The most disturbing listening I've had was Nostalgia Critic's The Wall... it's basically a hour of a person going insane. After a few listens I can handle most of it, but there's one song that haunts me to this very day. The album closer Spongebob Theme with Corey Taylor might be the most haunting piece of media I've ever digested.
I saw lingua open up for the band Daughters in San Francisco. She absolutely blew everyone thee fuck away to the point where people started leaving. She came out in a pitch black room holding a lantern that was the only light in the venue. She spoke latin and would swing the lantern around hitting her legs until she would bleed. She littleraly beat the shit out of herself with that lantern all while speaking Latin and not breaking Character. I'll never forget that.
The stuff by Lingua Ignota _after_ all the abuse she suffered at the hands from the guy from Daughters is brutal. _Sinner get ready_ is one of those albums where the emotions are raw as fuck, and basically an exorcism of trauma. Krystin no longer performs as Lingua Ignota because of the emotional toil it brings to her.
Pissgrave - Suicide Euphoria I've been listening to it for weeks and it's just so incredibly serious and genuine in its tone about death and presents it in a very real way as opposed to a more abstract or exaggerated way as is common in death metal. And it doesn't take it to the point of ridiculousness like, say, gorenoise. It keeps a strong sense of musicality while sonically exploring the absolute worst places to go.
Just sounds like good early death metal. Even tho I didn't like that cover art.😂 Since alot of the bands featured here are just noise bands. It's nice to see something with structure.
Whenever I come across a “disturbing” album, I always tend to listen more than once. It’s just so fascinating the sounds people can make through music.
@@gash5907 They were a 90s heavy metal band that was originally from Houma, Louisiana and they have have a strong cult following in that state. They were only able to create two albums of excellent quality due to the band’s break up. Their work is considered to be great according to many.
Thank you for your recommendations! I have to throw in Last Rights by Skinny Puppy as when I first heard it years ago, it haunted me for days. Especially the last track Download, is quite a journey in soundscaping. It's become an album I've grown to love over the years but man did it have a big impact upon first hearing.
In your last video Leng Tch'e by Naked City was brought up. I've listened to it and OH BOY... They were right (and it's awesome). Nothing says disturbing like an album that wants to be literally the musical rendition of a gruesome deadly torture. And it's amazing to know that Fred Frith is on the bass: never imagined to find the guitarist of my beloved Henry Cow doing drone metal (and grindcore in the other works by Naked City). This is definitely the right time line.
I don’t know anything about the Stalaagh album or where they’re from. But you probably don’t see the real names of the patients there because it would be a massive violation of confidentiality. If they figured out which guy from the band did that, he’d be opening himself up to a huge mess of legal trouble.
Another really dark and unhinged album is The Haxan Cloak´s " Excavation " imho ..speak of Horror music . The current 93 " I have a special plan for this world " is without a doubt Steve Stapleton and Tibet at their most unhinged ,music feels like you´re switching from a circle of Hell into another ... with no apparent end in sight , as you pointed out . Truly dark stuff . Thanks for some of the recommendations you left here which I wasn´t even aware existed . Take care !
I actually relistened to _Everything at the end of the time_ and it's still very uncomfortable and depressing. There's something so uncomfortable with the records showing the progression of dementia, especially with the final stage.
At The Base of The Giant’s Throat by Battle of Mice has a really disturbing section in it. You just have to hear it for yourself. And Delirium Cordia by fantomas is probably the most disturbing album I’ve ever listened to. One of the only things in the world that can make me feel uneasy.
David Bowie’s Outside isn’t nearly as twisted and f-ed up as most of the record being mentioned, but it has some truly haunting sounds and a bleak, disturbing vision of the future. It’s also a concept album with a non-linear story that plays out like a fever dream.
Holy shit. I just realized that vinyl on your shelf is "God was Created" by Vehemence. That's not a band many people bring up anymore but they deserve their flowers.
