Alright for anyone who wants to know and discover all the albums, releases or bands here: Tier 1: Emotional Turmoil 2:13 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready Korn - S/T Giles Corey - S/T Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me Coil - The Ape of Naples Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Slint - Spiderland Today Is The Day - Sadness Will Prevail Endless Dismal Moan John Frusciante - Smile from the Streets you Hold Tier 2: Perversity 19:59 Brainbombs - Obey Mentors - You've Axed For It Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction Pissgrave Torsofuck Waco Jesus Creamface Pig Destroyer - Natasha Wormphlegm = Tomb of The Ancient King Necro - I Need Drugs Brotha Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness Kikuo - Kikuo Miku 2 Tier 3: Uncanny 34:55 Diamanda Galás - Plague Mass Patty Waters - Sings Scott Walker - The Drift Gnaw Their Tongues Kengo Iuchi - Utsu The Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital Current 93 - I have a special plan for this world Homotopy to Marie - Nurse with wound Senthil - Septisemesis Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Asshole / Snail Dilemma The Rita - Swingers Get Killed Ramleh - Hole In The Heart Xiu Xiu - Knife Play Utarm -Apocryphal Stories Black Mountain Transmitter - Black Goat of The Woods Tier 4: Context 53:57 Atrax Morgue - Paranoia Genocide Organ - Leichenlinie Deathpile - G.R. Khanate - S/T Zero Kama -The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H. John Zorn - Kristallnacht Whitehouse - Mummy and Daddy Con-Dom - How Welcome Is Death Penderecki - Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima Tier 5: Audio Tracks 1:09:12 Peter Sotos - Buyer's Market Martin Bladh - Dirge; The Peter Sotos Files Reverend Jim Jones - Thee Last Supper Bryan Lewis Saunders - Near Death Experience Steven Jesse Bernstein - Prison The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults Tier 6: Taboo 1:19:07 Zenjin - Pseudoscorpion Nicole 12 For Some Honorable Mentions or Atleast a Recommendation for a Disturbing album I'd Say: The Cure - P**nography (Tier 1) The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases (Tier 1) Brujeria - Matando Güeros (Tier 2) Teitanblood - Death (Tier 3) Naked City - Absinthe (Tier 3) Sutcliffe Jügend - We Spit On Their Graves (Tier 4) Snuff - Snuff (Tier 5)
The cover of Reek of Putrefaction may be nothing special now, but back then… I remember how visibly upset the local record store guy got when we asked about the album, he was almost screaming “No, I don’t have that shit! Have you seen it? Those guys are fucking sick!”. Good old days.
I was lucky, my local record shop was really REALLY cool. Not only did he put a copy aside for me, he gave me a poster of the art meant for the record shop!! Earache Records is the shit!!
To expand on the Vocaloid stuff, a lot of it is themed around really dark topics for some reason but there's a lot of really strange experimental Vocaloid projects that exist. If you have time I recommend watching the English translation for the music video "I Can't Remember" by Daijoubu-P. It's a very hectic auditory/lyrical representation of dementia. Also "Watashi No Koko" is a classic in noisy/experimental dark Vocaloid music if you're ever interested in looking more into the genre.
Thanks for re uploading, great video as usual! One additional release to “Uncanny” tier: Fleurety - A Darker Shade of Evil It has a very weird and distinct vocal style, and what makes it disturbing to me is vocalist permanently damaged his vocal cords because of this record and was not able to perform again in the future
Fleurety is absolutely fucking outstanding! The compilation I won't dare try to sell has some great material. The last one White Death was quite good, and I enjoyed the EP as well. Some of the best riffs I have ever heard!
Type O Negative's World Coming Down could fit in tier 1. With the song White Slavery about cocaine addiction and songs like Everyone I Love Is Dead and Everything Dies dealing with loved ones dying. Overall emotionally driven, but instrumentaly heavy album. Maybe not so much "disturbing" as it is depressing, but then again, maybe so depressing that it could be borderline disturbing.
In regards to the Lingua Ignota project, I personally found Caligula to be much more disturbing than Sinner Get Ready. I feel that the sound in Caligula is just so much more visceral, and the lyrics are so much more intense. I love Kristen Hayter and everything she puts out. Also love seeing Diamanda Galás here and Plague Mass, which is honestly such an important album for what it represents.
I think I actually find her debut, "Let the Evil of his own Lips Cover him" to be most most challenging in her discography. "Caligula" is definitely a visceral experience, no question, but Kristin had zero filter and barely any production to hide behind on the first record. "That He May Not Rise Again" is maybe one of the most emotionally draining songs I've ever heard
We actually do now know who Korn's Daddy is about....JD finally revealed it in some interview a while ago, considering during the band's anniversary tour where they played the S/T in its entirety to include the emotional closer. He points directly to his babysitter at the time as the "family friend" who abused him and his parents didn't believe him. That person is now deceased.
it's weird but this whole video honestly just makes me appreciate how beautiful music is especially when you talked about How Welcome is Death to I and Penderecki's Threnody
The vocals on The Ape of Naples are actually John Balance's (Geoff Rushton) that were recorded prior to his death and reworked by Christopherson. The vocal on "Going Up" is taken from their final performance. The two members were also a couple which makes the whole thing even more tragic. Great video, its given me many new listens!!!
A honorable mention for tier 1 might be Weighing Souls with Sand by The Angelic Process: considering the tragic background of the band, this album sounds as emotionally (and sonically) heavy as it feels beautiful and otherwordly. Like a magnificent swan getting crushed by the apocalypse
@@bobduncan-ot2ji The context behind WSWS by TAP is that it was their final album before Kris Angylus (the man behind the project) committed suicide. It's often believed he did so due to an injury that left him impossible to play music again. Sadly as well, his wife (whom he formed the project with) died in 2023.
thanks for posting this man. i know it mustve been really tough researching some of these concepts and so i really appreciate you taking the time so that we don’t have to.
"I Have A Special Plan For This World" is written by Thomas Ligotti and I knew it more as poem of his before I learned about his collaborations with Current 93. Anyone who is impressed by the lyrics I recommend his short fiction, "Nethescurial" traumatized me. Great video btw, I've heard maybe 20 of these - a few from each level - and think they're mostly great, I'll check out the rest (well, not all of them...)
I've been reading a collection of his short stories recently, have yet to been profoundly moved but its interesting. It is a great track for sure, I have had some interesting experiences listening to it.
@@reikowallach2465 “I am not dying in a nightmare.” (Absolutely adore Ligotti. “The Music of the Moon” fundamentally reconfigured my neurons when I was twelve and I haven’t been the same in the two decades since.)
about the coil album: the vocals are actually those of jhonn balance (geff rushton) who along with peter christopherson were the 2 core members of coil, they were also a romantic couple for most of the band’s existence and the album was made by peter re-arranging parts of a scrapped coil album called “backwards” (originally intended for release on trent reznor’s label and it got leaked but never officially released until 2015). this album is a heartfelt tribute to jhonn, and it feels like you’re slowly watching him fade away as you listen to the album - very moving and perfectly executed concept. also W for kengo iuchi mention, i barely see him talked abt and it’s a shame
34:30 I will say that, with a lot of Kikuo's darkest material, even as a non-Japanese speaker without a translation of the lyrics right in front of you, you can definitely tell that something's up. The guy's production style is subtly off-kilter, often with additional odd effects placed on the synthesised vocals in a way which would already be kind of off-putting or spooky with a normal human voice but become especially alien when applied to a voicebank. His most infamous song, "Gomenne, gomenne" off of the record that you highlighted, does some particularly weird stuff with the vocal mixing on the weird, hectic dubsteppy verses which makes it pretty obvious that whatever this song is about, it's probably the opposite of cheerful-and *oh boy, is it ever!*
@@BradleyRegister That’s honestly the least troubling song on Dreams Less Sweet. Singing about getting your bits pierced and how cool and life-changing it was for you over marimba and cor anglais is downright wholesome when contrasted with “In the Nursery” or the subtext to “White Nights” and “Always is Always”.
I've met Bryan Lewis Saunders. He doesn't do a lot of music these days, but he still draws a self-portrait every day, something he's done for the last 30+ years! He's an incredibly nice guy
I bookmarked this video in my “watch later” playlist after the thumbnail caught my eye while scrolling RUclips homepage like three days ago and finally got around to it for some macabre sounds while I pull this all nighter for work and WOW! What an amazing piece of well researched and passionate work! So much new records and bands/artists I haven’t even discovered yet including genres of extreme metal/noise/hardcore etc etc (Carcass rules!) I wrote down like a dozen new things to check out from this video. Can’t wait to venture into your other content! Crazy cool video!
