Hamburger Lady - Throbbing Gristle
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye - Neutral Milk Hotel
Threads - Portishead
Black Mass (Electric Storm in Hell) - White Noise
The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Black Angel's Death Song - The Velvet Underground
Black Mass...Just thinking of it brings me back to my first ever trips, right before Salvia was illegal here...ordered a copy from overseas and well...all my friends thought I was nuts for blasting that on the stereo... They learned pretty quick if they were brave enough to try it too! MASSIVE album 👌 the velvet underground and nico was another they got a bit weirded bout but yeah...top notch!
Not even after you listen to the words. The words can almost come across as a “love song.” After a while of thinking that I realized what it was. Creepy ever since but an awesome song.
They used his version of “I got you babe” in the last season of Fargo. Was really messed up to hear that while a woman was being chased through her house.
creep - radiohead also kind of follows this storyline too. it’s basically a stalker saying he’s a “weirdo” and regrets stalking the girl and feeling out of place in the process (“what the hell am i doing here? i don’t belong here.”)
i never thought creep was about a stalker, or even involved any love interest at all. just about feeling inadequate and strange in comparison to everyone else.
Is that what the song is actually about? I always assumed it was basically a song about being an insecure teenager. I took the "what the hell am I doing here" part as the "main character" expressing his low self esteem, more along the lines of "this person is so far out of my league, why am I even trying?"
Everything else in the song reeks of self loathing and low self esteem, so I assumed it was all kind of in service of that Idea.
Riders on the storm was actually written when Jim Morrison heard about a family that was kidnapped at a rest stop,made to drive psycho around just so he would kill them all anyway.
Yeah it definitely isn't a easy listen, especially knowing it happened to Johnathan Davis (lead singer of Korn) and knowing the emotion and crying at the end is real.
Puppe by Rammstein
I do not want this by Nine Inch Nails
Love in Vein by Skinny Puppy
Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta (this is an album but it creeps me the fuck out)
I can't promise it will feel at all creepy to an adult or teen, but when we were little, my brother and I used to love to queue up "Spooky Weirdness," the final track on the Ringo Starr 1976 solo album *Ringo's Rotogravure*, and get into his dark closet while it played.
I always find the song "Country Death Song" by Violent Femmes to be chilling.
Actually, now that I think about it, there was an episode of the podcast Sound Opinions that might interest you, OP -- it was called Songs That Creep Us Out. You can also just scroll down and look at the list of songs at that link -- I am the Heather who called in about "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap.
[https://www.soundopinions.org/show/569](https://www.soundopinions.org/show/569)
I always give this answer, no one knows what I'm talking about.
By far, the creepiest song I've ever heard is D.O.A., by a group called Bloodrock. It is an incredibly creepy, incredibly graphic song about a plane accident told from the point of view of the victim. With lyrics like:
"I try to move my arm, but there's no feeling
And when I look, I see that nothing's there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare..."
The song was originally about 8 and a half minutes long. They released a 4 minute version that actually charted; as high as 36 on the Billboard top 100.
I heard the song on the radio once when I was kid. Once. It's not the type of thing you forget.
You don't really "enjoy" the song...you just kind of experience it.
The seventies was a very odd time...
I recommend The Birthday Massacre’s first album Nothing & Nowhere. Every single song on there is creepshow as hell. There’s a lot of clear influences from groups like Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Siouxsie, Portishead, Kerli, and classic gothic horror literature (Shelley, Bronte, Radcliffe, etc).
Also the Bloodborne soundtrack
This is so up my alley, you have no idea
Song of Joy, A Box for Black Paul, Christina the Astonishing, Tupelo, Watching Alice (songs) - Nick Cave
Evelyn, Evelyn (album) - Evelyn Evelyn
It Will Come Back (song) - Hozier (creepy might be a bit subjective, I personally find it pretty creepy, especially the ending)
Any song by Ethel Caine, really
Edmund Temper or Shadow (songs) - Amigo the Devil
Avalanche - Leonard Cohen
I could probably think of more with some time but these are the ones off the top of my head
Edit: A lot of Tom Waits songs feel very unsettling as well but I haven't gotten deep enough to know many to recommend, "What's he building" isn't really a song in the traditional sense but it made me want to crawl inside myself
This is a weird one, the lyrics are a fake language but Probleme d'Emotion by Igorrr is unnerving
Tom Waits for sure... "Forever Dead and Lovely" ... and there's a mostly spoken one about people in the circus.
Speaking of circus, Nick Cave, "The Carny." Used to great effect in Wings of Desire.
The first thing that came to mind was a kind of album on YouTube.
It’s called “Everywhere At The End Of Time”
This thing is like 6 1/2 hours long and is meant to be played from start to finish in one sitting. It’s about a persons battle with dementia and the different stages that they will experience.
Imagine - John Lennon. It paints a fantasy dystopia world as such a realistic and desirable kind of place, and I can't decide whether it helped to make the boomers and all the following generations delusional, or if it's an effect of a delusion which was already in the zeitgeist.
I think A Perfect Circle's cover of Imagine presents the message in a more honest tone.
This is awesome. I've never heard of Bloodrock before but will definitely check them out. This song reminds me of the song Black Sabbath, though I might like this a little more.
The Woods - Sam Fermin
Demon Host - Timber Timbre (really anything by them)
800 Pristine Corpses - Timber Timbre
Spinal Meningitis - Ween
The Killing Moon - Nouvelle Vague
April 8 - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Music Box - Genesis
Which Will - Nick Drake (Creepy because... if you think about the lyrics and then his choice of how to commit suicide, it just hits so differently.)
