10 Scariest Albums Ever Made
Music's demented entries.
Music is supposed to make you feel good. Every time you turn on your favorite tunes, you're typically looking to get pumped up and take on the world through the notes coming out of the speakers. However, there are just as many artists looking to thrill you in a different way.
Every so often, artists come out with albums that are filled to the brim with dread. Whether it be because of an intense backstory or a horrific concept, these albums have struck just as much fear into the hearts of listeners as they have excitement in others.
But how do you necessarily make a track sound evil? The answer lies less in what you play and more in how you play it. Whereas a song itself could sound fine on the surface, it becomes a completely different world once you get the right singer to add their demented spin on it. Even if the song itself sounds fine on its own, the actual performance of the instruments may be so chaotic that it ends up sounding horrifying on replay.
However, the best of times is when an artist can find the perfect unholy marriage between instruments and lyrics to make for a chilling experience. These are the albums that will send you into Hell and back up throughout their runtimes. They may be amazing, but try not to listen to them after dark.
10. Closer - Joy Division
Once the allure of punk faded away, Joy Division were one of the first bands to announce the post punk movement.
With droning bass lines and disturbing lyrics from Ian Curtis, the band's songs always had a much darker agenda going for them. On the other hand, the scariest parts of this band's discography is when that pain became shockingly real.
For as ominous and bleak as something like Unknown Pleasures is, Closer ends up sounding much more disturbed given the events that occurred directly after its release. Recorded when Curtis was going through severe struggles with mental health, the album doesn't pull any punches when depicting his frail state of mind.
However, things were dialed up a notch when Curtis was found dead by suicide shortly after the album was due for release, bringing any plans for Joy Division to a halt.
Seeing how this is the band's unintended swan song, the lyrics read as much more freaky within that context. From start to finish, every song feels like Curtis crying out for help, looking for some sort of mental closure that he never ended up getting. Joy Division certainly have their more unsettling moments, but this is the one time their music became too dark for even punks to bare.