Happy to see a list like this mention Korn’s debut. “Daddy” is on about every most disturbing songs list but I feel not enough people mention how creepy and dark the album is overall. Hell, just look at the album art and the story it tells with the back cover, showing the swings empty and moving, showing that the child on the front cover has been snatched from them by the menacing, shadowy figure. It’s creepy on its own, but about 500 times more disturbing when paired with the final track. “Need To” seems to have a bit of a mental breakdown of its own during the bridge, “F**et” deals with homophobia and Jonathan questioning his identity and sexuality, “Lies” and “Fake” get pretty sonically creepy, and then the second-to-last song is very dark. The song titled “Helmet In The Bush” is about meth psychosis and is a pretty unsettling, disturbing calm before the absolute horrifying storm that is “Daddy”. Another song worth checking out that didn’t make it onto the album but is from the same era is “Sean Olsen”. The themes are similar to Daddy, but with the victim internalizing the abuse and being manipulated into pursuing and enjoying it. The song isn’t as sonically creepy as Daddy is, but the vibe is unsettling and the lyrical themes are sickening.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, and I know you can’t put literally EVERY album on this list, but I highly recommend for Tier 4: Cat System Corp.’s “News At 11” - a vaporwave look into a parallel universe where the tragedy of 9/11 never happened and how that day in September would have possibly carried onward. Through the song titles alluding to various things (like the time that Flight 11 hit the North Tower) and the samples used - to the simplicity of the artwork being an American flag appearing through a plane window - it’s eerie in a sense to know what instead happened on that fateful day.
I must admit when I saw the thumbnail I rolled my eyes and thought it might end with De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas or something (which to be fair is disturbing in context) but I sure as shit wasn't expecting to see Senthil (who as you know has an array of other projects and has possibly since killed himself?) or Black mountain transmitter or buyers market pop up - and there are a couple I hadn't heard of so kudos I think you've pretty well journeyed down to the deepest darkest point of the iceberg. There was a group called Gulaggh who released an album Vorkuta which apparently samples the wails of psychiatric patients but from memory it was done consensually as a sort of experimental form of therapy though they presumably didn't mention that the recordings would be released in a music project
@@andrewz4105 appreciate your time ! As for Gullagh /Stallagh (which I made a video all about them ) the reason they aren’t included is because they come off like an urban legend then something legit. A lot of mystery with questions that are never answered about their origins that always ruined the “disturbing “ aspect about them .
@@wyattxhim yeah more than likely it's all bullshit for notoriety - I guess it's better if it is although the morbidly curious side of me does still seek out fucked up stuff, then often regrets it... I came across a recording of a victim of the toolbox serial killers as she wailed while they beat her with hammers and I had to close my laptop and walk around the park but it haunted me for a while. Sometimes confronting the dark side of human nature and what depravity some people are capable of seems more responsible than trying to live in blissful ignorance but not if it takes a toll on your mental health I guess. Anyway I'll check out more of your videos. Maybe sign up with rateyourmusic too if you haven't it's a great place to catalog music and discover new stuff
Glad to see Diamanda and Mr. Zorn included. Some of my own, mainly in the uncanny layer would be Naked City's last two, Absinthe and Leng the, any number of Jarboe records but especially Sacrificial Cake, Akira Yamaoka's work on game soundtracks, Audrey Hodges work on Doom 64 and Quake 64.
The Drift scared me more than any horror movie ever has. I've been traumatized ever since I randomly first stumbled across it years ago, while I was listening to random music late at night in the dark, not at all knowing what I was in for. I always want to recommend this to people when I discuss horror and fear, but I also feel the need to tell close loved ones to not actually listen to it because I'm afraid I'm gonna fuck them up by proxy. Incredible work.
Quick note: Vocaloid has no AI. It's more like a program like garage band only you can also use vocal syllable samples to create vocals for your songs. The syllable samples were recorded by a person who was compensated. The long haired girl on the cover is "Hatsune Miku" who (like Tony the Tiger) is an image spokesperson. She's supposed to be the one singing. The company behind Vocaloid does not demand royalties from any song created with vocaloid but they don't want anyone to make songs that make Hatsune Miku sing things that are bad. By using of holograms, they have had Hatsune Miku have a concert tour.
RUclips paused this video for me automatically just now and it said "video removed because it breaks terms of service" but then I refreshed twice and its back up 🤣 I only have 10 minutes remaining
There's an album called He's Able that you should check out. It's a gospel music album that actually sounds really good, except it was made by the Jonestown cult. It's really hard to listen to it when you realize that everybody singing on the album including all the children died a terrible death.
Pseudoscorpion, as the evidence I came across researching the topic would sugest, started off as just a myth on online boards like 4 and 8chan. But it is very likely that someone decided to turn myth into reality and made the album based on what the rumors said it was. There's this entity, which might be an individual or a group, called Ripper who used to make gore mixtapes that only had children footage, and he would, aparently, put "music" over the videos/images that consisted of 'aural pdf.ilia'. So its very likely that this album, even if it started as myth, is now real.
One of your best videos yet Wyatt! The morbidness surrounding music much it does anything always peaks my interest. So glad I found your channel and keep up the good work! X
this is the Wyatt vids i appreciate. youve been exposed to some great music , often fringe, and i love it when you put me on to bands that i havent listened to b4. OnyA MATE
fuck youtube for taking the original down, I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to always having to watch out for this. Anyway,good job on the video yet again,lots of interesting stuff. Have you ever considered making a discord server?I would love to have a space to share and discuss music with this community since I've already found so much stuff through your videos.
@@kevin2400 There is a level of irony here. The system that catches videos is largely just AI filters. You know which group has consistently spoken out against the use of AI without it having a direct link to labor? The left. You know what group of people have dumped more into the development of AI than any other group and promotes its use in as many fields as possible? Right wing capitalists. In your attempt to clown on the left you've just shown your own political illiteracy. Delete yourself you clown.
I saw Diamanda Galas perform "Plague Mass" in 1991. It was just her topless (covered in blood), her five-octave voice and a piano. Still one of the most moving concert experiences of my life. I find most of that extreme noise stuff is boring and unlistenable. Give me some Joanna Newsom over that any day.
@@femme-mirageBlasphemy, she does her performce art pieces but you should listen to her bluesy gospel music it's amazing. Listen to the Singer or Malediction & Prayer.
@@wileytrieff7530 Røzz Williams was very much a true legend in the goth genre ....the true gold standard. He was also the most down to earth, humble musician out of all of the respected musicians I've luckily met throughout my tenure on this planet .
This is such a sick video, tons of stuff I haven't heard before. Can't wait to dig into some new music! The 1-track album "Delirium Cordia" by Fantomas (a Mike Patton side project) would make a nice addition. It's an Avante-garde album about being conscious while being operated on, and does a good job of creating claustrophobic, unsettling soundscapes. "Like the surgeon, the composer slashes open the body of his fellow man, removes his eyes, empties his abdomen of organs, hangs him up on a hook holding up to the light all of the body's palpitating treasures sending a burst of light into its innermost depths." is on the rear cover, and does a good job of describing it.
My 5 favorite disturbing albums: Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun The Cure - Pornography Crystal Castles - III Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
First off, Nicole 12 is social commentary. There's no real "depiction" except one song in particular where he's speaking from the view of an abuser. Psuedoscorpion also doesn't exist. Aside from that, fire video. You're the first person I've ever seen actually cover bryan Lewis Saunders. You're the only reviewer I can stand
@@aserrano6454 pseudoscorpion is real, there are alot of fake versions but there is an "album" floating around limewire and soulseek that is just a compilation of aural pedophilia content and supposed audio of the video I refuse to name the identity and or existence of Zenjin is still a mystery but the album itself does exist. Its kind of a similiar situation to Snuff R73
@Dylan_Dragontail literally have only seen exactly what you're giving me right now, which is "I know that it does exist" never heard if someone who can tell me even a basic of what it sounds like, or anything other than "I know a guy" Very easy to just say sht
Why are you spreading misinformation The man who made Nicole 12 is a legit P3do and pseudoscorpion is actually easier to find that you think. Of course no one can provide proof, why would anyone subject themselves to that……idiot!
That Coil record is very soothing but also uncomfortable. I'd probably put on Neurosis and Jarboe record in there and HALO's "Degree Zero: Point of Implosion".
YT recommended your channel to me. Wow, there are some deep cuts here; here are some other albums i'd mention for various reasons off the top of my head: * Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic. Amazing album, all but one member of the band died in a car crash a few months after it was released. * Purple Mountains. David berman killed himself a few weeks after releasing it, it was basically his suicide note. * Strid * I would set myself on fire for you * Codeine - Barely Real * Lifelover - Dekadens * Leak Bros - Waterworld
Thanks, the scope was quite broad. I was expecting a list of just extreme metal albums, but hey! there was Penderecki all of a sudden. And I am a Coil fan. Maybe I'd like to suggest that the first (self-titled) album by Pain Teens should have made the list.