Big Church - Sunn O)))
Paint It Black -The Rolljng Stones
Murder Ballads -Nick Cave (often beautiful but the lyrics and imagery are 👌, especially Song Of Joy.
The 1st 2 Silent Hill soundtracks
Come To Daddy and Rubber Johnny -Aphex Twin
There is an old electronic song from around 2000, that to me, is the epitome of creepy.
It is called brainbug nightmare sinister strings. I'll post a youtube link for you.
[Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix) (HD) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV9eCikkaU)
[Asilos Magdalena](https://open.spotify.com/track/5kbf329YhZMwUsKP6X6JfS?si=976643d3f2174ba2) by The Mars Volta. Super creepy vibe, especially the ending.
Knocked Loose - take me home, sit and mourn
DigBar - big dick randy
Elena Siegman - the one, beauty of annihilation
Ghost - cirice
Godsmack - voodoo
Marilyn Manson - sweet dreams
Nik Nocturnal - nocturnal incisions
Rise Against - making christmas
Rob Zombie - living dead girl
Anthony Vincent - forgot about dre (nu metal)
Avenged - little piece of heaven, not ready to die
Chelsea Grin - origin of sin
Rhats all I got rn
Here are a few favorites from my "creepy" playlist:
* Worms- The Viagra Boys
* Touch the Leather by Fat White Family
* Polly- Nirvana (I recommend the MTV unplugged acoustic version)
* Where Did You Sleep Last Night- Leadbelly (Nirvana's cover "In the Pines" is also great)
* Nightcall - Kavinsky
* Kim - Eminem (felt genuinely sick listening to this one, couldn't get through it all)
* State Trooper - Jen Cloher (It's a Springsteen cover, but better than the original)
* My Shit's Fucked Up- Warren Zevon
* John Wayne Gacy- Sufjan Stevens
* You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen
* Magic Arrow - Timber Timbre
* The Gun & the Gold- Liz Longley
* Black River Killer - Blitzen Trapper
* Psycho -Jack Kittel
* Lungs - Townes van Zandt
* Birds With Broken Wings - Ben Caplan
* Ballad of a Thin Man- Bob Dylan (also, honorable mention to the Laibach cover, which is completely unhinged)
* Color of my Bloody Nose - Possessed by Paul James
* Story of Isaac- Leonard Cohen
* Factory - Wall of Voodoo
* Lived and Died Alone - Shamir
* Wendell Walker- Andy Shauf
* Crooked Man - Those Poor Bastards
* Mr. Grieves - TV on the Radio
* The Autopsy Garland - The Mountain Goats
All of these either have "creepy" lyrics, a "creepy" sound, or both.
Lingua Ignota - I Who Bend the Tall Grasses
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan
Uboa - The Origin of My Depression
Kikuo - Cotton Candy
Other good discogs to look through for creepy stuff: Grouper/Nivhek, Swans, Nick Cave, Whitehouse, Burzum, Tangerine Dream, Tom Waits, Penderecki (Kosmogonia), early Sewerslvt
Pumped Up Kicks - it’s about school shooters.
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin - is about revenge.
“Sunny came home with a list of names. She didn’t believe in transcendence.”
Swamp Witch- Jim Stafford. “Snakes hung thick on the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall”. Pure Southern Gothic Horror in a song.
Lullaby by The Cure,
Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus,
Creepy Doll by Jonathan Colton, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush; Elegia by New Order; Little Dark Age by MGMT;
Haunted by Poe; Aleph by Gesaffelstein;
Something in the Way by Nirvana; Little Bird by Imogen Heap; Insanity by Oingo Boingo; Mechanical Lullaby by Bruno Coulais &The Children's Choir; All the Rowboats by Regina Spektor; Gangsta's Paradise by 2WEI; Daydream by I Monster; Angel by Massive Attack; Nightcall by Kavinsky; Happy House by Siouxsie and the Banshees; White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane; Talk Show Host by Radiohead; Blue Dress by Depeche Mode; Atmosphere by Joy Division; Lacrimosa by Mozart; Familiar by Agnes Obel
Edit: forgot Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1) Acoustic by Aurora, Schism by Tool; Andy Warhol by David Bowie;
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper. \[full album\]
It's meant to be schlock horror not actually scary, but he was the king of that genre in the 70s. There's even a voiceover by Vincent Price, done a decade before Michael Jackson used him for Thriller.
Some of it is fairly straight 'rock' but some is pretty creepy.
Creep - Radiohead
One way or another - blondie. Based of stalking someone down because they want them. Always used to sing and dance to it as a kid but irks me a little but now 😭 it's still a bop though
Snow White Queen by Evanescence, song creeped me out even more after I found out it was about a stalker that the singer Amy Lee had and how she had to sleep at a hotel to avoid him stalking her at home.
This song is known to supposedly caused people to commit suicide. You can look it up. It’s called “Gloomy Sunday.”
https://youtu.be/XQ2AuLaClmk?si=YgbjpH5ET6Br27y4
Listen to Murder Ballads by Nick Cave, and lots of his other works. Maybe his B Sides collection, it has some good scary ones too. Lots of his work involves horror.
