As an extreme metal head, I have to say metal has never disturbed me. Even noise doesn’t disturb me. The music that genuinely has struck fear into my heart has been avant-grade/outsider music like Diamanda Galas and early Current 93 albums. Also, the dark ambient of Velehentor is worth checking out.
1.Nurse With Wound - especially "Thunder Perfect Mind" 2.Current 93 - "Nature Unveiled" and "I Have a Special Plan For This World" 3.Death In June - "Wall of Sacrifice" 4.Klaus Schulze - "Cyborg" 5.anything from Kluster - very early krautrock that sounds like proto-industrial, later they evolved into Cluster 6.Univers Zero - "Heresie" 7.Swans - "Soundtracks For the Blind", "Young God" EP, "Public Castration Is a Good Idea" (insane live album...) and "Look at Me Go" (remixed version of "My Father..." album, one 46-minute evil track) 8.All Diamanda Galas stuff from '80s 9.King Crimson - "Thrakattak" (compilation of the live improvs blended into monstrous version of THRAK)
The Nurse with Wound is also a good starting point for earlier experimental pop music. Two compilations with the name Strain, crack & break compile some of his inspirational sources.
I feel like Pig Destroyer's Natasha needs a mention here. It explores a child murderer and pedophile revisiting the grave of one of his victims and dying in an underground tunnel that grew in the tree above the girls grave.
@@joshimawashi The liner notes of Prowler in the Yard read: I am parked at the elementary school across from her house, listening to the rain pound against the roof of the car. I feel dislocated and ghost-like. I am a cadaver bored with its own funeral. The painkillers are making it difficult for me to concentrate. The streetlight to my left flickers for a few moments and then deserts me. Ash grey clouds seal off the sky, ensuring that God will not be able to see what I am about to do She lives in a small, one-story house on the corner with her mother, who works the graveyard shift at the hospital and won't be home for another four hours. Her sleek blue sedan sits crooked and lonely in the driveway. A bed of neglected roses wait patiently for the sunrise. Her bedroom glows gently like a firefly and I can see her sexless, heroin form moving behind the drawn curtains. She is animated and gesturing wildly with her left arm. Probably talking on the phone She used to make me think of beautiful things like waterfalls and wildflowers, deer frolicking in the snow. Now I can only think of autopsies and taxidermy, mummified Egyptian princesses. I remember how she used to shiver when I would toy with her nipple ring. I remember how she used to keep mouthwash by her bed, scared of her kisses tasting like cigarettes. I remember a white rabbit strung up between two trees, gutted and left to rot I start whisper-singing the Pixies "Debaser" to myself And glance over at the bolt cutters. They are lying on the floor in a puddle of congealed blood and bone splinters. Two of my left toes and all of my left fingers are piled in the open glove box. Seven digits, one for each day we've been apart. I take two more Vicodins and light up another cigarette. Then I wrap some fresh gauze around my hand. I reach over to the passengers seat and stroke the nine-millimeter lovingly, knowingly. I spent hours carefully scrawling her name onto the side of each bullet Tonight I am going to take Jennifer into my arms and love her into oblivion If this doesnt spell out disturbing to you then I don't know what will.
BASED GODFLESH Also I forgot about The Drift which is ironic because I'm a Scott Walker fan, that album is probably the most disturbing album I've heard. Everything that is disturbing is mostly just noise with no structure which I have no interest in.
Mommy and Daddy by Whitehouse follows the sexual abuse topics that Peter Sotos like so much in his artistic output (he also writes about that, the guy is pretty messed up). After listening to this record I got a morbid curiosity about Soto's work but I didn't go much further down that rabbit hole unless I wanted to loose my soul. Masami Akita has also a morbid bascination with seppoku and hara kiri, which is translated in some of his performances. Scott Walker is one of a kind. Maybe Lingua Ignota in Caligula comes close. but, I don't know. Also Diamanda Galás could come close.
i've read a few of Peter Sotos' books and they are just about as utterly wretched to experience as pieces of literature can get - they are written pretty well, the guy's an effective story-teller and he has a fittingly lurid style, but it's just pit-of-your-stomach miserable shit that makes your life tangibly worse for having gone through it.
"How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die" by CON-DOM is probably one of the most disturbing albums I've ever listened to. The main theme is death but not in an abstract or poetic way. You have to go through the process of dying, last words of almost dead people and thoughts about death itself. This album let you experience the feeling of witnessing someone's death like literally staying in front of the deathbed, especially if you read the lyrics and search the background of the album.
THIS! Probably the only album I had to stop listening and haven't returned to. I like noise and generally disturbing music, but the samples on that album were too much.
I saw con-dom live and he was so incredibly agressive towards the audience that I will never listen to him again. I know that this is his point (control-domination) but really, he is just a regular agressor in an arty package.
No Acid Bath? All kinds of minor key sounds, super dark, cryptic, spoken word shorts, Unheard of dissonance in the multi-tempo structures. There isn't much you can say about AB that isn't delightfully dark and disturbing.
Deathpile "GR" is simultaneously disturbing but amazing. Edit: Sotos isn't a founding member of Whitehouse, he didn't join until quite a bit later. Great list Wyatt, keep up the good work
I’ve been really enjoying everything from Gnaw Their Tongues since discovering them through you. Definitely would be disturbing to most but I take a lot from what he’s going for. Very inspiring musically and admirable for any fan of dark music or horror in general.
A song I have a hard time listening to now is Prison Sex by Tool. Ever since I've come to accept I was assaulted, this whole song just mirrors my emotions on trying to cope with the fact I was assaulted for years. I haven't been able to listen to the song normally since then.
Early Swans is more brutal than just about anything else I’ve ever heard, great fucking band. The Great Annihilator tho is the peak of that era bc it’s both beautiful and absolutely soul crushing
From '80s their most terryfying are IMO "Young God" EP and "Public Castration Is a Good Idea" :) "Greed" is claustrophobic and depressive. There are many great bootlegs from that era, which are also insane, especially from 86-87. Form '90s - "Soundtracks For the Blind" and Gira's solo "Drainland". From 2010+ I will pick "Look at Me Go", remix of "My Father..." LP. IMO most evil track they ever recorded. Gira says, this is squel to Body Lovers stuff.
Public Castration is hands down one of the most brutal stuff ever put on record. From the atmosphere to lyrics and performance. Given it was created in the mid 80s and not 20 to 30 years later like say Gnaw Their Tongues must be considered too i think. Although GTT is pretty messed up shit
Endless dismal moan... a japanese one man black metal project by Chaos 9. The project ended when he took his own life, leaving the most brutally dark discography ive ever heard lost in time.
John Zorn's - ''Leng Tch'e'' is another brutal album. It builds up with slow strung guitars, but once the vocals kick in it becomes unreal. It's a concept album based on the chinese torture method, Death by a Thousand Cuts. It's quite the listen.
I was going to mention this too. I was kinda shocked by it at first, but it’s quickly become a personal favorite of mine for how disturbing/intense it is.
Are we thinking of the same John Zorn? I’d heard that he composed some metal albums early on, but I mostly know him for jazz. I love O’o, but now I gotta check this out.
Most disturbing albuns I've heard are Black Metal related. Black Murder 'Feasts' demo, Belkètre side of the Vlad Tepes split, the first three Abruptum albums, Bethlehem's first two albuns. I'm not that much into experimental electronic music, so most of the albuns you presented on the video I'm unfamiliar with, but will surely check out.
Going through your suggestions. Crazy music so far! Thank you for the Atrax Morgue album suggestion. I've never heard something quite so unsettling like that.
Since this video is mainly focusing on atmosphere rather than lyrical content, one has to recognize Goblin. Their main theme for Dario Argento's "Suspiria" is beyond haunting. When you also factor in that it was composed near 50 years ago makes it a near masterpiece!
Khanate's Capture & Release gave me the same feeling I got from reading Peter Sotos's zine series Pure; being placed inside the mind of someone performing inhuman actions. The lyrics of "Capture" are so simplistically evocative that they never fail to give me chills. "Feel me eat..."
Some I'd consider disturbing, mostly based on the sound itself. The Body - I Shall Die Here White Suns - Sinews Dis Fig - Purge Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit Street Sects - End Position Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want Pan Daijing - Tissues
@@ashgonza92saw them with dakek a few years back and they fog machined out the whole venue to the point you couldn’t see a foot in front of you. It was so loud and disorientating to the point I almost left
I find Ivan Wyschnegradsky's microtonal works and microtonal music in general to be disturbing. It's musically precise from a mathematical perspective but our ears and our brains aren't in sync with it so it feels alien. When he mentioned how Black Goat of the Woods was something an alien would listen to I strongly disagreed and thought immediately of microtonal music being the choice for aliens.
First time watching your channel. I was surprised and delighted to see relatively mainstream artists like Scott Walker and John Zorn on your list. Any fan of Zorn's Kristallnacht album will likely appreciate Black Angels by George Crumb, which was written as commentary on the Vietnam War. Crumb's composition is centered around the numbers 13 and 7 since they are associated with fate and destiny; the composition coveys a total sense of inescapable desolation and loss. The Kronos Quartet was formed after a violinist heard Black Angels, and the quartet eventually released an amazing rendition of the composition in 1990 on Nonesuch records.
I'm curious when it comes to the McMartin school case, and the so-called, 'satanic panic' in general. Still, I can't make myself listen to it. Even if it's been concluded that what the children say isn't based on fact. I think there's more truth to what they said then what is being led on.
Wtf? Just looked this up and the lyrics. I havent listened to it but the lyrics don't seem like lyrics. They seem like they're a twisted diary or something. Okay, he elaborated. Makes sense. I think I'll pass on this one
Transformalin by Diagnose: Lebengefahr was one of those rare moments music hits me hard. The whole atmosphere was so oppressive and dark that I felt empty and distant. Felt something similar with Scarsighted by Leviathan. Chills in the spine and awesome artists.
Very good list! Everything in the power electronics, death industrial, noise and experimental/avantgarde stuff can be considered pretty unsettling. For what regards 20th century classical music i would suggest "Requiem" by Ligeti and "Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima" by Penderecki. Many thanks for your work Wyatt
I agree. 20th classical can really be considered proto-scaringthehoes music sometimes. Metastaseis by Xennakis and some parts from Berg's Wozzeck are quite spooky for sure.
Black Mountain Transmitter have an album called 'Oscillator Ritual' which comes with a warning - that it's used for summoning...who knows what ?...but BMT give you fair warning that should something unwelcome materialize while you play it you have no one to blame but yourself. And much respect for discovering 'The Drift' - the most f--king terrifying piece of music i've ever heard. With the possible exception of 'Frankie Teardrop' by Suicide - an 18 minute long minimalist piece about a man going from room to room murdering his family complete with utterly bloodcurdling screams. Thanks for the very enjoyable video and i hope a few of the things i've mentioned meet your standard of disturbing. And if The Drift chilled you too then you set a very high bar indeed.