I’m surprised you didn’t put Lou Reed’s LULU project in here, I listened to it like 2 days ago and it’s probably the most visceral description of anything that I’ve directly listened to in full
Against The Wood, Opposed To Flesh by KAVARI always creeps me out, and relaxes me simultaneously. While there's nothing disturbing about the album cover on the surface, when you put together the story it is telling it becomes unsettling. The way the album sways between harsh pummeling dark ambient and industrial sounds to soft tones akin to a silent hill track, screams and police murder reports and whispered breathing weaved in... It immerses you in the dark descent of a cult.
Nicole 12 only includes 1 depiction that could be classified as actual cp, the rest is magazine pictures, which are supposed to show how society is hypocritical when it comes to this kind of content
@@wyattxhim I feel like thats precisely the point. Why are those pictures okay when theyre being sold in a store inside a fashion magazine, but not on a record describing such disgusting subject matter? Why is it considered morally reprehensible for a 27 year old woman to be made to look like a child on the album cover of substitute, when the most popular 🌽 categories do precisely the same and way worse? At a glance, the imagery is absolutely vile, and yet, theyre often taken from "normal" sources. It's only when theyre recontectualised that we see them for what they really are
@@wyattxhim TLDR: at first glance, you see kids being sexualised. Then you realise this has been normalised all this time, so normalised that we don't even stop to think about it anymore unless its placed in this context.
Teachings in Silence by Ulver is one I'd recommend. It is an entirely instrumental/ambient album, but a lot of it sounds really weird and creepy. That really creepy music from the scene where the family is burned alive in Sinister is from that album.
I noticed diamanda galas yea thats definitely disturbing and eerie as fuck .they played the whole thing on college radio back in the 1990s when i was a teen. awesome pick
Sick video. While there wasn't much I didn't know, you've given me a good few new albums to upset my housemates with. Also, Hole In The Heart is perfect music for long journeys.
You just got a new subscriber here, thank you! My all-time favorite album might be a good candidate for Tier 1, actually: Skinny Puppy's Last Rights. The group's vocalist was at his all-time low point with heroin addiction, and there's a persistent urban legend that he even starts experiencing an overdose in the final recording (specifically on the track "Knowhere?", which is also the noisiest one on the album).
Just discovered your channel. It raises a few thoughts.Two possible additions for you. For tier two: Suckdog - Drugs are Nice. Lisa Carver with French psychopath Costes created childish and explicit shows. She was friends with GG Allin. That should give you some idea. Drugs Are Nice fluctuates between punk music that sound like cats being crushed by a garbage truck and a totally acoustic bicycle wheel being spun, while a music box plays and slows down, as two of the saddest girls in the world hum the tune to themselves. Chillingly beautiful. For tier three: Univers Zero - Heresie. This is a very dark branch off of Euro Prog, This is essentially classical music from Belgium, but musically this is pitch black. It is also influenced by horror soundtracks, and is some massively slow heavy music. It isn't noise per se, but has been called the darkest music ever made. And this is their darkest album. Listen to La Faulx or Jack the Ripper. (PS. Penderecki would at that phase be considered pure Modernist music, not Postmodern. There is no irony to it. But good choice.) It is a bit ironic that you consider it quite strange that people used to be afraid of the pop music of the 80's being a sign of the end of civilization, while your whole list kinda proves their point. Maybe in their own paranoid way they were right. The Mentors, in a way, did lead to much more nightmarish music. A case can be made that Michael Jackson leads to the last album on your list.
I love your channel! Iceberg videos are cool but i also love listening to albums reviews that revolve around a specific vibe. Dont stop making these cool videos, people still love the scene and still love music. ( you're the youtube creator i watch wile eating btw) keep up good work man 🤘
I think there's should be a honorable mention of Silencer's "Death-pierce me" And there's reasons why: 1. The legends about this group ( Vocalist did s**fharm while making vocals, escaped from a mental hospital and killed little girl, had pig hooves instead of hands) 2. The atmosphere of the album is dark and depressive 3. This is single album of this group
Thanks for the music recommendations on the first 3 layers. This definitely has helped expose me to much more experimental niche music which is definitely cool. Also honestly my only complaint is that Everywhere At The End Of Time by the Caretaker wasn’t on here but at the same time you could definitely argue talking about it again would be redundant since it’s such a famous album nowadays but regardless this video was definitely great for sure. Well done, bravo for this video. You’ve definitely earned a subscription.
Paintscratcher's self titled album I feel also brings a sense of dread and unease once you get about halfway through it, where everything becomes deconstructed into noise, ambience, and a mix of many other genres and styles. 6 hour long album with a similar vibe to Everywhere at The End of Time but with a completely different style of music.
"The Conet Project" is an album that has eerie shortwave number station recordings. Specifically the tracks "The Swedish Rhapsody" & "The Lincolnshire Poacher." The tracks contain ominous, child like melodies with random segments of A woman with A distorted voice, saying A series of numbers in German. It's really unsettling. Also these so called "number stations" were used to send encrypted messages to spies operating in foreign countries via shortwave radio. Also the track "The Swedish Rhapsody" was used in the infamous horror game "Sad Satan," only to drop A lit match into the barrel of nightmare fuel.
I own the original boxset from the early 2000s....it is truly fascinating and deeply eerie listening. Particularly in the dark. Especially in the dark.
while i fully agree that album is absolutely a disturbing experience, i feel like people should rly just let daughters go as a band fully. what alexis did and has done to not just kristin but also a lot of his fans at live shows is just completely disgusting and evil, not in a fun 'wow, this is disturbing' way but in a gross 'this is genuinely deplorable' way. also, it's a popular enough album at this point that people usually are more familiar with it showing up on these kinds of lists. (/lh) just a little rant of mine that ik nobody asked for but yeah ^_^
@@sinema8320No, it wasn’t actually. He abused Kristin during sex (the woman behind Lingua Ignota) so badly she needed corrective surgery on her spine from him causing a disc to slip. And before you scream “she should’ve went to the police” she did, the case went to court.
Acid Bath's When The Kite String Pops deserves to be on this list. Abuse is the main theme of that album whether it be drug abuse, SA, or mental abuse. It exudes misanthropic nihilistic energy with every song. Incredibly well made and produced as well.
Coil: Peter is not singing on the Ape of Naples, it's all Geoff/Jhonn Balance's vocals apart from the last track with Francois Testory. This means the vocals are by the person who had just died, Coil's singer and ex-partner of Peter's. Peter reworked older tracks.
Superb iceberg! Penderecki was my first thought as soon as the video started. The way he uses string instruments is an absolute dream. A threnody is a composition of mourning, the root of the word refers to wailing. Threnodies are meant to be a memorial for the deceased. I always felt like it represents the aftermath, not the exact moment of the bombings. It seems to me like it's meant to be the wailing of the world after such horror has been unleashed.
"A Promise" should've been on the first tier for emotional distress. If you haven't listened to it Wyatt, I would recommend it for a great experimental pop album about a dark chapter in the lead singer's personal life.
The thing about the Fruscante record is that it’s actually just a compilation album of songs and sketches recorded at various different times in his life with the earliest being recorded in 88 and the latest in 96. Only three songs on the record were recorded while John was at his all time low point and close to literal death. Those three tracks are especially difficult to listen to as you can literally hear him struggling to get through the recording process because his body is in such poor condition.
One by a friend which I would include here is definitely Deprivationn - Dreams of Death. It’s an incredibly morbid and tortured avant-folk album. If you don’t believe me that it belongs on here, check out I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream/Lost in a Carnival of Souls
1:16:55 surprised you didn’t include the sounds of Japanese Doomsday cults too, which includes Aum Shimrikyo (might have misspelled that) the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks.
Diamanda Galas is one of the most powerful artists I’ve ever listened to. The first time I listened to the album you included here I was outside at night in pure darkness and it was a deeply disturbing experience. Euronymous of Mayhem used to sell this album and tell people to listen to it in the dark, and I think that is advice I’d give anyone wanting to hear this for the first time. Just put it on and sit in the darknesses, a truly incredible experience.
Leave it to wyatt to make the best disturbing album iceberg on youtube. All the ones ive seen have been so surface level. Your 1st quarter would have been their bottom
The thing about the Fruscante record is that it’s actually just a compilation album of songs and sketches recorded at various different times in his life with the earliest being recorded in 88 and the latest in 96. Only three songs on the record were recorded while John was at his all time low point and close to literal death. Those three tracks are especially difficult to listen to as you can literally hear him struggling to get through the recording process because his body is in such poor condition. If you rearrange the track listing to be in the order they were recorded you can literally hear him deteriorating track by track. The album is out of print and probably will never be put back out (would you want your rock bottom to be available on Spotify 24/7 for the rest of your life?) but it can still be found easily on ytb
Just wanted to say that, because of this video, I discovered some of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. The sad part of iceberg was my favourite in the matter of best albums. So thank you so much!