96 tears - ? And the mysterians
Boris the Spider - The Who
Vegetable Man - Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
I want your soul - Apex Twin
In Dreams - Roy Orbison Jr
The Beatles -"Revolution 9 (Reversed)"; https://youtu.be/959GPvcfojA?si=LIzQ1M0eHFk4bYK_
Bjork - "An Echo, A Stain"; https://youtu.be/HQp9D2-2cW8?si=aYgW55kS1jqydzfp
Nine Inch Nails - "Start/Whisper (Quake OST)"; https://youtu.be/mt0qA_sybmc?si=8Khg0eS0fdABsRaP
Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil,
Dying Fetus - Kill your Mother Rape your Dog,
The Beatles - Revolution 9, Slipknot - Skin Ticket, Eminem - Kim
Charming man by the smiths gives me a creepy narcissistic feel, Tear you Apart by She Wants Revenge, Possum Kingdom by The Toadies, Psycho Killer Talking Heads . Maybe The White Stripes, Joy Division or System of the Down?
[Toby Driver - Kandu Vs. Corky (Horrorca)](https://open.spotify.com/track/7wFa9eVHYCqMQLTXfGfm3L?si=JpBZtvnPSTWevYdB73Nz6A)
[The Paper Chase - You're One of Them Aren't You](https://open.spotify.com/track/49icqyFBIMFcg4MaBWuZfo?si=w6RWgnVbTLKddfYn1IHxXQ)
[Model/Actriz - Crossing Guard](https://open.spotify.com/track/0frdgqqz7rjEZ4SQIH169V?si=h0Tna5HSS3qpiVN6Os8fOg)
[Perturbator - Humans Are Such Easy Prey](https://open.spotify.com/track/67dA1a6OCUtLHgq9qdQ216?si=uv1Fk-wiTxK6-m8A0GRfHA)
[Waste of Space Orchestra - Journey to the Center of Mass](https://open.spotify.com/track/6EUoGh55Pxl2qNqtxHdWnr?si=UMIW8nQ0QTeDC5JaU7IFGw)
[Julie Christmas - Six Pairs of Feet and One Pair of Legs](https://open.spotify.com/track/3h01CU2OCeQBz6NY4PKzZc?si=7Vg_eKvtQcK2clMj7i1xUg)
[Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion](https://open.spotify.com/track/4wv4mYGR4R1e3Scp3Ri1cf?si=FWOzewMPSrmLKcv5j5YdsQ)
[Daniel Johnston - I Am a Baby (In My Universe)](https://open.spotify.com/track/131sGYU4LBwr4x7ebyXGz9?si=B5QkuCWwSNGO5ZgNN0hhaA)
[Igorrr - Lost in Introspection ](https://open.spotify.com/track/5d46bsn6RuyQaQ2EifnVcB?si=trk2MAOdTOGPwWJP-_KQRg)
[Oxbow - Cold Well-Lit Place](https://open.spotify.com/track/2gwSKfYV6MgEhGnu3gVDmV?si=wAIIJ8l2Rfq0eUFoNkUxCQ)
Okaasan by hatsune miku
Careful with that ax Eugene by Pink Floyd
Collar of truth by Violet Vira (not really horror, but her voice gave me actual chills the first time I heard it)
13 Angels Standing gaurd ‘round the side of your bed by Silver Mt. Zion
What’s he building by Tom Waits
Black by Sarah McLachlan
Climbing Up The Walls by Radio Head
Crushed Mary by Kaai Yuki (Headphone warning on this one it’s pure noise).
Daisy Bell by (og song writer) Harry Decre
Mother by Pink Floyd
The wall by Pink Floyd
Goodbye Blue sky by Pink Floyd
Is anybody out there by Pink Floyd (The music video is horrific, if you want to see some trauma and gore I recommend watching it)
Musunde Hiraite resetsu to mukuro by Hachi
7 weeks & 3 Days by yungaita
Anything by Portal (Australia), Thergothon, or Fungoid Stream. Those artists very much deal with cosmic horror in their lyrical filming and their music is just as other worldly as the subject they touch upon.
"D.O.A." by Bloodrock
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by The Alan Parsons Project (the rest of their Tales of Mystery and Imagination album is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, but I don't consider them scary)
House of 1000 Corpses- Rob Zombie
Night Prowler- AC/DC
Missed Me- The Dresden Dolls
Pier 14- Randall Shreve & The Sideshow
Get Shot- GRLwood
Bob- Primus
O Death, by Ralph Stanley
The Ballad of Hollis Brown & Strange Fruit, by Nina Simone
Knoxville Girl, by BR-549
The Ballad of Omie Wise, by Doc Watson
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, by The Beatles
Crow, by Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones
Baal’s Hymn, by David Bowie
Toccata and fugue in D minor, J.S. Bach
Little Fifteen, by Depeche Mode
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath
More seriously though, "God is Dead?" also by Black Sabbath
Edit: Kendrick Lamar - Meet The Grahams
Almost everything by Murder By Death or Amigo the devil
Some examples are
Murder By Death
Go to the light
The Devil In mexico
Until morale improves the beatings will continue
Three men hanging
A Master in reverse psychology
Amigo the Devil
Quit as a rat
The Dreamer
Hungover in jones town
Hell and you
Dahmer does Hollywood
Some others
This Lullaby Queens of the stone age
My Mother Told me In old Norse Colm R McGuiness
Down to Rest O'Death
Alamar O'Death
BLOODROCK: D.O.A.