The Litanies of Satan by Diamanda Galas is one of the most truly demented things I've ever heard. It makes the most Satanic black metal sound like Creed.
@@Mactatio Dude, I'm into really dark shit . And while I appreciate her input yet don't like it much, that doesn't mean you're superior for enjoying it. Get over yourself 🤣
One piece of music, that immediately comes to my mind, when i think of disturbing Albums, is the Prinsoner Ep, by Amelnakru. The Titeltrack in particular has this eerie and unsetteling feel to it.
"An Evil Heat" by Oxbow is one of the most schizophrenic and unhinged albums ever made. The way Eugene Robinson "sings" (more like yelping, whining, screaming, and sweating than singing) is entirely unique and captivating. The way the music constantly strains and buckles and builds tension but never releasing is insanity. This is one of the best noise rock albums ever made and it is unsettling as all hell.
the part on dread magnificence with the sample of the woman screaming help me over and over and over really fucked me up. none of his other albums have freaked me out as hard. culthes des ghoules henbane disturbs me but i can't put my finger exactly on what it is. i love them, but none of their other albums freak me out that way. something about the way henbane builds and crescendos and the raw madness of it really gets to me. the closer track on odd spirituality has a great use of a sample from possession that freaked me out the first couple of times i heard it, but not once i'd seen the movie. Comus by Comus has some moments that give me goosebumps in an unpleasant way. I also really like David Koresh's songs but i don't think they would freak me out if i didn't know they were recorded while he was marrying child brides and preparing for so many of his people and children to die. i'll have to think more and return to this post.
Giles Corey - Giles Corey absolutely shakes me to my core, especially when reading the book he wrote to go along with the record. Really heavy and harrowing account of depression and suicide
I have two picks, first being Urfe by Axis of Perdition. Axis are an industrial black metal that made a spoken word ambient double album that tells the story of Urfe traveling through a hellish world where everyone has been turned into depraved monsters trying to kill him and it's very grotesque and anxiety inducing. My second pick is The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers. The lyrics to it were mostly written by Richey Edwards and it covers topics such as being a prostitute or a girl with severe anorexia. Richey was known for doing severe self harm and went missing shortly after the album released. He went missing near a popular suicide bridge so it's most likely he killed himself which makes the depressing songs on that album hit that much harder.
I was gonna suggest Urfe. Every single aspect of it. I've never felt on edge listening to a CD until that album came out and it's ridiculously underrated. I can talk about it for hours. And I'm so glad that, in the 800+ comments here - your mention of Urfe is near the top. Also, Yes is an amazing way to open Holy Bible. The lyrics are honestly shocking! Very rare to find an Axis of Perdition fan who also respects and enjoys Manic Street Preachers.
It’s not metal but Manic Street Preachers “The Holy Bible” has some really dark & depressing lyrics Especially if you know what happened to the lead song writer a few months after it released. Also Lingua Ignota’s “Sinners Get Ready” puts me in a depression spiral every time I listen to it.
@@stevenroyle-bp1nj no one definitely knows what happened but judging by Richey's lyrics and general Mental state, more than likely he took his own life
Comus - First Utterance Early 70s Folk Horror Occult feel. Part of what I love about this album is that it's genuine. Not contrived or forced for purposeful extremes or attention. It's dark woods eerie. Witchy. Beautiful musicianship and the vocals are wrenching.
I checked it out. I found it about as disturbing as Jethro Tull. It's a kinda cool folk album, though. Vocals are weird. The musicianship is definitely good. To be fair, these guys are way before my time, and I can see how it was kind of disturbing for 1971.
I'm with you on this one, @rural dust. And, it is especially disconcerting when you know some backstory about the band, mainly the lead singer and principal songwriter, Roger Wootton. I'll say this: The closing track, "The Prisoner", is more-or-less a recounting of true events that transpired in his life while the album's artwork originated as a subsequent byproduct of that tumultuous time prior to the group's establishment. TO ADD: Still, I find it oddly distasteful -- as parodoxical as it might seem given the subjectivity of art and the entitlement one has to their own opinions about it -- how a "modern" listener might brush someone like Mr Wootton's efforts off as "not disturbing enough" despite the very real hell he went through for a time that consequently birthed such dark creativity -- a hell that perhaps one cannot, or maybe even will not, be empathized with. I, then, imagine if that same someone would have the gall to express such sentiments to his or another 'disturbed' artist's face if given the opportunity (hopefully not, though lol). I also wonder what the artists listed in the video, and those mentioned here in the comments, would think of our attempts to 'reason' with their art by placing them into this current meme that is the "disturbing music you've probably never heard before" trend: Would they appreciate it, or would they find such efforts futile, misguided and maybe even a little pretentious? From my perspective, the whole culture seems like one big game of one-upsmanship regarding who is the most well-versed in 'disturbing media' while always striving to find the next most disturbing thing that will usurp an already dubious throne of twisted worship. It's an ever accelerating race to the abysmal depths of human pain and suffering; an abyss that tends to be vicariously experienced at someone else's permanent expense for the benefit of another's fleeting amusement.
No way you included black mountain transmitter in here! I actually love that album so much. I've never found it disturbing though, I honestly think it's pretty relaxing
Glad to see it mentioned too. At first listen it kinda rustles the jimmies, because it is not a purely lyrical or instrumented medium, but more so a sensory one. After a few more visits it becomes a nice take on storytelling and an attempt at auditory world building.
I always found Nick Cave's album "Murder Ballads" to be disturbing. It's not that the album sounds creepy or has a dark tone about it. The songs are literally about killing people!
After reading the book Metallica's 'One' was based on, that song really ate at me much more than before I read the book. The song "The Evangelist" from Spawn of Possession is also pretty unsettling, lyrics and music fit perfectly to create some seriously messed up vibes. As far as albums that bother me go, only thing I can think of is pretty much everything Imperial Triumphant puts out, they are really good at making songs that are anxiety ridden. Aphex Twin has some pretty messed up stuff too.
This is a very good list, got a new subscriber. My pick for one of the most disturbing records would be Through Silver in Blood by Neurosis. I just find it so hypnotic and unhinged and then this blood chilling ambience that is going in the background was just too much for me when i heard it the first time. For non-metal probably Cop by Swans, some really fucked up lyrics are there.
John Zorn is quite something. I'm a jazz fan, I encountered Zorn when I got into klezmer. He did some very good and powerful stuff, so I decided to dig into his music. Boy... I can't even imagine a historic heritage like the Holocaust in living memory, but if you need a musical guide to madness, be my guest: Zorn is your man.
What an opening! Atrax Morgue is absolutely disturbing, definitely lived what he preached! On a purely musical level I’d add Axis of Perdition, especially the Deleted Scenes album…chilling stuff!
@@KnjazNazrath Are you serious? I've been lost ever since Tenements of the Anointed Flesh. I think Brooke posted saying they were finished. But within the past year or so, there was a side album to Urfe, I'll have to find the name of it. It's like the ambient background sounds to Urfe and nothing more. I think they became "An" Axis of Perdition.
@@Bortsch_ Yeah, it's been kinda up in the air as to what's happenin' for a while. I'm not in direct contact w/ them so I can't verify, but "An" Axis posted aboot lookin' for a studio earlier in the year. Here's hopin'. Nothin' hits quite like Axis.
For me the most disturbing music is the one by a Dutch band called "Stalaggh" (later known as "Gulaggh") had a member who worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands and was looking after him, and this became the artwork for one of the band's albums after the man killed himself. Depending on the story they either kidnapped or conned the hospital into giving them access to some of the more insane patients, and they took them away to a remote location to record "the primal screams of the insane". All of their albums, 6 in total were made using the screams of mentally ill patients layered over guitar and noise. One their most controversial album "Projekt Misanthropia" a schizophrenic man who murdered his mother was taken to a farmhouse with the other patients, and at one point in the album you can hear a scuffle break out as the screams take on a primal, almost demonic edge. That is where the schizophrenic man had tackled and had begun strangling one of the band members so severely that he was almost killed. They also gained access to the children's wing and recorded there, which the band believes is their best work because "children don't hold back their screaming". The session was ended when one of the children broke off their nails after collapsing onto the ground and trying to claw through the concrete while screaming. All of the patients used gave their full permission, because according to the band (whose members are all anonymous) "they hate humanity as much as we do." Despite all this, many of the patients describe it as the best therapy they've had in years. ua-cam.com/video/o0Xx3RXyGRE/v-deo.html
Mikko Aspa's project Nicole 12 makes you feel actually uncomfortable and sick when you listen to it. There's lots of stuff that pushes and punishes the listener, but something like Nicole 12 is really hard to listen to.
Definitely agree on that. Generally the whole Finnish Power Electronics scene is completely unhinged, some seriously messed up material and, from what I've read about at least some of them, some seriously messed up people. Other projects I'd recommend are Snuff and Bizarre Uproar which made me similarly uncomfortable.
The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End of Time Scary concept. If you can get through the whole thing you feel exhausted and beaten. Admiral Angry - Buster One of the heaviest and most unique albums in the metal genre I’ve heard. Speaks on everything from suicide attempts to eating crack rocks off a dirty carpet. Insanely good performances by the whole band and was the last works of the mastermind guitarist before passing from a terminal illness.
I was going to mention The Caretaker. I could only listen to a little bit of it. It takes you on a terrifying journey through its several stages and gives you what I fear is a very accurate depiction of what it’s like to get Alzheimer’s. It is truly the scariest thing I’ve ever heard.
This is a very disturbing topic, but I think dementia is not even close to the crazy, schizoid, necrophilia shit going on with Atrax Morgue. Pure insanity is very frightening !
The Downward Spiral from NiN has always disturbed me. Every song gets you further down the spiral and when it ends i just feel like breaking down and cry in a corner
I would say Brighter Death Now 'Innerwar' 1996 (I still remember the first time listening to that album on headphones back in the summer of 1998). I thought the burnt-corpse art theme was the fitting imagary for such a dark and scathing album. There are more/other disturbing releases from Brighter Death Now but 'Innerwar' was my introduction to death-industrial (which has still remained an underground genre in my opinion). *Let's not forget the originator Boyd Rice...his NON discography still holds up ('God and Beast' and 'Children of the Black Sun' are both classic death-ambient releases in my collection).