You always do a great job on these and I'm glad to see some light shed on BLH and necro but I slightly feel like you've neglected horrorcore. There's still Neva Dead Click, Project Sin, -basically anything from the old days of K.Y.P. and serial killin records. These artists creep me out way more than necro or BLH, personally
The Disturbing Albums Tier List! By Wyattxhim Timestamps! 6 Tiers Total! 60+ Entries! **SPOILERS** 2:15-19:57 Tier I: **Emotional Turmoil** (11 Entries) ----------------- - NIN: The Downward Spiral - Lingua Ignota: Sinner Get Ready - Korn: Self-Titled Debut - Giles Corey: Giles Corey - Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked At Me - Coil: The Ape of Naples - Manic Street Preacher: The Holy Bible - Slint: Spiderland - Today Is The Day: Sadness Will Prevail - Endless Dismal: Moan - John Frusciante- Smile From The Streets You Hold 19:57-34:51 Tier II: **Perversity** (12 Entries) ------------------ - BrainBombs: Obey - Mentors: You Asked For It - Carcass: Reek of Putrifaction - Pissgrave: Suicide Euphoria - Torsofuck: ENTIRE Discography - Waco Jesus: ENTIRE Discography - Creamface: ENTIRE Discography - Pig Destroyer: Natasha - Wormphlegm: Tomb of the Ancient King - Necro: I Need Drugs - Brother Lynch Hung: Season of the Siccness - Kiko Miko II 34:52-53:53 Tier III: **Uncanny/Strange** (15 Entries) ---------------- - Diamanda Galas: Plague Mass - Patty Waters: Sings - Scott Walker: Drift - Knaw Their Tongues: All The Dread Magnificence of Perversity - Kingo Yuchi: Depression - Axis of Perdition: Deleted Scenes From the Transitional Hospital - Current 93: I Have Special Plan For This World - Nurse With Wound: Homotpy To Marie - Senthol: Septisemises (sp?) - Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck: Asshole / Snail Dilemma - The Rita: Swingers Get Killed - Ramleh: Hole In The Heart - Xiu Xiu: Knife Play - Utarm: Apocryphal Stories - Black Mountain Transmitter: Black Goat of the Woods 53:53-1:09:04 Tier IV: **Context** (9 Entries) ----------------- - Atrax Morgue: Paranoia - Genocide Organ: Leichenlinie / ENTIRE Discography - Deathpile: GR - Khanate: Self-Titled Debut - Zero Kama: The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H - John Zorn: Kristallnacht - Whitehouse: Mummy & Daddy - Con-Dom: How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do Than Die - Penderecki: Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima 1:09:04-1:19:01 Tier V: **Audio Tracks/Sampling/Spoken Word** (6 Entries) ----------------- - Peter Sotos: Buyer’s Market - Martin Bladh: Dirge, The Peter Sotos Files - Vagina Tintata Organ: The Last Supper / Jonestown Death Tapes - Bryan Lewis Sonders: Near Death Experience - Steven Jesse Bernstein: Prison - The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults 1:19:01-1:25:15 Tier VI: **TABOO** (2 Entries) ---------------- - Zenjin: Pseudoscorpion (Dark Web Urban Legend?) -> Audio CP (allegedly) -> illegal to possess/own/listen to IF real - Nicole 12: ENTIRE Discography (Mainly about exploring child/adolescent SA/CSA/DV/DA/etc) | Main Highlight: Substitute | ---------------- Thanks for another great iceberg video Wyatt! I’m a total degenerate and know most of the albums given here, I would really like to see you deep dive into a Noise/PE/DI Iceburg at some point. Noise is probably the most inaccessible genre overall for most people, even extreme metal lovers! Would love to see your take on it personally. Much love as always ❤
Check out the album "A Beautiful Curse" by Genocide Cultshit. He was a severely depressed alcoholic/heroin addict who accidentally killed himself when he was 27. That album has all the disturbing things: rape, murder, drug use, suicidal ideations, abuse, everything. Top five best horrorcore rappers/singer in my opinion.
I usually hate iceberg videos since they can be 3 hour slop of having Wikipedia pages read to you. This is such a refreshing video in that case. Great job man 👍 I was on /mu/ for years as a teen and into my 20s, which led me to extreme and experimental music. It is so insane to be reminded of some of these through your video all these years later lmao.
Excellent selection! Already exploring some of the picks I'm not familiar with. Been meaning to check that Con-Dom album for a while but a little afraid of what I'll find. Definitely check out Navicon Torture Technologies and Sutcliffe Jügend if you're not familiar with either, it really does fit in excellently with these other Death Industrial selections. Also I'm surprised to not find Stalaggh anywhere on this chart.
One thing also fascinating about The Mentors is El Duce's supposed connection to the death of Kurt Cobain, he died shortly after making the claim that he was offered $50,000 from Courtney to kill Kurt. Supposedly he was also acting very strange up until his death and was looking to get a fake ID under a new name days before his death. I guess we'll never know the validity behind any of it but is something that's always stuck in my head.
Man, thanks for Your work, it's absolutely amazing and have found many new albums and artists to listen to. Question - have You considered iceberg or introduction video about dark classical/jazz music,that that metal or noise music fans can relate to?I think it would be interesting topic. Best wishes and be safe!
Very cool list, though i feel like it could have included more sludge (eyehategod, meth drinker, toadliquor, etc), at least on the upper tiers, still a interesting list tho
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Alright for anyone who wants to know and discover all the albums, releases or bands here:
Tier 1: Emotional Turmoil 2:13
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Korn - S/T
Giles Corey - S/T
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Coil - The Ape of Naples
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Slint - Spiderland
Today Is The Day - Sadness Will Prevail
Endless Dismal Moan
John Frusciante - Smile from the Streets you Hold
Tier 2: Perversity 19:59
Brainbombs - Obey
Mentors - You've Axed For It
Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
Pissgrave
Torsofuck
Waco Jesus
Creamface
Pig Destroyer - Natasha
Wormphlegm = Tomb of The Ancient King
Necro - I Need Drugs
Brotha Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness
Kikuo - Kikuo Miku 2
Tier 3: Uncanny 34:55
Diamanda Galás - Plague Mass
Patty Waters - Sings
Scott Walker - The Drift
Gnaw Their Tongues
Kengo Iuchi - Utsu
The Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital
Current 93 - I have a special plan for this world
Homotopy to Marie - Nurse with wound
Senthil - Septisemesis
Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Asshole / Snail Dilemma
The Rita - Swingers Get Killed
Ramleh - Hole In The Heart
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
Utarm -Apocryphal Stories
Black Mountain Transmitter - Black Goat of The Woods
Tier 4: Context 53:57
Atrax Morgue - Paranoia
Genocide Organ - Leichenlinie
Deathpile - G.R.
Khanate - S/T
Zero Kama -The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.
John Zorn - Kristallnacht
Whitehouse - Mummy and Daddy
Con-Dom - How Welcome Is Death
Penderecki - Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima
Tier 5: Audio Tracks 1:09:12
Peter Sotos - Buyer's Market
Martin Bladh - Dirge; The Peter Sotos Files
Reverend Jim Jones - Thee Last Supper
Bryan Lewis Saunders - Near Death Experience
Steven Jesse Bernstein - Prison
The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults
Tier 6: Taboo 1:19:07
Zenjin - Pseudoscorpion
Nicole 12
For Some Honorable Mentions or Atleast a Recommendation for a Disturbing album I'd Say:
The Cure - P**nography (Tier 1)
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases (Tier 1)
Brujeria - Matando Güeros (Tier 2)
Teitanblood - Death (Tier 3)
Naked City - Absinthe (Tier 3)
Sutcliffe Jügend - We Spit On Their Graves (Tier 4)
Snuff - Snuff (Tier 5)
The debut album by chat pile would make sense in the first tier imo
Sutcliffe Jugend - When Pornography Is No Longer Enough would also be a good entry
Naked city (another killer Zorn project) I have all the naked city albums there all insane!
@@Artiller-rye thanks bro
Would also suggest "D.o.A." by Throbbing Gristle for tier 3
Do NOT give bro the aux 💀
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The cover of Reek of Putrefaction may be nothing special now, but back then… I remember how visibly upset the local record store guy got when we asked about the album, he was almost screaming “No, I don’t have that shit! Have you seen it? Those guys are fucking sick!”. Good old days.
Frealz
I remember people being REALLY upset by early Last Days Of Humanity as well, if you repped them you might as well have been Jeffery Dahmer
I was lucky, my local record shop was really REALLY cool. Not only did he put a copy aside for me, he gave me a poster of the art meant for the record shop!! Earache Records is the shit!!
can u explain what were on the covers that were blacked out, i havent seen them
To expand on the Vocaloid stuff, a lot of it is themed around really dark topics for some reason but there's a lot of really strange experimental Vocaloid projects that exist. If you have time I recommend watching the English translation for the music video "I Can't Remember" by Daijoubu-P. It's a very hectic auditory/lyrical representation of dementia. Also "Watashi No Koko" is a classic in noisy/experimental dark Vocaloid music if you're ever interested in looking more into the genre.
the fact that killing kagamine len is just a thing people do is disturbing in of itself
Thanks for re uploading, great video as usual!