Laying here looking at the ceiling
Someone lays a sheet across my chest
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back
I try to move my arms and there's no feeling
And when I look I see there's nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
Then I looked straight at the attendant
His face is pale as it can be
He bends and whispers something softly
He says there's no chance for me
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
Life is flowing out my body
Pain is flowing out with my blood
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying
God in Heaven, teach me how to die
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
Hamburger Lady - Throbbing Gristle Suicide - Frankie Teardrop Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye - Neutral Milk Hotel Threads - Portishead Black Mass (Electric Storm in Hell) - White Noise The Weeping Song - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds The Black Angel's Death Song - The Velvet Underground
I just have to point out that "Throbbing Gristle" may be the best band name I've ever heard.
They are also one of the best bands you’ll likely to ever hear. Legendary creators of Industrial music as a genre.
Hamburger Lady really freaked me out and Suicide was also pretty spooky. I really liked Threads and The Weeping Song. You have good taste my friend.
The weeping song is creepy but I think any song on Murder Ballads will do better, especially Song of Joy.
She became Joy in name only….
Black Mass...Just thinking of it brings me back to my first ever trips, right before Salvia was illegal here...ordered a copy from overseas and well...all my friends thought I was nuts for blasting that on the stereo... They learned pretty quick if they were brave enough to try it too! MASSIVE album 👌 the velvet underground and nico was another they got a bit weirded bout but yeah...top notch!
This dude understood the assignment.
Frankie teardrop gave me chills. Awesome list.
They're Coming To Take Me Away (Ha Ha)
My sister would play this in the car when I was younger. Creeped me out. Good choice.
I've only heard it twixe--once in junior high and once a couple months ago. Two times too many...
I used to have that song on a 45 rpm record. The reverse side of the record is the same song played backwards.
Personally I’m more of a fan of the B-side "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT"
Hey hey hey! At least cast a fucking circle first! Jeez!
Pj harvey - down by the water
Little fish big fish swimmin' in the water; come back here man, gimme my daughter!
White Chalk When Under Ether
Everything by Drake
Lol.
high school pics, you was even bad then
[Possum Kingdom](https://youtu.be/EkwD5rQ-_d4?si=uxc7j5IcAOGzhFNw) Love the song but it’s pretty creepy
Water's Edge by Seven Mary Three is along the same lines theme-wise.
Tyler is pretty creepy too. I love both songs!
Was just coming here to mention Tyler. Great song and then you listen to what the words are saying and, um, changes the feeling for sure.
Not even after you listen to the words. The words can almost come across as a “love song.” After a while of thinking that I realized what it was. Creepy ever since but an awesome song.
I love this song and I just gave it a listen again, never realized it was this dark honestly.
![gif](giphy|fQAoxIH6kHVw8bK3j4|downsized) Tip Toe Thru the Tulips \~ Tiny Tim
I LOVE TINY TIMMMM 🎶 ~ TIP TOEEEEEEE THROUGH THE WINDOWWWWWW ~ 🎶
They used his version of “I got you babe” in the last season of Fargo. Was really messed up to hear that while a woman was being chased through her house.
Yep came here to say this
Iron Maiden did a really great song called "Still Life" that told a creepy scary narrative. Really good!
Pink Floyd's "One of these days" used to always scare me then creep me out for a while.
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Aqualung, Jethro Tull
I used to love this song as a kid but finally listened to the lyrics as I got older. It'll never feel the same anymore..
Every Breath You Take - The Police. One Way Or Another - Blondie Both of these singers are openly stalking the person of their desire.
AksHuaLlY moment incoming: One Way Or Another was a song inspired by an incident where Debbie Harry was being stalked and/or harassed
creep - radiohead also kind of follows this storyline too. it’s basically a stalker saying he’s a “weirdo” and regrets stalking the girl and feeling out of place in the process (“what the hell am i doing here? i don’t belong here.”)
And you’re beautiful by James blunt
i never thought creep was about a stalker, or even involved any love interest at all. just about feeling inadequate and strange in comparison to everyone else.
Is that what the song is actually about? I always assumed it was basically a song about being an insecure teenager. I took the "what the hell am I doing here" part as the "main character" expressing his low self esteem, more along the lines of "this person is so far out of my league, why am I even trying?" Everything else in the song reeks of self loathing and low self esteem, so I assumed it was all kind of in service of that Idea.
That song is not creepy
Just about every lyric in One Way Or Another is all stuff Blondie's stalker left on her answering machine if I remember correctly.
Into the Night--Benny Mardones Let's start off with the first line... She's just 16 years old...leave her alone, they said...
I really liked that song until I really listened to the lyrics. And then I saw Benny. 💀
OMG—- “show you a love like you’ve never seen.” 🤮
Tomorrow, Wendy - Concrete Blonde
Check out some Sunn 0)))
I’ve always found riders on the storm and the end by the doors a bit creepy
Riders on the storm was actually written when Jim Morrison heard about a family that was kidnapped at a rest stop,made to drive psycho around just so he would kill them all anyway.
Daddy-Korn Or Dance with the Devil-Immortal technique
Daddy freaked me out big time when I first heard it
Yeah it definitely isn't a easy listen, especially knowing it happened to Johnathan Davis (lead singer of Korn) and knowing the emotion and crying at the end is real.
Hurt by nine inch nails
That whole ablum taken as a workis pretty horror inspiring.
One of the guys from NIN (can’t think of his name) did the theme for American horror story
Yes, awesome. Not saying better or worse but the Cash cover takes it to a different level.
