Know of another scary band? Leave a comment and let everyone know. Check out more of our videos below: 10 Bands BANNED From Disney = ua-cam.com/video/MFLdZ49GVHM/v-deo.html 10 MORE Artists Who Hate Their Own Songs = ua-cam.com/video/F78vFQyxsCw/v-deo.html Top 10 BEST 90s Guitarists = ua-cam.com/video/6lc9nV5SGLQ/v-deo.html Top 10 WORST Metal Fanbases (from Google Bard) = ua-cam.com/video/LCynW-2temU/v-deo.html
Alice Cooper. He is the godfather of shock rock. Part of his live performances include a guillotine, where he is decapitated in an illusion stunt, portraying a PSYCHOTIC asylum inmate, a female dancer dressed as a dominatrix for "Go to Hell" as well as holding a real live BOA CONSTRICTOR! Also, King Diamond is another example! His shows as a solo artist have a stage actress portraying "Grandma" for the song "Welcome Home".
Ummmm the Goat intro to Venom terrifie#me far more then anything the Misfits did....... Or then Marikyn Manson and all other nu Metal Bands. Seriously...... their are way more "scary" and "disturbing" bands. Feels like you chose the most known bands is all..... Have you not ever listened to Her Ghost in The Dark"? The song has a literal reading from the Marque De Sades writings.... like come on.
@@robertsparling917 yes I apologize I was on a rant and I often type faster then I can Keep up and I am dyslexic so always a mess. I do hope you aren't mocking me and u derstand what I mean.
No Alice Cooper? (Especially 1971-80's Alice) Bardy seriously needs to watch Alice Cooper's episode on The Metal Mythos. No honorable mention for The Merkins? (Think GWAR but influenced by horror movie villains with song parodies that moonlight as tributes to the original singers.). For that matter no mention of Ice Nine Kills?
Mayhem's Dead didnt die on stage. He blew his brains out in the house they shared. Pictures were taken by members of the band and one was featured on an album cover. They allegedly made necklaces with pieces of his skull and one claimed to have tasted some brain.
Pretty surprised that Alice Cooper didn’t make it on the list just because he’s the father of shock rock. Yeah he’s not scary but historically he had the reputation of “won’t someone think of the children”.
I feel like everyone pigeon hold black Sabbath as this "doom and gloom/scary/horror" type of band. If you listen to the whole catalogue, they were very diverse. Even when you just look at the earlier Ozzy only era stuff. The Glen Hughes album was great in my opinion. I feel 13 is one of their weakest, because to me, it sounds like what everyone "thinks" Sabbath should sound like. Cause they can't get past "Black Sabbath", "Warpigs", and "Children of the Grave". I legitimately like the later half of the Ozzy era. I like most the Dio era. The Gillian and Hughes albums were good too. I even like a good bit of the Tony Martin era that Sharon and many others refuses ever happened. I think my original point is, Sabbath is considered "Scary" primarily cause of that first album alone.
I agree. I tried to listen to Mayhem and I couldn't get through it because it was just terrifying. Especially with everything that happened behind the scenes.
Idk I saw them when they headlined the first Unholy Alliance tour back in 2006 (I believe it was Thine Eyes Bleed, Mastadon, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God, and Slayer was the main event) and I don't remember it being all that crazy. Honestly the Rammstein concert I attended last year in Los Angeles was way more crazy than the Slayer concert. Maybe it was different in the 80s, but it was nothing to out of the ordinary for a heavy metal show.
@@cannibalisticrequiem granted, I think I’m basing a lot of that assumption on that old Jim Bruer routine. I have seen vids of rammestein performing, and that must’ve been bananas
I saw slayer on one of their last shows in 2018, and a guy got knocked unconscious with a broken beer bottle. That’s about as wild as it got crowdwise. Lol
Had to laugh at Ghost being put on the list as their as scary as Casper. Same goes for Gwar as they remind me of the Muppets used in Happytime Murders. A few bands/artists I was expecting to make an appearance on the list were; Ice Nine Kills (Horror is their whole gimmick after all) Cannibal Corpse Lordi Alice Cooper Skyhooks
The misfits and the cramps are directly responsible for my whole personality. Being sprayed with blood at Gwar was the closest thing I've ever had to a religious experience
Bardy got some of the details about Mayhem wrong (Dead committed suicide in the band's flat (his suicide note simply said, "Please excuse the mess"), not on stage...though he did do a bunch of disturbing stuff onstage, including burying his state clothes before performances, self-harm, and huffing a dead crow in a plastic bag to inhale the essence of death). But yeah, between the lyrical content, the atmosphere on the music, the church burnings, everything with Dead, and the whole incident with Varg and Euronymous, they earn a place on here. Other bands that probably deserve a spot: Alice Cooper for the whole Grand Guinol inspired stage show and being rock's first villain, Shining (not that one, the other one) for the onstage self-harm and the singer literally saying he wants to make music that makes people kill themselves, Watain being a death cult, and Silencer for...being Silencer.
Cattle Decapitation? Cannibal Corpse? Slayer? Dimmu Borgir? Cradle of Filth? Ice Nine Kills? Alice Cooper? Very surprised I didn't see them on the list. I thought Bardy was a Metal gatekeeper!
