Scariest songs of all times
A collection of scary, disturbing and creepy songs inno particular order |
| 1 |  | Nurse With Wound
An Awkward Pause
I'VE PLUMMED THIS WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD
A cacophonic industrial/noise work that i won't recommend to listen while going to sleep |
| 2 |  | SubRosa (US)
More Constant Than The Gods
THE USHER
Pure witchcraft atmosphere surrounded by comatose vocals and distorted arks |
| 3 |  | Throbbing Gristle
D.O.A: The Third And Final Report
HAMBURGER LADY
A disturbing cynical industrial tune about a burst woman |
| 4 |  | Acid bath
When the Kite String Pops
FINGER PAINTINGS OF THE INSANE
Maybe the most disturbing album ever, (and one of my favorites) this song is from the perspective of John Wayne Gacy while torturing and killing, the atmosphere is truly deranged and the lyrics plain wrong |
| 5 |  | Deathspell Omega
Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice
FIRST PRAYER
Sounds like a real summoning, the reverse prayer during the second part are the highlight of this terrifying opening |
| 6 |  | Neurosis
Souls at Zero
SOULS AT ZERO
Neurosis managed to build a truly horrorish atmosphere making you feel like you're part of a human sacrifice |
| 7 |  | Gnaw Their Tongues
All The Dread Magnificence of Perversity
TITLE TRACK
well, it's GTT, so you know what to expect from this perverted disgusting song |
| 8 |  | Dragged Into Sunlight
Hatred For Mankind
BOILED ANGEL
Sludgy black metal surrounded by serial killer interviews |
| 9 |  | Immolation
Close to a World Below
TITLE TRACK
The closest thing to hell ever recorded in death metal |
| 10 |  | Obscure Sphinx
Void Mother
WAITING FOR THE BODIES DOWN THE RIVER
Wielebna's performance makes this sludge song an eerie masterpiece, most of all for the final dirge |
| 11 |  | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Of Natural History
THE CREATURE
A weird fable about human condition, told in the most demented way possible while there's chewing sounds in the background. |
| 12 |  | Pig Destroyer
Prowler in the Yard
JENNIFER
The sick prelude to a grind concept about the last thoughts of a stalker before he kills his girlfriend and than commits suicide |
| 13 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
THE BECOMING
Maybe not the darkest song on the album but sure the scariest, mixing industrial sound with a loop of screams |
| 14 |  | Forgotten Tomb
Songs to Leave
DISHEARTENMENT
I found most of DSBM laughable, this is not the case. You can feel the desperation through those repetitive melpdies and unsettling screams |
| 15 |  | Godflesh
Streetcleaner
MIGHTY TRUST KRUSHER
You'll need a shower after this |
| 16 |  | Alice in Chains
Dirt
ANGRY CHAIR
What makes this song scarier than any other about addiction is knowing what Layne Staley went through while recording it |
| 17 |  | Swans
Soundtracks for the Blind
I WAS A PRISONER IN YOUR SKULL
I could choose anything from To be kind but this is the most authentic one due to Jarboe's father's FBI tape regarding a paranoid patient. The distorted dirge is nightmare fuel too |
| 18 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu
Värähtelijä
SATURAATIO
One of the most claustrophobic black metal acts ever |
| 19 |  | Mayhem
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
TITLE TRACK
One of the most authentic and iconic satanic songs in black metal |
| 20 |  | Celtic frost
Monotheist
TOTENGOTT
An esoteric summoning surrounded by unsettling screamed prayers and satanic atmosphere |
| 21 |  | The Axis of Perdition
Deleted Scenes From Transition Hospital
DELETED SCENES PART 1
Basically a death/industrial version of silent hill with cryptic Lovecraftesque atmospheres. The band refused to show lyrics or meaning behind the song and album. |
| 22 |  | Suicide
Suicide
FRANKIE TEARDROP
The infamous disturbing song about a poor worker killing his family and himself for desperation and going in hell. The whole song is a repetitive pounding sound and Frankie's thoughts and screams. Maybe the first case of jumpscare in a song. |
| 23 |  | Amenra
Mass III
AM KREUZ.
