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I've been listening to heavy metal/industrial/alternative noise for most of my music listening career. That's just what I enjoy listening to. There are plenty of bands that put up the pose of evil/Satanist/scary, but there are very few bands that I think are actually mentally unhinged.

As an example, I put forward "Headless" by Dog Fashion Disco. This band pretty much takes all their cues from Mr. Bungle, but they have enough good songs that I can enjoy them on their own. "Headless" is a song that pretty much details how the main singer will not rest until his foe is headless. Harmless enough, right? But he successfully communicates his wish to behead his nemesis. It's a bit disturbing. Great song, though.

I think my main choice for disturbing song has to go to a song put out by super-weirdo Crispin Glover called "Getting Out of Bed." I listen to a lot of noise rock (Skinny Puppy, Wolf Eyes), but this song really gets under my skin. It sounds like the interior a schizophrenic's nightmare. It gets worse if you know a little bit about the actuality of schizophrenia, such as flatness of affect or the inability to understand social cues. I don't think Crispin Glover is crazy, but he is very in tune to insanity.

So are there any songs you want to mention that actually disturb you a little bit? Not fake scariness like Slayer (no offense to them), but actual "this song makes me uncomfortable" music?

You know, phrasing that way I think I will be seeing a lot of Gary Puckett and "she died to young in a car accident" tunes.

If you want REAL insanity, none of that stuff comes close to this crap.  Whoever wrote this song has some seriously severe and profound brain damage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYDzVklFQRk

 listen to a few tracks off this album (minute long soundclips I think), at reasonable volume in the headphones - not even loud, just reasonable vol, all the way through:

http://larrymusic.com/artists/blod/albums/my-beloved-daughters-40598/

would you say this is enjoyable? disturbing to me...and I like some 'noise-core' etc. not this though. this creeped me out

I don't find that in the least bit disturbing, but I do think it is incredibly boring.

And now, here's another TRULY disturbing song from an artist who never fails to disturb me deeply.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQBT89MFnS8

Sussudio is an awesome song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUvbJekM88

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That stuff sounds awfully lazy.

The Residents' God in 3 Persons is a fairly disturbing record in my opinion.  It tells the tale of Mr. X, a widower who meets conjoined male & female twins who have strange healing powers.  He befriends them but eventually exploits their powers and develops a sexual obsession towards the female.  It all leads up to a violent and graphic climax.  It all resolves in a poignant way on the last track and one gets a grip on the moral behind the story, but until then it's pretty weird stuff, but I love it!

boring and lazy? when I heard that crap I thought the 3rd dimension of hell was coming thru my earphones, lol. different strokes etc. I would agree that it's rubbish though...whoever listens to that has got 'issues'....

This haunts me..in no way is it good...just creepy.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mWW6kRITEY

I seriously think this guy is emotionally disturebed. I feel sad for him.  :bluesad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBOnDcmckdc

When nationalism meets pop music....  :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

heard this before. you're right, it's draining to listen to and pretty creepy

reminds me of this other rapper type guy who was mentally retarded and entered a rap battle. some guy took the audio from it and put it over some weird jazzy stuff...disturbing IMO

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- bear in mind this guy actually has mental handicap

I think pretty much anything by Merzbow is disturbing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzrL8J0t-c

That just sounds like movie sound effects from a mad scientist lab scene.  Kinda cool but gets boring after about 30 seconds.  Now let's get back to some REALLY disturbing stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWGiGqYWYZM&feature=related

The problem with musical noise is that there is a very thin line between it and, well, noise. That original Blod post seems to lean more towards pure noise. I can see how it might strike the right chord, especially if you are inebriated on something, but I don't think it has much more to it than static noise. You could probably achieve the same effect by playing white noise full blast on your computer and turning a horror movie on in the background.

I'd like to check out that Residents album, though.

As far as the "Why Must I Cry," I think it would be more disturbing, but I get the idea that he isn't emotionally disturbed, but just bad at communicating musically. I'm not saying he's not crazy, but his delivery is almost the same as Ice-T's delivery in a song off his Body Count CD called "The Winner Loses." Yes, Ice-T sings as bad as this gentleman.

In that case, it does make me sad. Because there are so many people who want to express themselves, but they have absolutely no talent whatsoever. There are millions of them.

Remember Wesley Willis? He was an actual schizophrenic that was picked up by the alternative press, and eventually MTV. He was actually crazy, and exploited for all he was worth.

Anyway, I thought of another track that creeps me out. John Zorn is the weird musician's weird musician. He had a project called I.A.O. (http://www.amazon.com/IAO-Music-Sacred-John-Zorn/dp/B0000658MV/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1247986502&sr=8-6), which was an actual exercise in Crowley-esque magick. On that album there is a track called "Lucifer Rising." The track consists of the sort of Church-based religious music you might hear in a horror film. As that music starts you can hear a woman's voice chant "Recant... recant..." She then segues into an unknown language and slowly moves into a slow moaning of pleasure.

I am not a religious man, but it's still pretty damn creepy. If you are religious, this song is an invitation to renounce all you hold dear.

I've got another song which creeps me out, and could clear a party in minutes flat, but I'll save that until a bit later.