If you ever end up doing a follow up to this, my personal choice would be GR By Deathpile Its a Noise/Power Electronics album about the Green River Killer with most of the songs being from his perspective. Its obviously loud noisy and fucked up, given its Power Electronics but combine this with the imagery the album paints it ends up going the extra mile. The only respite on the album is a 12 minute track, listing the 48 known victims of the killer, their ages and the last time they were seen alive. Probably the hardest listen for any Power Electronics
Here are some that I know: Puce Marry - The female form Nurse with wound - Rupture Current 93 - I have a special plan for this world Puce Marry - The drought Iron Sight - To you who broke my heart
Great stuff: lots of interesting albums to check out. I found Filth by SWANS fairly unpleasant in its themes and sonic violence (especially Freak). Taste by The Telescopes and Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy sounded pretty fierce and full of themes of exploitation, violence, despair and addiction. I was surprised to hear The Haxan Cloak in the background of the previous video but not have Excavation mentioned as another really quite scary album.
I'm so happy to see Diamanda Galás get some recognition. I love her music she's so good. Her cover of gloomy Sunday maybe one of my favorite covers of all time.
Suicide - Suicide (1977) What you hear in this album is simply a synthesiezer and a voice. But it's sounds more like a heart beating fast and over that an empty voice singing in fear. The album is most known for the song Frankie Teadrop which tells the story of a man who kills his family and then kills himself. One of the most disturbing songs i have ever heard
To me, the most disturbing albums are Indwell by Methwitch(a concept album where guy tries to summon the wealth demon, but instead opens a portal and other demons came in and torture him endlessly), Dahmer by Macabre(about a life, crimes and death of Jeffry Dahmer, a real serial killer that killed 30 guys, with very detailed description of his life, murders, and death. Not the scariest sounding album, but it's still the best album for Halloween, I especially like how some songs are rearranged nursery rhymes from your childhood) and Dragged Into Sunlight's Hatred For Mankind(the name really describes the contents of the album, pure attrocity. You will hear the most hatred induced vocals, the most menacing guitar riffs, and samples from interviews with serial killers(you may already know the Charlie Manson))
Type O Negative’s World Coming down isn’t the most disturbing album, but it’s an album based on a personal experience with drug addiction, and it’s pretty accurate
The Axis of Perdition sounds right up my alley as a massive fan of the Silent Hill franchise and dark ambient/industrial/black metal. Gonna have to check it out. Cheers Wyatt!
If you were to make another video like this, I'd *highly* recommend bringing up more of Rudolf Eber's work, as he has some stuff you haven't talked about that just ... goes fucking overboard. Goat Blood Communion is one of those releases, the atmosphere of it makes you feel like you're listening to something that was leaked during an investigation into some kind of cult or fucking disturbed killer. I also recommend bringing up Endless Dismal Moan, I know you are aware of that project. Enemite is another one worth bring up, a black ambient project that just feels ... wrong. Edit: Congrats on the engagement btw, Wyatt :)
@@wyattxhim I can't listen to most of his work, which says a fucking lot considering I can listen to pretty much the entirety of the Gnaw Their Tongues discography lol. I would also highly recommend looking into another band someone else has mentioned, Discharge by Death, a Brutal Death Metal band formed by prisoners. I won't talk about their crimes, but they are fucking horrific.
i listened to everywhere at the end of time a couple of years ago in one sitting and got extreme paranoia and feelings of deep sorrow for about a week after It was the most disoriented ive ever felt as a result of music and my entry into my interest in more abstract takes on music. I cant really recommend it as it left me in the state is did but i cant say i regret it as it showed such a different approach to sound and music that id never thought existed
Stalaggh's album probably never will have names given out because that breaches patient privacy. It was a big issue when The Cramps played a gig in a mental institute too.
I am really surprised that I only saw one person in the comments mentioned Gnaw Their Tongues, Abyss of Longing Throats I find pretty disturbing, but pretty much anything from them is. Also, Dragged into the Sunlights N.V., which is a compilation album with Gnaw Their Tongues is one of my favorite disturbing albums.
While I myself have fallen asleep to Infesters "To The Depths, In Degradation" and genuinely enjoy it, there are times when I wonder if it was recorded in actual Hell.
I remember my friend Ollie told me about this album when we were having lunch at Burger King one day, he introduced me to a lot of black metal bands like Nyktalgia, Bethlehem, Total Negation, Be Persecuted etc, he mentioned this project called Stalaggh, he described it as "walking around an insane asylum without taking a break", I researched it on RU-vid and he was totally right. It's borderline art more than music.