One of the best atmospheric post metal songs ever |
| 24 |  | Dog Fashion Disco
Ad Nauseam
WATCHING YOU
What DfD does best are happy sounding songs with truly dark lyrics. But this time they went totally dark with a song about stalking creating an oppressive feeling of being observed |
| 25 |  | The Ruins Of Beverast
Rain Upon the Impure
TITLE TRACK
Chaotic, apocalyptic black metal |
| 26 |  | The body
I Shall Die Here
TO CARRY THE SEEDS OF DEATH
The oppressive bass sounds combined to the distorted screams manage to create a sort of anxiety fuel heartbeat |
| 27 |  | Slayer
Seasons in the Abyss
DEAD SKIN MASK
The deranged story of Ed Gein's madness and obsession with dead bodies. The final chorus with the girl begging in the background is maybe the darkest ment in the band's history |
| 28 |  | Gris
Il Était Une Forêt...
LE GALA DES GENS HEUREX
depressive black metal with nice atmosphere, just go to translate the lyrics, they contains some of the most twosted imagery possible. A morbid orchestra of perversion |
| 29 |  | Buzzov-en
Sore
SORE
An 8 minutes sludge song in which the first 4 consists in screaming women |
| 30 |  | Khanate
Khanate
IN THAT CORNER
One of the most unnerving songs ever |
| 31 |  | Korn
Korn
DADDY
The intense story of Davis abused by his neighbor when he was a child. Around 6.00 minutes he breaks down and start to cry and swear for the rest of the song while the band keeps playing. The last portion of the track consists in JD's sobs and a mother singing a lullaby |
| 32 |  | Slipknot
Iowa
IOWA
The long maniacal closer of their sophomore album, consisting in constant notes, women screaming in background, backwards subliminal messages and lyrics about a serial killer loving his victims and treating them like toys |
| 33 |  | maudlin of the Well
Bath
FERRYMAN
Bath is scary in a weird way, it's an alternation between beautiful soft songs and totally fucked up others. This one in particular contains some of the most demonic vibes and it's set between two upliftingly calm songs. |
| 34 |  | Depressive age
Lying in Wait
LYING IN WAIT
Depressive suicidal thrash with morbid atmosphere |
| 35 |  | Dystopia
Human = Garbage
STRESS BUILDS CHARACTER
The sound of misanthropia |
| 36 |  | Lunar Aurora
Andacht
DUNKLER MANN
Creepy atmospheric black metal with some of the darkest vibes ever |
| 37 |  | Deftones
White Pony
KNIFE PRTY
The whole song is a perfect balance between uplifting and eerie but that moment when Rodleen starts a sort of fusion between singing, orgasms and screams in plain terror and pain is something both delightful and alienating |
| 38 |  | Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
BLACK SABBATH
The opus magnus of esoteric music |
| 39 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
JANE DOE
The heaviness of the music and the screamed vocals contraposed to the mellow spooky dirge sung by a female voice is out of this world |
| 40 |  | Mudvayne
L.D. 50
SEVERED
One of the most raw and in your face depiction of suicidal thoughts i've geard. Chad's alternation of melancholic cleans and tortured screams makes it even rawer |
| 41 |  | Whitehouse
Mummy and Daddy
A CUNT LIKE YOU
is it even considerable music? A concept about domestic violence built with earrape, distorted electronics and screamed insults and abusive words |
| 42 |  | Billie Holiday
Gloomy Sunday (The Famous Hungarian Suicide Song)
RESZO SEREZ'S GLOOMY SUNDAY
The high number of suicides concerning this song contributed to create the famous urban legend. While it's clearly all bullshit it's undeniable that this song is surrounded by a strange depressive atmosphere |
| 43 |  | Aphex twin
Come to Daddy
FUNNY LITTLE MAN
While more popular songs like come to daddy and widowlicker would make most people's choice i think that the subtlety of this one deserves the spot. There's nothing plain scary, yet there's something wrong. Sure the final synthetic vocals in the style of "i feel fantastic" are part of the wrong stuff |
| 44 |  | Chelsea Wolfe
Apokalypsis
PALE ON PALE
This girl know how to create haunting atmospheres |
| 45 |  | Giles Corey
Giles Corey
THE HAUNTING PRESENCE
Speaking about haunting, this fusion of experimental folk and shoegaze is one of the spookiest stuff ive heard in a while |
| 46 |  | Death grips
Year of the Snitch
SHITFEST
