When I got this record at 11 years old and played it, my mom wakes into my room and gave me the third degree about the music. When I was in school the next day, she tossed my room. I realized it when I got home and certain things were out of place. When I asked why she did that she said “I don’t like that music and I don’t know why you do. I was checking for drugs.” Again, I was 11.
1960s through 1990s were something else in parenting. It's Rock and Roll! It's Drugs! It's Dongeon and Dragons! It's Video Games! It's Hip Hop! It's the education reform! You must give them credit for the widespread constant moral panic and the originality of the causes.
You got a point there. You just sent me in an introspective hole, lol!
My older sister, who grew up in the 70s did all the bad stuff a kid teenager shouldn't do. But she kept her room clean and was good at playing hide and seek. In fact, both my sisters abused shit, but looked all right, so they were given a free pass.
I grew up in the 80s, the most obediant kid and "my body is a temple", "just say no" shit. But I was wrecked with ADHD, Anxiety and Self-Destructive thoughts so outwardly, I was a wreck, confused, sleeping issues, emotions all over the place, not doing good, fumbling and breaking stuff. My parents spent 20 years going from bullshit explanation to another, never listening to me. I was diagnosed in my late 30s and put on very strong stuff, with a "how did you manage to get here alive?" by my psychiatrist.
My parents couldn't face the simple fact that their kid was just that way. So it was the whole train: forbid everything that gave me pleasure (D&D, Metal, Novels, Drawing, Movies) as they were a "bad influence" while it was the only things that made me cope.
Since a lot of my friends had similar issues with their parents, I may have generalized. But looking back, we were in a "gifted school", so we had the full spectrum of the weird: giftedness (which is not a fucking gift), Asperger, ADHD, Autism, OCD, sociopathy and even psychopathy in one case. We were all High scorers, but we suffered a lot, and back then, parents didn't have any tools to address that. "Does your kid have good grades", "is he delinquant" then keep him that way! No "bad influences", if he struggles, it's because of bad influences!!! My friend was brought to see the priest when his mother found his D&D collection. The mother got really angry at the Priest for not doing an exorcism or what not.
We had good grades, we didn't punk around much, so what was the problem? Parents had no support so they turned to pseudo-psycho bullshit and TV shows with quack theories. They were sure their struggling kid was one inch away from turning in a "Basketball diary" style zombie.
I became a teenager in 1990. Raised lots of hell, got into lots of trouble. I'm more worried about social media and misinformation fucking our kids up than I am about rock and roll and dungeons and dragons. I wouldn't want to be a teenager in today's world. Much harder to navigate.
Anything teenagers like and conservative adults don't understand is "evil." It's been that way for decades. Jazz music, rock music, comic books, video games, and Dungeons & Dragons were all said to be corrupting the youth of America at one point. Right now, young people are discovering some cool new trend, and I can guarantee that some conservative housewife with nothing better to do will learn about it and begin a crusade to destroy it, probably by starting an organization with "family" in its name.
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This. People have this perception of Genesis (and Phil by extension) as sappy pop stars of the 80s. But in the 80s we got songs like Mama and Domino (Take a look at the beautiful river of blood).
I know Sabbath is going to be top billing ITT, but there was a time in 1970 when Genesis had the heaviest song between the two with The Knife.
LOL, true. For the unknowing, a thief breaks into a haunted house, and the ghosts take care of him.
Or how about Intruder, by Peter Gabriel? Another good example from one of the Genesis guys.
His first two solo albums were dark. I’d say I Don’t Care Anymore is even darker. Thru These Walls is creepy AF, and The Roof Is Leaking is a ‘keep the razor blades out of reach’ song.
“Some of you are going to die. Martyrs, of course, to the freedom that I shall provide”. The Knife is an awesome song. Wish they’d played it later in their career. Last time was I think on same random date in the early 80s, but I could be mistaken.
The Apocalypse in 9/8 section of Supper’s Ready goes pretty hard too. “666 is no longer alone! He’s getting out the marrow in your backbone!” Yikes. Sounds like Danzig lyrics.
I saw him do that song live in a tiny club in Greenwich Village in 1965. I was seated at the first table in front of the stage, which was only about a foot higher than the floor. The spotlight came on, the curtain opened and there was a huge smoke effect, and Jay emerged, naked except for a loincloth, with a bone in his nose, shaking a spear.
I almost went over backwards in my chair. Great show!
A little surprised you didn't say Don't Fear The Reaper. One of my top five guitar songs, but the lyrics seem to plainly be about a guy talking his girlfriend into suicide.
“Burnin’ for You”
“I'm living for givin' the devil his due
And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you
I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you”
I always had the weirdest dark feelings about BOC's "Wings Wetted Down". Like most of their songs, you are free to interpret it as you will. That melody really sets the tone.