Great vids. After reading everything (from both videos), the only thing I could think of is Dion McGregor's lp The Dream World of Dion McGregor (He talks in his Sleep). I haven't listened to it for a while, so maybe it's more interesting than disturbing.
Checkout both bands by the name Disgorge and their albums (there may be a third Disgorge band too but I am only familiar with Disgorge from Mexico and Disgorge from San Diego California).
The EP Yout Won't Miss the Sun Again by Virgina Aveline is probably the most disturbing but eerily calming dark ambient ep i've heard. It feels like a lost and damaged soundtrack to an old Sailer Film
I don't know if could say his albums because it's just black metal at the end of the day. But the music videos for the few of his songs, mixed with the music, creates a genuine sense of unease. Namely the music videos for "Gates to the Yog-Sothoth" and "Awakening of Kadath". Another song that really stands out on its own, in terms of creating that feeling, is "Sayyid of Shadows". Ossadogva is easily one of my favorite black metal bands.
In terms of recordings which actually make me uncomfortable to listen too, I actually like a lot of Jandek albums, but the solo voice recordings he did are way too creepy for me. Also Charles Manson's "Lie" album and the Jonestown recordings are probably things that I wouldn't want to re-hear again (especially the Jonestown tape)
I was late to the party, but in december I listened to Suicide - Suicide, and damn man, Frankie Teardrop. There even was a challenge where you were supposed to listen to the whole song, in the dark. I'm not really used to experimental music and ambient as I don't have such patience anymore, even though I try, but that song made me really feel disturbed and not in a AMANANAMANANA OHAHAHA kinda way.
Brainbombs - Obey, for sure. You don't get more disturbing than that. For some dark, dark stuff (musically speaking), try Premature Ejaculation - Anesthesia. Another musician that killed himself very young. I appreciate your videos, cheers.
I somewhat found Brainbombs rather funny than disturbing, just in a very dark humor type of way. It's just too over the top, and I cannot really find the singer threatening because he sounds just drunk. That's by no means an insult, I love this album and band.
Most disturbing album I know of that never gets mentioned and easily forgotten is Bloodshed by Krisiun mostly due to the final outro track on the album. While most of the album are a collection of old demo recording with some fresh material, the outro with its beating heart (literally) and droning ambience ending with a haunting guitar solo feels as if walking deeper into the pits of hell itself awaiting eternal suffering. Truly one of my favorites and one of the most haunting ambient tracks ever recorded imo worth a listen through that lp even just for that one track but rest of the album has onimous instrumentals as well.
Also, I came across your “most disturbing albums” suggestions last night. I hit play since I was just watching things before bed, expecting that it would be another lame RU-vid video with someone who didn’t know anything about music. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised to hear you mention Peter Sotos and Whitehouse. You actually made a real disturbing albums list that I can get along with. Massive kudos to you and your library, my man.
@@Dungavenhooter-1700 his interview in Apocalypse Culture 2 is pretty uncomfortable. It’s like sometimes you don’t know if he’s purposely trying to be uncomfortable, or if he’s really that disturbed.
I'm suprised Chat Pile hasn't made the list. Their latest, God's Country, has songs about surviving a mass shooting, a father pondering the (possibly intentional) drowning of a child, and other horrible scenarios, all while the lead singer blasts you with the most deranged, desperate vocals you've ever heard. If this album doesn't give you literal shivers you aren't human.
Heinous killings hung by barbwire. Very similar to hatred for mankind where artwork/music/vocals/samples work together to make an especially dark album. That being said what gets me is all of the mystery arround it. The sounds (you will get what I am saying after a listen) have been performed live, but no one exactly knows how the vocalist is doing anything like this. Supposedly he was also homeless at the time. Additionally with almost no reissues and only one album and a few splits/singles the band remains very obscure.