Yes, that would be JON ANDERSON.   :lookingup:  :twirl:

Now yer just playin' with us.  You want disturbing PHIL COLLINS?  Skip ahead to 2:15 if you can't take it (I like this song). 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwlzqPiUAqo

Or just put on LOU REED's Metal Machine Music. 

Some people find this guy disturbing, and I sometimes do too, and I listen to his records.  This weird live performance is of one of my favorites of his from Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17cr_WVdWmo&feature=PlayList&p=4DCC054934326CBF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1 

I love a lot of weird "experimental" music, the original Industrial artists of the 70's Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Severed Heads etc... up through the Wax Trax era of the 80's with Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and the like. Noise as a music form is more interesting in theory than in practice although I do enjoy some noise artists like Merbow, Nurse With Wound, and The Mnemonists. The genre as a whole suffers from too many noise artists just sounding like white noise blasted at full volume for 20 mins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQvUpKa7vs

Aussie band SPK whose main member Graeme Revell should be a familiar name as he scores a lot of Hollywood films now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbyf59lE3As

Maldoror - a one-off project by Mike Patton (Faith No More) and Masami Akita (Merzbow)

As far as disturbing the only time I actually got unnerved and had to look over my shoulder while listening to music with my headphones on was with this artist called Kerovnian. Not this particular song per se, but you get the idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUPFfmgOskI

slint - don, aman...cant think of much to compare this to tbh. an almost whispered tale of a guy who sinks into paranoia, over some very strange chord progressions
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Behold the horror that is... HEINO!!

German national treasure, and opposite universe Roy Orbison.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pxmhWECE7E

Well, here's a song that can clear a party in seconds flat.

Obviously, the politics of this song is more than a bit provocative. It's the execution that I find terrifying. So wrong-headed on multiple levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfxFbWo_DH4&feature=related

I know somebody who has a text version of this song on their wall.

When I was about seven, a friend of mine played me a song on his stereo and the idiot also put off the lights. About three minutes later, I was yelling in fear, having never heard stereo sound before, also because of the weird noises, the dark and the strange vocals. :buggedout:

Surprisingly, the music playing was by The Moody Blues, the album was Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and the first track on that album "Procession" was the one that scared the sh*t out of me. If I make a horror film, that's the main title theme for sure.  :teddyr:

Even more surprisingly, Justin Hayward and his band have been my favourite group since then, all of which goes to show that what scares you as a kid isn't necessarily bad, and in this case, it wasn't.  :teddyr:

I have several Slint Albums.   Butthey don't disturb me.  One that does is a COIL album called "the Angelic Conversation"...Its low-key ambient music, with a  really quiet voice reciting Shakespeare's Sonnets.  I put it on and after a few minutes I start looking behind curtains and turning on all the lights.  It just flips the creepy switch
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBSX0XDSVI

My friend showed this one time, and I laughed at the fake lyrics.. Then I felt the need to read the actual lyrics.. Yeah, they are disturbing to say the least. If you can understand what he's saying, then NSFW. By the way, the name of the song is Chased Through The Woods By A Rapist.. by Waking The Cadaver..

The piece of score that plays over the scene in which Frank Zito comes home from a long day of murdering and handcuffs a mannequin to him while he goes to sleep in Maniac, ...that always genuinely creeps me out. Just the music alone.

Here's a couple I thought I would add:
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Surely not to everyones taste.

I like both Venetian Snares, and Lustmord. Aaron Funk is a genius of programming, but the album I like of his the best is the Hungarian influenced Rossz csillag alatt született which departs from his abnormal stuff. In the same vein is Miami musician Otto Von Schirach who mixes up a lot of weird sounds, miami bass/glitch/metal plus disturbing porn dialogue. His albums are a little more difficult to make it through.

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I believe Aaron Funk and Otto fall under the Breakcore heading, some of it's pretty interesting. When it comes to Venetian Snares I find he can be very hit and miss, he releases way too much material 25% of which is absolute genius. If you liked 'Rossz csillag alatt született' you should check out 'My Downfall' if you haven't already, same kinda mix of classical scoring and messed up junglist break beats.
Breakcore it's self is a pretty varied genre, again some of it's genius but a lot of it is really just horrible messed up noise. Couple of artists to check out in the Breakcore scene:

Bong-Ra
s**tmat
DJ Scotch Egg
Aaron Spectre
Hecate (crazy lady, has done some work with Lustmord in the past I believe, interesting mix of Hardcore Techno, Jungle and Black Metal)

Sorry for derailing a thread so soon after signing up to the site lol

Back to the original subject a lot of 'Drone' can be pretty disturbing, especially the darker side, maybe check out a band called 'Sunn O)))'

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I'm not sure what to make of it myself lol

The Rake's Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSKZ7IP930

And the children's response...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkLbBmgUdNk&feature=related

Disturbing Music ... OK, what about ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpUsle7zKdw

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agreed! :thumbup: :teddyr:

i don't know the band's name, but it is like a mock up of GWAR  :buggedout:

I recommend Macabre or dead infection for those people who want to listen to something really disturbing. Macabre is some extremly catchy death metal about serial killers told in graphic detail. Dead Infection, while you can't understand the singing have maybe the most disturbing lyrics I've ever read.