Oh my gosh it seems to me like I've been waiting for such a video for forever, cause I got tired a lil bit of just dark/horror ambient though I've always loved these things. I love how thoughtfully you've described each of the albums. I've heard of some. But now I'm obviously gonna listen to them just for some new experience. I wanna feel something like existential horror from musicians making some serious and disturbing statements with their music or whatever they call it. If I would get that feeling I crave then I call it an art. Because I believe music was never just about sad/funny songs. Music can perform terraforming inside one's mind. And that's just breathtaking. Thanks man!
I think Kapala's "Infest Cesspool" is a great example of a 'disturbing' album. Harsh warnoise all about misanthropy, war, genocide, extinction, and anything else relating to the suffering of humanity. I know themes of war and death aren't exactly uncommon in metal music, but Kapala manages to so perfectly encapsulate the feelings of chaos and dread. Especially in outro titled "Atrocity Cacophony." Sounds of gunfire, screaming, and marching which you could believe is audio taken from a real warzone. And not only is the album so good at capturing the terror of war, it's just unbelievably heavy too. It's not pure noise, there's rhythm and distinguishable instruments. Kapala's other albums manage to channel similar emotions, but I don't think any of them are quite as mesmerizingly dreadful as "Infest Cesspool"
@@22tfortnitevevo Oh, don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite albums of all time. I just think because of the themes it could be considered disturbing.
Glad you made this. I look at some Music as an experience. To immerse myself in the art without a view of rather it is good or bad, just take the ride. I like to take the ride with music that makes me feel strongly in one way or another.
Stalaggh's Pure Misanthropia is the most messed up I've heard. Intentionally seeing out to make the most unpleasant experience they could, they got permission to go into a mental health hospital and the crazed ramblings and odd noises of the patients there are scattered throughout the jarring music.
Randomly recommended your video. Digging it. Would love to see a video on the saddest albums you know. Personally, River Runs Red by Life Of Agony with the context of who the singer is and the lyrics are really sad but every song is very good
My most disturbing album would be a crow looked at me by mount eerie its a album written in journal form detailing their thoughts and feelings about their wife dying of cancer just days and weeks after it happened i have never finished it before in one sitting i cant get past the song real death
Quality stuff!!! And you dropped in John Zorn, who's entertained me for literally decades. Best way for people to grapple with him for the first time would be to assemble a random "party mix", but with Zorn's Naked City tracks scattered in there. Succinct little bursts of sonic vandalism! You haven't learned to enjoy EVERYTHING in music until you've seen some frat boy twitching to Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" who suddenly has to deal with a random 45-second burst of pandemonium. Priceless! But the one album that pushed me back on my heels? For about a decade now, my "gold standard", hands down: Sunn o))) and "Black One". Goddamn...what a difficult album. Now, my background in composition has seen me grapple with difficult music since the mid-1970s. I think that Throbbing Gristle is jaunty and poppy. "Black One", OTOH, is one massive, crushing wall of sonic devastation. I have listened to it once and ONLY once...not because I don't like it, but because that album is intensely oppressive. The one time I played my vinyl copy, I kept having to take longer and longer pauses between sides just to get through it! Soundwise...hmm...imagine Phil Spector's "wall of sound" repurposed as a WMD. Crushing, oppressive, and by the time you make it to side 4, you're both mentally and physically wrecked. That last side, btw, has their rather claustrophobic singer sealed inside a coffin in the studio with his mic. When you get done with it (or should it be when IT gets done with YOU?), the proper reaction is just stunned silence...what can you say after that!?
The most disturbing albums I know are the one I find at the bottom of Wyattxhim's icebergs. And everything with the tag "death industrial". About Atrax Morgue: I discovered Marco Corbelli's project through Wyatt's video about industrial and through Thismachinekillsmusic's video. I am Italian, and finding out Mr. Corbelli's work was shocking, because I felt I could understand the environment, the architectures that surrounded him. Maybe his work isn't good in a canonical way, but his raw honesty is what struck me. It made me say: yes, also in sunny Italy we have our collapsing buildings (both in a real and in a metaphorical/emotional sense ). P. S: thanks Wyatt for making me wanting to know more about Gnaw Their Tongues. I purchased All The Dread because of your collection recap, and it was truly an experience.
I absolutely love Black Mountain Transmitter...it takes alot for me to consider anything truly disturbing in its own right & I don't take works to be ultimately to heart pre-say...projects like Gruntsplatter, Theologian, or even Navicon Torture Technologies are so gorgeous within its own form of creation.
A lot of this stuff like Stalaghh, Gnaw Their Tongues, etc. is just so tryhard disturbing in an adolescent-deep sort of way that it just overshoots and simply isn't disturbing to me. "Bro... We used the vocals MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS! Over a bunch of atonal noises and creepy ambience!" it's like, ok, that's nice. Meanwhile I still find random canonized (and relatively "harmless" by modern metalhead standards) stuff like Death's Leprosy somewhat disturbing because the talent communicates the intended atmosphere.
From what I remember, Giles Corey’s self-titled is what I’d pick. That, or the album by Mado Robin that recorded people without a larynx speaking. Like an orchestra of balloons popping. Edit: Not Stalaggh. I was thinking about the album by Mado Robin. It’s still worth a listen just out of pure curiosity. It was made in 1964, so it’s double interesting.
@@sVieira151 I honestly haven’t listened to enough of their stuff to make that choice. I can’t even remember the title of the album I referenced in the original comment. Apparently it wasn’t a stalaggh album. It was made by Mado Robin and unknown, “voice actors”.
@@ancienthybrid400 ah, no worries. I know Stalaggh and Gulaggh (same guys) recorded patients in mental facilities. I remember them saying they were going to try and record people who were deaf from birth but I'm not sure anything ever came of that
I would add to the list Sunn O))) with Merzbow - Flight of The Behemoth (mostly for the track O))) Bow 2) The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time (moslty for the last stages) Jacob Kirkegaard - Opus Mors (clinical field recordings around the theme of death) Vatican Shadow - Remember Your Black Day (for the traumatic remembrance haunting the tracks)
For me Aghast's "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" album is probably the most "disturbing" thing I've heard. Did use to sleep to it a lot though, so not sure how disturbing you can call it.
Again cool video, one thing i want to point out - night of the broken glass wasn't in "Germany occupied by nazis", it was in the moment of history when nazis were ruling over Germany (they weren't occupying their own country) and it was initiated by the state authorities.
Endon - Acme Apathy Amok (ep, not the track) is definitely what's shook me the most. might just fall under the "more noise, whatever" category for some but, its like being sucked into a vortex of chaos that exists for the sake of chaos. it sounds like the world splitting in half and burning in fast forward. just absolute soul, mind-rending madness.
The most disturbing SONG I’ve ever heard has to be “Strange Fruit” by Nina Simone. Just everything about the song. Knowing how she was involved in fighting against exactly what the song was about, the brutal reality that the lyrics portray, how viscerally detailed those lyrics are, all with how beautifully she sings it. It’s a Billie Holiday song, but it’s Nina who drives it into my soul.
Some other recommendations here. Screech Owl by Wold is one of my all time favorite disturbing metal albums. Also, the split album by Spectral Lore and Underjordiska is quite unsettling yet strangely hopeful by the end as it documents one's journey to the bottom of the ocean and back up again
"The Disintegration Loops" by William Basinski, "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid" by Stars of the Lid, "Sadness Will Prevail" by Today Is the Day and "The Drift" by Scott Walker (that you mentioned yourself)
*Diamanda Galas*!! Anything, really, but I’d go either with Saint of the Pit or - if you’re a really hard player - Vena Cava. But really, anything in here. From Litanies of Satan (not what you think) up to the last record, she’s simply otherworldly. Fantomas: first (Amenazza del Mundo) or Delirium Cordia. Plus: as left hook: George Crumb, Black Angels. A different category of disturbing altogether; sort of like Scott Walker to your other choices. Happy listening :-) PS. Khanate has already been mentioned, but I’d say their first two are superior to the third one (below). Unbelievable. The vocalist had another project later called simply: Gnaw (without the other two words in the name), that’s also worth your time. Great choice with Scott Walker; he also had an album with Sunno))); great stuff. Thanks for the video.
Only album on your list I’ve heard is The Drift, and my first listen was definitely one of the most disturbing listening experiences I’ve ever had. Had me in the fetal position by the halfway mark, let alone by the end.
If I remember right, that Zorn album comes with a warning because of the one track that’s high frequency noise that simulates the violence of that night. This video also made me think of the album Consumed by the electronic artist Richie Hawtin. Very sparse, dark, hypnotic and lurking type of sounds. No lyrics, just subdued electronic percussion with lots of reverb. Experiencing the whole album will definitely put you in a different state of mind.
You’d be partially correct about the first statement - it does contain a warning for “Never Again”, but not for the reason you gave. The liner notes say… “CAUTION: NEVER AGAIN contains high frequency extremes at the limits of human hearing & beyond, which may cause nausea, headaches & ringing in the ears. Prolonged or repeated listenings is not advisable as it may result in temporary or permanent ear damage. -- the composer”
Yeah this list checks out, some gnarly stuff here. I'd also say check out some of "OG" 's works (of the band Oppress) and his K.V.N.T. Kolektiv label. I see you Godflesh Vinyl. And nice Exhumed shirt lol 😁
Hellow, good video, I also wanna share some of my favorite disturbing albums (and some classics too): Xiu Xiu - Girl with basket of fruit Swans - Soundtrack for the blinds Lingua Ignota - Caligula/All Bitches Die Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Uboa - The Origin of my Depression Daughters - You wont get what you want Current98 - I have a special plan for this world Death Grips - No Love, Deep Web (this one actually isn’t scary but it feels like a bad trip lmao) The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time
“Hatred For Mankind” by Dragged Into Sunlight is pretty disturbing when you think about the samples they used & the context of the band themselves, but goddamn I love that album & they’re one of my favorite metal bands. Brutal & badass lol
@@Dead_Gone just kinda the mystery around their personas & stuff, don’t think they’ve ever shown their faces as far as I know. The way they carry themselves on stage like not facing the crowd/their setup too. Not really “disturbing” I guess I just think it adds to the atmosphere. They haven’t done anything actually fucked up I don’t think lol
You should check out Skin Chambers two releases, Wound and Trial. Wound both lyrically and musically, is the soundtrack to a trip through hell. As a side note, both members of Skin Chamber are also members of Controlled Bleeding
5-deathspell omega-Fas ite 4-carcass-reek of putrefaction 3-primitive man-caustic 2-portal-Avow 1-plebeian grandstand-rien ne suffit (easily the most challenging fucking record i've ever Heard....i know that there's more abrasive and noisy records....but for me this album truly captures all negative energies and the closest i ever shit my pants listen to music!!!
