Music that scares you.

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When I was in 5th grade I got my hands on a copy of Black Sabbath "Paranoid". It was at my tailend of believing in the invisible wizard in the sky that my Catholic upbringing attempted to instill. In any case I was quite blown away by the heaviness of said cassette, but also the pure EVIL particularly on side 2 with Electric Funeral and Hand of Doom as the first two songs. One night it freaked me out and made me think I was riskin' damnation for toolin' with Satan. So much so that I panicked and cut the tape with a scissors and discarded it in the garbage. Since then I have acquired Paranoid on LP and CD and disowned the concept of god in favor of heavy metal music.

On a somewhat related note, my first exposure to Killdozer was 12 Point Buck when I was 14 or 15 and it gave me splitting fucking headaches. I enjoyed the music and thought the lyrics were hilarious, but the first three or four times I listened to it all the way through it well like someone was drilling a hole in my skull and filling it with drano. I hardly ever get migranes and I have never had any music have that effect on me. After a few listens I just came to love Killdozer and never got a headaches from it. It was a painful initiation to Wisconsin's all time greatest band.

I also second that Rembrandt Pussyhorse is a wonderfully creepy album. In fact I just decided to put it on.
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Music that scares you.

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It's totally a cliche, since it's been used for so many horror movies, but O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana. That song scares the shit out of me, even as an adult. I'm pretty sure that song constantly plays in Hell.
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Music that scares you.

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Music isn't so scary to me as a grownup. It can be thrilling or surprising, sure, but sound can't unsettle me the way disturbing images will.

As a child, I loved the Beatles but always had to be careful to lift the needle before the guitar solo at the end of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Frightened me to no end. My father encouraged me to watch Koyannisqatsi one night when it was on PBS, and the choral portions of the score combined with the weird effects of the visuals had me pretty well shook.

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