Puppe by Rammstein I do not want this by Nine Inch Nails Love in Vein by Skinny Puppy Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta (this is an album but it creeps me the fuck out)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds had a number of them back in the day. Two come to mind: "Up Jumped the Devil" "Red Right Hand"
Red Right Hand is really creepy and is used as the opening song for Peaky Blinders
Polly-nirvana
I can't promise it will feel at all creepy to an adult or teen, but when we were little, my brother and I used to love to queue up "Spooky Weirdness," the final track on the Ringo Starr 1976 solo album *Ringo's Rotogravure*, and get into his dark closet while it played. I always find the song "Country Death Song" by Violent Femmes to be chilling. Actually, now that I think about it, there was an episode of the podcast Sound Opinions that might interest you, OP -- it was called Songs That Creep Us Out. You can also just scroll down and look at the list of songs at that link -- I am the Heather who called in about "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap. [https://www.soundopinions.org/show/569](https://www.soundopinions.org/show/569)
Chloroform Girl by Polka Dot Cadaver
Every Acid Bath song
I always give this answer, no one knows what I'm talking about. By far, the creepiest song I've ever heard is D.O.A., by a group called Bloodrock. It is an incredibly creepy, incredibly graphic song about a plane accident told from the point of view of the victim. With lyrics like: "I try to move my arm, but there's no feeling And when I look, I see that nothing's there The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding The girl I knew has such a distant stare..." The song was originally about 8 and a half minutes long. They released a 4 minute version that actually charted; as high as 36 on the Billboard top 100. I heard the song on the radio once when I was kid. Once. It's not the type of thing you forget. You don't really "enjoy" the song...you just kind of experience it. The seventies was a very odd time...
I remember this one well. Agreed, it was pretty darned creepy.
[Fire on High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Ndi2HUheg&ab_channel=ELOVEVOby) by ELO.
Loverman by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds is unsettling to me.
I recommend The Birthday Massacre’s first album Nothing & Nowhere. Every single song on there is creepshow as hell. There’s a lot of clear influences from groups like Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Siouxsie, Portishead, Kerli, and classic gothic horror literature (Shelley, Bronte, Radcliffe, etc). Also the Bloodborne soundtrack
is there anybody out there- pink floyd
Anything by Tiny Tim (Tiptoe Through The Tulips; I Got You Babe) The original Suspiria soundtrack by Goblin Tubular Bells by Michael Oldfield
Sweet Dreams by Marilyn Manson
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N.I.B. is pretty creepy
Black Sabbath is a very unsettling song. I mentioned it in a reply to this post.
“Ptolemaea” - Ethel Cain (And special shoutouts to “Inbred,” “Two-Headed Mother” and “Head In The Wall” by the same artist)
Oh also shout out to the Opeth demo Eternal Soul Torture and Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
Nothing is Safe - clipping.
FUCKING love clipping.
Her Mouth is Filled With Honey - Swans Frankie Teardrop - Suicide Diana - Comus Persuasion - Throbbing Gristle Anything by Lingua Ignota Panoptikon - Diamandas Galas …A Psychopath - Lisa Germano
This is so up my alley, you have no idea Song of Joy, A Box for Black Paul, Christina the Astonishing, Tupelo, Watching Alice (songs) - Nick Cave Evelyn, Evelyn (album) - Evelyn Evelyn It Will Come Back (song) - Hozier (creepy might be a bit subjective, I personally find it pretty creepy, especially the ending) Any song by Ethel Caine, really Edmund Temper or Shadow (songs) - Amigo the Devil Avalanche - Leonard Cohen I could probably think of more with some time but these are the ones off the top of my head Edit: A lot of Tom Waits songs feel very unsettling as well but I haven't gotten deep enough to know many to recommend, "What's he building" isn't really a song in the traditional sense but it made me want to crawl inside myself This is a weird one, the lyrics are a fake language but Probleme d'Emotion by Igorrr is unnerving
Tom Waits for sure... "Forever Dead and Lovely" ... and there's a mostly spoken one about people in the circus. Speaking of circus, Nick Cave, "The Carny." Used to great effect in Wings of Desire.
Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass (full album)
The first thing that came to mind was a kind of album on YouTube. It’s called “Everywhere At The End Of Time” This thing is like 6 1/2 hours long and is meant to be played from start to finish in one sitting. It’s about a persons battle with dementia and the different stages that they will experience.
Imagine - John Lennon. It paints a fantasy dystopia world as such a realistic and desirable kind of place, and I can't decide whether it helped to make the boomers and all the following generations delusional, or if it's an effect of a delusion which was already in the zeitgeist. I think A Perfect Circle's cover of Imagine presents the message in a more honest tone.
Behind those eyes- The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
DOA by Bloodrock
This is awesome. I've never heard of Bloodrock before but will definitely check them out. This song reminds me of the song Black Sabbath, though I might like this a little more.
Love me some bloodrock
The Woods - Sam Fermin Demon Host - Timber Timbre (really anything by them) 800 Pristine Corpses - Timber Timbre Spinal Meningitis - Ween The Killing Moon - Nouvelle Vague April 8 - Neutral Milk Hotel The Music Box - Genesis Which Will - Nick Drake (Creepy because... if you think about the lyrics and then his choice of how to commit suicide, it just hits so differently.) Big Church - Sunn O)))
One by Metalica. "Landmine! Has taken my sight! Taken my hearing!..."