I just came across your channel. As a music lover "especially Metal music" who tends to stay away from the more popular stuff thats out there, and the best reason I can tell you why, is that its ubiquitous and easy to find, no matter what one might point out is so good about it, its still ubiquitous and easy to find, not so much that Im not open to give whatever a listen, Ive always been much more pleased with the music that I found a bit off the treaded path, ya got to do a little digging to find. the stuff that isn't thrown at you constantly in the media or on a T shirt with unreadable font...lol. There is a lot of stuff out there that is no longer in print, or the band put out one or 2 super heavy Death or Doomy stuff thats absolutely beautiful, but then they suddenly changed their style and has only tiny little hints of the super heavy band they started out as. I apologize, Ive yapped too much. I appreciate coming across another human who likes and can introduce me to some Beautifully disturbing , off the beaten path Metal. I enjoy it GREATLY. Thanks. Stay Frosty,Sir.
A couple more disturbing albums: Black Funeral - Moon Of Characith (the weird vocals on this are unsettling) Black Pentecost - Funeral Winds In Paradise Dark Ages - The Tractatus de Hereticis et Sortilegiis (mainly because it has a great, creepy vibe to it, in my opinion. Love it!) Also, I really dig the Gnaw Their Tongues / Dragged Into Sunlight collaboration. Disturbing, somewhat, but I really enjoy this one.
Check out Michael W Fords other projects like Hexentanz, Psychonaut 75 etc. if you haven’t already. He also recently has been doing a dark ambient project as Akhtya
I have a huge industrial collection... here are the ones which I find genuinely difficult to listen to: Martin Bladh - Dirge; The Peter Sotos Files (concentrated Sotos with musical backing, even more disturbing than "Buyer's Market" or his Whitehouse appearances) Con-Dom - How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die (the bleak unvarnished horror of old age, physical decay and death which awaits us all) Sutcliffe Jugend - The Victim As Beauty (unbearably intense and detailed evocation of the kidnapping, torture, r-pe and murder of a single victim)
Marco Corbelli was a great guy. I ordered a lot of tapes from his Slaughter Productions in the period. He was courteous, honest and had a great love and passion for the scene.
Just wondering, where did you find that John Zorn album. The link you gave only sends me to live show. Zorn's great, but I always hate how much of hassle he makes finding his music online.
Cool video, not saying they necessarily fit on this list but I'd be interested in hearing what you think of The Rita, some of their sonics seem like they'd fit this category. Big ups!
Chat Pile's album God's Country was the last one I found disturbing. Really intense, amazing vocal performance that captures madness and nihilism while still being very musical and emotional
Immediately thought of this album when I saw the video title. Their vocalist legitimately sounds like he’s having a mental breakdown in grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg
I find it really emotionally intense, one of those albums I wish there was a break in the middle, or maybe that I was listening to it on vinyl and had to stop and change the side and take a breather. Intense and really good
Not sure if it qualifies as an album but the Jim Jones Death Tape, a live recording of the legendary killings has also been released on several labels. Mostly industrial labels.
I still consider "Spiderland" by Slint to be one of the most disturbing albums I've ever heard. And not because it's scary sounding or torturous. But because it is _literally a personification of depression._ There's something so incredibly haunting and surreal about it's themes of depression present in the "lyrics" (which might as well just be spoken word), and it makes you think it isn't with its first track, but then you get to songs like "Nosferatu Man" and "Don, Aman" and it just gets _weird._ I can also say that any time I hear the album (which is pretty rare unless I'm in a bad, bad mood), I always find myself drained and even more depressed. I can't even explain how, it just _is._ That's the power of _Spiderland._
@@Whocares1987 never said it wasn't. It's just a normie pick for something so terribly disturbing. I've got the album on cd, a shirt of it, and a youtube series based on the album coming soon.
alot of tracks off of boards of canadas a few old tunes and old tunes tapes particuarly Statue of Liberty give me an immense feeling of paranoia and just childlike fear with how boards of canada approaches their music also current 93 has a thomis liggoti narration or excerpt from a book called "i have a special plan for this world" that gives off this unnerving lovecraftian schizo spoeken word piece that always makes me feel like im contracting secondhand psychosis from listening to it
What I like about Atrax Morgue is that it is fun to listen to. A lot of power electronics, noise and so on is very intense, but also not particularly memorable. And yet I can remember every AM track I've heard. They're distinct and even have subtle hooks and flourishes.
@@Gekneveld Yeah, my experience with Whitehouse can be best summed up as WAAAAAAAH SCREEECH YOU CUUUUUUUNT! HITLER I used to lived in the South East, so that's more like a day-to-day event than extreme noise.
"Dogs Blood Rising" by Current 93 and "Anhedoniac" by Jarboe are a couple of albums that are darker/disturbing than any of the death, grind, noise, doom etc I've listened to.
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Atrax!! His records became expensive after his suicide... I was a big fan of Diamanda Galàs so I met him at a festival where she was also playing. Industrial music always had a more realistic approach to violence than metal (metal tends to be more theatrical). Especially Italian industrial music is unadulterated when it comes to politics or sex (see Bianchi as well for example). Scott Walker, despite his mainstream success, always had a dark persona (like Bowie for example)... his later works are very operatic which can be perceived as "metal" about it in my opinion.
So are these albums just records with random annoying noise on them? I listened to Atrax Morgue after watching this and there was nothing scary or disturbing about it. Just sounded like a bunch of random noises you would hear in a scary movie like Sinister with the snuff films. Did i miss something?
this channel has a real old school youtube feel and i dig it. good work bruv
And I love it too. It is timeless in my opinion.
As an extreme metal head, I have to say metal has never disturbed me. Even noise doesn’t disturb me. The music that genuinely has struck fear into my heart has been avant-grade/outsider music like Diamanda Galas and early Current 93 albums. Also, the dark ambient of Velehentor is worth checking out.
Thanks for recommending Diamanda Galas. That’s some weird shit I love it.
@@Linkolite Watch her live performance of The Litanies of Satan
same here. metal is always edgy and thats why I like it but stuff like current 93 and coil just give me a strange esoteric feeling
What's your thoughts on Gulaggh's Vorkuta?
Lingua Ignota's discography is unnerving and harrowing, worth a listen
1.Nurse With Wound - especially "Thunder Perfect Mind"
2.Current 93 - "Nature Unveiled" and "I Have a Special Plan For This World"
3.Death In June - "Wall of Sacrifice"
4.Klaus Schulze - "Cyborg"
5.anything from Kluster - very early krautrock that sounds like proto-industrial, later they evolved into Cluster
6.Univers Zero - "Heresie"
7.Swans - "Soundtracks For the Blind", "Young God" EP, "Public Castration Is a Good Idea" (insane live album...) and "Look at Me Go" (remixed version of "My Father..." album, one 46-minute evil track)
8.All Diamanda Galas stuff from '80s
9.King Crimson - "Thrakattak" (compilation of the live improvs blended into monstrous version of THRAK)
Good list
Kluster is one of my favorites, don’t see them mentioned often. Glad to see them getting some love
The Nurse with Wound is also a good starting point for earlier experimental pop music. Two compilations with the name Strain, crack & break compile some of his inspirational sources.
Coil too. great list
I feel like Pig Destroyer's Natasha needs a mention here.
It explores a child murderer and pedophile revisiting the grave of one of his victims and dying in an underground tunnel that grew in the tree above the girls grave.
Absolutely! Every layer of that album is eerie and depressing.
@@joshimawashi
The liner notes of Prowler in the Yard read:
I am parked at the elementary school across from her house, listening to the rain pound against the roof of the car. I feel dislocated and ghost-like. I am a cadaver bored with its own funeral. The painkillers are making it difficult for me to concentrate. The streetlight to my left flickers for a few moments and then deserts me. Ash grey clouds seal off the sky, ensuring that God will not be able to see what I am about to do
She lives in a small, one-story house on the corner with her mother, who works the graveyard shift at the hospital and won't be home for another four hours. Her sleek blue sedan sits crooked and lonely in the driveway. A bed of neglected roses wait patiently for the sunrise. Her bedroom glows gently like a firefly and I can see her sexless, heroin form moving behind the drawn curtains. She is animated and gesturing wildly with her left arm. Probably talking on the phone
She used to make me think of beautiful things like waterfalls and wildflowers, deer frolicking in the snow. Now I can only think of autopsies and taxidermy, mummified Egyptian princesses. I remember how she used to shiver when I would toy with her nipple ring. I remember how she used to keep mouthwash by her bed, scared of her kisses tasting like cigarettes. I remember a white rabbit strung up between two trees, gutted and left to rot
I start whisper-singing the Pixies "Debaser" to myself
And glance over at the bolt cutters. They are lying on the floor in a puddle of congealed blood and bone splinters. Two of my left toes and all of my left fingers are piled in the open glove box. Seven digits, one for each day we've been apart. I take two more Vicodins and light up another cigarette. Then I wrap some fresh gauze around my hand. I reach over to the passengers seat and stroke the nine-millimeter lovingly, knowingly. I spent hours carefully scrawling her name onto the side of each bullet
Tonight I am going to take Jennifer into my arms and love her into oblivion
If this doesnt spell out disturbing to you then I don't know what will.
Pig destroyer has always gave me chills
Pig Destroyer best lyrics of all time
Do you realize what the fuck you just said…..holy fuck that’s unnecessary
BASED GODFLESH
Also I forgot about The Drift which is ironic because I'm a Scott Walker fan, that album is probably the most disturbing album I've heard. Everything that is disturbing is mostly just noise with no structure which I have no interest in.
Mommy and Daddy by Whitehouse follows the sexual abuse topics that Peter Sotos like so much in his artistic output (he also writes about that, the guy is pretty messed up). After listening to this record I got a morbid curiosity about Soto's work but I didn't go much further down that rabbit hole unless I wanted to loose my soul.
Masami Akita has also a morbid bascination with seppoku and hara kiri, which is translated in some of his performances.
Scott Walker is one of a kind. Maybe Lingua Ignota in Caligula comes close. but, I don't know. Also Diamanda Galás could come close.
bird seed (the song on whitehouse's album bird seed) is literally just peter sotos
i've read a few of Peter Sotos' books and they are just about as utterly wretched to experience as pieces of literature can get - they are written pretty well, the guy's an effective story-teller and he has a fittingly lurid style, but it's just pit-of-your-stomach miserable shit that makes your life tangibly worse for having gone through it.