not a huge fan of them but sure they know how to sound unnerving |
| 47 |  | Soundtrack (Video Game)
Alice: Madness Returns
DOKI DOKI LITERATURE CLUB'S SAYONARA
The distorted main theme will definitely scare you if you played this stuff |
| 48 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F♯ A♯ ∞
EAST HASTINGS
This song has one of the most intense apocalyptic build ups in music history. It gives you the feeling of being alone in the world |
| 49 |  | Thomas Bangalter
Irréversible (Original Soundtrack)
RECTUM
Irreversible managed to be so disturbing both for graphic imagery and for the bineural music inducing panic and nausea in theaters |
| 50 |  | Slint
Spiderland
DON, AMAN
Post rock anthem |
| 51 |  | Kreator
Outcast
BLACK SUNRISE
Completely different from their thrash stuff, this slow anxious song contains one of the grimest vibes ever |
| 52 |  | Daughters
You Won't Get What You Want
SATAN IN THE WAIT
Misanthropic, chaotic and obsessive art |
| 53 |  | Big black
Songs About Fucking
JORDAN, MINNESOTA
Shit, that's pretty fucked up |
| 54 |  | Scott Walker
Bish Bosch
TAR
You love it either you hate it |
| 55 |  | Einsturzende Neubauten
Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
FALCSGELD
Never trust someone who chooses a jizzing horse as a cover. Claustrophobic industrial noise project with some crazy ideas. |
| 56 |  | Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill 2
BETRAYAL/BLACK FAIRY
Akira is the best musician in the entire video game industry. He manage to create confusion putting beautiful sad music during some intense scenes and terrifying industrial sounds only to create tension. The most intense musical moment is the succession apocalyptic metallic betrayal followed by the decadent delusional black fairy. |
| 57 |  | Rammstein
Sehnsucht
SPIEL MIT MIR
For the ones not familiar with german this may sound a little creepy but for the ones that know the la.guage this is downright fucked up |
| 58 |  | Therapy?
Infernal Love
DIANE
One of my favorite covers, the bittersweet orchestral arrangements manage to create an odd feeling when you hear the graphic nature of the lyrics |
| 59 |  | Lingua ignota
Caligula
SPITE ALONE HOLDS ME ALOFT
A nice experiment that will send shivers down your spine |
| 60 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer
CLIMBING UP THE WALLS
I love the claustrophobic paranoia inducing vibes of the song, it suggest that maybe the real monster is inside us. The mellow vocals transforming into screams are unsettlingly beautiful |
| 61 |  | Butthole Surfers
Locust Abortion Technician
U.S.S.A.
Just butthole surfers doing weird shit |
| 62 |  | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
PENA
This escalates pretty quickly, sounds like a fucked up cartoon |
| 63 |  | Hair Police
Mercurial Rites
RATTLERS ECHO
Horror ambient with annoying noises and schizophrenic noises |
| 64 |  | Christopher Young
Sinister
BBQ
One of the best soundtrack in recent horror movies, that sort of vocal loop is uncanny |
| 65 |  | Stalaggh
Projekt Terror
PROJEKT TERROR
Yeah, the guys that used asylum patients desperate screams to create albums |
| 66 |  | Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP
KIM
This somehow manage to be both cheesy and unsettling. Em's fantasies of killing his ex wife |
| 67 |  | Coil
Musick To Play In The Dark
FIRST FIVE MINUTES AFTER DEATH
The title describe perfectly the song |
| 68 |  | Marilyn Manson
Antichrist Superstar
CRYPTORCHID
Never found MM scary or disturbing, this song is pretty creepy though. |
| 69 |  | The Residents
Commercial Album
CONSTANTINOPLE
Obsessive, trippy and fucking annoying. Love it. |
| 70 |  | The Beatles
The Beatles
REVOLUTION 9
The infamous nightmarish collage of weird and scary noises |
| 71 |  | Sunn O)))
Black One
IT TOOK THE NIGHT TO BELIEVE
On of the few Sunn songs i actually consider frightening |
| 72 |  | Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST
SONG OF HEALING
This game is absurd, majestic and beautiful. Still it's surrounded by elements that makes you feel uncomfortable. |
| 73 |  | David Lynch
Eraserhead OST
IN HEAVEN
Speaking of uncomfortable, have you ever heard of a girl with deformed cheeks singing this song inside of a radiator while stepping on giant spermatozoon. |
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