Agreed, although it seems like most metal elitists trash on INK as a stupid gimmick (while watching corpse paint and blood on stage from their trve cvlt black metal band, or listening to Amon Amarth and claiming that Viking metal is legit, but pirate metal is not).
Yes. They aren't scary. It's a show that you see kids at the rituals. My daughter has been twice, once this year, once last year and I'm going next year. They are like the large dog who rolls over for a treat. Papa isn't terrifying, he's a comedian singing about the devil.
I love Ghost but why are they on here Bardi??? As someone who listens to them continuously and considers them a Top 20 Favorite, the only way to find Ghost scary is if you’re a 5 year old or a massive coward. I’m sorry but I’ve listened to enough Ghost to know that they’re objectively not scary in the slightest
When I first saw Slipknot, I actually thought they were funny. I thought "this is a bunch of guys who saw a KISS show and wanted to see how much further they could push it". I only really gave their music a chance years later and realized that they are so much more than that.
One of the best concert experiences I’ve ever had was when I saw Rob Zombie in 2012 at Merriweather Post Pavilion. My buddy and I had field tix and a guy walked up to the railing and said “anybody want pit tix?” I asked him how much he wanted for them and he said “free, here take em’” and we got to see Zombie’s set in the pit for $40. 😁 Also, Dead from Mayhem didn’t die on stage. I don’t know how Google Bard got that wrong.
If you disagree for the most part on the list that this bot makes for any given list, then take the bot out of the equation and come up with a list of your own. I'd be really interested to hear what your top 10 scariest bands of all time is
additionally i'm surprised Lorna Shore didnt make the list, quite a few of their MVs have been quite spooky, their latest "Welcome Back O' Sleeper" especially.
Hmm, I wouldn't see them as any more scary than the bulk of deathcore acts, I could see the pig grunts on Into the Hellfire pushing Bardy over the edge, though.
It’s really hard for me to think of any scary rock/metal bands that haven’t already been on this list. Like yeah I listen to Ice Nine Kills, Rammstein, and a few others that probably deserve to go on this list, but I don’t think there is a true rock/metal band that actively tries to scare people. Most times the artists that were on this list are either campy horror or trying to send an important message.
A Nine Inch Nails gig promoting The Downward Spiral in the 90s is the only time I’ve seen a moshpit back away from the stage due to the band’s antics on it.
Is metal still scary? It makes sense that most of the entries on this list are older bands. Its hard to look at these bands now and call them scary. But bands like Kiss, Mercyful Fate & King Diamond really terrified parents. Marilyn Manson was probably the last band in rock or metal that truly terrified parents and the establishment. The further we get from 70s & 80s shock rockers, the harder it is to truly shock. Ghost is the perfect example. Had they been around 30 years earlier, their image would have resonated in a completely different manner. The only truly scary band on this list is Mayhem. Those early days of black metal and the associated church burnings, and violence was truly next level.
I think Shining could be on a list like that, mostly for their frontman: Niklas Kvarfot (or something like that). The guy has an interview where he asked the interviewer to shove a fork into his arm and put him in the hospital for the sake of showing the interviewer satan. His stage presence on which he cuts himself is also something. I also believe there was a video on YT (probably removed by now) of him preparing for Christmas by bathing in blood or something very similar meanwhile he paints the wall of the bathroom with it and sings some classic Swedish Christmas song.
The band that scared me the most as a kid was The Beatles. They were (and still are) my favourite band...but "I Am The Walrus" absolutely terrified me as a kid. Especially the video. It's not at all scary, really, but something about it really scared me.
A sneaky pick for me would have been either Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger or The Lennon Claypool Delirium. Both bands may just sound like your typical hard rock bands, but if you do a dive deep into the lyrics you will find some pretty scary a stuff there. Stand outs for Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger are Animals and Devil You Know. Stand outs for The Lennon Claypool Delirium are Cricket and the Genie (Movement I, The Delirium)/Cricket and the Genie (Movement II, Oratorio Di Cricket), Oxycontin Girl and Bubbles Burst.