Peter Sotos is a degenerate
Never forget that Peter Sotos was the first first person in the Us to be ever arrested for possession of cheese pizza
@@Guadalajara1937 from what i know that was just chicago pd being corrupt, not peter sotos actually having possession of that stuff
"How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die" by CON-DOM is probably one of the most disturbing albums I've ever listened to. The main theme is death but not in an abstract or poetic way. You have to go through the process of dying, last words of almost dead people and thoughts about death itself. This album let you experience the feeling of witnessing someone's death like literally staying in front of the deathbed, especially if you read the lyrics and search the background of the album.
THIS! Probably the only album I had to stop listening and haven't returned to. I like noise and generally disturbing music, but the samples on that album were too much.
@@m.f.5739 I bought it on vinyl and it's way terrifying. Just google the booklet. It's....so realistic and yet horrifying
I saw con-dom live and he was so incredibly agressive towards the audience that I will never listen to him again. I know that this is his point (control-domination) but really, he is just a regular agressor in an arty package.
@@Gekneveld you're right. And some of his topics are controversial and his behavior is unacceptable in some way.
Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly
Pungent Stench & Mentors
GG Allin
@@kensloth GG Allin and Antiseen
that and hamburger lady absolutely chilling
Also hamburger lady and persuasion!
No Acid Bath?
All kinds of minor key sounds, super dark, cryptic, spoken word shorts, Unheard of dissonance in the multi-tempo structures. There isn't much you can say about AB that isn't delightfully dark and disturbing.
Deathpile "GR" is simultaneously disturbing but amazing.
Edit: Sotos isn't a founding member of Whitehouse, he didn't join until quite a bit later. Great list Wyatt, keep up the good work
Deathpile are certainly a trip. Sect Pig's "Slave Destroyed" hits me in a similar way, despite being a rather different genre.
I’ve been really enjoying everything from Gnaw Their Tongues since discovering them through you. Definitely would be disturbing to most but I take a lot from what he’s going for. Very inspiring musically and admirable for any fan of dark music or horror in general.
He also has like 20 side-projects, releasing stuff almost every month... Aderlating and De Magia Veterum are definitely worth checking out!
Gnaw their tongues definitely activates my flight or fight response
To Rival Death in Beauty is a phenomenal track.
The music video is also very well done.
"Sadness Will Prevail" by Today is the Day is up there for me.
A friend of mine saw them live and they had a banner up that said "The suffering will last forever."
"bro where's everywhere at the end of time?" -🤓
He hit a Robloxian around that time.
I would describe that more as soul destroying
@@billymountain4498 Personally I would describe it as boring and stupid.
@@Top10Dylan Nobody cares how you'd describe it to be fair.
@@Jun3bugg64 I can to comprehend art, it just fucking sucks.
A song I have a hard time listening to now is Prison Sex by Tool.
Ever since I've come to accept I was assaulted, this whole song just mirrors my emotions on trying to cope with the fact I was assaulted for years. I haven't been able to listen to the song normally since then.
Sorry you had that experience bro. No shame in getting help for PTSD if you aren't already doing it. Good luck to you metal brother. 🤘
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R u male? Were you penetrated?
Youve got your hands bound and head down
Have the same experience bro. You are not alone
Unskinny Bop by Poison sends shivers down my spine every time i hear it!
Yep is horrifying
It gives me the tummy cramps and explosive diarreah a sumthin' fierce.
Wake me up before you go go….by Wham…should be included?
@@realscience948 incredibly brutal
It just blows me away
Early Swans is some of the most terrifying stuff I’ve listened to.
As a sidebar, the Scott Walker documentary is an amazing film.
Love early Swans, but I think Body Lovers was even more fucked up. The part with Jarboe crying is just brutal.
Early Swans is more brutal than just about anything else I’ve ever heard, great fucking band. The Great Annihilator tho is the peak of that era bc it’s both beautiful and absolutely soul crushing
Yeah Swans is fucking weird shit
From '80s their most terryfying are IMO "Young God" EP and "Public Castration Is a Good Idea" :) "Greed" is claustrophobic and depressive. There are many great bootlegs from that era, which are also insane, especially from 86-87.
Form '90s - "Soundtracks For the Blind" and Gira's solo "Drainland".
From 2010+ I will pick "Look at Me Go", remix of "My Father..." LP. IMO most evil track they ever recorded. Gira says, this is squel to Body Lovers stuff.
Public Castration is hands down one of the most brutal stuff ever put on record. From the atmosphere to lyrics and performance. Given it was created in the mid 80s and not 20 to 30 years later like say Gnaw Their Tongues must be considered too i think. Although GTT is pretty messed up shit
Endless dismal moan... a japanese one man black metal project by Chaos 9. The project ended when he took his own life, leaving the most brutally dark discography ive ever heard lost in time.
John Zorn's - ''Leng Tch'e'' is another brutal album.
It builds up with slow strung guitars, but once the vocals kick in it becomes unreal. It's a concept album based on the chinese torture method, Death by a Thousand Cuts. It's quite the listen.
I was going to mention this too. I was kinda shocked by it at first, but it’s quickly become a personal favorite of mine for how disturbing/intense it is.
Naked City is another project of his that is really good.
I think Torture Garden is worth mentioning too
@@Crocodonk The album I mentioned is indeed, by Naked City.
Are we thinking of the same John Zorn? I’d heard that he composed some metal albums early on, but I mostly know him for jazz. I love O’o, but now I gotta check this out.
Most disturbing albuns I've heard are Black Metal related. Black Murder 'Feasts' demo, Belkètre side of the Vlad Tepes split, the first three Abruptum albums, Bethlehem's first two albuns. I'm not that much into experimental electronic music, so most of the albuns you presented on the video I'm unfamiliar with, but will surely check out.
Going through your suggestions. Crazy music so far!
Thank you for the Atrax Morgue album suggestion. I've never heard something quite so unsettling like that.
As an industrial fan, your combination of choices of Genocide Organ and Atrax Morgue made me miss Operation Cleansweep's jerUSAlem album.
Since this video is mainly focusing on atmosphere rather than lyrical content, one has to recognize Goblin. Their main theme for Dario Argento's "Suspiria" is beyond haunting. When you also factor in that it was composed near 50 years ago makes it a near masterpiece!
Saw them live 4 Years ago, when they performed Profondo Rosso's theme the atmosphere was really unforgettable
The main theme for Suspiria is based on the Christian hymn “Jesus loves me”.
Goblin is an S tier band
FYI, "suspira" means sigh in Spanish
One of the few soundtracks that i heard in my early years when i was younger.
Khanate's Capture & Release gave me the same feeling I got from reading Peter Sotos's zine series Pure; being placed inside the mind of someone performing inhuman actions. The lyrics of "Capture" are so simplistically evocative that they never fail to give me chills. "Feel me eat..."
Khanate is underrated.
RIP Khanate, probably one of the best doom bands ever.
Khanate fucking sucked. Burning Witch destroyed though
Was just listening to Khanate and for the first time really paid attention to the lyrics. Whoa...
New Khanate album is out!
Some I'd consider disturbing, mostly based on the sound itself.
The Body - I Shall Die Here
White Suns - Sinews
Dis Fig - Purge
Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit
Street Sects - End Position
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Pan Daijing - Tissues
Street sects used to play really good live shows that were pretty intense
@@ashgonza92saw them with dakek a few years back and they fog machined out the whole venue to the point you couldn’t see a foot in front of you. It was so loud and disorientating to the point I almost left
Street Sects is the shit!
I find Ivan Wyschnegradsky's microtonal works and microtonal music in general to be disturbing. It's musically precise from a mathematical perspective but our ears and our brains aren't in sync with it so it feels alien. When he mentioned how Black Goat of the Woods was something an alien would listen to I strongly disagreed and thought immediately of microtonal music being the choice for aliens.
You Won't Get What You Want was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this video in the recommended
First time watching your channel. I was surprised and delighted to see relatively mainstream artists like Scott Walker and John Zorn on your list. Any fan of Zorn's Kristallnacht album will likely appreciate Black Angels by George Crumb, which was written as commentary on the Vietnam War. Crumb's composition is centered around the numbers 13 and 7 since they are associated with fate and destiny; the composition coveys a total sense of inescapable desolation and loss. The Kronos Quartet was formed after a violinist heard Black Angels, and the quartet eventually released an amazing rendition of the composition in 1990 on Nonesuch records.
Yes!!!
Buyers Market is one of the worst thing ears could ever hear. Gut wrenching.
I'm curious when it comes to the McMartin school case, and the so-called, 'satanic panic' in general.
Still, I can't make myself listen to it. Even if it's been concluded that what the children say isn't based on fact. I think there's more truth to what they said then what is being led on.
I was rock hard the entire time
I somehow managed to get 3/4 of the way through it before turning it off. Idk how, but I don’t plan on doing it again
I got 2 minutes in before quitting. I felt so sick.
Wtf? Just looked this up and the lyrics. I havent listened to it but the lyrics don't seem like lyrics. They seem like they're a twisted diary or something.
Okay, he elaborated. Makes sense. I think I'll pass on this one
Transformalin by Diagnose: Lebengefahr was one of those rare moments music hits me hard. The whole atmosphere was so oppressive and dark that I felt empty and distant. Felt something similar with Scarsighted by Leviathan. Chills in the spine and awesome artists.
That's Nattramns (Silencer vocalist) project.
One of the most eloquent and informed video essays I've seen in ages. Genuinely impressed, bro. Nice work.
Very good list! Everything in the power electronics, death industrial, noise and experimental/avantgarde stuff can be considered pretty unsettling. For what regards 20th century classical music i would suggest "Requiem" by Ligeti and "Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima" by Penderecki. Many thanks for your work Wyatt
I agree. 20th classical can really be considered proto-scaringthehoes music sometimes. Metastaseis by Xennakis and some parts from Berg's Wozzeck are quite spooky for sure.
This is a great list.
I'd add "Kosmogonia" by Penderecki
Black Mountain Transmitter have an album called 'Oscillator Ritual' which comes with a warning - that it's used for summoning...who knows what ?...but BMT give you fair warning that should something unwelcome materialize while you play it you have no one to blame but yourself. And much respect for discovering 'The Drift' - the most f--king terrifying piece of music i've ever heard. With the possible exception of 'Frankie Teardrop' by Suicide - an 18 minute long minimalist piece about a man going from room to room murdering his family complete with utterly bloodcurdling screams. Thanks for the very enjoyable video and i hope a few of the things i've mentioned meet your standard of disturbing. And if The Drift chilled you too then you set a very high bar indeed.
The Litanies of Satan by Diamanda Galas is one of the most truly demented things I've ever heard. It makes the most Satanic black metal sound like Creed.
