and grind.

I'm looking for some reccommended bands that have a scare factor to them. I recently bought Sadis Euphoria, and they're not * scary * but have their freaky moments.
any suggestions? any black metal is especially welcome. plus im just looking for some damn good scary music

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Ummmmmm, Cattle Decapitation?

odd pasttime ya got

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This is gonna be hard, Watain is especially dark but not really scary. Mutiilation may not really be scary either, and same goes for Vlad Tepes. They kick ass but they are more dark rather than scary.

Download Sargeist. I think you maybe on to something, no metal has really scared me before. I would like to have a band so evil sounding it was actually frightening.

The only band that scares me is Pig Destroyer.

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The only kind of music that ever creeped me out is anything on the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack. Or you could try 3.0.I.F, Fay Wray Come Out to Play, and Dark Side of the Womb on Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses. Even though its not really music, those tracks kinda give me the creeps.

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I must say, most death/black metal can be scary if your high sometimes. But if that's not your cup of tea, I say you'll have to search long and hard to find something best fitting to yourself. I really want to recommend a band, but I just get used to the type of music I listen to, so you may need a variety of different sounding music.

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One time when I did mushrooms a few years ago, Gateways to Annhilation scared the shit of of me. What a fucking idiot I was. I was seeing white faces in the dark and I decide to put on some Morbid Angel.

That album has some of the fastest double bass known to man.

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well duh its fucking 8-arm pete!

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hahah pete sandoval

the commando

insane


that is really a hell of a passtime you have

blut aus nord is disturbingly dischordant. mr varg vikernes can scream in the most frightning way .... i HOPE youve heard burzum? get tracks from burzum/aske and hvis lyset tar oss. that should be good for your weird hobby


gore metal can be creepy too

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Just record your self talking about random things for an hour. Play it backwards. It sounds scurry!!!!

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I find drugs + Wormed a rather chaotic combination.

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they scared the shit out of me, i feel asleep listening to world coming down, and the one where the girl picks up the phone, and the guyish voice screams into the other end woke me up, i jumped like 2-3 inches off of my bed, and screamed like a little girl, good times...
ive also found that cradle of filth's - dinner at deviant's palace to be pretty creepy.

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Scary = Final Doom soundtrack

Limbodic Art has some pretty scary stuff.

My real recommendation is Cephalic Carnage's Halls of Amenti.

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if you're looking for some scary music, YOU NEED MORTICIAN. before anybody cracks smart-arse jokes about their music being so bad it's scary, i mean their horror movie intros are scary (at least the first couple of times around) and as transient said, go and buy burzum/aske, and throw on the opening track, it took me about 10 listens to get used to varg's vocals and they still bug me a little bit.

also, on at the gates "slaughter of the soul," download a track called "the flames of the end." it's a horror soundtrack song. hope that all helps

I remember listening to Lung on World Coming Down in the dark while I drunk and half asleep. The part where you here the heart monitor beeping and the little girl singing Ring Around the Rosie freaked me out pretty bad.

Also I found a site were it played Dinner at Deviant's Place backwards. Its a little girl saying the lord's prayer. What is it about little children that is so damn creepy?

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need some scary tunes dig through the hold heavy metal and look up aphrodites child , iron butterfly and mahogany-rush some of there stuff might work or if all else fails try a couple of hits of acid

Well, I can't thinkof too many honestly scary full songs, but here are a few that could scare you, I guess.

Slayer-Seasons in the Abyss
Overkill-Horrorscope
The Usurper-Necronemisis
Motorhead-Serial Killer
Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Annihilator-Alice In Hell
Iced Eartj-Damien

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If you actually read their lyrics carefully, you realise that everything is bad and you need to die. That's pretty scary. Prowler is my middle-of-the-night album right now.

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You really think so? The lyrics, even by BM standards, sound like Screechy the Cranky Rooster being fitted with an acid colostomy bag.

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Stryper

Pig Destroyer would scare me more if I hadn't immunized myself with Acid Bath. That's some shit. When you say

She asked if it would hurt
I smiled and said no
The lie ran down my chin like embryo

you're a fucker. Not that 'maybe she'll snap her wrist doing cartwheels' is wholesome. But, in general, I don't know why I like Pig Destroyer. I can't give a reason. They just dug into me, and now I dig into them.