Some uncomfortable and controversial albums that I know and can remember for now, tried to keep it short and diverse: M8L8TH: By the Wing of Black (nsbl) Dalek: From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots (hip-hop) Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F# A# infinity (post rock) [my catatonic state album] Silencer: Death - Pierce me (black) Scraping Foetus off the Wheel: Nail (alt rock) The Residents: Duck Stab (alt indie) Pig Heart Transplant: Hope You Enjoy Heaven (Sludge Noise?) Lurker of Chalice: Self Titled (black ambient) Painkiller: Guts of a Virgin (noise) Merzbow: An Untroublesome Defencelessness (abstract metal) Bell Witch: Longing (funeral) Ruins of Beverast: Rain upon the impure (atmospheric black doom) Take note of: M8L8TH The Residents GY!BE Silencer Pig Heart Transplant Bell Witch
My friends sister showed my Sun0))) when I was about 12. Maybe not too disturbing, but it sure freaked me out as a kid. Also, I know it’s not an album but my first introduction to black metal was from a band called Thy Antichrist. His screams disturbed me and the corpse paint is still like nothing I have seen. Look up the video of them in Colombia in 2008. It’s freaky.
What always jumps to the front of my mind with disturbing albums is Deathrites part 1 by Deathrites Inanis 定め. great dark ambient noise bm that never fails to send a chill up my spine, It gives me a real sense of paranoia while like I'm being stalked through a dark forest. really great stuff and if you haven't heard it i couldn't recommend it enough
Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me and ACWELANs entire discography basically are both really eerie, not sure if I personally find abruptum that disturbing but it has an aura to it, as for ACWELAN Im not sure how to describe my feelings when I hear their stuff
Damn, I forgot to mention Jarboe - Sacrificial Cake in the previous video. No Era Solida by Lucrecia Dalt is very eerie as well. Definite nightmare fuel.
And End... - Between Light and Lies The work of a madman, Roman Lomovsky, who accidentally hung himself by falling asleep on a noose at a playground near an elementary school less than 2 months after releasing the album. Rest in Peace
Thanks, enjoyed these two videos. My 5 cents worth: Lustmord - The Monstrous Soul Krzystof Penderecki - Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima Scott Walker - Bish Bosch Kengo Iuchi - 花狂いの夜 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience Death in June - All Pigs Must Die Dogs Blood Order - Dogs Blood Order Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs At The Gates Of Heaven)
I really loved this video and the previous one too. I don't know how disturbing it is, but I'd like to recommend Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange's "Inventions for Radio: The Dreams". Basically it's really early experimental electronic and tape recording music from 1964, with a collage of people describing their dreams. It's super creepy and eerie, especially the track "Falling". It's amazing that it was made in 1964, almost 60 years ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WCF_mHKBH3k.html
I really wanna recommend "Joko sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne" (translated from finnish to "either you get down here or I'll come up there"). This album is a collaboration between experimental ambient/folk/rock band Paavoharju and rapper Paperi T. I discovered this album just this week and it's definitely one of the creepiest things I've heard in a while. Some really textured and psychedelic production from Paavoharju with these metallic, almost industrial sounding percussion and some very atmospheric, twisted vocal and organ samples among other things. Paperi T:s lyrics delve into a lot of occult and depressing subjects. All of this gives you the feeling of being stuck in a deep, haunting forest or some run down, abandoned village in rural Finland. All of the lyrics are in finnish and I haven't seen any translations online so I wanna highlight some of the lyrical content for people who don't know the language. The song 'Penuel' for instance is this warbly piece with these unnerving deep vocals which are performed in an almost liturgical sung-spoken word. The tempo and pitch of the track go constantly up and down adding to the creepiness. But the most disturbing part here are the lyrics making it easily the most blasphemous song I've probably ever heard. The song essentially describes a celestial vision in grave detail, but instead of it being beautiful and heavenly it is the most vile and disgusting description of God's temple just being a hellhole of sweat, rot and shit with God surrounded by lobotomized worshippers and cherubi riddled with necrosis. There's also the song Tattarisuo 1931 which essentially is inspired by a wave of corpse-defiling occult rituals in the area of Tattarisuo in the thirties. When the culprits were eventually caught they were said to be chanting something along the lines of: "We are the second power, when the third power arrives the world will come to an end." A modified version of this chant is presented here as the chorus of the track. This incident gets referenced again in the title of the closing track called "Kolmas voima" (the third power), which is a really nightmarish dark ambient piece. It essentially ends off the album by bringing forth the apocalypse. This is just me scratching the surface of this album's lyrics btw. There is a conceptuality to it that I haven't been quite able to put my finger on yet but the way I interpret it is it's generally about humankind's relationship with God (with the title of the album pointing in that direction too). I Highly recommend you check this one out if you're into disturbing experimental hip hop music.