Honestly, that album just annoys me, and I've given it a few tries over the years. Although, I do appreciate the intent behind the album itself.
Was going to write this. Normies just don't get it.
Fantastic stuff
@@Mactatio Dude, I'm into really dark shit . And while I appreciate her input yet don't like it much, that doesn't mean you're superior for enjoying it. Get over yourself 🤣
One piece of music, that immediately comes to my mind, when i think of disturbing Albums, is the Prinsoner Ep, by Amelnakru. The Titeltrack in particular has this eerie and unsetteling feel to it.
Good pick. I love the music so much and the vocals are…something else.
"An Evil Heat" by Oxbow is one of the most schizophrenic and unhinged albums ever made. The way Eugene Robinson "sings" (more like yelping, whining, screaming, and sweating than singing) is entirely unique and captivating. The way the music constantly strains and buckles and builds tension but never releasing is insanity. This is one of the best noise rock albums ever made and it is unsettling as all hell.
Holy f dude that was super creepy to listen to
The lyrics from Sawmill are straight off Buyer's Market
@@jimmyjackfunk2003 Are they actually? I had no idea.
Oh yeah i could see it. That's fucking gruesome. You just made it more disturbing for me. jesus.
I used to be friend with Eugene. He is really enigmatic with his short and heartfelt answers. Im stoked for their new album.
that is the heaviest album ive ever listened too holy shit my head hurts
I haven't heard any of these albums but for the first time the first album that genuinely disturbed me and shook me up a little is the downward spiral
the part on dread magnificence with the sample of the woman screaming help me over and over and over really fucked me up. none of his other albums have freaked me out as hard.
culthes des ghoules henbane disturbs me but i can't put my finger exactly on what it is. i love them, but none of their other albums freak me out that way. something about the way henbane builds and crescendos and the raw madness of it really gets to me. the closer track on odd spirituality has a great use of a sample from possession that freaked me out the first couple of times i heard it, but not once i'd seen the movie.
Comus by Comus has some moments that give me goosebumps in an unpleasant way. I also really like David Koresh's songs but i don't think they would freak me out if i didn't know they were recorded while he was marrying child brides and preparing for so many of his people and children to die. i'll have to think more and return to this post.
Nivathe: Enveloped in a diseased abyss.
This album fits perfectly in this topic.
Giles Corey - Giles Corey absolutely shakes me to my core, especially when reading the book he wrote to go along with the record. Really heavy and harrowing account of depression and suicide
Pretty popular album and very good 👍👍
I have two picks, first being Urfe by Axis of Perdition. Axis are an industrial black metal that made a spoken word ambient double album that tells the story of Urfe traveling through a hellish world where everyone has been turned into depraved monsters trying to kill him and it's very grotesque and anxiety inducing. My second pick is The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers. The lyrics to it were mostly written by Richey Edwards and it covers topics such as being a prostitute or a girl with severe anorexia. Richey was known for doing severe self harm and went missing shortly after the album released. He went missing near a popular suicide bridge so it's most likely he killed himself which makes the depressing songs on that album hit that much harder.
So glad someone already mentioned the Holy Bible here!
love axis of perdition, so brutal
I was gonna suggest Urfe. Every single aspect of it. I've never felt on edge listening to a CD until that album came out and it's ridiculously underrated. I can talk about it for hours. And I'm so glad that, in the 800+ comments here - your mention of Urfe is near the top.
Also, Yes is an amazing way to open Holy Bible. The lyrics are honestly shocking! Very rare to find an Axis of Perdition fan who also respects and enjoys Manic Street Preachers.
It’s not metal but Manic Street Preachers “The Holy Bible” has some really dark & depressing lyrics Especially if you know what happened to the lead song writer a few months after it released.
Also Lingua Ignota’s “Sinners Get Ready” puts me in a depression spiral every time I listen to it.
The Holy Bible is darker than any metal album. Those bands sing about disturbing things...Richey was living it.
Love MSP one of my all time favourite non Metal band.... .
I thought no one knows what happened... he just vanished
@@stevenroyle-bp1nj no one definitely knows what happened but judging by Richey's lyrics and general Mental state, more than likely he took his own life
Came here to say this. Essential listening for truly fucked up songwriting.
Comus - First Utterance
Early 70s Folk Horror Occult feel. Part of what I love about this album is that it's genuine. Not contrived or forced for purposeful extremes or attention. It's dark woods eerie. Witchy. Beautiful musicianship and the vocals are wrenching.
I checked it out. I found it about as disturbing as Jethro Tull. It's a kinda cool folk album, though. Vocals are weird. The musicianship is definitely good. To be fair, these guys are way before my time, and I can see how it was kind of disturbing for 1971.
Not disturbing at all. Great album and artwork though.
I'm with you on this one, @rural dust. And, it is especially disconcerting when you know some backstory about the band, mainly the lead singer and principal songwriter, Roger Wootton. I'll say this: The closing track, "The Prisoner", is more-or-less a recounting of true events that transpired in his life while the album's artwork originated as a subsequent byproduct of that tumultuous time prior to the group's establishment.
TO ADD: Still, I find it oddly distasteful -- as parodoxical as it might seem given the subjectivity of art and the entitlement one has to their own opinions about it -- how a "modern" listener might brush someone like Mr Wootton's efforts off as "not disturbing enough" despite the very real hell he went through for a time that consequently birthed such dark creativity -- a hell that perhaps one cannot, or maybe even will not, be empathized with. I, then, imagine if that same someone would have the gall to express such sentiments to his or another 'disturbed' artist's face if given the opportunity (hopefully not, though lol).
I also wonder what the artists listed in the video, and those mentioned here in the comments, would think of our attempts to 'reason' with their art by placing them into this current meme that is the "disturbing music you've probably never heard before" trend: Would they appreciate it, or would they find such efforts futile, misguided and maybe even a little pretentious? From my perspective, the whole culture seems like one big game of one-upsmanship regarding who is the most well-versed in 'disturbing media' while always striving to find the next most disturbing thing that will usurp an already dubious throne of twisted worship. It's an ever accelerating race to the abysmal depths of human pain and suffering; an abyss that tends to be vicariously experienced at someone else's permanent expense for the benefit of another's fleeting amusement.
No way you included black mountain transmitter in here! I actually love that album so much. I've never found it disturbing though, I honestly think it's pretty relaxing
Glad to see it mentioned too. At first listen it kinda rustles the jimmies, because it is not a purely lyrical or instrumented medium, but more so a sensory one. After a few more visits it becomes a nice take on storytelling and an attempt at auditory world building.
I feel the same way. I like getting lost in that one.
I always found Nick Cave's album "Murder Ballads" to be disturbing. It's not that the album sounds creepy or has a dark tone about it. The songs are literally about killing people!
Stagger Lee still a hell of a track.
After reading the book Metallica's 'One' was based on, that song really ate at me much more than before I read the book.
The song "The Evangelist" from Spawn of Possession is also pretty unsettling, lyrics and music fit perfectly to create some seriously messed up vibes.
As far as albums that bother me go, only thing I can think of is pretty much everything Imperial Triumphant puts out, they are really good at making songs that are anxiety ridden.
Aphex Twin has some pretty messed up stuff too.
Johnny Got His Gun
This is a very good list, got a new subscriber. My pick for one of the most disturbing records would be Through Silver in Blood by Neurosis. I just find it so hypnotic and unhinged and then this blood chilling ambience that is going in the background was just too much for me when i heard it the first time. For non-metal probably Cop by Swans, some really fucked up lyrics are there.
I wouldn’t call it disturbing but mOrt by Blut Aus Nord is one of the most unsettling albums I have ever heard. It’s great
I am in love with Blut Aus Nord!
I love how versatile blut is. Real impressive range in song writing
Ever heard AxCx's Picnic of Love? That shit is disturbing.
No its fucking gay
I just saw the gayest comment on earth
John Zorn is quite something. I'm a jazz fan, I encountered Zorn when I got into klezmer. He did some very good and powerful stuff, so I decided to dig into his music. Boy... I can't even imagine a historic heritage like the Holocaust in living memory, but if you need a musical guide to madness, be my guest: Zorn is your man.
Zorn got me into Grindcore with his Naked City albums
What an opening! Atrax Morgue is absolutely disturbing, definitely lived what he preached!
On a purely musical level I’d add Axis of Perdition, especially the Deleted Scenes album…chilling stuff!
Axis Of Perdition are an awesome band. I wish they'd release more. Physical Illucinations was my fav though.
@@starscreamthecruel8026 New stuff might be happening soon-ish. They're tryin' to find a studio atm.
@@KnjazNazrath Are you serious? I've been lost ever since Tenements of the Anointed Flesh. I think Brooke posted saying they were finished. But within the past year or so, there was a side album to Urfe, I'll have to find the name of it. It's like the ambient background sounds to Urfe and nothing more. I think they became "An" Axis of Perdition.
@@Bortsch_ Yeah, it's been kinda up in the air as to what's happenin' for a while. I'm not in direct contact w/ them so I can't verify, but "An" Axis posted aboot lookin' for a studio earlier in the year. Here's hopin'. Nothin' hits quite like Axis.
For me the most disturbing music is the one by a Dutch band called "Stalaggh" (later known as "Gulaggh") had a member who worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands and was looking after him, and this became the artwork for one of the band's albums after the man killed himself. Depending on the story they either kidnapped or conned the hospital into giving them access to some of the more insane patients, and they took them away to a remote location to record "the primal screams of the insane". All of their albums, 6 in total were made using the screams of mentally ill patients layered over guitar and noise. One their most controversial album "Projekt Misanthropia" a schizophrenic man who murdered his mother was taken to a farmhouse with the other patients, and at one point in the album you can hear a scuffle break out as the screams take on a primal, almost demonic edge. That is where the schizophrenic man had tackled and had begun strangling one of the band members so severely that he was almost killed. They also gained access to the children's wing and recorded there, which the band believes is their best work because "children don't hold back their screaming". The session was ended when one of the children broke off their nails after collapsing onto the ground and trying to claw through the concrete while screaming. All of the patients used gave their full permission, because according to the band (whose members are all anonymous) "they hate humanity as much as we do."
Despite all this, many of the patients describe it as the best therapy they've had in years.
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mainstream shit
Yeah what utter shit!
Myths!
If the band hated humanity so much, why was one a nurse?
Yeah, vorkuta was the most haunting of all their discog. Waiting for Kolyma.