A few that I think would reasonably qualify, without resorting to anyone *extremely* obscure: - The Virgin Prunes. An early Irish post-punk band, they started out as a performance art collective and served as a fairly significant influence on the Gothic subculture and aesthetic with their wild gender-bending outfits and makeup and preoccupation with the grotesque. Musically highly experimental and fairly abrasive early on, incredibly freaky live (some of their early live performances were Throbbing Gristle-tier extreme), lyrically bleak and fairly shocking for the time-just a good bad time had by all. "Beast (Seven Bastard Suck)" is maybe the most convincingly sinister portrayal of Satan in music this side of… - Deathspell Omega. Highly technical and dissonant French black metal band masterminded by two anonymous weirdos well-known for using their records as theological dissertations on the philosophy and merits of theistic Satanism, which sounds pretentious and insufferable on paper but is fascinating and deeply unsettling in practice. Setting aside the infamy of their longtime vocalist, the deeply shady Mikko Aspa, who was basically a session musician, there's plenty of menace in the music itself, although that association has its own implications. - Swans. You probably all know who Swans are. Most people who are into even slightly weird or independent music do. Now go back and listen to Cop, or Soundtracks for the Blind, or The Seer, or the nineteen-minute version of "Blind Love" on Feel Good Now. Few contenders in this arena are so versatile in how they might scare the bejeezus out of an audience. Their earliest, heaviest work was also a huge influence on… - Godflesh. Another almost comically obvious pull if you know anything about industrial metal, being pioneers in that subgenre and later arguably one of the first post-metal bands. Whether we're talking the blunt, miserable grind of Streetcleaner or the eerie, suffocating, sombre majesty of Selfless and Hymns, this stuff is incredibly grim. - Slint. Speaking of post-rock and on the nose choices, it seems almost rude not to mention Spiderland in this conversation. "Don, Aman" in particular is an absolutely harrowing sonic portrait of severe depression in which nothing overtly scary happens in the lyrics but the music tells you everything that you do not want to know. - The Body. An eclectic and deeply morbid guitar/drums duo initially associated with sludge metal and crust-punk whose sound has since expanded into something far stranger. Their sound is uniquely characterised by their strategic deployment of noisy electronic textures and, most notably, guitarist Chip King's absolutely horrifying banshee-like screams, which feel less metal than outright tortured and are loud enough not to require a PA to be heard live. "A Body", the opening track from their landmark record All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood, opens with several minutes of minimalistic choir vocals, building more and more tension until the band finally crashes in with that indelible bloodcurdling shriek. - Further shoutouts to The Birthday Party, Fawn Limbs, Indian, Dir En Grey, Silencer, The Goslings, Khanate and Primitive Man. Special mention to Ramleh, who are most famous for their distinctly non-rock industrial record Hole in the Heart but made some truly terrifying noise-rock records in the '90s and had a stellar revival with The Great Unlearning. Further honourable mentions too esoteric, niche or arguably non-rock for the list proper: Keiji Haino, Diamanda Galás, Wormphlegm, Sortsind, Burmese, Jute Gyte, Bodychoke, Todesstoß, Bloated Subhumans, Ride for Revenge, Utarm, Satanhartalt, Oppenheimer, Wold, Hell, Trop Tard, Jandek, the many bands in Les Legions Noires.
I just saw gwar a month or so ago and they were a fun band to see, not scary, the only thing scary about that show was my car got towed for no reason while i was at the show
I am kind of surprised not seeing Gorgoroth, Rammstein or Watain on the list. Gorgoroth had so much controversy in the mid to late 2000's involving live shows having women nude on crosses with bags over their head and one dying from heat exhaustion, Rammstein is well, Rammstein and Watain has thrown real animal blood at a crowd of people that cause people to vomit back in 2014. Watain still makes killer music though.
I know that we can't expect that, but imagine if Bardy could reach the depths of underground extreme metal. 😈 What would he said about Portal, Silencer, Dragged Into Sunlight or Gnaw Their Tongues 😆
I showed a couple worker their picture and he said oh so you're a Satanist. I said no, not even religious really. I then played dance macabre and looked very confused. He asked they look like that and sound like that? I said yes and he said oh I guess you're not a Satanist, you like Abba.
GISM can be damn scary. Look up some of (the now late, apparently) Sakevi Yokoyama's past antics sometime. How many rock stars can claim they fired a friggin' flamethrower at a crowd? There's also GG Allin, of course.
CMON... The only bands that deserve to stay in this list are mayehm and mercyful fate. Black Sabbath too, for other reasons. But... Hey what about SLAYER, VENOM, ALICE COOPER, DEATH SS, DEICIDE and all the Amazing stuff of the 80s?
I would definitely say that King Diamond as a project is *WAY* more scarier than Mercyful Fate... Mayhems singer didn't die on stage, he offed himself. Marilyn Mansons lyrics is scary in that they hold up a mirror to society. It's really ironic that the society goes haywire over said lyrics 😅
Surprised Bardy overlooked Slayer and Ice Nine Kills. A pretty solid list overall, though the order is wacky, and Bardy definitely misinterpreted Ghost and GWAR. Mercyful Fate was a legit choice, though, and and this kind of a list HAS to include Mayhem, who actually were everything the moms of the Satanic Panic were worried about.😢
Well, actual scariest musicians are probably stuff like Merzbow, industrial-dark-folk projects like Current 93 (scary dissonant music + Nazi imagery as a bonus) and of course Les Legions Noires (one of their "musical" "projects" was a recording of microphone stuffed into rat's anus... very metal), but if you count only more or less mainstream bands, NIN and Tool should've been on the list. Some of their tracks legit sound like creepypasta soundtracks.
The only bands missing here were WASP (Blackie Lawless literally had a flame thrower attached to his groin and fucked nuns onstage with a knife), Alice Cooper (The Godfather of Shock Rock), and KISS (Gene SImmons breathed fire and spewed blood from his mouth, not to mention all of the band members had face paint)
Ummm! I would Not take my kids to a Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, or Motley Crue concert. My daughter asked me, If I would go see any of these bands with her. My answer: I don't want to see your Titties!! If you know you know! Also I wonder if this robot ever attended Slayer or Anthrax. Their crowds could get scary but at least Anthrax fans were Skateboard Crazy. Slayer fans just escaped the insane asylum.