One additional release to “Uncanny” tier: Fleurety - A Darker Shade of Evil
It has a very weird and distinct vocal style, and what makes it disturbing to me is vocalist permanently damaged his vocal cords because of this record and was not able to perform again in the future
Fleurety is absolutely fucking outstanding! The compilation I won't dare try to sell has some great material. The last one White Death was quite good, and I enjoyed the EP as well. Some of the best riffs I have ever heard!
Type O Negative's World Coming Down could fit in tier 1. With the song White Slavery about cocaine addiction and songs like Everyone I Love Is Dead and Everything Dies dealing with loved ones dying. Overall emotionally driven, but instrumentaly heavy album. Maybe not so much "disturbing" as it is depressing, but then again, maybe so depressing that it could be borderline disturbing.
@@theiceman7263 I agree. I get emotionally stressed listening to that album. Cuts to the bone.
Album helped save my life
The interludes on this album are absolutely harrowing
In regards to the Lingua Ignota project, I personally found Caligula to be much more disturbing than Sinner Get Ready. I feel that the sound in Caligula is just so much more visceral, and the lyrics are so much more intense. I love Kristen Hayter and everything she puts out. Also love seeing Diamanda Galás here and Plague Mass, which is honestly such an important album for what it represents.
Yes! SGR I can listen to repeatedly, but Caligula I listened to once, enjoyed as much as you're supposed to and said 'nah, I can't do that again'.
I think I actually find her debut, "Let the Evil of his own Lips Cover him" to be most most challenging in her discography. "Caligula" is definitely a visceral experience, no question, but Kristin had zero filter and barely any production to hide behind on the first record. "That He May Not Rise Again" is maybe one of the most emotionally draining songs I've ever heard
Her reverend Kristin micheal halter stuff is incredible too and definitely equally disturbing
@maschienle328 "SAVED!" is an excellent album, for sure
I love the contrast of having one of the calmest and most peaceful albums ever to your right
We actually do now know who Korn's Daddy is about....JD finally revealed it in some interview a while ago, considering during the band's anniversary tour where they played the S/T in its entirety to include the emotional closer. He points directly to his babysitter at the time as the "family friend" who abused him and his parents didn't believe him. That person is now deceased.
It's a shame he never got justice for what happened. Hopefully, he can at least have peace.
I heard that member was actually a female and not a male. I don't know if it is true but maybe it is.
@@MarcusAsenlund Correct. The babysitter was a female.
Acshully, that's like super old news, probably older than you are.
he broke down like that cuz he got laid too soon & then tattled on himself & his parents didn't GAF? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
it's weird but this whole video honestly just makes me appreciate how beautiful music is especially when you talked about How Welcome is Death to I and Penderecki's Threnody
Yeah I'm ready to shit myself before bed!
Im going to watch this in bed then! 🎉
1:23:32 his response.
😂@@Ellemenohpee677
Do it and keep it in a bucket so when you wake up you can look at the greatness that came right out of you.
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The vocals on The Ape of Naples are actually John Balance's (Geoff Rushton) that were recorded prior to his death and reworked by Christopherson. The vocal on "Going Up" is taken from their final performance. The two members were also a couple which makes the whole thing even more tragic.
Great video, its given me many new listens!!!
A honorable mention for tier 1 might be Weighing Souls with Sand by The Angelic Process: considering the tragic background of the band, this album sounds as emotionally (and sonically) heavy as it feels beautiful and otherwordly. Like a magnificent swan getting crushed by the apocalypse
just wanted to say that you have an awesome profile picture! I love Henry Cow!
@@Samotbackwards Ah ah thanks bud❤
Oh, I rlly like their music but I didn’t know they had anything happen
Yo this is cool, thanks for putting me on
@@bobduncan-ot2ji The context behind WSWS by TAP is that it was their final album before Kris Angylus (the man behind the project) committed suicide. It's often believed he did so due to an injury that left him impossible to play music again. Sadly as well, his wife (whom he formed the project with) died in 2023.
thanks for posting this man. i know it mustve been really tough researching some of these concepts and so i really appreciate you taking the time so that we don’t have to.
"I Have A Special Plan For This World" is written by Thomas Ligotti and I knew it more as poem of his before I learned about his collaborations with Current 93. Anyone who is impressed by the lyrics I recommend his short fiction, "Nethescurial" traumatized me.
Great video btw, I've heard maybe 20 of these - a few from each level - and think they're mostly great, I'll check out the rest (well, not all of them...)
I've been reading a collection of his short stories recently, have yet to been profoundly moved but its interesting. It is a great track for sure, I have had some interesting experiences listening to it.
@@reikowallach2465 “I am not dying in a nightmare.”
(Absolutely adore Ligotti. “The Music of the Moon” fundamentally reconfigured my neurons when I was twelve and I haven’t been the same in the two decades since.)
about the coil album: the vocals are actually those of jhonn balance (geff rushton) who along with peter christopherson were the 2 core members of coil, they were also a romantic couple for most of the band’s existence and the album was made by peter re-arranging parts of a scrapped coil album called “backwards” (originally intended for release on trent reznor’s label and it got leaked but never officially released until 2015). this album is a heartfelt tribute to jhonn, and it feels like you’re slowly watching him fade away as you listen to the album - very moving and perfectly executed concept.
also W for kengo iuchi mention, i barely see him talked abt and it’s a shame
34:30 I will say that, with a lot of Kikuo's darkest material, even as a non-Japanese speaker without a translation of the lyrics right in front of you, you can definitely tell that something's up. The guy's production style is subtly off-kilter, often with additional odd effects placed on the synthesised vocals in a way which would already be kind of off-putting or spooky with a normal human voice but become especially alien when applied to a voicebank. His most infamous song, "Gomenne, gomenne" off of the record that you highlighted, does some particularly weird stuff with the vocal mixing on the weird, hectic dubsteppy verses which makes it pretty obvious that whatever this song is about, it's probably the opposite of cheerful-and *oh boy, is it ever!*
Coil, Psychic TV, and Throbbing Gristle creep me out more than any other bands. Real dark occult stuff.
Listen to “The Orchids” by Psychic TV. Nothing creepy about it, just a great song to play at your next picnic. 🙃
@@BradleyRegister That’s honestly the least troubling song on Dreams Less Sweet. Singing about getting your bits pierced and how cool and life-changing it was for you over marimba and cor anglais is downright wholesome when contrasted with “In the Nursery” or the subtext to “White Nights” and “Always is Always”.
@@ConvincingPeoplelove Dreams less Sweet my favorite Psychic tv album. R.I.P Genesis P' orridge & Lady Jaye ❤
I've met Bryan Lewis Saunders. He doesn't do a lot of music these days, but he still draws a self-portrait every day, something he's done for the last 30+ years! He's an incredibly nice guy
I bookmarked this video in my “watch later” playlist after the thumbnail caught my eye while scrolling RUclips homepage like three days ago and finally got around to it for some macabre sounds while I pull this all nighter for work and WOW! What an amazing piece of well researched and passionate work! So much new records and bands/artists I haven’t even discovered yet including genres of extreme metal/noise/hardcore etc etc (Carcass rules!) I wrote down like a dozen new things to check out from this video. Can’t wait to venture into your other content! Crazy cool video!
Happy to see a list like this mention Korn’s debut. “Daddy” is on about every most disturbing songs list but I feel not enough people mention how creepy and dark the album is overall. Hell, just look at the album art and the story it tells with the back cover, showing the swings empty and moving, showing that the child on the front cover has been snatched from them by the menacing, shadowy figure. It’s creepy on its own, but about 500 times more disturbing when paired with the final track.
“Need To” seems to have a bit of a mental breakdown of its own during the bridge, “F**et” deals with homophobia and Jonathan questioning his identity and sexuality, “Lies” and “Fake” get pretty sonically creepy, and then the second-to-last song is very dark. The song titled “Helmet In The Bush” is about meth psychosis and is a pretty unsettling, disturbing calm before the absolute horrifying storm that is “Daddy”.
Another song worth checking out that didn’t make it onto the album but is from the same era is “Sean Olsen”. The themes are similar to Daddy, but with the victim internalizing the abuse and being manipulated into pursuing and enjoying it. The song isn’t as sonically creepy as Daddy is, but the vibe is unsettling and the lyrical themes are sickening.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned, and I know you can’t put literally EVERY album on this list, but I highly recommend for Tier 4:
Cat System Corp.’s “News At 11” - a vaporwave look into a parallel universe where the tragedy of 9/11 never happened and how that day in September would have possibly carried onward. Through the song titles alluding to various things (like the time that Flight 11 hit the North Tower) and the samples used - to the simplicity of the artwork being an American flag appearing through a plane window - it’s eerie in a sense to know what instead happened on that fateful day.