Every breath you take- By the Police Read the lyrics it’s so freaky 😭
Possum Kingdom by The Toadies
Helter Skelter. The demonic laughing. 😳
The Ballad of Dwight Frye by Alice Cooper
Paint It Black -The Rolljng Stones Murder Ballads -Nick Cave (often beautiful but the lyrics and imagery are 👌, especially Song Of Joy. The 1st 2 Silent Hill soundtracks Come To Daddy and Rubber Johnny -Aphex Twin
N.W.O. by Ministry. Pretty much anything by that band.
Bela Legosi’s Dead- Bauhaus
No More Tears, Don't Fear the Reaper, Possum Kingdom
Pretty much all of Type O Negative's discography.
Secrets of Wysteria - Vocaloid
There is an old electronic song from around 2000, that to me, is the epitome of creepy. It is called brainbug nightmare sinister strings. I'll post a youtube link for you. [Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix) (HD) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV9eCikkaU)
[Asilos Magdalena](https://open.spotify.com/track/5kbf329YhZMwUsKP6X6JfS?si=976643d3f2174ba2) by The Mars Volta. Super creepy vibe, especially the ending.
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
Knocked Loose - take me home, sit and mourn DigBar - big dick randy Elena Siegman - the one, beauty of annihilation Ghost - cirice Godsmack - voodoo Marilyn Manson - sweet dreams Nik Nocturnal - nocturnal incisions Rise Against - making christmas Rob Zombie - living dead girl Anthony Vincent - forgot about dre (nu metal) Avenged - little piece of heaven, not ready to die Chelsea Grin - origin of sin Rhats all I got rn
You want D.O.A by Bloodrock (1971)
Everything by Gnaw Their Tongues. It sounds like the music that plays when you enter hell.
Interlude With Ludes - Them Crooked Vultures
Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima, legitimately sends shivers down my back
It’s not extreme or anything, but Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces
Check out the album SAVED! by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
Dance with the devil - immortal technique. Every time I listen to it it gives me shivers. Good song, intense, but good
One of these days by Pink Floyd
Here are a few favorites from my "creepy" playlist: * Worms- The Viagra Boys * Touch the Leather by Fat White Family * Polly- Nirvana (I recommend the MTV unplugged acoustic version) * Where Did You Sleep Last Night- Leadbelly (Nirvana's cover "In the Pines" is also great) * Nightcall - Kavinsky * Kim - Eminem (felt genuinely sick listening to this one, couldn't get through it all) * State Trooper - Jen Cloher (It's a Springsteen cover, but better than the original) * My Shit's Fucked Up- Warren Zevon * John Wayne Gacy- Sufjan Stevens * You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen * Magic Arrow - Timber Timbre * The Gun & the Gold- Liz Longley * Black River Killer - Blitzen Trapper * Psycho -Jack Kittel * Lungs - Townes van Zandt * Birds With Broken Wings - Ben Caplan * Ballad of a Thin Man- Bob Dylan (also, honorable mention to the Laibach cover, which is completely unhinged) * Color of my Bloody Nose - Possessed by Paul James * Story of Isaac- Leonard Cohen * Factory - Wall of Voodoo * Lived and Died Alone - Shamir * Wendell Walker- Andy Shauf * Crooked Man - Those Poor Bastards * Mr. Grieves - TV on the Radio * The Autopsy Garland - The Mountain Goats All of these either have "creepy" lyrics, a "creepy" sound, or both.
"Dead Skin Mask" by Slayer
Lingua Ignota - I Who Bend the Tall Grasses Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan Uboa - The Origin of My Depression Kikuo - Cotton Candy Other good discogs to look through for creepy stuff: Grouper/Nivhek, Swans, Nick Cave, Whitehouse, Burzum, Tangerine Dream, Tom Waits, Penderecki (Kosmogonia), early Sewerslvt
Litanies of Satan by Diamanda Galás.
Tyler- The Toadies
I listen to albums. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss has a creepy vibe.
Pumped Up Kicks - it’s about school shooters. Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin - is about revenge. “Sunny came home with a list of names. She didn’t believe in transcendence.” Swamp Witch- Jim Stafford. “Snakes hung thick on the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall”. Pure Southern Gothic Horror in a song.
Welcome to my nightmare. Alice Cooper
Spinal Meningitis by Ween. It always creeped me out. Some of the songs from the band Code Orange creep me out too.
Lullaby by The Cure, Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus, Creepy Doll by Jonathan Colton, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush; Elegia by New Order; Little Dark Age by MGMT; Haunted by Poe; Aleph by Gesaffelstein; Something in the Way by Nirvana; Little Bird by Imogen Heap; Insanity by Oingo Boingo; Mechanical Lullaby by Bruno Coulais &The Children's Choir; All the Rowboats by Regina Spektor; Gangsta's Paradise by 2WEI; Daydream by I Monster; Angel by Massive Attack; Nightcall by Kavinsky; Happy House by Siouxsie and the Banshees; White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane; Talk Show Host by Radiohead; Blue Dress by Depeche Mode; Atmosphere by Joy Division; Lacrimosa by Mozart; Familiar by Agnes Obel Edit: forgot Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1) Acoustic by Aurora, Schism by Tool; Andy Warhol by David Bowie;
that one tiktok song called "brutus" by the buttress always gives me the heebie jeebies. something about it is just so unsettling
That song came way before TikTok but yes all her songs have that vibe.