Disturbed The Sickness
Creed My Own Prison
Godsmack's complete discography
...this shit makes me shudder everytime I hear it🙉🤮🤘🎠🐧
Lmfao
You sir are a Lightweight
I hope he was joking 😅
@@gabvo5121 so listening to death metal makes you hard. I guarantee you got your ass kicked every day in high school
you had me going for a sec I was about to totally clown you LMAO
Mikko Aspa's project Nicole 12 makes you feel actually uncomfortable and sick when you listen to it. There's lots of stuff that pushes and punishes the listener, but something like Nicole 12 is really hard to listen to.
Definitely agree on that. Generally the whole Finnish Power Electronics scene is completely unhinged, some seriously messed up material and, from what I've read about at least some of them, some seriously messed up people. Other projects I'd recommend are Snuff and Bizarre Uproar which made me similarly uncomfortable.
The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End of Time
Scary concept. If you can get through the whole thing you feel exhausted and beaten.
Admiral Angry - Buster
One of the heaviest and most unique albums in the metal genre I’ve heard. Speaks on everything from suicide attempts to eating crack rocks off a dirty carpet. Insanely good performances by the whole band and was the last works of the mastermind guitarist before passing from a terminal illness.
I was going to mention The Caretaker. I could only listen to a little bit of it. It takes you on a terrifying journey through its several stages and gives you what I fear is a very accurate depiction of what it’s like to get Alzheimer’s. It is truly the scariest thing I’ve ever heard.
Agreed. The Caretaker's "Everywhere..." absolutely broke me. Absolutely horrifying, heartbreaking, and emotionally devastating stuff.
I was thinking about the caretaker too
This is a very disturbing topic, but I think dementia is not even close to the crazy, schizoid, necrophilia shit going on with Atrax Morgue. Pure insanity is very frightening !
Excellent call. The Caretaker is definitely for the brave listener.
The Downward Spiral from NiN has always disturbed me. Every song gets you further down the spiral and when it ends i just feel like breaking down and cry in a corner
I would say Brighter Death Now 'Innerwar' 1996 (I still remember the first time listening to that album on headphones back in the summer of 1998). I thought the burnt-corpse art theme was the fitting imagary for such a dark and scathing album. There are more/other disturbing releases from Brighter Death Now but 'Innerwar' was my introduction to death-industrial (which has still remained an underground genre in my opinion). *Let's not forget the originator Boyd Rice...his NON discography still holds up ('God and Beast' and 'Children of the Black Sun' are both classic death-ambient releases in my collection).
Oh my gosh it seems to me like I've been waiting for such a video for forever, cause I got tired a lil bit of just dark/horror ambient though I've always loved these things. I love how thoughtfully you've described each of the albums. I've heard of some. But now I'm obviously gonna listen to them just for some new experience. I wanna feel something like existential horror from musicians making some serious and disturbing statements with their music or whatever they call it. If I would get that feeling I crave then I call it an art. Because I believe music was never just about sad/funny songs. Music can perform terraforming inside one's mind. And that's just breathtaking. Thanks man!
I think Kapala's "Infest Cesspool" is a great example of a 'disturbing' album. Harsh warnoise all about misanthropy, war, genocide, extinction, and anything else relating to the suffering of humanity. I know themes of war and death aren't exactly uncommon in metal music, but Kapala manages to so perfectly encapsulate the feelings of chaos and dread. Especially in outro titled "Atrocity Cacophony." Sounds of gunfire, screaming, and marching which you could believe is audio taken from a real warzone. And not only is the album so good at capturing the terror of war, it's just unbelievably heavy too. It's not pure noise, there's rhythm and distinguishable instruments. Kapala's other albums manage to channel similar emotions, but I don't think any of them are quite as mesmerizingly dreadful as "Infest Cesspool"
i wouldn't call infest cesspool disturbing, it goes pretty hard
@@22tfortnitevevo Oh, don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite albums of all time. I just think because of the themes it could be considered disturbing.
Glad you made this. I look at some
Music as an experience. To immerse myself in the art without a view of rather it is good or bad, just take the ride. I like to take the ride with music that makes me feel strongly in one way or another.
Stalaggh's Pure Misanthropia is the most messed up I've heard. Intentionally seeing out to make the most unpleasant experience they could, they got permission to go into a mental health hospital and the crazed ramblings and odd noises of the patients there are scattered throughout the jarring music.
It's not music. And I say that as someone who DL'd Pure Misanthropia and gave it space on my phone. The whole album.
It's something. It's not music.
I never believed that story
Randomly recommended your video. Digging it. Would love to see a video on the saddest albums you know. Personally, River Runs Red by Life Of Agony with the context of who the singer is and the lyrics are really sad but every song is very good
My most disturbing album would be a crow looked at me by mount eerie its a album written in journal form detailing their thoughts and feelings about their wife dying of cancer just days and weeks after it happened i have never finished it before in one sitting i cant get past the song real death
Quality stuff!!! And you dropped in John Zorn, who's entertained me for literally decades. Best way for people to grapple with him for the first time would be to assemble a random "party mix", but with Zorn's Naked City tracks scattered in there. Succinct little bursts of sonic vandalism! You haven't learned to enjoy EVERYTHING in music until you've seen some frat boy twitching to Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" who suddenly has to deal with a random 45-second burst of pandemonium. Priceless!
But the one album that pushed me back on my heels? For about a decade now, my "gold standard", hands down: Sunn o))) and "Black One". Goddamn...what a difficult album.
Now, my background in composition has seen me grapple with difficult music since the mid-1970s. I think that Throbbing Gristle is jaunty and poppy. "Black One", OTOH, is one massive, crushing wall of sonic devastation. I have listened to it once and ONLY once...not because I don't like it, but because that album is intensely oppressive. The one time I played my vinyl copy, I kept having to take longer and longer pauses between sides just to get through it! Soundwise...hmm...imagine Phil Spector's "wall of sound" repurposed as a WMD. Crushing, oppressive, and by the time you make it to side 4, you're both mentally and physically wrecked. That last side, btw, has their rather claustrophobic singer sealed inside a coffin in the studio with his mic. When you get done with it (or should it be when IT gets done with YOU?), the proper reaction is just stunned silence...what can you say after that!?
John Zorns album is a brilliant yet messed up, it is so unsettling
The most disturbing albums I know are the one I find at the bottom of Wyattxhim's icebergs. And everything with the tag "death industrial".
About Atrax Morgue: I discovered Marco Corbelli's project through Wyatt's video about industrial and through Thismachinekillsmusic's video. I am Italian, and finding out Mr. Corbelli's work was shocking, because I felt I could understand the environment, the architectures that surrounded him. Maybe his work isn't good in a canonical way, but his raw honesty is what struck me. It made me say: yes, also in sunny Italy we have our collapsing buildings (both in a real and in a metaphorical/emotional sense ).
P. S: thanks Wyatt for making me wanting to know more about Gnaw Their Tongues. I purchased All The Dread because of your collection recap, and it was truly an experience.
I absolutely love Black Mountain Transmitter...it takes alot for me to consider anything truly disturbing in its own right & I don't take works to be ultimately to heart pre-say...projects like Gruntsplatter, Theologian, or even Navicon Torture Technologies are so gorgeous within its own form of creation.
These videos are great. You're a real dude. A real person. I love your authenticity and honesty. I would love to chat. You're a font of knowledge.
A lot of this stuff like Stalaghh, Gnaw Their Tongues, etc. is just so tryhard disturbing in an adolescent-deep sort of way that it just overshoots and simply isn't disturbing to me. "Bro... We used the vocals MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS! Over a bunch of atonal noises and creepy ambience!" it's like, ok, that's nice. Meanwhile I still find random canonized (and relatively "harmless" by modern metalhead standards) stuff like Death's Leprosy somewhat disturbing because the talent communicates the intended atmosphere.
From what I remember, Giles Corey’s self-titled is what I’d pick. That, or the album by Mado Robin that recorded people without a larynx speaking. Like an orchestra of balloons popping.
Edit: Not Stalaggh. I was thinking about the album by Mado Robin. It’s still worth a listen just out of pure curiosity. It was made in 1964, so it’s double interesting.
I couldn’t finish that Giles Corey album, and usually it takes a lot to truly disturb me
@@acanofvancampsbeaneeweenee2037 I love him one of my favorite non metal artists.
Would you prefer the Stalaggh stuff to Gulaggh? I always found Vorkuta really unnerving
@@sVieira151 I honestly haven’t listened to enough of their stuff to make that choice. I can’t even remember the title of the album I referenced in the original comment. Apparently it wasn’t a stalaggh album. It was made by Mado Robin and unknown, “voice actors”.
@@ancienthybrid400 ah, no worries. I know Stalaggh and Gulaggh (same guys) recorded patients in mental facilities. I remember them saying they were going to try and record people who were deaf from birth but I'm not sure anything ever came of that
I would add to the list
Sunn O))) with Merzbow - Flight of The Behemoth (mostly for the track O))) Bow 2)
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time (moslty for the last stages)
Jacob Kirkegaard - Opus Mors (clinical field recordings around the theme of death)
Vatican Shadow - Remember Your Black Day (for the traumatic remembrance haunting the tracks)
Ah I just commented about The Caretakers.
For me Aghast's "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" album is probably the most "disturbing" thing I've heard. Did use to sleep to it a lot though, so not sure how disturbing you can call it.
Absolute classic ritualistic ambient album. Nice pick!
EXCELLENT recommendation.
I’d call it very disturbing. Puts some hairs up on the back of the neck for sure.
The fact that Andrea Haugen from Aghast was murdered a few years back, makes the atmosphere even more intense.
Yeah I have that one on CD. I used to listen to music to get to sleep, and I had one of my most brutal nightmares when I played that one.
Again cool video, one thing i want to point out - night of the broken glass wasn't in "Germany occupied by nazis", it was in the moment of history when nazis were ruling over Germany (they weren't occupying their own country) and it was initiated by the state authorities.
Endon - Acme Apathy Amok (ep, not the track) is definitely what's shook me the most. might just fall under the "more noise, whatever" category for some but, its like being sucked into a vortex of chaos that exists for the sake of chaos. it sounds like the world splitting in half and burning in fast forward. just absolute soul, mind-rending madness.
The Endon guys make some equally vicious pedals under MASF
oh god i love endon they have a beautiful sound
Mama is one of the most terrifying and beautiful albums I’ve ever experienced
Strangely enough I have all those albums.Try my ' The Best Fred and Rose West album ... Ever ', it hits the disturbing with consummate ease.
The most disturbing SONG I’ve ever heard has to be “Strange Fruit” by Nina Simone. Just everything about the song. Knowing how she was involved in fighting against exactly what the song was about, the brutal reality that the lyrics portray, how viscerally detailed those lyrics are, all with how beautifully she sings it. It’s a Billie Holiday song, but it’s Nina who drives it into my soul.