I must admit when I saw the thumbnail I rolled my eyes and thought it might end with De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas or something (which to be fair is disturbing in context) but I sure as shit wasn't expecting to see Senthil (who as you know has an array of other projects and has possibly since killed himself?) or Black mountain transmitter or buyers market pop up - and there are a couple I hadn't heard of so kudos I think you've pretty well journeyed down to the deepest darkest point of the iceberg.
There was a group called Gulaggh who released an album Vorkuta which apparently samples the wails of psychiatric patients but from memory it was done consensually as a sort of experimental form of therapy though they presumably didn't mention that the recordings would be released in a music project
@@andrewz4105 appreciate your time !
As for Gullagh /Stallagh (which I made a video all about them ) the reason they aren’t included is because they come off like an urban legend then something legit. A lot of mystery with questions that are never answered about their origins that always ruined the “disturbing “ aspect about them .
@@wyattxhim yeah more than likely it's all bullshit for notoriety - I guess it's better if it is although the morbidly curious side of me does still seek out fucked up stuff, then often regrets it... I came across a recording of a victim of the toolbox serial killers as she wailed while they beat her with hammers and I had to close my laptop and walk around the park but it haunted me for a while. Sometimes confronting the dark side of human nature and what depravity some people are capable of seems more responsible than trying to live in blissful ignorance but not if it takes a toll on your mental health I guess.
Anyway I'll check out more of your videos.
Maybe sign up with rateyourmusic too if you haven't it's a great place to catalog music and discover new stuff
Glad to see Diamanda and Mr. Zorn included. Some of my own, mainly in the uncanny layer would be Naked City's last two, Absinthe and Leng the, any number of Jarboe records but especially Sacrificial Cake, Akira Yamaoka's work on game soundtracks, Audrey Hodges work on Doom 64 and Quake 64.
Leng che from Zorn awesome bro, anything from Zorn!!!
The Drift scared me more than any horror movie ever has. I've been traumatized ever since I randomly first stumbled across it years ago, while I was listening to random music late at night in the dark, not at all knowing what I was in for. I always want to recommend this to people when I discuss horror and fear, but I also feel the need to tell close loved ones to not actually listen to it because I'm afraid I'm gonna fuck them up by proxy. Incredible work.
Quick note: Vocaloid has no AI. It's more like a program like garage band only you can also use vocal syllable samples to create vocals for your songs. The syllable samples were recorded by a person who was compensated. The long haired girl on the cover is "Hatsune Miku" who (like Tony the Tiger) is an image spokesperson. She's supposed to be the one singing. The company behind Vocaloid does not demand royalties from any song created with vocaloid but they don't want anyone to make songs that make Hatsune Miku sing things that are bad. By using of holograms, they have had Hatsune Miku have a concert tour.
Quick with the reupload! Great video as always
Man I was waiting for a new pod, you never disappoint!
In Absentia by Porcupine Tree, an album mostly centered about mentally disturbed people. Domestic abusers, r*pists, killers, etc.
Was so shocked when I read into it more, completely contrasts the sound for the most part imo, love Steven Wilson’s work!
And yet it's also one of the most beautiful albums ever. White Pony by Deftones is also similar in that regard.
Glad too see someone talk about Porcupine Tree, solid band! Steven Wilson's band was the first concert I ever went too.
@ oo I’m seeing him in May, does he mostly play PT stuff or his solo stuff?
Amazing Album.
RUclips paused this video for me automatically just now and it said "video removed because it breaks terms of service" but then I refreshed twice and its back up 🤣 I only have 10 minutes remaining
There's an album called He's Able that you should check out. It's a gospel music album that actually sounds really good, except it was made by the Jonestown cult. It's really hard to listen to it when you realize that everybody singing on the album including all the children died a terrible death.
Pseudoscorpion, as the evidence I came across researching the topic would sugest, started off as just a myth on online boards like 4 and 8chan. But it is very likely that someone decided to turn myth into reality and made the album based on what the rumors said it was. There's this entity, which might be an individual or a group, called Ripper who used to make gore mixtapes that only had children footage, and he would, aparently, put "music" over the videos/images that consisted of 'aural pdf.ilia'. So its very likely that this album, even if it started as myth, is now real.
One of your best videos yet Wyatt! The morbidness surrounding music much it does anything always peaks my interest. So glad I found your channel and keep up the good work! X
this is the Wyatt vids i appreciate. youve been exposed to some great music , often fringe, and i love it when you put me on to bands that i havent listened to b4. OnyA MATE
fuck youtube for taking the original down, I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to always having to watch out for this. Anyway,good job on the video yet again,lots of interesting stuff. Have you ever considered making a discord server?I would love to have a space to share and discuss music with this community since I've already found so much stuff through your videos.
The pink blue haired freaks had fun with this video
@@kevin2400Not even a political thing, it's just AI that filters for terms commonly used in situations which 'break guidelines'
@@kevin2400the political brainrot is real
@@kevin2400 There is a level of irony here. The system that catches videos is largely just AI filters. You know which group has consistently spoken out against the use of AI without it having a direct link to labor? The left. You know what group of people have dumped more into the development of AI than any other group and promotes its use in as many fields as possible? Right wing capitalists. In your attempt to clown on the left you've just shown your own political illiteracy. Delete yourself you clown.
@@kevin2400 half these bands are queer
I saw Diamanda Galas perform "Plague Mass" in 1991. It was just her topless (covered in blood), her five-octave voice and a piano. Still one of the most moving concert experiences of my life. I find most of that extreme noise stuff is boring and unlistenable. Give me some Joanna Newsom over that any day.
Diamanda seems to be such pretentious in her darkness and madness 😒
@@femme-mirageBlasphemy, she does her performce art pieces but you should listen to her bluesy gospel music it's amazing. Listen to the Singer or Malediction & Prayer.
I'll also add that many of Rozz Williams's efforts could be quite uncanny and unhinged. Path of Sorrows by Christian Death springs to mind.
@@wileytrieff7530 Røzz Williams was very much a true legend in the goth genre ....the true gold standard. He was also the most down to earth, humble musician out of all of the respected musicians I've luckily met throughout my tenure on this planet .
You know, everyone regardless of their personality or background, says that very thing about Rozz, so I have no reason to doubt it.
This is such a sick video, tons of stuff I haven't heard before. Can't wait to dig into some new music!
The 1-track album "Delirium Cordia" by Fantomas (a Mike Patton side project) would make a nice addition. It's an Avante-garde album about being conscious while being operated on, and does a good job of creating claustrophobic, unsettling soundscapes. "Like the surgeon, the composer slashes open the body of his fellow man, removes his eyes, empties his abdomen of organs, hangs him up on a hook holding up to the light all of the body's palpitating treasures sending a burst of light into its innermost depths." is on the rear cover, and does a good job of describing it.
a crow looked at me is so fucking sad, i tried going back to it after i discovered it but i could barely get through it
My 5 favorite disturbing albums:
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
The Cure - Pornography
Crystal Castles - III
Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
My method of watching a Disturbing Iceberg Video before bed.
Step 1: Watch Disturbing Iceberg Video.
Step 2: Watch Game Grumps compilations for hours.
First off,
Nicole 12 is social commentary. There's no real "depiction" except one song in particular where he's speaking from the view of an abuser.
Psuedoscorpion also doesn't exist.
Aside from that, fire video. You're the first person I've ever seen actually cover bryan Lewis Saunders.
You're the only reviewer I can stand
@@aserrano6454 pseudoscorpion is real, there are alot of fake versions but there is an "album" floating around limewire and soulseek that is just a compilation of aural pedophilia content and supposed audio of the video I refuse to name the identity and or existence of Zenjin is still a mystery but the album itself does exist. Its kind of a similiar situation to Snuff R73
And no I havent listened to it myself because fuck that shit
@@Dylan_DragontailI’m pretty sure a dude I was talking to for a while has a cassette version of it and he turned out to be a neo ns ped0 so yeah
@Dylan_Dragontail literally have only seen exactly what you're giving me right now, which is "I know that it does exist" never heard if someone who can tell me even a basic of what it sounds like, or anything other than "I know a guy"
Very easy to just say sht
Why are you spreading misinformation
The man who made Nicole 12 is a legit P3do and pseudoscorpion is actually easier to find that you think. Of course no one can provide proof, why would anyone subject themselves to that……idiot!
That Coil record is very soothing but also uncomfortable. I'd probably put on Neurosis and Jarboe record in there and HALO's "Degree Zero: Point of Implosion".
Damn the moment when Mount Eerie appeared on a screen. I feel so much for Phil, you don't even need the music but context.
YT recommended your channel to me. Wow, there are some deep cuts here; here are some other albums i'd mention for various reasons off the top of my head:
* Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic. Amazing album, all but one member of the band died in a car crash a few months after it was released.
