Are these the scariest pieces of music ever made?
These are just different opinions from people in the music industry. Mainly goth and heavy metal types. So not an actual top 10.
Bernard Herrmann - The Murder - 1960
Abruptum - Evil - 1991
Sloppy Jane - Jesus and Your Living Room Floor - 2021
Henry Blair - Sparky's Magic Piano - 1947
Herbie Hancock - Paint Her Mouth, from the Deathwish soundtrack - 1974
Agatha Christie - Opium For No One - 1994
John Williams - Main Title, them from Jaws - 1975
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee - 1996
Krzysztof Penderecki - The Devils of Loudon - 1969
Ethel Cain - Perverts - 2025
Diamanda Galas - Schrei X - 1996
John Carpenter - Halloween soundtrack - 1978
Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae-Alpha - 1978
Shostakovich - String Quartet no.8 in C minor - 1960
Sumio Shiratori - Moomin soundtrack - 1990
Of that most recent piece of music, you can't call it a song, Cassy Brooking says, "Cain's Perverts is so terrifying I still can't listen to it the whole way through".
That felt like a challenge, so I found it on YouTube. It's 12 minutes long. I got about half way and had to give up and go lie down in a darkened room. It is awful in every sense of the word awful. Just my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeJ9CTEZ-A
Bernard Herrmann - The Murder - 1960
Abruptum - Evil - 1991
Sloppy Jane - Jesus and Your Living Room Floor - 2021
Henry Blair - Sparky's Magic Piano - 1947
Herbie Hancock - Paint Her Mouth, from the Deathwish soundtrack - 1974
Agatha Christie - Opium For No One - 1994
John Williams - Main Title, them from Jaws - 1975
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee - 1996
Krzysztof Penderecki - The Devils of Loudon - 1969
Ethel Cain - Perverts - 2025
Diamanda Galas - Schrei X - 1996
John Carpenter - Halloween soundtrack - 1978
Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae-Alpha - 1978
Shostakovich - String Quartet no.8 in C minor - 1960
Sumio Shiratori - Moomin soundtrack - 1990
Of that most recent piece of music, you can't call it a song, Cassy Brooking says, "Cain's Perverts is so terrifying I still can't listen to it the whole way through".
That felt like a challenge, so I found it on YouTube. It's 12 minutes long. I got about half way and had to give up and go lie down in a darkened room. It is awful in every sense of the word awful. Just my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeJ9CTEZ-A