But, yeah, anything Dax Riggs wrote the lyrics for will freak me out. Especially under the influence. Of anything.

You should try some dark ambient/darkwave tracks, I think ambient does this haunting and scary effect much better than any metal. Ambient is very deep and drone music and some how more dimensional than any other, and while listening to it one as though slumber into the music. Thence, in particular dark ambient cases the audition can turn into a quite creepy experience.

These are good examples that have this kind of effect:
Lustmord's "Heresy" and "The Place Where the Black Stars Hang"
Tangerine Dream's "Zeit"
any Raison d'être CD

The first track from Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales used to freak me out, but that's not realy music.

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And then when the actual music starts playing you realize you just wasted about $13.

You should try pretty much anything by Current 93. I like the All The Pretty Little Horses album, it sounds like a guy reading nursery rhymes with off key music except he occasionally says things like 'and the blood bells chime' and talks about vanished faces and inner eyes etc.

lol,

I got some good replies. Lots of good bands reccommended, and I''ll also give the dark ambience thing a try as well.

MyOwnSavior: Yeah I have the SH3 soundtrack, I forgot about that, it does freak me out sometimes, especially when im sleeping and that weird guy will go " Ohhhhhhhhhmmmmmm" really loud in my ears.

Andrewc: lol I actually had a wallpaper of mortician for a while not knowing who they were at first, it was the disturbing one with the girl on the cover with a missing leg tied to a post with a guy holding a chainsaw in the doorway of the house behind her.
I'll prolly give it a try along with all the other reccommendations here

yeah I suppose its an odd pasttime but it still rules, i love scaring the shit out of myself.
problem is, I can never find really scary stories, and they're all usually bogus anyways,most of them are like " oh a demon beast came out of my basement and was pinning me down by my hair "

No, if a demon beast lived, it would kill you right away, not scare you.

I sometimes listen to " Where dead angels lie " or " slowly we rot " while walking through the woods near my house at night, just because i'm so damn bored and try to freak myself out, lol.

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Bethlehem.

because of the vocals.

Yeah, Bethlehem's vocalist is insane guy. Very depressive and sick vocals, filled with emotion. One of the most, um, unique vocals I have heard.
But does they do this kind of scary effect on you? I find them to do you some how melancholic. At least this was on Dictius Te Necare album.

I've found some Cradle of Filth to be freaky as well. Especially tracks that are more like instrumentals such as Venus in Fear off Cruelty and The Beast or many of the tracks off Damnation and a Day...The ending to Thank God for the Suffering is pretty freaky, along with most of the tracks on there...Some are dorky as hell though.

the guy that used to sing for bethlehem, who now fronts deinonychus, marco kehren (formerly a one-man band), pick up some of their stuff if you can. i'm stupid, i managed to get his first album entitled "the silence of december" and then sold it, i really regret it now. i think it may be scarier than varg.

Lucky I downloaded it

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How about Mayhem and BURZUM????

They aren´t very frightning, but if you firstly read the stories of the inner circle it has an extra dark sensation.



P.D: Thank you for not burning me in the atheist www question.
Ahhh, and english is my third language, if you want to know. That is why i write that bad and understand 40% of the post (replies) .

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Wormed, Devourment.

And yea CC playing shit backwards is very strange.

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I can't believe no one's mentioned Immolation.
Very very evil shit.
Freaky to listen to in the dark..

The intro to Praise The Name Of Satan by Akercocke freaked me out when I was walking home from the pub once. I was walking down the road that bisects Aintree racecourse so it's quite dark and lonesome. It was amazingly eerie so I tried it the next week with the intro song to Mithras's Worlds Beyond The Veil CD and I got a similar effect. Nothing else that I've heard works as well as these.

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I haven't been scared, startled, frightened by any music throughout my entire adulthood. The intro to Cannibal Corpse's "Addicted to Vaginal Flesh" is slightly unnerving given the reality involved, but it's not frightening or scary at all.

When I was 13, I heard my first non-Metallica/Megadeth thrash album, which was Slayer's 'South of Heaven'. It scared me at least the first couple of times I heard it, but something about it made me want to listen again and again. Listening to it now, it's kind of funny, it'd almost be embarrasing if I weren't 13 the first time I heard it.