* Purple Mountains. David berman killed himself a few weeks after releasing it, it was basically his suicide note.
* Strid
* I would set myself on fire for you
* Codeine - Barely Real
* Lifelover - Dekadens
* Leak Bros - Waterworld
Thanks, the scope was quite broad. I was expecting a list of just extreme metal albums, but hey! there was Penderecki all of a sudden. And I am a Coil fan. Maybe I'd like to suggest that the first (self-titled) album by Pain Teens should have made the list.
Black Mountain Transmitter is genuinely peak artistry in my opinion. So otherworldly
I feel like that tired SpongeBob image after watching this video. Great video, as always.
One of the better iceberg videos you’ve done! I would have picked Girl With A Basket of Fruit but major thumbs up for including Xiu Xiu
Diamanda Galas is absurdly intense
Real
What does it sound like
@@Adobongtinapa564 Like a witch burning in a pyre
Yeah she’s almost like a female Mike Patton in terms of her range except with more focus on the avant- grade
@@Adobongtinapa564 Like a witch burning in a pyre.
I’m surprised you didn’t put Lou Reed’s LULU project in here, I listened to it like 2 days ago and it’s probably the most visceral description of anything that I’ve directly listened to in full
Against The Wood, Opposed To Flesh by KAVARI always creeps me out, and relaxes me simultaneously. While there's nothing disturbing about the album cover on the surface, when you put together the story it is telling it becomes unsettling. The way the album sways between harsh pummeling dark ambient and industrial sounds to soft tones akin to a silent hill track, screams and police murder reports and whispered breathing weaved in... It immerses you in the dark descent of a cult.
Glad to see you still bringing up rap here and there
Nicole 12 only includes 1 depiction that could be classified as actual cp, the rest is magazine pictures, which are supposed to show how society is hypocritical when it comes to this kind of content
The problem is just glancing at it on surface level it’s still incredibly difficult to see past that for the message it’s trying to say .
@@wyattxhim I feel like thats precisely the point. Why are those pictures okay when theyre being sold in a store inside a fashion magazine, but not on a record describing such disgusting subject matter? Why is it considered morally reprehensible for a 27 year old woman to be made to look like a child on the album cover of substitute, when the most popular 🌽 categories do precisely the same and way worse? At a glance, the imagery is absolutely vile, and yet, theyre often taken from "normal" sources. It's only when theyre recontectualised that we see them for what they really are
@@wyattxhim TLDR: at first glance, you see kids being sexualised. Then you realise this has been normalised all this time, so normalised that we don't even stop to think about it anymore unless its placed in this context.
Teachings in Silence by Ulver is one I'd recommend. It is an entirely instrumental/ambient album, but a lot of it sounds really weird and creepy. That really creepy music from the scene where the family is burned alive in Sinister is from that album.
I noticed diamanda galas yea thats definitely disturbing and eerie as fuck .they played the whole thing on college radio back in the 1990s when i was a teen. awesome pick
14:10 "suffering from mental stability" :) That sounds like an interesting song title ;)
Sick video. While there wasn't much I didn't know, you've given me a good few new albums to upset my housemates with. Also, Hole In The Heart is perfect music for long journeys.
You just got a new subscriber here, thank you! My all-time favorite album might be a good candidate for Tier 1, actually: Skinny Puppy's Last Rights. The group's vocalist was at his all-time low point with heroin addiction, and there's a persistent urban legend that he even starts experiencing an overdose in the final recording (specifically on the track "Knowhere?", which is also the noisiest one on the album).
Just discovered your channel. It raises a few thoughts.Two possible additions for you.
For tier two: Suckdog - Drugs are Nice. Lisa Carver with French psychopath Costes created childish and explicit shows. She was friends with GG Allin. That should give you some idea. Drugs Are Nice fluctuates between punk music that sound like cats being crushed by a garbage truck and a totally acoustic bicycle wheel being spun, while a music box plays and slows down, as two of the saddest girls in the world hum the tune to themselves. Chillingly beautiful.
For tier three: Univers Zero - Heresie. This is a very dark branch off of Euro Prog, This is essentially classical music from Belgium, but musically this is pitch black. It is also influenced by horror soundtracks, and is some massively slow heavy music. It isn't noise per se, but has been called the darkest music ever made. And this is their darkest album. Listen to La Faulx or Jack the Ripper. (PS. Penderecki would at that phase be considered pure Modernist music, not Postmodern. There is no irony to it. But good choice.)
It is a bit ironic that you consider it quite strange that people used to be afraid of the pop music of the 80's being a sign of the end of civilization, while your whole list kinda proves their point. Maybe in their own paranoid way they were right. The Mentors, in a way, did lead to much more nightmarish music. A case can be made that Michael Jackson leads to the last album on your list.
I love your channel! Iceberg videos are cool but i also love listening to albums reviews that revolve around a specific vibe. Dont stop making these cool videos, people still love the scene and still love music. ( you're the youtube creator i watch wile eating btw) keep up good work man 🤘
hoping preacher's daughter by ethel cain is on here bc ethel's story haunts me every day
I knew that gnaw their tongues would be here!
I think there's should be a honorable mention of Silencer's "Death-pierce me"
And there's reasons why:
1. The legends about this group ( Vocalist did s**fharm while making vocals, escaped from a mental hospital and killed little girl, had pig hooves instead of hands)
2. The atmosphere of the album is dark and depressive
3. This is single album of this group
Thanks for the music recommendations on the first 3 layers. This definitely has helped expose me to much more experimental niche music which is definitely cool. Also honestly my only complaint is that Everywhere At The End Of Time by the Caretaker wasn’t on here but at the same time you could definitely argue talking about it again would be redundant since it’s such a famous album nowadays but regardless this video was definitely great for sure. Well done, bravo for this video. You’ve definitely earned a subscription.
A Warm Place is seriously my favorite song on The Downward Spiral. It feels like being stranded in space.
Paintscratcher's self titled album I feel also brings a sense of dread and unease once you get about halfway through it, where everything becomes deconstructed into noise, ambience, and a mix of many other genres and styles. 6 hour long album with a similar vibe to Everywhere at The End of Time but with a completely different style of music.
"The Conet Project" is an album that has eerie shortwave number station recordings. Specifically the tracks "The Swedish Rhapsody" & "The Lincolnshire Poacher." The tracks contain ominous, child like melodies with random segments of A woman with A distorted voice, saying A series of numbers in German. It's really unsettling. Also these so called "number stations" were used to send encrypted messages to spies operating in foreign countries via shortwave radio. Also the track "The Swedish Rhapsody" was used in the infamous horror game "Sad Satan," only to drop A lit match into the barrel of nightmare fuel.
I own the original boxset from the early 2000s....it is truly fascinating and deeply eerie listening. Particularly in the dark.
Especially in the dark.
Just found this channel, it’s sick. Old school RUclips vibes, I love it!
You Won't Get What You Want definitely deserves a place on this list. That album is self-hatred incarnate.
while i fully agree that album is absolutely a disturbing experience, i feel like people should rly just let daughters go as a band fully. what alexis did and has done to not just kristin but also a lot of his fans at live shows is just completely disgusting and evil, not in a fun 'wow, this is disturbing' way but in a gross 'this is genuinely deplorable' way. also, it's a popular enough album at this point that people usually are more familiar with it showing up on these kinds of lists. (/lh) just a little rant of mine that ik nobody asked for but yeah ^_^
@@diyamonddid Alexis really did anything at all? Wasn't it all made up?
@@sinema8320No, it wasn’t actually. He abused Kristin during sex (the woman behind Lingua Ignota) so badly she needed corrective surgery on her spine from him causing a disc to slip. And before you scream “she should’ve went to the police” she did, the case went to court.
Acid Bath's When The Kite String Pops deserves to be on this list. Abuse is the main theme of that album whether it be drug abuse, SA, or mental abuse. It exudes misanthropic nihilistic energy with every song. Incredibly well made and produced as well.
i usually avoid iceberg videos about disturbing content cus its usually the same stuff, but you changed that. thank you.
Not having Geogaddi on here whatsoever is wild
Honorable mention to Xasthur (tier 2)
Dishonorable mention to lostprophets (Context)
Coil: Peter is not singing on the Ape of Naples, it's all Geoff/Jhonn Balance's vocals apart from the last track with Francois Testory. This means the vocals are by the person who had just died, Coil's singer and ex-partner of Peter's. Peter reworked older tracks.
Superb iceberg! Penderecki was my first thought as soon as the video started. The way he uses string instruments is an absolute dream.
A threnody is a composition of mourning, the root of the word refers to wailing. Threnodies are meant to be a memorial for the deceased. I always felt like it represents the aftermath, not the exact moment of the bombings. It seems to me like it's meant to be the wailing of the world after such horror has been unleashed.
I hope Xiu Xiu gets a mention in this video
"A Promise" should've been on the first tier for emotional distress. If you haven't listened to it Wyatt, I would recommend it for a great experimental pop album about a dark chapter in the lead singer's personal life.
