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

The Torture Never Stops — Zappa (satire of creepy music)

 

Its been mentioned earlier in this thread...but this really is a disturbing listen.

Comus - First Utterance

"The Herald" in particular really sets that unsettling autumnal, Halloween mood.

 

Thirty pages into the thread, not sure how many of these have been mentioned, but here goes...

Grand prize must go to THE LAST SUPPER by ****** Dentata Organ:

The material on this record consists of almost the entire Jonestown "death tape" (Q42) from November 18, 1978, along with approximately 2.5 minutes of additional Jim Jones speeches and sermons at the start of side A.

Picture disc with insert released in an edition of 912 hand-numbered copies, one copy for each dead person on the mass suicide, though like other VDO discs it can be assumed that 1000 copies were pressed and 88 copies were numbered as '23'.
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The fact that this is an actual recording of hundreds of people dying as they're coached into the afterlife by Jim Jones makes this a lot more creepy than it might actually sound.

****** Dentata Organ has done some other pretty creepy sick releases. There's one with sampled and processed tapes of wolves growling and snarling over two sides of vinyl called Music For The Hashishins In Memoriam Of Hasan Sabbah. And another unnerving one is Cold Meat which is another picture disc LP, this time with autopsy photos of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, and the recorded sounds being some kind of sex torture ritual with female moans and gasps of pain and ecstasy. VDO is a card carrying Satanist perhaps best known for his work on the early Psychic TV track "Thee Full Pack" (which was expanded into the above named Hashishins LP).

Going down from there, I'm thinking of whatever tracks and full albums I can recall from my listening history which spring to mind. I used to do a radio show and I would have a hell of a lot of fun putting together my Halloween show every year.

Diamanda Galas is pretty scary, especially The Divine Punishment and Saint Of The Pit albums from the late 80s. Howls of blood curdling terror...

THE LEGEND OF EER by Iannis Xenakis, an electronic classical composition, is quite unsettling, starting off with some sparse unpleasant high pitched beeps and gradually descending into a maelstrom of roaring screeches and buzzing.

The track entitled "Seynete" from Barricades 3, the first album by ZNR, is very disturbing due to the minor chords and electronically processed vocal track.

And parts of LE VOYAGE by Pierre Henry, a musique concrete treatment of the Tibetan Book Of The Dead, has some hellacious labored breathing sounding like death gasps in the mix.

"Evening Of Light" by Nico from The Marble Index is a noteworthy track, as she ably evokes the refrain "Midnight winds are landing at the end of time..."

And "Ork Alarm" by Magma from their fourth record Kohntarkosz is brutally malevolent, sounding like some extraterrestrial Black Mass with ensemble bowed cellos and double basses in the style of Penderecki or Bernard Herrmann's Psycho score, and guttural chanting is the piece descends into a chthonic vortex of delirium.

And of course Comus' First Utterance, as mentioned in a previous post, with "Drip Drip."

I could think of others...

 

Nomeansno- Dad

Lyrics here: Nomeansno – Dad Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

 

This has a really creepy vibe, child's nightmare kinda feel...

 

"Could this be the end of the world we're livin' in? Oooh..."

 

Diamonda Galas-Litanies of Satan

 

Scary/Terrifying (Dario Argento) Suspense-Thriller
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Theme Song

Sorry, if you've ever seen the movie, instantly takes you there.
Oh no, now I'm going to be having those haunting images behind my eyeballs when I close 'em!

Not scary, but it definitely creeps me out. I'd purchased maybe 5 years ago. I guess thought I liked it...
when I got it & played it, I couldn't even listen beyond the Intro. Listened to only about 2 notes in order to give link (thought maybe I'd be over whatever it is, but no)

Brian Jonestown Massacre: Their Satanic Majesties Second Request
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (Full Album)

 

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but....when I was younger I thought Tubular Bells was pretty creepy...esp after a couple tokes

 

The Exorcist. Duh!

 

I find the Beach Boys "Wind Chimes", in its Smiley Smile version, to be super creepy and eerie, and that loud fog-horn thing in the middle just adds to the eerie vibe. It scared me off my seat the first time I heard the song, especially since I was turning up the volume to hear the rest of the song, and then suddenly this loud thingy blares out in the middle

 

On the short list for sure!

 

LOL that was more funny than creepy, but in a good way, kind of silly and campy.

 

On a similar note to the Chiller Theater post, I always thought I was the only one that thought that the 1970's PBS logo was creepy, until I read the comments on Youtube - turns out I was far from the only one heehee
On a similar note, I always thought I was the only one that thought that the 1970's PBS logo was creepy, until I read the comments on Youtube - turns out I was far from the only one heehee

 

More cartoony than creepy, I would say.

 

Played Echoes by Pink Floyd again earlier and my two young kids were looking at the system perplexed at the whale/albatross sounds.

Terrifying but beautiful at the same time.

 

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead- Soundtrack

I remember my brother playing me this when I was younger and it freaked me out at the time. No wonder I turned out so weird ha.

 

No doubt about it...
'The Shining'

 

Good calls with the Shining soundtrack and the opening of “Tubular Bells.” I’d add Alice Cooper’s “Ballad of Dwight Frye,” “Years Ago,” and “Steven,” and the Frogs’ cover of Pearl Jam’s “Rearview Mirror.” I’m sure I’ll think of more.

 

I once fell asleep with MEDDLE playing. I was awakened by the middle section of Echoes and a sick feeling in my stomach from napping too long. A very unsettling experience. I still love the album...and Echoes.

 

Ariana Grande and the other young "females" of today who are programmed by the corpocracy.