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Yes,also Darktrhrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
and Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

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I found some demos of Bethlehem but does anyone know where I can find some songs? I liked what I heard, really creepy deep vocals.

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King Diamond - Let it be done.

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the intro and outro to Unhallowed by The Black Dahlia Murder. its Trevor Strnad reading from a book about cannibalism, definitely creepy.

very true, every word.

Today Is The Day - In The Eyes Of God.

Listen to that song while in the dark.

Decrepify, do you have any good darkwave suggestions? or where to get some

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I'll have that album soon.

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Now I remember a good scary song. Check out Blood, Milk, & Sky by White Zombie. It sounds nothing like their other stuff, its slower and more melodic with creepy keyboards and female vocals that kinda remind me of witch chants. Easily my favorite White Zombie song ever.

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its amazing. enjoy. i will have Necrophagist's Epitaph as of tomorrow around 3 PM. i love 2 day shipping

From dark ambient/darkwave I would go for:
Lustmord's "Heresy" and "The Place Where the Black Stars Hang"
Tangerine Dream's "Zeit"
any Raison d'être CD

Also Kerovnian's "From the Depths of Haron" is descent.

Because Tangerine Dream is a very famous band (compare it to Jean Michel Jarre), you could find that release from your local record store, maybe Lustmord too. The other stuff might be bit harder to get, though from some internet mailorder distributors you could find those. I can recommend only one because that is the only distributor where I have bought this kind of stuff: http://cfprod.com/nh/ (industrial/ambient zone). Northern Heritage has also other types of industrial/electronic music, like some folkish, epic and neoclassical stuff. And in the other zones there are also a lot of good (black) metal releases.

http://www.equilibriummusic.com/ seems also having a lot of this kind of material avaible, even more than NH. But I have never used that place, so I have no clue is that a safe place to purchase etc.

sunn o}}}-mostly downtuned riffs,no drums. i wouldnt say scary but definatly dark,somber music.

his hero is gone-15 counts of arson- this is the later tracks of that cd, pessimistic, slow doom, excellent riffs

dystopia<east bay metal band, they also do a label, life is abuse>human garbage, down tuned mid tempo metal, kinda like a prototype of nu-metal but absolutely killer, this band predated all the shit you hear and see on radio,mtv, if you read the lyrics carefully you will see they are actually speaking against the subjects they speak about, serial killing,suicide,atrocities etc. there is something about this album that is hard to digest,hard to fathom

...especially "Sarah's night" from "Voodoo", as everyone knowns, all the King Diamond cd's tells a horror history. If you goes deeply in the lyrical concept, i'm sure you'll find a true sense of horror in all of it. I remember one christmas night, like some 3 years ago. I was alone at home, drinking "tequila" and i put this album. God of mine! when i heard "Sarah's night" a shiver down to my spine, and i felt so scared!, since then i never have return from the land of Mr. Diamond, every story, every line, everything is so evil....

Well, of course, some people doesn't like the vocal style of Diamond, it's o.k., but you need to give him a chance. You don't be dissapointed.

Hey thanks to all you guys for reccommendations, i've heard some damn good music I haven't known before, and was reminded of a few i'd forgotten about before.

Also, I like King Diamond, especially Abigail II, it is pretty creepy

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"Godgory - Death In Black" I thought the whole song was creepy to me, when I first heard it on the "Death.. Is Just The Beginning Vol. 5" CD, Disc 1.

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it might just be me but i think Black Winds by Satyricon is quite atmospheric, im sure it would affect you more during your 'meditation'

jks. im open minded. im sure its a rush

sum41 scare me too.

i hope that's for the reason that they're a shockingly poor.....:think: err.... :shrug: band i suppose.

of course

Scary? Hmm try to listen to Mortician's Hacked Up For B.B.Q. or Chainsaw Dissmemberment with the lights off and high. Now that is fucking scary.
Deicide's Scars Of The Crucifix is pretty scary sounding also.

