Scary Songs

[Holymagica]

There are songs that you DON'T want to listen to on a dark night when you're all alone....picture this its raining and you are alone in the woods listening to Lady GaGa...now that is a nightmare to me.


There is a little unknown band from Britain called Endvra, I have there cd The Dark Is Light Enough...I love it.
This music is pretty disturbing, listen in the dark with headphones and you will know what I mean
The music is repetitive and utterly hypnotic but its very different!

Endvra - He Who Knows The Gate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRgqSCKHOw
This song is from the cd The Dark Is Light Enough

Endvra - the sun no longer sets me free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5pFk_W_qio

Endvra - The Left Hand Of The Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5tI1sYQYcc

Endvra- When god was a snake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrWgsTIe_Y

Please post some music you think is scary

[ryuhi2]

Listening to lady Ga Ga on A bright, sunny day at the beach is a nightmare!!....Anywhere under any circumstances actualy!

For me....The Michael Myers Theme from Halloween.......Saw Halloween 2 in 5th grade...That movie and that theme scarred me for life!
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Give me a choice between pleasure and pain.........I choose PAIN!!!

[adiszul]

I'm not sure if it is scary but it's weird for sure and IT"S 60's
everybody should know this song Crazy World of Arthur Brown- Fire
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[The Masterstroke]

Blue Oyster Cult: "Don't fear the reaper" Great Song but it really makes me shiver. Great idea for a funeral by the way.

[Holymagica]

[neon knight pete]

if you want something scary , then listen to the one & only Alice Cooper , Welcome To My Nightmere is the prime example / a classic album folks , just listen to Devils Food & The Black Widow with the voice over from Horror Actor - Vincent Price describing how deadly the Black Widow spider is gives me goose bumps folks , also Vincent Price done the famous voice over for Michael Jacksons - Thriller .
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[alitivity]

[olivious the drummer]

[neon knight pete]

blame me that is some spooky staff from Endvra mate , you wouldn,t want to listen to thier music in a dark room on your own all night by no means , & speaking of Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead & Sick Things from the Billion Dollar Babies album are 2 of my favourites aswell folks .
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[Holymagica]

Nice to see some interest in ENDURA or Endvra, depending where you look, Endura for Amazon.
Was listening to The Dark is Light Enough in pitch darkness on my mountain bike, with my headlights SEARCHING out eyes of some wild animals in the darkness looking back at me
It was a huge rush and when ''something'' decide to run in front of me which was big and furry, I just went faster trying to keep up with whatever it was until it jumped back into the bushes
Of course when a bat, brushed my face, I nearly fell off the bike.

Here is some information on them....
About ENDURA
The work of Endura represents another experiment in industrial-organic synthesis, and a very successful one too. I knew I was going to like Endura as soon as I saw their newsletter, Liber Secretum, and I was not disappointed. My first actual encounter was with their contribution to the 'My Castle' compilation (Onore Alle Arti) but that was quite a focused piece, whereas, in their own CDs, tunes and songs drift in a soundscape of industrial and ritualistic ambience.
Stephen Pennick and Christopher Walton were formerly known as AbRAXAS but changed to Endura and reworked part of their Hexe cassette to produce the Dreams of Dark Waters CD (1994 Nature & Art). This has been followed by contributions to a number of compilations and three other CD albums. Owing to circumstances beyond their control, these albums have all ended up being released in 1996. The reviews below are in order of creation (see the discography).
Chris provides Endura's occult inspiration and describes the central theme of his vision as "the magickal symbiosis of Stellar Space, Psychic Space and the Watery Space of the world's deep places," and he is especially fascinated by "the images of the nightmare creatures that lurk in the abysses of phenomenal and noumenal experience, the Leviathans." Stephen provides the electronic and musical ability and his attitude to the occult is quite prosaic. Their talents combine, however, to create a unique sound and theme.
Stephen is also pursuing a solo project, Ontario Blue, and the duo run their own tape label, Enlightenment Communications.


DREAMS OF DARK WATERS
Dreams of Dark Waters was inspired by a strange and disturbing concept which Chris explains:

"I used to live in a house in the town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. My house was on the edge of the town, under the moors. These moors form part of the Pennines, a ridge of hills that roll up the middle of northern England, it was on these moors that Ian Bradey and Mira Hindley buried the children the children they killed in the early 1960s. These crimes still have a very powerful influence on the Pennine towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire. One night I was lying in the bath when a thunderstorm broke out. As the lightening flashed I imagined the children still buried on the moors, and their physical and psychic residue slowly leaking into the water supply, tainting the water and being swallowed by the people in the houses below. These children had become part of the Witch tradition of the Pennines, they were the gate, the intermediary between words."

To say the music is dreamy would be an understatement. It has a very rich soundscape masterfully combining elements of whispering, trickling water, heartbeats, demonic laughter, a distant bell, and eastern-sounding incantation, while a synth strikes in here and there. Coming as their first major work it is a remarkable achievement.

THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH
The Dark is Light Enough (1996 Allegoria Records) picks up themes from their earlier CD and "expands out into a universe of cosmic strangeness".

'The Stars Are Right' (track 1) begins and ends with very deep-voiced mutterings and a scattering of industrial noises, but the main part is a powerful and haunting tune with an overwhelming feeling of inevitability. This would make good theme music for a deep, tragic drama. 'In Nevers Gift' (2) a squeeze box sound introduces powerful synthesised orchestration and, buried within that, acoustic guitar and a song in the style of Sol Invictus.

'Listen Like Wolves' (3) features tribal rhythms and snarling vocals, while 'Ubbo - Sathla' (4) and 'He Knows The Gate' (5) are more formless and to my mind less interesting. 'Nu Silence Rite' (6) is a sustained shamanistic ritual with rattling bones and reminiscent of the songs performed by Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance.

'In The Sea My Lord Lieth' (7) is devoted to Leviathan, an Endura leitmotif as indicated above. Leviathan was a draconian sea-god or monster in Mesopotamian mythology and was later borrowed into the Hebrew religion where it occupied a somewhat ambivalent position.

'When I Was Dead' is a song, while the concluding track, 'The Dark is Light Enough' (9), is a heavy industrial finale with vocals. If rock-drills could march this is what they'd sound like.

LIBER LEVIATHAN
Liber Leviathan (1996 Aesthetic Death) is all ritual-ambient and dark mutterings. It's very atmospheric but it uses a musically minimalist approach, without the more focused songs or tunes which feature on the other CDs. It's difficult to write very much about it, suffice to say that this is music for solo contemplation - not the sort of thing I'd play to friends at a social gathering.

BLACK EDEN
Black Eden (1996 Red Stream) is "necromantic" and represents a musical attempt to raise the coiled one from the deep.

'Satanas Ex Machina' (1) is one of those infernal factory soundtracks with busy industrial noises but it also features a good synth orchestral background. 'The Left Hand Of The Dead' (2) has more deep voices but I'm not so keen on too much of this.

'The Devils Stars Burn Cold' (3) is an epic orchestral piece with the echoed/phased title-line repeated continuously, so it's easy to remember the words. It has that urgent and compulsive character which never fails to excite.

In a change from the deep-throated vocals, 'When God Was A Snake' (4) features hissy voices, obviously the 'Word of God' in its original form. 'The Sun No Longer Sets Me Free' (5) has the sound of pumping air on the left stereo channel, which, when listening on headphones, gives the impression of someone or something breathing into your left ear!

'A Golden Heresy' (6) has a deep-throated voice drone and a strident electronic march. This is the music to accompany the imperial battlefleet as it plunges into deep space for the final confrontation, although the authors may have had a more aquatic image in mind.