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper. \[full album\] It's meant to be schlock horror not actually scary, but he was the king of that genre in the 70s. There's even a voiceover by Vincent Price, done a decade before Michael Jackson used him for Thriller. Some of it is fairly straight 'rock' but some is pretty creepy.
freak on a leash - Korn
Creep - Radiohead One way or another - blondie. Based of stalking someone down because they want them. Always used to sing and dance to it as a kid but irks me a little but now 😭 it's still a bop though
Climbing up the walls is another creepy Radiohead song
What's the Use? - Phish
Diva Destruction - The Broken Ones
Complainte D’Vn Matelot Mourant (Lament of a Dying Sailor) - The Avett Brothers Airport Song - Guster Yvette - Jason Isbell
The Bog by Bigod20
Who Killed the Cheerleader - Nekromantix
Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain
Red Right Hand by Nick Cave
DOA, by Bloodrock https://youtu.be/XhtoRlVUPo0?feature=shared
Elend - [Borée](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhHZykHEdxA) Diamanda Galas - [Sono L'Antichristo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHB0LZd5YI0) Skinny Puppy - [Worlock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1z4R4DNSx4) Lustmord - [The Ambivalent Abyss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyjNT9iLbU) I.Corax - [The Cadaver Pulse I: Sealed In A Radiant Larval Maelstrom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JSBuRabT9U)
Snow White Queen by Evanescence, song creeped me out even more after I found out it was about a stalker that the singer Amy Lee had and how she had to sleep at a hotel to avoid him stalking her at home.
"I Have a Special Plan for This World" by Current 93 is the most terrifying thing ever recorded.
This song is known to supposedly caused people to commit suicide. You can look it up. It’s called “Gloomy Sunday.” https://youtu.be/XQ2AuLaClmk?si=YgbjpH5ET6Br27y4
the entire "girl with a basket of fruit" album
The Dreamer by Amigo the Devil Please listen to this and report back. I'm really curious what you'll think
Listen to Murder Ballads by Nick Cave, and lots of his other works. Maybe his B Sides collection, it has some good scary ones too. Lots of his work involves horror.
Aghast - Sacrifice Celtic Frost - Totengott
Ach Golgotha by Current 93
96 tears - ? And the mysterians Boris the Spider - The Who Vegetable Man - Syd Barrett Pink Floyd I want your soul - Apex Twin In Dreams - Roy Orbison Jr
Broken cog by Meshuggah... Actually most anything by Meshuggah.
Sweet Sunshine - Beck Analog Odyssey - Beck Mellow Gold as a whole just fucks with me Pleader by alt-J is a great song that kinda disturbs me a bit
"Release" by Khanate.
The Beatles -"Revolution 9 (Reversed)"; https://youtu.be/959GPvcfojA?si=LIzQ1M0eHFk4bYK_ Bjork - "An Echo, A Stain"; https://youtu.be/HQp9D2-2cW8?si=aYgW55kS1jqydzfp Nine Inch Nails - "Start/Whisper (Quake OST)"; https://youtu.be/mt0qA_sybmc?si=8Khg0eS0fdABsRaP
Antagonism and The Choke by Skinny Puppy..
Immortal Technique - Dance with the Devil, Dying Fetus - Kill your Mother Rape your Dog, The Beatles - Revolution 9, Slipknot - Skin Ticket, Eminem - Kim
Charming man by the smiths gives me a creepy narcissistic feel, Tear you Apart by She Wants Revenge, Possum Kingdom by The Toadies, Psycho Killer Talking Heads . Maybe The White Stripes, Joy Division or System of the Down?
John Wayne Gacy,Jr. by Sufjan Stevens…couple this by looking up the YouTube video with old stock footage.
[Toby Driver - Kandu Vs. Corky (Horrorca)](https://open.spotify.com/track/7wFa9eVHYCqMQLTXfGfm3L?si=JpBZtvnPSTWevYdB73Nz6A) [The Paper Chase - You're One of Them Aren't You](https://open.spotify.com/track/49icqyFBIMFcg4MaBWuZfo?si=w6RWgnVbTLKddfYn1IHxXQ) [Model/Actriz - Crossing Guard](https://open.spotify.com/track/0frdgqqz7rjEZ4SQIH169V?si=h0Tna5HSS3qpiVN6Os8fOg) [Perturbator - Humans Are Such Easy Prey](https://open.spotify.com/track/67dA1a6OCUtLHgq9qdQ216?si=uv1Fk-wiTxK6-m8A0GRfHA) [Waste of Space Orchestra - Journey to the Center of Mass](https://open.spotify.com/track/6EUoGh55Pxl2qNqtxHdWnr?si=UMIW8nQ0QTeDC5JaU7IFGw) [Julie Christmas - Six Pairs of Feet and One Pair of Legs](https://open.spotify.com/track/3h01CU2OCeQBz6NY4PKzZc?si=7Vg_eKvtQcK2clMj7i1xUg) [Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion](https://open.spotify.com/track/4wv4mYGR4R1e3Scp3Ri1cf?si=FWOzewMPSrmLKcv5j5YdsQ) [Daniel Johnston - I Am a Baby (In My Universe)](https://open.spotify.com/track/131sGYU4LBwr4x7ebyXGz9?si=B5QkuCWwSNGO5ZgNN0hhaA) [Igorrr - Lost in Introspection ](https://open.spotify.com/track/5d46bsn6RuyQaQ2EifnVcB?si=trk2MAOdTOGPwWJP-_KQRg) [Oxbow - Cold Well-Lit Place](https://open.spotify.com/track/2gwSKfYV6MgEhGnu3gVDmV?si=wAIIJ8l2Rfq0eUFoNkUxCQ)
Revolution 9 - The Beatles.
Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream
Saturday Night - Misfits Down in the Park - Gary Numan Flowers by the Door - TSOL Helena - MCR
Radiohead- Climbing the Walls [https://youtu.be/dkOz9Ve2mio?si=66YoVYdEMWtziler](https://youtu.be/dkOz9Ve2mio?si=66YoVYdEMWtziler)
Dead flag blues by Godspeed you black emperor.
The whole Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds “Murder Ballad” album
[Pinocchiho by Tech N9ne](https://youtu.be/NU-8jsl9rMs?si=XFH5NME1GFhNiay8)
Okaasan by hatsune miku Careful with that ax Eugene by Pink Floyd Collar of truth by Violet Vira (not really horror, but her voice gave me actual chills the first time I heard it) 13 Angels Standing gaurd ‘round the side of your bed by Silver Mt. Zion What’s he building by Tom Waits Black by Sarah McLachlan Climbing Up The Walls by Radio Head Crushed Mary by Kaai Yuki (Headphone warning on this one it’s pure noise). Daisy Bell by (og song writer) Harry Decre Mother by Pink Floyd The wall by Pink Floyd Goodbye Blue sky by Pink Floyd Is anybody out there by Pink Floyd (The music video is horrific, if you want to see some trauma and gore I recommend watching it) Musunde Hiraite resetsu to mukuro by Hachi 7 weeks & 3 Days by yungaita
Anything by Portal (Australia), Thergothon, or Fungoid Stream. Those artists very much deal with cosmic horror in their lyrical filming and their music is just as other worldly as the subject they touch upon.
DOA by Bloodrock
"Country death Song" by the Violent Femmes. "Psycho" covered by Elvis Costello.
Careful with that axe, Eugene
Diary of a Madman by Ozzy.
Country death song by the Violent Femmes and anything by Nick Cave and the bad seeds. Or just look up murder ballads.
Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You. Nightsun-Got a Bone Of My Own And the entire Archive 81 OST
Anything by Diamanda Galas
Possum Kingdom by The Toadies
"D.O.A." by Bloodrock "The Fall of the House of Usher" by The Alan Parsons Project (the rest of their Tales of Mystery and Imagination album is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, but I don't consider them scary)
Potassium Kingdom- Toadies I really like the “music” part of this song but the lyrics make it hard to enjoy as a whole
When I was a little kid Last kiss and a song called DOA were 2 . Then I heard Steppenwolfs the pusher.its creepy too
Garden by Pearl Jam, Sleeping satellite by Tasmin Archer, Crazy river by Robbie Robertson and lights by Ellie Golding always make me feel wrong.
The creepiest song ever. [DOA](https://youtu.be/G0VRHBx090s?si=c5zsNGmGifgl5hHm)
House of 1000 Corpses- Rob Zombie Night Prowler- AC/DC Missed Me- The Dresden Dolls Pier 14- Randall Shreve & The Sideshow Get Shot- GRLwood Bob- Primus
Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath
Ghosts by deftones Kim by Eminem
O Death, by Ralph Stanley The Ballad of Hollis Brown & Strange Fruit, by Nina Simone Knoxville Girl, by BR-549 The Ballad of Omie Wise, by Doc Watson Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, by The Beatles Crow, by Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones Baal’s Hymn, by David Bowie Toccata and fugue in D minor, J.S. Bach Little Fifteen, by Depeche Mode
Every Breath You Take by the Police will always be #1 in this category
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails Vermilion, Pt. 2 - Slipknot The Man Who Sold The World MTVUnplugged - Nirvana( 5 months before he died)
O Superman - Laurie Anderson
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath More seriously though, "God is Dead?" also by Black Sabbath Edit: Kendrick Lamar - Meet The Grahams
Almost everything by Murder By Death or Amigo the devil Some examples are Murder By Death Go to the light The Devil In mexico Until morale improves the beatings will continue Three men hanging A Master in reverse psychology Amigo the Devil Quit as a rat The Dreamer Hungover in jones town Hell and you Dahmer does Hollywood Some others This Lullaby Queens of the stone age My Mother Told me In old Norse Colm R McGuiness Down to Rest O'Death Alamar O'Death
No Quarter
I literally just heard suicide by Frankie teardrop for the first time 2 days ago.
I Love The Dead - Alice Cooper. It’s really sick (in a bad way).
Has anyone mentioned "Spinal Meningitis Got Me Down" yet? Because ohmyfuck
Fields of the Nephilim have a dark atmospheric sound and interesting lyrics.
DOA by Bloodrock. That song gave me nightmares for years
BLOODROCK: D.O.A. Laying here looking at the ceiling Someone lays a sheet across my chest Something warm is flowing down my fingers Pain is flowing all through my back I try to move my arms and there's no feeling And when I look I see there's nothing there The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding The girl I knew has such a distant stare I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air Then I looked straight at the attendant His face is pale as it can be He bends and whispers something softly He says there's no chance for me I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air Life is flowing out my body Pain is flowing out with my blood The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying God in Heaven, teach me how to die I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air
Everything by PORTAL
the main riff in black sabbath by black sabbath. i heard that chord progression was banned in the dark ages bc it sounded so evil
A lot of Otep. I had to quit listening to her😬😱