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It's not scary, but it's creepy... alice cooper - i love the dead. It's perfect man, he gets so into it. what makes it creepy is the way he sings it, as if it were the world to him.

not scary, more strange... but i've listened to it a couple of times while my brain is dead from not sleeping for a few days, and it's kickass.

but scary? ummm... ever watched The Wall? when you're not sober, (even when you are) the whole thing is just like ... makes you think 'fuck, that's somethin'. The soundtrack is great and the animated bits kick ass. basically, it sucks you in and you dont take your eyes off the screen for even a second coz you're sitting there thinking 'insane man, this shit is freakin me out'.
nah it aint metal but still its creepy as all hell.

What I sometimes do to freak myself out is walk down to the cemetary in the pitch dark with a discman and listen to music on the discman - akercocke/opeth or something. It's a long walk through paddocks and bush to get there, so you basically wander aimlessly and hope you get to the road soon. Old cemetary, broken graves, overgrown weeds, its got atmosphere. I just lie there listening to music for ages. That's not scary. But then you take the headphones off and all of a sudden it all changes coz you're not listening to music anymore, you're lying alone in a cemetary ages away from anything.
Haven't done that in ages. Must do it sometime...

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Ha. I remember once I couldn't sleep at night and I grabbed my CD player. The volume was left on ten and with the resume function, the disc picked up right in the middle of Tom's scream in the intro to Angel of Death. Quite the surprise, I couldn't listen to the song for the rest of night.

Also, try Morbid Angel's Doomsday Celebration, that might do the trick. You could also try and get one of those books about the Norweigian Black Metal scene, read that one day, then at night listen to black metal in the dark. And like John Holland said, Today is the Day definately has some creepy shit. I haven't heard much, but what I have heard is surely quite creepy in the dark.

A couple of gore metal bands have some creepy songs.

Exhumed - A Purulent Prelude to Putrescent Pyosisification (my sig)
Impaled - Operating Theater
Gorerotted - Zombie Graveyard Rape Bonanza (The Crypt Keeper intro)
Neuropathia - Uncle Frank
Splatterhouse - Splatterhouse (original song name )
Lust of Decay - Festuring Anal Vomit

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on the subject of creepy bands i remember when i
first got in to black metal ,1992 going in to our price
and buying bathorys the return album this is the
only record ever to to unnerve me a bit and of
course then i was very young.

Sorry to bring this thread back up to the top, but a great album that's really freaky is the Session 9 soundtrack by the Climax Golden Twins. Yeah, gay name. But the movie kicked ass and so does the soundtrack--extra creepy music. But it's not metal. It's just freaky musical score. More on the music side, the band Midnight Syndicate has some good songs. They're kind of just electronic musical score type stuff, but more into the song structures and everything than most soundtracks. Heavy metal usually won't freak you out propperly. It's too song-structure-oriented. You've gotta get something more for its atmosphere.

I tried posting an attachment of an album that I made of just atmospheric horror film score, but the file was too big.

Rigor Mortis - Self-titled debut......Every song is based off a horror flick and the singer's voice is pretty fucking spooky. And the album rips on top of that.

Godflesh - Streetcleaner.......This is by far their best and heaviest and most spooky sounding release ever.


Edit: I almost forgot: Bloodfeast - Face Fate

Yes !! Finally, someone agrees with me!

Pickup "In The Eyes Of God", and listen to the title track in the dark.

That and Pig Destroyer's "Terrifier" is monumental. Most startling intro track ever.

Today is the Day has the most entertaining drummer in the world to watch live. That guy is a total freak of nature and is fucking mesmerizing.

Thank god someone mentioned Darkthrone. They make ambient music with black metal, and it's fucking creepy. I think that Under a Funeral Moon by Darkthrone is the scariest/creepiest, but alot of you will probably disagree. But, just listen to his voice, and those ultra depressing riffs. My god.

what site was that at---ive been looking for forever and cant find it

Here you go, I can't believe I remembered the site.

http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/subliminal.php

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Fantomas - Svrgical Sovnds.

I couldnt even listen to that

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The Dicks
Pansy Division

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That was great, thanks for posting

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here are some songs

the intro to Hellhammer - Horus & Aggressor
Atrocity - Omen; Ichor
Morbid Angel - Dawn of the Angry; Inquisition (Burn with Me)
Malevolent Creation - Memorial Arrangements

i found a lot of MOrbid Angel's instrumentals to be kind of eerie
Morbid Angel - Awakening; Nar Mattaru; Melting;

the whole cd [ it has its cheesy parts but its got its good parts too]
Cenotaph - The Gloomy Reflection to Our Hidden Sorrows

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King Diamond - Let it be done.