I feel like Wyatt should’ve picked “Girl With Basket of Fruit” for Uncanny
@@jarjar1715 For sure, that record fits better under the disturbing albums criteria while A Promise is just more depressing.
@Juju.. A Promise is much more disturbing than most of the albums on this list. At least for me.
The thing about the Fruscante record is that it’s actually just a compilation album of songs and sketches recorded at various different times in his life with the earliest being recorded in 88 and the latest in 96. Only three songs on the record were recorded while John was at his all time low point and close to literal death. Those three tracks are especially difficult to listen to as you can literally hear him struggling to get through the recording process because his body is in such poor condition.
One by a friend which I would include here is definitely Deprivationn - Dreams of Death. It’s an incredibly morbid and tortured avant-folk album. If you don’t believe me that it belongs on here, check out I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream/Lost in a Carnival of Souls
1:16:55 surprised you didn’t include the sounds of Japanese Doomsday cults too, which includes Aum Shimrikyo (might have misspelled that) the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks.
Diamanda Galas is one of the most powerful artists I’ve ever listened to. The first time I listened to the album you included here I was outside at night in pure darkness and it was a deeply disturbing experience. Euronymous of Mayhem used to sell this album and tell people to listen to it in the dark, and I think that is advice I’d give anyone wanting to hear this for the first time. Just put it on and sit in the darknesses, a truly incredible experience.
Leave it to wyatt to make the best disturbing album iceberg on youtube. All the ones ive seen have been so surface level. Your 1st quarter would have been their bottom
'a raven looked at me' is so sad that it feels wrong to even listen to it
The thing about the Fruscante record is that it’s actually just a compilation album of songs and sketches recorded at various different times in his life with the earliest being recorded in 88 and the latest in 96. Only three songs on the record were recorded while John was at his all time low point and close to literal death. Those three tracks are especially difficult to listen to as you can literally hear him struggling to get through the recording process because his body is in such poor condition. If you rearrange the track listing to be in the order they were recorded you can literally hear him deteriorating track by track. The album is out of print and probably will never be put back out (would you want your rock bottom to be available on Spotify 24/7 for the rest of your life?) but it can still be found easily on ytb
Just wanted to say that, because of this video, I discovered some of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. The sad part of iceberg was my favourite in the matter of best albums. So thank you so much!
You always do a great job on these and I'm glad to see some light shed on BLH and necro but I slightly feel like you've neglected horrorcore. There's still Neva Dead Click, Project Sin, -basically anything from the old days of K.Y.P. and serial killin records. These artists creep me out way more than necro or BLH, personally
The Disturbing Albums Tier List! By Wyattxhim
Timestamps!
6 Tiers Total! 60+ Entries!
**SPOILERS**
2:15-19:57
Tier I: **Emotional Turmoil** (11 Entries)
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- NIN: The Downward Spiral
- Lingua Ignota: Sinner Get Ready
- Korn: Self-Titled Debut
- Giles Corey: Giles Corey
- Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked At Me
- Coil: The Ape of Naples
- Manic Street Preacher: The Holy Bible
- Slint: Spiderland
- Today Is The Day: Sadness Will Prevail
- Endless Dismal: Moan
- John Frusciante- Smile From The Streets You Hold
19:57-34:51
Tier II: **Perversity** (12 Entries)
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- BrainBombs: Obey
- Mentors: You Asked For It
- Carcass: Reek of Putrifaction
- Pissgrave: Suicide Euphoria
- Torsofuck: ENTIRE Discography
- Waco Jesus: ENTIRE Discography
- Creamface: ENTIRE Discography
- Pig Destroyer: Natasha
- Wormphlegm: Tomb of the Ancient King
- Necro: I Need Drugs
- Brother Lynch Hung: Season of the Siccness
- Kiko Miko II
34:52-53:53
Tier III: **Uncanny/Strange** (15 Entries)
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- Diamanda Galas: Plague Mass
- Patty Waters: Sings
- Scott Walker: Drift
- Knaw Their Tongues: All The Dread Magnificence of Perversity
- Kingo Yuchi: Depression
- Axis of Perdition: Deleted Scenes From the Transitional Hospital
- Current 93: I Have Special Plan For This World
- Nurse With Wound: Homotpy To Marie
- Senthol: Septisemises (sp?)
- Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck: Asshole / Snail Dilemma
- The Rita: Swingers Get Killed
- Ramleh: Hole In The Heart
- Xiu Xiu: Knife Play
- Utarm: Apocryphal Stories
- Black Mountain Transmitter: Black Goat of the Woods
53:53-1:09:04
Tier IV: **Context** (9 Entries)
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- Atrax Morgue: Paranoia
- Genocide Organ: Leichenlinie / ENTIRE Discography
- Deathpile: GR
- Khanate: Self-Titled Debut
- Zero Kama: The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H
- John Zorn: Kristallnacht
- Whitehouse: Mummy & Daddy
- Con-Dom: How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do Than Die
- Penderecki: Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima
1:09:04-1:19:01
Tier V: **Audio Tracks/Sampling/Spoken Word** (6 Entries)
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- Peter Sotos: Buyer’s Market
- Martin Bladh: Dirge, The Peter Sotos Files
- Vagina Tintata Organ: The Last Supper / Jonestown Death Tapes
- Bryan Lewis Sonders: Near Death Experience
- Steven Jesse Bernstein: Prison
- The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults
1:19:01-1:25:15
Tier VI: **TABOO** (2 Entries)
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- Zenjin: Pseudoscorpion
(Dark Web Urban Legend?) -> Audio CP (allegedly) -> illegal to possess/own/listen to IF real
- Nicole 12: ENTIRE Discography
(Mainly about exploring child/adolescent SA/CSA/DV/DA/etc)
| Main Highlight: Substitute |
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Thanks for another great iceberg video Wyatt! I’m a total degenerate and know most of the albums given here, I would really like to see you deep dive into a Noise/PE/DI Iceburg at some point. Noise is probably the most inaccessible genre overall for most people, even extreme metal lovers! Would love to see your take on it personally. Much love as always ❤
Thanks
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Np 🤘🏻
@@NoNamedNobody692 nice pfp
could this get pinned pls?
Check out the album "A Beautiful Curse" by Genocide Cultshit. He was a severely depressed alcoholic/heroin addict who accidentally killed himself when he was 27. That album has all the disturbing things: rape, murder, drug use, suicidal ideations, abuse, everything. Top five best horrorcore rappers/singer in my opinion.
Thanks for another great video Wyatt, perfect before bed, always appreciate your perspective on things
The most disturbing thing about that necro record and necro himself is his support for ongoing genocide. Truly repulsive guy.
Real
Lmao based
He’s never claimed to not be a Zionist, he literally has songs about it.
maybe i can recommend some Shirley Collins to soothe your mind? (not seeing Suicide on layer 1 is surprising though, Throbbing Gristle as well)
I usually hate iceberg videos since they can be 3 hour slop of having Wikipedia pages read to you. This is such a refreshing video in that case. Great job man 👍
I was on /mu/ for years as a teen and into my 20s, which led me to extreme and experimental music. It is so insane to be reminded of some of these through your video all these years later lmao.
Bisch Bosch by Scott Walker is like living someone's nervous breakdown and panic attack all at once.
I'd whack in some Pharmakon too.
Hole in the heart is my go-to sleeping album. Atmospheric masterpiece
Saw Diamanda in the thumbnail and knew I was in for a good episode! 🤘🏻
Excellent selection! Already exploring some of the picks I'm not familiar with. Been meaning to check that Con-Dom album for a while but a little afraid of what I'll find.
Definitely check out Navicon Torture Technologies and Sutcliffe Jügend if you're not familiar with either, it really does fit in excellently with these other Death Industrial selections.
Also I'm surprised to not find Stalaggh anywhere on this chart.
Sutcliffe Jügend is a project that actually scared me the first time I heard it
One thing also fascinating about The Mentors is El Duce's supposed connection to the death of Kurt Cobain, he died shortly after making the claim that he was offered $50,000 from Courtney to kill Kurt. Supposedly he was also acting very strange up until his death and was looking to get a fake ID under a new name days before his death. I guess we'll never know the validity behind any of it but is something that's always stuck in my head.
So happy I found you bro!!!! Best metal content on RUclips, keep up the awesome work 👊
Man, thanks for Your work, it's absolutely amazing and have found many new albums and artists to listen to.
Question - have You considered iceberg or introduction video about dark classical/jazz music,that that metal or noise music fans can relate to?I think it would be interesting topic.
Best wishes and be safe!
Very cool list, though i feel like it could have included more sludge (eyehategod, meth drinker, toadliquor, etc), at least on the upper tiers, still a interesting list tho
Toadliquor rips hard haha
Same with EHG
Was hoping to see buzzoven tbh