I personally cannot think of any band I view as "scary". I love visual art performances & I acknowledge that light cannot exist without dark. I can however, tell you when a band's content is lacking depth, is boring due to never leaving the box of their regular theme, and/or is just shit. There are bands where it is possible to separate the music from the members. Then there are some band members who are so shitty, that their musical & visual contributions to the world of art become overshadowed to the point of being just as shitty as them. Some artist's musical & visual displays are just downright scary bad & it hurts to look & listen - like you said about Marilyn Manson. Though some of these artists deserve to be in a list like this based on the majority of societal views (Google Bardy is getting better.), I don't agree with the order. I don't think Black Sabbath should be on the list mostly because many people were afraid of how metal music may change the world - I fail to see where they are scary. If I did have to pick one to add to the list though, it would be the artist called SKYND. This is due to their content detailing the bizarre & brutal cases in true crime & their vocals.
If we wanna go off the beaten path a bit- Coven was originally what people feared Black Sabbath was, a legit band of satanist. It’s probably what kept them from reaching the heights of some of their contemporaries; it was hard enough for bands who flirted with Satanic imagery to break out, but actual full on devil worshippers? Hard no to that and when Jinx did vocals for “One Tin Soldier” and they tried to rebrand as a folk act because of that songs success, it probably did damage to the cult following they did have.
Babymetal- who else but these 3 little Japanese girls can make "metal elitist" scared for the purity of heavy metal music. Plus have you seen Su-Metals death stare? She could play in a horror movie
You know what band used to scare the shit out of me? Lamb of god. When they first hit the scene they played in the fucking dark and they were just so fucking brooding. Used to scare me seeing them live.
Pelle or Dead, didn't die on stage. He died in bed. He slit his wrist, throat, and shot himself in the head. Sorry Bardy just had to correct that little bit. Also so jealous you got to see Marilyn Manson! That's my dream!
Only one bad legitimately should’ve been on this list bless Norwegian metal all the rest are just commercial bands, and I love Ghost, but they are the funniest, funnest live act. I’ve seen it a long time outside of Iron Maiden of course family friendly entertainment.
Lordi is another one that falls into the fun side of horror but would have made at least a top 20. I also agree with anyone who says Alice Cooper should have made the top 10. Silly Bardy.
Interesting list, though I'm more surprised by the least amount of black metal bands and some bands that did make the list that don't seem all that scary!!
Know of another scary band? Leave a comment and let everyone know.
Check out more of our videos below:
10 Bands BANNED From Disney = ua-cam.com/video/MFLdZ49GVHM/v-deo.html
10 MORE Artists Who Hate Their Own Songs = ua-cam.com/video/F78vFQyxsCw/v-deo.html
Top 10 BEST 90s Guitarists = ua-cam.com/video/6lc9nV5SGLQ/v-deo.html
Top 10 WORST Metal Fanbases (from Google Bard) = ua-cam.com/video/LCynW-2temU/v-deo.html
Alice Cooper. He is the godfather of shock rock. Part of his live performances include a guillotine, where he is decapitated in an illusion stunt, portraying a PSYCHOTIC asylum inmate, a female dancer dressed as a dominatrix for "Go to Hell" as well as holding a real live BOA CONSTRICTOR! Also, King Diamond is another example! His shows as a solo artist have a stage actress portraying "Grandma" for the song "Welcome Home".
Ummmm the Goat intro to Venom terrifie#me far more then anything the Misfits did.......
Or then Marikyn Manson and all other nu Metal Bands. Seriously...... their are way more "scary" and "disturbing" bands. Feels like you chose the most known bands is all..... Have you not ever listened to Her Ghost in The Dark"? The song has a literal reading from the Marque De Sades writings.... like come on.
@@brittneyihrig1216 It's "Her Ghost in the Fog" and it has pig squeals!
@@robertsparling917 yes I apologize I was on a rant and I often type faster then I can Keep up and I am dyslexic so always a mess. I do hope you aren't mocking me and u derstand what I mean.
No Alice Cooper? (Especially 1971-80's Alice) Bardy seriously needs to watch Alice Cooper's episode on The Metal Mythos.
No honorable mention for The Merkins? (Think GWAR but influenced by horror movie villains with song parodies that moonlight as tributes to the original singers.).
For that matter no mention of Ice Nine Kills?
Mayhem's Dead didnt die on stage. He blew his brains out in the house they shared. Pictures were taken by members of the band and one was featured on an album cover. They allegedly made necklaces with pieces of his skull and one claimed to have tasted some brain.
Pretty surprised that Alice Cooper didn’t make it on the list just because he’s the father of shock rock. Yeah he’s not scary but historically he had the reputation of “won’t someone think of the children”.
He definitely fits the "fun" side of horror and still could have fit this list well.
I never found Alice scary myself. I know a few people who said they never even gave him a chance, cause they thought otherwise though.
I feel like everyone pigeon hold black Sabbath as this "doom and gloom/scary/horror" type of band. If you listen to the whole catalogue, they were very diverse. Even when you just look at the earlier Ozzy only era stuff. The Glen Hughes album was great in my opinion.
I feel 13 is one of their weakest, because to me, it sounds like what everyone "thinks" Sabbath should sound like. Cause they can't get past "Black Sabbath", "Warpigs", and "Children of the Grave".
I legitimately like the later half of the Ozzy era. I like most the Dio era. The Gillian and Hughes albums were good too. I even like a good bit of the Tony Martin era that Sharon and many others refuses ever happened.
I think my original point is, Sabbath is considered "Scary" primarily cause of that first album alone.