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when p.diddy sang for that zepplin song........absolutely terrifying

Some atmospheric music i found:

Anything from Abruptum their pretty grim to listen to.

Intestinal Disgorge will scare you with the cinstant high pitch screaming noises although it gets slightly annoying.

Also Carpathian Forest - Death Triumphant (1996 Demo Version) is quite creepy.

Oh yes indeed.

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Shit dude that thing by cradle of filth was fucking scary i almost ripped myself.

dystopia-human garbage
one of the most brutal albums ever, most of the intro riffs have real sinister sounding downtune bass lines, the inlay to the album, the lyrics to the songs are all gang graffiti style, theres just something unnerving about this album

Yeah, that album is really weird, but I love it.

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What a perfect album. Especially the Rudimentari Peni cover as a bonus.

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i need to get thier other albums, ive heard some tracks on later stuff, the drummer has an odd style of playing that i like

I'd also recomend some Fantomas. Their albums are fucking terrifying and sometimes without a single word spoken.

Also try some Funeral Doom like Wormphlegm or some experimental stuff like Axis Of Perdition or Portal.

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rofl...old thread, but a good un.

the first song that actually scared me was:

emperor - int the infinity of thoughts

blasted really loudly out of my home theater system-like speakers. that was super intense.

i listened to lord belial the first time i did acid. really stupid idea.


magma makes some really intense music. check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73XLkf43-s

probably my favorite band right now.






YESSSS!!! especially raison d'etre and pretty much everything on the cold meat industry label. also check out Moëvöt - Abgzvoryathre.

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i thought rammstein was scary when I was about 11 years old

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Dude, why had I not heard of these guys till now?

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better now than never.

if you want, i can pm you some albums.

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'Reise Reise' is a pretty dark fucking record

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Sunn's "Black One" has it's moments.

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South of Heaven scared the shit out of me the first time I heard it. I also had the urge to listen to it over and over again no matter how eerie it felt. It was awesome and I was 13.

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I heard God Hates All when it first came out... I was definitely intimidated. I loved it. Not too long after, I realized that type of music was played 20+ years ago. It was all over from there

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Current 93 is a band i can find scary as hell they are not metal though.
I know i felt intimidated the first time i heard Butchered at birth with Cannibal corpse haha!

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for anyone that saw Carcass live in their last tour...they had this intro with this nun talking...anyone else thought that was creepy as hell?

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I was too drunk to comprehend my vision. The sound was good, though.

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The first death metal that I heard/saw was the video for 'God of Emptiness' by Morbid Angel. I felt compelled to obey the lyrics. Not really, but I won't forget it.

Nevermore's video for I, Voyager also scared me when I first saw it. On the same night, I was scared by the video for 'We Did Not Come To Heal' by Insision and 'Execration Text' by Nile.

Cradle of Filth's 'Mannequin' was also haunting... When I showed it to one of my mates, he actually turned away in disgust. He may also have been nearly sick.

These were all when I was still "expanding my horizons".

A few months back when I was searching for Cynic I came across a video made up of a montage of Robert Venosa paintings with Portal's 'Circle' over the top. That's an experience! In fact, I'm away to watch it now.

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When I first purchased Opeth's Damnation album I went for a walk with my cd player and the album down a dark road encompassed with huge trees. In result, I was horribly scared.

Deicide. I saw them around 2001

Those guys are scary, the particular line-up looked like an odd assortment of hell's angels and pro wrestling rejects. Their fans are scary too.

the only really 'scary' music I encountered was, in the 80's, first listening to NWA and watching their videos. In the context of an escalating cold war, crack cocaine, NWA really made a scene, really made an impression.

I remember an old friend letting me hear slick rick, luke skywalker, old kool moe dee and other early rap stuff at a young age and just being totally blown away. I had no concept of poor inner-city life then, the war on drugs and it consequences.

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Butchered at Birth has a much darker, sludgier tone than their other records. It's my favorite of their older works.



I'm guessing you saw Deicide back when the Hoffman bros. were still in the band. Both huge guys, if I recall correctly.

To the rap stuff, goddamn, that's old school.

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