Recommendations of the Editorial team
Whether fear and evil are the trademark of an artist, as with Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath, or whether the use or interpretation in pop culture leads to the music that the music is given a new meaning. Numerous sounds in rock, pop and rap history have triggered fear among the audience.
10. The Doors, “The End”
With his long, wild and spontaneous “The End”, Jim Morrison transformed a Greek tragedy into a bad psychedelic trip. The song drops the band into an oedipal rabbit construction. With some spoken words of the mysterious singer in the second half, in which a narrator threatens to kill his father and “fuck” his mother. The song was drawn up in the short time when the doors were the house band in the legendary WHISTYY A GO GO event location. And finally led them to be fired.
9. Pink Floyd, “Careful with that axe, Eugene”
The famous B-side of Pink Floyd from 1968 is a perfect example of how the performance can trigger more fear than the actual topic. In the song David Gilmour whispers the title of the song and only a few other lines between Roger Waters’ insane, marker -shaky screams over the booming, hypnotic music.
8. Black Sabbath, “War Pigs”
“War Pigs” is certainly one of Black Sabbath’s most famous songs and guitar riffs. In the song, the band deals with evil and war. And uses pictures of witchcraft and magic. The song was originally called ‘Walpurgis’, which is the name of the witch’s scrap.
7. Alice Cooper, “Ballad of Dwight Fry”
“The Ballad of Dwight Fry” is disturbing and disprising and a masterpiece of Alice Cooper’s ability to connect GLAM theater to Hard Rock to create something really terrible. ‘Dwight Fry’ is told from the perspective of a man who is trapped in a nervous attitude. And the listener only hears from him after a young girl asked her mother when her father will come home. Coopers desperate screams “I have to get out here!” In the middle of the song, the track make all the more urgent.
6. Suicide, “Frankie Teardrop”
Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop” follows the 20-year title character from his job in the factory to his home, where he kills his wife, child and himself in the middle of a nervous breakdown due to his impoverished life. The barren, claustrophobic song is a nightmare story that becomes even more terrible by Alan Vega’s screams during the murderous highlight. The song served as a significant inspiration for Bruce Springsteens Nebraska.
5. Alice Cooper, “Steven”
The figure Steven is the focus of Coopers album Welcome to my Nightmare from 1975. He is either a child or a man with the mentality of a child, whose nightmares are researched in the songs. It appears in the course of several publications by Cooper. But the song “Steven” is the most scary exploration of the voices in his head.
4. Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells”
The Prog-Rock classic from 1973 is a simple, moving piece of piano music that is terrifying due to its use. The first piano tones of “Tubular Bells” were in the legendary horror film “The exorcist” used what breathed into the song in the same year of its publication a ghostly new life.
3. The Beatles, “Revolution 9”
The avant -garde sound collage “Revolution 9” was the most experimental title of the Beatles and with over eight minutes also her longest officially published song. It has a dark place in history because he was considered a source of inspiration for the murderous sectle leader Charles Manson, who opens many of the Beatles songs The White Album interpreted as prediction of an upcoming racial war between black and white Americans.
2. Bloodrock, “Doa”
The gloomy song “Doa” by Blotrock is told from the perspective of someone who has just survived a plane crash. Siren can be heard in the background while the narrator perceives the bloody scene around him.
1. Black Sabbath, “Black Sabbath”
Black Sabbath’s song of the same name, which was once referred to by Rob Halford by Judas Priest as the “Bösester Track” of the Metal, justified Heavy Metal as a dark new subgenre of Hard Rock.
The creepy, fearsome song about Satan, who destroys humanity, was inspired by an ominous event. Geezer Butler experienced how a shadow figure was lurking in his room. Everything after Ozzy Osbourne gave him a book about witchcraft. The next day the book disappeared.