10 Scariest Tracks In Hard Rock
7. The End - The Doors
Rock music's ventures in the 60's tended to center more towards peace and love than doom and gloom. Most of the songs blowing up on the charts were protest anthems denouncing war or calling for peace across the world. On the other side of California, The Doors took the listener on a bit of a different trip.
The band's entire first album is a bonafied classic, but the album's grinding halt on "The End" is what looms the largest in The Doors's legend. While the music is nothing more than a drone between two chords, the real menace comes from frontman Jim Morrison, whose words read as a love-filled farewell at the beginning. The song doesn't stay in comfortable territory for long, as Morrison quickly turns to more off-the-wall spoken word passages, as he discusses a killer awaking and walking slowly down a hallway.
On another tangent, Morrison tells a tale of Oedipal lust, as a son yearns to kill his father and become his mother's lover. The instrumentation behind Morrison takes the song to sonic peaks and transcends the simple act of performing in a rock band. With the song being incorporated in 60's dramas like Apocalypse Now, "The End" has a longevity that is sure to spark fear in generations to come.