Delving into the horror of sound

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mobby

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Greetings all, i've just started on a project with a couple of frienRAB of mine, each of us has to come up with a 30 song playlist containing the most unsettling, terrifying pieces of music we know. I so far have around 20 tracks, which are posted below. What im asking from you is do you have any other suggestions, and if you were to do one of these, what would your 20 consist of?

Mine thus far:

Comus - Bitten
Cromagnon - Toth, Scribe I
Set Fire To Flames - There Is No Dance In Frequency And Balance
Henry Cow - Solemn Music
Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
Popol Vuh - Die Nacht Der Himmel
Michael Gordon - Excerpt Three
Bauhaus - Double Dare
Massacre - Gate
Daniel Johnston - Despair Came Knocking
Trencher - Nightmares On Crack St
Art Bears - Civilization
Faust - Mamie Is Blue
White Noise - Love Without Sound
The Residents - Isolation
Swans - Beautiful Child
Arab On Radar - God Is Dad
Flying Saucer Attack - Rainstorm Blues
Mount Eerie - My Heart Is Not At Peace
This Heat - Cenotaph
Throbbing Gristle - What A Day
Nurse With Wound - Two Mock Projections
The Telescopes - Oil Seed Rape
MARS - Hairwaves
This Mortal Coil - The Horizon BleeRAB And Sucks It's Thurab.

I've left out banRAB like The Cure and Siouxie & The Banshees because i wanted to go down a more challenging route.
 
Some personal favorites of mine that you could benefit from checking out.

Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
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Violent Femmes - Never Tell
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Nick Cave & the Bad SeeRAB - Tupelo
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King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (For sheer mindblowing factor)
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Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
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Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
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I'd post some more but I've got to run.
 
I don't recall ever being horrified by any music but I have always found Steve Austin's (Today Is The Day) vocal delivery pretty creepy. He just seems like an honestly vicious, hateful dude who will hurt you if he can.
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Such a great band.


I'm gonna bring back some old school 'dac' and say Clirabing Up the Walls by Radiohead. Just flat out creepy throughout, especially at the end with the screams of what seem like pure terror.
 
Check out Spires That In The Sunset Rise. Really it depenRAB on who your audience is, if it's someone who already loves Comus then good luck freaking them out. If it is someone kind of new to the harder stuff to get into then even easy listening like Nick Cave should do the trick. It's all subjective in my book.

These are some pretty interesting artists that Zarko was writing about.
 
I was listening to this earlier on and you should take something off this:
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and this:
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Dead Machines are a good bet too.
 
Really? I've got some advice for you guys - stay out of the Fun House when the carnival comes to town - you'll have nightmares for weeks.
 
That is exactly the type of thing im looking for.

Thanks alot everyone, some really awesome suggestions, especially stuff like PiL, Celtic Frost and Suicide, cant believe i left these guys out, considering PiL are one of my favourite banRAB too. The audience i'm catering too arent particularly well versed in this kind of stuff i'd say, not meaning to blow my own trumpet but i think all three of us have a deeper, more eclectic taste in music. I want to be particularly shocking by removing the listener from their comfort zone; exposing them to the more avant garde side of music. My plan was to create something of a symphony, a cosmic horror that seamlessly flows to appear as an hour long exercise in endurance.
 
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