10 Amazing Rock Albums That Will Scare You To Death

Around the late '70s, rock and roll was already starting to turn itself inside out. In the wake of the old guard getting more and more bloated, the punk revolution was exactly what most of us needed to hear, bringing things back to basics with loud guitars, while being complimented by the more sterile sounds of the new wave movement. While acts like Blondie and Devo may have made spectacles in the early days of MTV, the first sounds of Suicide weren't going to be featured on prime time any time soon.

Taking the basic structure of synthesizers, a lot of the songs on here are not really ready for radio, with vocalist Alan Vega sounding like he's just been let out of a mental asylum and has decided to grab the microphone. Although there are more than a handful of decent rock cuts on here like Jonny and Rocket USA, the real showcase of the album is Frankie Teardrop, which is practically a horror movie set to music.

Sprawling out over 10 minutes, this song tells the dark story of a down on his luck man who comes home, murders his entire family and ultimately decides to turn the gun on himself when he realizes what he's done. For all of the scars that are left from an album like this, it was actually a lot more influential later down the line, informing the industrial music scene and even Bruce Springsteen professing himself as a fan. There's a classic album hidden in here somewhere, but you're also going to need more than a few cold showers to cleanse yourself of what you just heard.