10 Most Disturbing Hard Rock Songs Ever Released

Hard rock is not a genre to be taken lightly. For as much as there have been songs centered around topics like partying and drinking, things can get pretty ugly in the lyrical department when the artist feels like it. Hell, if you're not too careful, things can go from a care free rock jam to something truly tortured.

From the way the instruments are played to the topics at hand, each of these songs have made many listeners' hairs stand up on end. For every minute of these tracks, you're kept on the edge of your seat as if the song itself has taken you in as its hostage. Coming from the early days of metal in the '70s to the gruesome tales of disgust that many shock rock bands have come out with, each of these songs have stood on their own as some of the most unsettling music to ever be produced using electric guitars.

Even with the passage of time, every one of these songs seems to get more scary by the minute, as if the tortured minds behind these tunes are still out there. These songs are a blast to listen to from start to finish, but keep watch over your shoulder from time to time.

Most people don't really come to the Beatles for something unsettling. Though the band has practically covered every single facet of the rock landscape, there aren't too many tunes by the Fabs that actually put you on edge after hearing them. Then again, if there were one tune that inspires uneasiness in the band's catalog, it has to be "Revolution 9."

Even so, it's hard even calling something like this an actual song. While it does appear as a track on the band's self-titled White Album, this is an avant garde art piece created by John Lennon to reflect his idea of resistance. Though they had already put a single out with the same title, this track feels much more disturbed than just a call to rise up.

Instead of having the bluesy groove of the former, this track is pretty much a sound collage from start to finish, with bits and pieces of instruments thrown in. It might get laughed at for its endless barrage of a man saying "Number 9," but if you listen to the rest of the song, it teeters between a work of art and pure anarchy depending on which part of the song you're in. John Lennon was always known to be the eccentric Beatle, but this art piece was enough to leave some die hard fans running scared.