I understand this is a few months old, but I still felt like talking about this one band. Kalmankantaja was formed in 2011 out of Hyvinkää, Finland, and started off as a dsbm band and then moved into atmospheric. I like their music selectively and sporadically, but what really made me enjoy them was their demo album Elämä on Kuoleva Huora. It just feels so.. raw. It actually made me terrified and hesitant to listen to it for a while, with the harsh noise in the background just.. helping my mind fixate on one emotion, or completely shut it off. It's disturbing to me still, especially with the lyrics from Yksinäisyys being so brutal. I'd say it's worth checking out, if you ever see this comment! I am both scared to listen to them, but it can also be therapeutic whenever I need it, which has been a lot as of recent. Thank you!
"Disturbing" it's subjective I'd say, so when it comes to disturbing music, I immediately think of Araxas and Skar. Both not because of their sound, which still very creepy and unsettling tho, but because of the context, stories and mysteries around them. Araxas is a DSBM project and back in 2009 the person behind it released some demos being just 15 yeas old, and it just makes it so impactful what a 15 year old kid put on tape, just so depressingly disturbing. Skar was a Black/Doom band from Mexico and even though the music doesn't sound anywhere near to the albums like you talk about in these videos, something about it makes me kind of uncomfortable to listen to. It has a blasphemous focus over all with the lyrics being mostly narrated. The mystery around who were the people involved in the project and what happened to them makes it makes it even more unsettling. Their only album is called "Antifona de Entrada". If you make a part 2, these are my recommendations;
I’ve yet to hear a swans album I thought was disturbing, maybe I’m just biased for being a swans fan. I am a big controlled bleeding fan also, with that said, Breastfed Yak is damn near unlistenable to me. I also love The Caretaker, great background music for when you’re working on projects and want something in the background.
For me at least, listening to the first two Lana Del Rabies albums, "In the End I Am a Beast" and "Shadow World", can be unnerving and a bit unsettling at times.
I once saw a snippet of a song that was some black metal esque guitar riff with a strange robotic voice talking and what sounded like a woman screaming. The art over top was an edited photo of Oskar Dirlewanger with a beard and mushrooms growing from his face. I have no idea what it was to this day.
Fun. A few comments; couldn't find Kanae, Kane or Keanae, however it's spelled, anywhere. A link would be greatly appreciated. I'm surprised that from this video and the original one to see no mention of the Australian band Portal and their somewhat notable song Curtain or Pig Destroyer "Painter of Dead Girls". Not sure if it's because it's on no one's radar or if they don't qualify... which would be weird I think. Also, thanks for introducing me to Oxbow. Something about that first track off of An Evil Heat that reminded me of my first listen of Zeal and Ardor's "Devil is Fine", which while not being what I would consider entirely "disturbing" is nonetheless an outstanding album. Anyhoo. Great video.
Three strong picks😊, though I consider Ramleh more depressing (terribly depressing) than disturbing, but I can see why you chose it. And for Coil, I dunno... Their music seems to me very meditative (in the best way possible). Ape of Naples in particular feels like an enchanting elegy. Well, not that these thoughts matter at all, when we enjoy these works of art.
Altarage takes the cake for me. The amazing thing: they make "disturbing" music using only guitars, bass, drums, and vocals. There are basically no electronics, no special effects... just fucked up riff after fucked up riff. Sounds like the band members are being possessed by something. The disorientating song structure and the massive, oppressive atmosphere are enough to be disturbing without needing samples of psychiatric patients, creepy synths, detuned violins, weird sounds, etc.
I'm lucky enough to know some of the Axis of Perdition guys and asked one of them recently if they're bringing it back. Apparently their vocalist is away in another country for work, but they didn't say no, so fingers crossed.
