What is the scariest/creepiest music you've heard?

This song always gives me the creeps.....in a good way. By The Creatures (Siouxsie Sue and Budgie)

 

Julee Cruise's Into The Night, in particular the crazy, off-kilter orchestral flourish that comes in at the end.



Hearing the song makes it plainly obvious that David Lynch, the same creative mind that brought us Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Eraserhead, also wrote this song.

 

Diamanda Galas

Current 93 - Nature Unveiled (1984)

The First Track Ach: Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)

Listening to this track creates a feeling that
you are trapped in a dark cave, a cave with horrible creatures. you only hear their voices but you still do not see them...... You know you can't escape.

The vocalist David Tibet prays prayers of mourning the vocals accompanied with mesmerizing layers of sounds, there are lots of effects on the sounds and on David's scary voice ,those effects on the voice and other vocal manipulations create very fascinating listening experience . from the middle of the track there are very strange sound effects , they are not from this world.

 

The song From the Movie The Silence Of The Lambs is from the singer Q lazzarus
, the song called Goodbye horses ,
this is amazing song with dark new wave sounds,

 

And "The Cold Hard Facts Of Life."

 

I have the album - Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis , sounds like Dark ambient with witches voices , A fantastic album , Hunting , Beautiful and Scary music.

 

The music in this movie is so terrifying it has stayed with me for many years.

 

Storm Corrosion

 

Just read through all the pages of this thread, and noticed THIS wasn't up here,
so... here it is. Enjoy!

 

I love this record.

 

Frankie Teardrop, likely.

 

Yawn.

 

Dark Angles by George Crumb

 

"The Rite Of Spring": Stravinsky

 

Well sorry if that "bores" you, but it's the only thing I could think of, and I'm not kidding! Her atonal caterwauling on the Rock'N'Roll Circus is one of the scariest things I've ever heard, but I've not heard any of her albums so don't know about them. I should have been more specific and said Yoko Ono on The R&R Circus video/cd.


I'll tell you one thing for sure - THIS is scary!!!

VOICE PIECE FOR SOPRANO & WISH TREE at MoMA, Summer 2010 by yoko ono »

 

Ruth White's 'Flowers of Evil' does it for me:


Goblin's 'Suspiria' soundtrack is also pretty scary sounding IIRC

 

Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste. IIRC Kubrick used some of it for The Shinimg. We're talkin scary!

 

Yeah, it's definitely one of the creepiest albums I own. In a similar vein is Menace Ruine. The female singer sounds a bit like Marianne Faithfull while the music is droning and ritualistic. A really witchy band!

 

I love that Swans album posted above. My pick for creepiest Swans song, there are many, is "When She Breathes" with Jarboe bringing the darkness:



I have to wonder if the developers for the Silent Hill 3 game were inspired by this song as the lyrics all seem to be about Heather Mason.

 

At the time it was out..Portishead "Dummy".

Love me some creepy trip hop

 

She should not be rich, or famous. Horrendous.

 

This is gonna sound stupid, but the opening theme for the original Unsolved Mysteries show scared me to death as a kid and still creeps me out now. It has that haunted vibe that only a synth can provide, along with all the creepy graphics. And at the time I was only 3 or 4 years old, so I took all these stories of ghosts and alien abductions for real, and Robert Stack seemed so spooky, yet safe as well. So when I would hear the opening theme it would freeze me in terror, but also draw me in to see what new monster was discovered.

Rewatching the show these days I still find the opening eerie, but the really scary stories are the abductions and murders, as those things are 100% real. Dumb song to pick I know, but that is really the only one that has really left a scary impact on me.