Gene Simmons scared me as a kid 😂
My dad had a gene Simmons mask and it horrified me
Mayhem is scary for completely different reasons compared to the rest of the bands on this list, and scariest of these bands by a LONG shot.
Both in terms of their sound and their antics
Mayhem define the word scary.
And it could also apply to Burzum as well. The whole Norwegian Black Metal scene was… something.
I agree. I tried to listen to Mayhem and I couldn't get through it because it was just terrifying. Especially with everything that happened behind the scenes.
Mayhem are terrible
Kinda surprised Bardy didn’t put Slayer on here, especially considering how chaotic their live shows could be
Slayer is scary good.
Idk I saw them when they headlined the first Unholy Alliance tour back in 2006 (I believe it was Thine Eyes Bleed, Mastadon, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God, and Slayer was the main event) and I don't remember it being all that crazy. Honestly the Rammstein concert I attended last year in Los Angeles was way more crazy than the Slayer concert. Maybe it was different in the 80s, but it was nothing to out of the ordinary for a heavy metal show.
@@cannibalisticrequiem granted, I think I’m basing a lot of that assumption on that old Jim Bruer routine. I have seen vids of rammestein performing, and that must’ve been bananas
Slayer Uber Alles.
I saw slayer on one of their last shows in 2018, and a guy got knocked unconscious with a broken beer bottle. That’s about as wild as it got crowdwise. Lol
Had to laugh at Ghost being put on the list as their as scary as Casper. Same goes for Gwar as they remind me of the Muppets used in Happytime Murders.
A few bands/artists I was expecting to make an appearance on the list were;
Ice Nine Kills (Horror is their whole gimmick after all)
Cannibal Corpse
Lordi
Alice Cooper
Skyhooks
Surprised there wasnt bands like Cannibal Corpse or Ice Nine Kills
Both bands could have fit well.
@@RockedNet Dir en Grey could fit in this list, as well.
Calling Marilyn Manson "scary bad" is one of my favorite lines from you.
It's scary how fruity he is 😂
The misfits and the cramps are directly responsible for my whole personality. Being sprayed with blood at Gwar was the closest thing I've ever had to a religious experience
Love 'em...both..... fantastic
Bardy saw the name Ghost and was immediately frightened. He probably doesn't like supernatural beings.
Bardy got some of the details about Mayhem wrong (Dead committed suicide in the band's flat (his suicide note simply said, "Please excuse the mess"), not on stage...though he did do a bunch of disturbing stuff onstage, including burying his state clothes before performances, self-harm, and huffing a dead crow in a plastic bag to inhale the essence of death). But yeah, between the lyrical content, the atmosphere on the music, the church burnings, everything with Dead, and the whole incident with Varg and Euronymous, they earn a place on here.
Other bands that probably deserve a spot: Alice Cooper for the whole Grand Guinol inspired stage show and being rock's first villain, Shining (not that one, the other one) for the onstage self-harm and the singer literally saying he wants to make music that makes people kill themselves, Watain being a death cult, and Silencer for...being Silencer.
Cattle Decapitation? Cannibal Corpse? Slayer? Dimmu Borgir? Cradle of Filth? Ice Nine Kills? Alice Cooper? Very surprised I didn't see them on the list. I thought Bardy was a Metal gatekeeper!
Agreed, although it seems like most metal elitists trash on INK as a stupid gimmick (while watching corpse paint and blood on stage from their trve cvlt black metal band, or listening to Amon Amarth and claiming that Viking metal is legit, but pirate metal is not).
You just PERFECTLY summed up Ghost with the haunted house description
There are amazing haunted houses out there also. Ghost matches that.
Yes. They aren't scary. It's a show that you see kids at the rituals. My daughter has been twice, once this year, once last year and I'm going next year.
They are like the large dog who rolls over for a treat. Papa isn't terrifying, he's a comedian singing about the devil.
Sounds like Bardy hit puberty. The AI voice is deeper than last time.
I love Ghost but why are they on here Bardi??? As someone who listens to them continuously and considers them a Top 20 Favorite, the only way to find Ghost scary is if you’re a 5 year old or a massive coward. I’m sorry but I’ve listened to enough Ghost to know that they’re objectively not scary in the slightest
I’m just surprised that Bardie didn’t mention the scariest part of these bands; their fans wear band t-shirts!
I'm surprised Rammstein wasn't listed
Rammstein would have fit well, especially with the music videos.
Thought the same
When I first saw Slipknot, I actually thought they were funny. I thought "this is a bunch of guys who saw a KISS show and wanted to see how much further they could push it". I only really gave their music a chance years later and realized that they are so much more than that.
Surprised Alice Cooper is not on this list ... Bardy come on!
One of the best concert experiences I’ve ever had was when I saw Rob Zombie in 2012 at Merriweather Post Pavilion. My buddy and I had field tix and a guy walked up to the railing and said “anybody want pit tix?” I asked him how much he wanted for them and he said “free, here take em’” and we got to see Zombie’s set in the pit for $40. 😁 Also, Dead from Mayhem didn’t die on stage. I don’t know how Google Bard got that wrong.
The mayhem stuff most were myths anyway like skull for necklace and the sucide photo being an album cover. It was an Unofficial live bootleg .
There is a ton of myth and urban legend about Mayhem so I can at least understand how the confused messages led to the response.
@@kasrasadrehashemi174 I believe the suicide photo is real though. It looks disturbingly real.