Some other recommendations here. Screech Owl by Wold is one of my all time favorite disturbing metal albums. Also, the split album by Spectral Lore and Underjordiska is quite unsettling yet strangely hopeful by the end as it documents one's journey to the bottom of the ocean and back up again
Freemasonry by Wold aswell, pretty fucked-up vocal style.
"The Disintegration Loops" by William Basinski, "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid" by Stars of the Lid, "Sadness Will Prevail" by Today Is the Day and "The Drift" by Scott Walker (that you mentioned yourself)
*Diamanda Galas*!! Anything, really, but I’d go either with Saint of the Pit or - if you’re a really hard player - Vena Cava. But really, anything in here. From Litanies of Satan (not what you think) up to the last record, she’s simply otherworldly.
Fantomas: first (Amenazza del Mundo) or Delirium Cordia.
Plus: as left hook: George Crumb, Black Angels. A different category of disturbing altogether; sort of like Scott Walker to your other choices.
Happy listening :-)
PS.
Khanate has already been mentioned, but I’d say their first two are superior to the third one (below). Unbelievable. The vocalist had another project later called simply: Gnaw (without the other two words in the name), that’s also worth your time.
Great choice with Scott Walker; he also had an album with Sunno))); great stuff.
Thanks for the video.
Only album on your list I’ve heard is The Drift, and my first listen was definitely one of the most disturbing listening experiences I’ve ever had. Had me in the fetal position by the halfway mark, let alone by the end.
If I remember right, that Zorn album comes with a warning because of the one track that’s high frequency noise that simulates the violence of that night.
This video also made me think of the album Consumed by the electronic artist Richie Hawtin. Very sparse, dark, hypnotic and lurking type of sounds. No lyrics, just subdued electronic percussion with lots of reverb. Experiencing the whole album will definitely put you in a different state of mind.
You’d be partially correct about the first statement - it does contain a warning for “Never Again”, but not for the reason you gave. The liner notes say…
“CAUTION: NEVER AGAIN contains high frequency extremes at the limits of human hearing & beyond, which may cause nausea, headaches & ringing in the ears. Prolonged or repeated listenings is not advisable as it may result in temporary or permanent ear damage. -- the composer”
Yeah this list checks out, some gnarly stuff here. I'd also say check out some of "OG" 's works (of the band Oppress) and his K.V.N.T. Kolektiv label.
I see you Godflesh Vinyl. And nice Exhumed shirt lol 😁
Hellow, good video, I also wanna share some of my favorite disturbing albums (and some classics too):
Xiu Xiu - Girl with basket of fruit
Swans - Soundtrack for the blinds
Lingua Ignota - Caligula/All Bitches Die
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Uboa - The Origin of my Depression
Daughters - You wont get what you want
Current98 - I have a special plan for this world
Death Grips - No Love, Deep Web (this one actually isn’t scary but it feels like a bad trip lmao)
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time
“Hatred For Mankind” by Dragged Into Sunlight is pretty disturbing when you think about the samples they used & the context of the band themselves, but goddamn I love that album & they’re one of my favorite metal bands. Brutal & badass lol
Hey i just discovered Dragged into sunlight and am interested in what you mean by "the context of the band themselves"
@@Dead_Gone just kinda the mystery around their personas & stuff, don’t think they’ve ever shown their faces as far as I know. The way they carry themselves on stage like not facing the crowd/their setup too. Not really “disturbing” I guess I just think it adds to the atmosphere. They haven’t done anything actually fucked up I don’t think lol
You should check out Skin Chambers two releases, Wound and Trial. Wound both lyrically and musically, is the soundtrack to a trip through hell. As a side note, both members of Skin Chamber are also members of Controlled Bleeding
5-deathspell omega-Fas ite
4-carcass-reek of putrefaction
3-primitive man-caustic
2-portal-Avow
1-plebeian grandstand-rien ne suffit (easily the most challenging fucking record i've ever Heard....i know that there's more abrasive and noisy records....but for me this album truly captures all negative energies and the closest i ever shit my pants listen to music!!!
Dude I see you in the comments of every Ulcerate video lmao. Very good choices here, all these albums are sick!
how is reek of putrefaction disturbing that album unironically slaps
@@22tfortnitevevo the atmosphere It creates is fucking diabolical bro....truly even Deep down in extreme music that album still gives me the Chills
@@isaackmojica8302 i beg to differ, for me its just a cool sounding goregrind album, but i guess its subjective
That Plebeian Grandstand album is so good.
I just came across your channel. As a music lover "especially Metal music" who tends to stay away from the more popular stuff thats out there, and the best reason I can tell you why, is that its ubiquitous and easy to find, no matter what one might point out is so good about it, its still ubiquitous and easy to find, not so much that Im not open to give whatever a listen, Ive always been much more pleased with the music that I found a bit off the treaded path, ya got to do a little digging to find. the stuff that isn't thrown at you constantly in the media or on a T shirt with unreadable font...lol. There is a lot of stuff out there that is no longer in print, or the band put out one or 2 super heavy Death or Doomy stuff thats absolutely beautiful, but then they suddenly changed their style and has only tiny little hints of the super heavy band they started out as. I apologize, Ive yapped too much. I appreciate coming across another human who likes and can introduce me to some Beautifully disturbing , off the beaten path Metal. I enjoy it GREATLY. Thanks. Stay Frosty,Sir.
A couple more disturbing albums:
Black Funeral - Moon Of Characith (the weird vocals on this are unsettling)
Black Pentecost - Funeral Winds In Paradise
Dark Ages - The Tractatus de Hereticis et Sortilegiis (mainly because it has a great, creepy vibe to it, in my opinion. Love it!)
Also, I really dig the Gnaw Their Tongues / Dragged Into Sunlight collaboration. Disturbing, somewhat, but I really enjoy this one.
Black Funeral definitely takes the cake!
Check out Michael W Fords other projects like Hexentanz, Psychonaut 75 etc. if you haven’t already. He also recently has been doing a dark ambient project as Akhtya
I have a huge industrial collection... here are the ones which I find genuinely difficult to listen to:
Martin Bladh - Dirge; The Peter Sotos Files (concentrated Sotos with musical backing, even more disturbing than "Buyer's Market" or his Whitehouse appearances)
Con-Dom - How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die (the bleak unvarnished horror of old age, physical decay and death which awaits us all)
Sutcliffe Jugend - The Victim As Beauty (unbearably intense and detailed evocation of the kidnapping, torture, r-pe and murder of a single victim)
Marco Corbelli was a great guy. I ordered a lot of tapes from his Slaughter Productions in the period. He was courteous, honest and had a great love and passion for the scene.
Just wondering, where did you find that John Zorn album. The link you gave only sends me to live show. Zorn's great, but I always hate how much of hassle he makes finding his music online.
Okay now I see why you stopped buyers market at 2 mins in
i cant go past 16 minutes its all talking to this point
Cool video, not saying they necessarily fit on this list but I'd be interested in hearing what you think of The Rita, some of their sonics seem like they'd fit this category. Big ups!
Chat Pile's album God's Country was the last one I found disturbing. Really intense, amazing vocal performance that captures madness and nihilism while still being very musical and emotional
Immediately thought of this album when I saw the video title. Their vocalist legitimately sounds like he’s having a mental breakdown in grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg
I find it really emotionally intense, one of those albums I wish there was a break in the middle, or maybe that I was listening to it on vinyl and had to stop and change the side and take a breather. Intense and really good
Not sure if it qualifies as an album but the Jim Jones Death Tape, a live recording of the legendary killings has also been released on several labels. Mostly industrial labels.
I still consider "Spiderland" by Slint to be one of the most disturbing albums I've ever heard. And not because it's scary sounding or torturous. But because it is _literally a personification of depression._ There's something so incredibly haunting and surreal about it's themes of depression present in the "lyrics" (which might as well just be spoken word), and it makes you think it isn't with its first track, but then you get to songs like "Nosferatu Man" and "Don, Aman" and it just gets _weird._ I can also say that any time I hear the album (which is pretty rare unless I'm in a bad, bad mood), I always find myself drained and even more depressed. I can't even explain how, it just _is._ That's the power of _Spiderland._
normie
Great album, ignore this gatekeeping incel above me
@@Whocares1987 never said it wasn't. It's just a normie pick for something so terribly disturbing. I've got the album on cd, a shirt of it, and a youtube series based on the album coming soon.
@@DukeofItaly I’d hardly call it fitting for a disturbing pick yah, but in no way a “normie” album when 99% of the population has no idea what it is
@@Whocares1987 fair enough. I'm sure they consider thrash metal disturbing
alot of tracks off of boards of canadas a few old tunes and old tunes tapes particuarly Statue of Liberty give me an immense feeling of paranoia and just childlike fear with how boards of canada approaches their music also current 93 has a thomis liggoti narration or excerpt from a book called "i have a special plan for this world" that gives off this unnerving lovecraftian schizo spoeken word piece that always makes me feel like im contracting secondhand psychosis from listening to it
What I like about Atrax Morgue is that it is fun to listen to. A lot of power electronics, noise and so on is very intense, but also not particularly memorable. And yet I can remember every AM track I've heard. They're distinct and even have subtle hooks and flourishes.
Check out Mauthausen Orchestra. Also a more creative PE project than, let's say, Whitehouse.
@@Gekneveld Yeah, my experience with Whitehouse can be best summed up as WAAAAAAAH SCREEECH YOU CUUUUUUUNT! HITLER
I used to lived in the South East, so that's more like a day-to-day event than extreme noise.
"Dogs Blood Rising" by Current 93 and "Anhedoniac" by Jarboe are a couple of albums that are darker/disturbing than any of the death, grind, noise, doom etc I've listened to.
Through Silver in Blood by Neurosis is disturbing to me. I don’t know how to describe the why but it does
Definitely.
If you listen to this album without distraction... it is a journey through the depths of existence.
Majestic and relentless for sure.
Such a good album
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Atrax!! His records became expensive after his suicide... I was a big fan of Diamanda Galàs so I met him at a festival where she was also playing. Industrial music always had a more realistic approach to violence than metal (metal tends to be more theatrical). Especially Italian industrial music is unadulterated when it comes to politics or sex (see Bianchi as well for example). Scott Walker, despite his mainstream success, always had a dark persona (like Bowie for example)... his later works are very operatic which can be perceived as "metal" about it in my opinion.
So are these albums just records with random annoying noise on them? I listened to Atrax Morgue after watching this and there was nothing scary or disturbing about it. Just sounded like a bunch of random noises you would hear in a scary movie like Sinister with the snuff films. Did i miss something?