The only thing scary about Merciful Fate is how high King Diamond can get his vocals. 😂 If I were to even try, my vocals just won't even.
If you disagree for the most part on the list that this bot makes for any given list, then take the bot out of the equation and come up with a list of your own. I'd be really interested to hear what your top 10 scariest bands of all time is
additionally i'm surprised Lorna Shore didnt make the list, quite a few of their MVs have been quite spooky, their latest "Welcome Back O' Sleeper" especially.
Hmm, I wouldn't see them as any more scary than the bulk of deathcore acts, I could see the pig grunts on Into the Hellfire pushing Bardy over the edge, though.
It’s really hard for me to think of any scary rock/metal bands that haven’t already been on this list. Like yeah I listen to Ice Nine Kills, Rammstein, and a few others that probably deserve to go on this list, but I don’t think there is a true rock/metal band that actively tries to scare people. Most times the artists that were on this list are either campy horror or trying to send an important message.
Rammstein? Scary? pffffft!
A Nine Inch Nails gig promoting The Downward Spiral in the 90s is the only time I’ve seen a moshpit back away from the stage due to the band’s antics on it.
Most of these picks are just darkly campy or rely on shock value. (Except for Mayhem. I would genuinely fear for my safety around them.)
I absolutely ADORE Ghost, but as my bro said, they're Scooby Doo rock. Me thinks Bardy is easily spookable xD
Is metal still scary? It makes sense that most of the entries on this list are older bands. Its hard to look at these bands now and call them scary. But bands like Kiss, Mercyful Fate & King Diamond really terrified parents. Marilyn Manson was probably the last band in rock or metal that truly terrified parents and the establishment. The further we get from 70s & 80s shock rockers, the harder it is to truly shock. Ghost is the perfect example. Had they been around 30 years earlier, their image would have resonated in a completely different manner. The only truly scary band on this list is Mayhem. Those early days of black metal and the associated church burnings, and violence was truly next level.
I'd place PowerWolf above Ghost... and no honorable mention for the Merkins?
I think Shining could be on a list like that, mostly for their frontman: Niklas Kvarfot (or something like that). The guy has an interview where he asked the interviewer to shove a fork into his arm and put him in the hospital for the sake of showing the interviewer satan. His stage presence on which he cuts himself is also something. I also believe there was a video on YT (probably removed by now) of him preparing for Christmas by bathing in blood or something very similar meanwhile he paints the wall of the bathroom with it and sings some classic Swedish Christmas song.
Came here for the rock , staying to watch the development of this awkward relationship with bardy.....
Where the hell is Skinny Puppy?
I feel like GG Allin belongs on this list
Can't argue that based on live performances.
@@RockedNet would you consider putting out a list of bands you think are the scariest?
They should have thrown in Portal from AUS. Just the costumes are creepy as hell.
Is it just me or does Bardy's voice get deeper with each new video
The band that scared me the most as a kid was The Beatles. They were (and still are) my favourite band...but "I Am The Walrus" absolutely terrified me as a kid. Especially the video. It's not at all scary, really, but something about it really scared me.
I like a lot of nu metal, but slipknot is not, nor ever was anywhere near nu metal. They are just metal.
Oh wtf Mac Sabbath , scary ... No ... Stupid...yes...!
Google Bard is broken... no GG Allin and The Murder Junkies?
Venom and Voi Vod are two bands whose music just made me feel uncomfortable.
What about Ted Nugent? He's terrifying!
Axl Rose gives me nlghtmares when he sings nowadays. Does that count? 😂
P.S.: I would've payed to see Mark's face when he saw Slipknot on the list.
How on earth isn`t Mayhem topping this? And where is Gorgoroth?
I'm kinda surprised slayer, cannibal corpse and maybe behemoth didn't make this list
I would include Belphegor and Gorgoroth 🔥🤘
A sneaky pick for me would have been either Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger or The Lennon Claypool Delirium. Both bands may just sound like your typical hard rock bands, but if you do a dive deep into the lyrics you will find some pretty scary a stuff there. Stand outs for Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger are Animals and Devil You Know. Stand outs for The Lennon Claypool Delirium are Cricket and the Genie (Movement I, The Delirium)/Cricket and the Genie (Movement II, Oratorio Di Cricket), Oxycontin Girl and Bubbles Burst.
Lordi should be on the list. Not only because of the costumes and the songs but their music videos are short horror movies.
A few that I think would reasonably qualify, without resorting to anyone *extremely* obscure:
- The Virgin Prunes. An early Irish post-punk band, they started out as a performance art collective and served as a fairly significant influence on the Gothic subculture and aesthetic with their wild gender-bending outfits and makeup and preoccupation with the grotesque. Musically highly experimental and fairly abrasive early on, incredibly freaky live (some of their early live performances were Throbbing Gristle-tier extreme), lyrically bleak and fairly shocking for the time-just a good bad time had by all. "Beast (Seven Bastard Suck)" is maybe the most convincingly sinister portrayal of Satan in music this side of…
- Deathspell Omega. Highly technical and dissonant French black metal band masterminded by two anonymous weirdos well-known for using their records as theological dissertations on the philosophy and merits of theistic Satanism, which sounds pretentious and insufferable on paper but is fascinating and deeply unsettling in practice. Setting aside the infamy of their longtime vocalist, the deeply shady Mikko Aspa, who was basically a session musician, there's plenty of menace in the music itself, although that association has its own implications.
- Swans. You probably all know who Swans are. Most people who are into even slightly weird or independent music do. Now go back and listen to Cop, or Soundtracks for the Blind, or The Seer, or the nineteen-minute version of "Blind Love" on Feel Good Now. Few contenders in this arena are so versatile in how they might scare the bejeezus out of an audience. Their earliest, heaviest work was also a huge influence on…
- Godflesh. Another almost comically obvious pull if you know anything about industrial metal, being pioneers in that subgenre and later arguably one of the first post-metal bands. Whether we're talking the blunt, miserable grind of Streetcleaner or the eerie, suffocating, sombre majesty of Selfless and Hymns, this stuff is incredibly grim.
- Slint. Speaking of post-rock and on the nose choices, it seems almost rude not to mention Spiderland in this conversation. "Don, Aman" in particular is an absolutely harrowing sonic portrait of severe depression in which nothing overtly scary happens in the lyrics but the music tells you everything that you do not want to know.
- The Body. An eclectic and deeply morbid guitar/drums duo initially associated with sludge metal and crust-punk whose sound has since expanded into something far stranger. Their sound is uniquely characterised by their strategic deployment of noisy electronic textures and, most notably, guitarist Chip King's absolutely horrifying banshee-like screams, which feel less metal than outright tortured and are loud enough not to require a PA to be heard live. "A Body", the opening track from their landmark record All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood, opens with several minutes of minimalistic choir vocals, building more and more tension until the band finally crashes in with that indelible bloodcurdling shriek.
- Further shoutouts to The Birthday Party, Fawn Limbs, Indian, Dir En Grey, Silencer, The Goslings, Khanate and Primitive Man. Special mention to Ramleh, who are most famous for their distinctly non-rock industrial record Hole in the Heart but made some truly terrifying noise-rock records in the '90s and had a stellar revival with The Great Unlearning. Further honourable mentions too esoteric, niche or arguably non-rock for the list proper: Keiji Haino, Diamanda Galás, Wormphlegm, Sortsind, Burmese, Jute Gyte, Bodychoke, Todesstoß, Bloated Subhumans, Ride for Revenge, Utarm, Satanhartalt, Oppenheimer, Wold, Hell, Trop Tard, Jandek, the many bands in Les Legions Noires.
I just saw gwar a month or so ago and they were a fun band to see, not scary, the only thing scary about that show was my car got towed for no reason while i was at the show
No Spice Girls? One of them is *named* Scary!
I’m just glad every entry didn’t sound the same like some of the past ones lol
He's finally learning?
Dude I love bardy more of him pls
If this video does well, I'll do another.
@@RockedNet Alright then
No Lordi 😂❤
Acid Bath is pretty disturbing too
I am kind of surprised not seeing Gorgoroth, Rammstein or Watain on the list. Gorgoroth had so much controversy in the mid to late 2000's involving live shows having women nude on crosses with bags over their head and one dying from heat exhaustion, Rammstein is well, Rammstein and Watain has thrown real animal blood at a crowd of people that cause people to vomit back in 2014. Watain still makes killer music though.
No murder junkies?????????
Sorry you chose the most known bands. Also Misfits have wayyyyyyyy more disturbing songs i.e. "Last Caress" "Bullit" "Skulls"..........
I know that we can't expect that, but imagine if Bardy could reach the depths of underground extreme metal. 😈 What would he said about Portal, Silencer, Dragged Into Sunlight or Gnaw Their Tongues 😆
Those teenagers with moms they did not want to listen to Slipknot… they are now moms themselves. That makes me feel old.
Ghost is a lot of fun, but from the outside, I can see them appearing as scary from the outside.
I showed a couple worker their picture and he said oh so you're a Satanist. I said no, not even religious really.
I then played dance macabre and looked very confused. He asked they look like that and sound like that? I said yes and he said oh I guess you're not a Satanist, you like Abba.
Very interesting. No CC, no Slayer, no Ice Nine Kills.
No Alice Cooper?
GISM can be damn scary. Look up some of (the now late, apparently) Sakevi Yokoyama's past antics sometime. How many rock stars can claim they fired a friggin' flamethrower at a crowd?
There's also GG Allin, of course.
What no Behemoth
Thank you so much for only using footage of the real Misfits
I had to dig a bit TBH.
CMON... The only bands that deserve to stay in this list are mayehm and mercyful fate. Black Sabbath too, for other reasons. But... Hey what about SLAYER, VENOM, ALICE COOPER, DEATH SS, DEICIDE and all the Amazing stuff of the 80s?
Cannibal Corpse. Cradle of Filth. Infant Annihilater. Slayer. Venom.
The AI really got some of this stuff wrong.
It always does. And we love Bardy for it
GG Allin?!?!
I love Gwar but i dont find them scary. Gwar's music and shows are just fun!
I would definitely say that King Diamond as a project is *WAY* more scarier than Mercyful Fate...
Mayhems singer didn't die on stage, he offed himself.
Marilyn Mansons lyrics is scary in that they hold up a mirror to society.
It's really ironic that the society goes haywire over said lyrics 😅
Well I didn't think he'd mention anything like Stalaggh/Gulaggh, Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, or Emit.
Surprised Bardy overlooked Slayer and Ice Nine Kills. A pretty solid list overall, though the order is wacky, and Bardy definitely misinterpreted Ghost and GWAR.
Mercyful Fate was a legit choice, though, and and this kind of a list HAS to include Mayhem, who actually were everything the moms of the Satanic Panic were worried about.😢
Well, actual scariest musicians are probably stuff like Merzbow, industrial-dark-folk projects like Current 93 (scary dissonant music + Nazi imagery as a bonus) and of course Les Legions Noires (one of their "musical" "projects" was a recording of microphone stuffed into rat's anus... very metal), but if you count only more or less mainstream bands, NIN and Tool should've been on the list. Some of their tracks legit sound like creepypasta soundtracks.
Portal
The only bands missing here were WASP (Blackie Lawless literally had a flame thrower attached to his groin and fucked nuns onstage with a knife), Alice Cooper (The Godfather of Shock Rock), and KISS (Gene SImmons breathed fire and spewed blood from his mouth, not to mention all of the band members had face paint)
Ummm!
I would Not take my kids to a Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, or Motley Crue concert. My daughter asked me, If I would go see any of these bands with her. My answer: I don't want to see your Titties!! If you know you know!
Also I wonder if this robot ever attended Slayer or Anthrax. Their crowds could get scary but at least Anthrax fans were Skateboard Crazy. Slayer fans just escaped the insane asylum.
I'm surprised that Rammstein didn't make this list. Nothing scares Ma and Pa middle America like Germans, gay sex and cannibalism.
Surprised The Murder Junkies weren’t on this list. Want to talk scary? Imagine GG beating you up and throwing his poop at you.
I personally cannot think of any band I view as "scary".
I love visual art performances & I acknowledge that light cannot exist without dark.
I can however, tell you when a band's content is lacking depth, is boring due to never leaving the box of their regular theme, and/or is just shit.
There are bands where it is possible to separate the music from the members.
Then there are some band members who are so shitty, that their musical & visual contributions to the world of art become overshadowed to the point of being just as shitty as them.
Some artist's musical & visual displays are just downright scary bad & it hurts to look & listen - like you said about Marilyn Manson.
Though some of these artists deserve to be in a list like this based on the majority of societal views (Google Bardy is getting better.), I don't agree with the order.
I don't think Black Sabbath should be on the list mostly because many people were afraid of how metal music may change the world - I fail to see where they are scary.
If I did have to pick one to add to the list though, it would be the artist called SKYND. This is due to their content detailing the bizarre & brutal cases in true crime & their vocals.
Lol....Dead did NOT die on stage....Bardy got that 100% wrong!!!
If we wanna go off the beaten path a bit- Coven was originally what people feared Black Sabbath was, a legit band of satanist. It’s probably what kept them from reaching the heights of some of their contemporaries; it was hard enough for bands who flirted with Satanic imagery to break out, but actual full on devil worshippers? Hard no to that and when Jinx did vocals for “One Tin Soldier” and they tried to rebrand as a folk act because of that songs success, it probably did damage to the cult following they did have.
That list is the most PATHETIC EXCUSE for scary bands period. Only ONE BLACK METAL band listed,and they're "boyscouts".
Not Alice Cooper, dude you have to do better your homework, in the early seventies Alice Cooper the band made Black Sabbath looked as hippies
I don't have an issue with them being called scary. But being called Metal is utter blasphemy.
Black Sabbath is not scary! They're one of my favorite bands. They were also very political.
Babymetal- who else but these 3 little Japanese girls can make "metal elitist" scared for the purity of heavy metal music. Plus have you seen Su-Metals death stare? She could play in a horror movie
You know what band used to scare the shit out of me? Lamb of god. When they first hit the scene they played in the fucking dark and they were just so fucking brooding. Used to scare me seeing them live.
How tf did bardy not include Ice Nine Kills? They literally combined metal and horror.
I am shocked no Cannibal corpse, or Cradle of Filth. Like seriously. If I had more time to think, I could find some others.
Pelle or Dead, didn't die on stage. He died in bed. He slit his wrist, throat, and shot himself in the head. Sorry Bardy just had to correct that little bit. Also so jealous you got to see Marilyn Manson! That's my dream!
Only one bad legitimately should’ve been on this list bless Norwegian metal all the rest are just commercial bands, and I love Ghost, but they are the funniest, funnest live act. I’ve seen it a long time outside of Iron Maiden of course family friendly entertainment.
Lordi is another one that falls into the fun side of horror but would have made at least a top 20. I also agree with anyone who says Alice Cooper should have made the top 10. Silly Bardy.
Bardy would probably short circuit if he ever heard Sunn O))) or Xasthur
Cannibal Corpse. I can't listen to their lyrics its just too much. On a technical level though they have massive talent though dont get me wrong.
I would say Chat Pile has pretty harrowing music, both sonically and lyrically.
Interesting list, though I'm more surprised by the least amount of black metal bands and some bands that did make the list that don't seem all that scary!!
Some of us moms introduced Slipknot to our kids. .. How did Bard miss Cannibal Corpse?
No behemoth or gorgoroth is a bit of a surprise, Mayhem should have easily been number one. Those guys are still legitimately terrifying
I bet all of these bands would lynch Sam Smith for ripping off their schtick.