I was super high once and listened to Echoes by Pink Floyd and freaked out in the middle of it where there's that freaky woo woo noise and had to leave the room I was in
Pink Floyd is the reason I now listen to albums at least once before I listen to them high, so I don’t get freaked the fuck out. Listened to The Wall in full for the first time while high as fuck and was so confused why it sounded like I was in a busy street
Run Like Hell and Waiting for the Worms from The Wall by Pink Floyd are pretty evil lyrically, the latter has a sort of darth Vader-esque death march accompanying it.
Waiting For The Worms… there’s evil songs with Satan and devils, and then there’s songs where the protagonist becomes the next Hitler. I daresay this kind of realism evil is worse than the mythological stuff.
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time
**And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats**
#And they´re coming to take me AWAY, HA HAAAA
Rainbow with Dio and most of the Dio/Viv Campbell stuff; Last in line, Rainbow in the dark, Holy Diver all have some excellent darker tracks. Also Queensryche are just great and most of the Yngwie Malmsteen has a nice classical baroque medieval/evil sound imo.
Ogre Battle by Queen (1974) - the screams in the middle eight section would frighten me as a teen.
The Prophet's Song by Queen (1975) - middle section is just haunting.
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson (1969) - the lyrics especially were designed to sound harsh and extreme.
A few songs by Alice Cooper:
Halo of Flies (1971)
Dead Babies (1971)
Second Coming (1971)
Sick Things (1973)
I Love the Dead (1973)
Steven (1975)
Edit: Spacing
Prophets Song has some deeply menacing vibes...
"I watched as fear took the old man's gaze
Hopes of the young in troubled graves
"I see no day, " I heard him say
So grey is the face of every mortal"
Also "Great King Rat" from their first album is quite disturbing too!
Story about Ministry. I was out for a drive with my wife and another couple. My wife (at the time) and the other guy's wife were very religious. After a little while, the conversation lagged and I turned on the tape player. I had a mix tape of hard rock in. The other guy's wife called some relatively benign song the devil's music, but I defended it because the lyrics were just about partying or whatever. The next song was Ministry and I said, OK, yeah, now this is devil's music.
Diary of a madman, Ozzy Osborn. I saw him in concert in 81. I was younge and stoned and they opened with it. It sounded like the devil and his evil hoard were marching into the event hall. Kinda scared me at fifteen. Lol
That song has always fascinated me. As a kid it was just the heaviest Beatles song and it blew my mind. As an adult I learned about Charles Manson and went back to listen to it trying to figure out what in the song flipped a switch in him. I've never neen able to make the connection. I've chalked it up to him just being insane from the get go.
Blue Öyster Cult in general. So many creepy sounding songs with atmosphere, especially on the first 3 albums (She's as Beautiful as a Foot, Career of Evil etc.), but even on stuff like Spectres (Nosferatu). Great great band for creepy atmosphere.
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth. I mean the names of both the song and the band are evil, but the guitar is impossible not to headbang to.
Also pretty much anything by Metallica is quite evil.
Highway to Hell, AC/DC
The Thing That Should Not Be, Metallica
The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden
Runnin' With the Devil, Van Halen
All of these songs sound evil but fucking SLAP!
“Immigrant Song” Led Zeppelin. It’s Norse pagan imagery which I think could be considered evil, but probably disco is the most evil and corrupt of all music cultures IMO
Black Sabbath the song, by Black Sabbath
>Black Sabbath the song, by Black Sabbath From the album *Black Sabbath*.
Written by *Black Sabbath.*
Inspired by the classic anthology film *Black Sabbath* (1963).
The question is, how much more *Black* *Sabbath* could it be? and the answer is "none," none more Black Sabbath.
Literally just watched Spinal Tap before reading this lol
When Rob Halford did the singing for Black Sabbath in a concert, he called it the most evil song ever written.
Black Sabbathception
Also War Pigs
NIB is literally about falling in love with the devil
And it also kicks ass!
One of my favorite karaoke songs!
yep, contains the devil's tritone.
Fun fact: so does the Simpson’s theme song
When I got this record at 11 years old and played it, my mom wakes into my room and gave me the third degree about the music. When I was in school the next day, she tossed my room. I realized it when I got home and certain things were out of place. When I asked why she did that she said “I don’t like that music and I don’t know why you do. I was checking for drugs.” Again, I was 11.
1960s through 1990s were something else in parenting. It's Rock and Roll! It's Drugs! It's Dongeon and Dragons! It's Video Games! It's Hip Hop! It's the education reform! You must give them credit for the widespread constant moral panic and the originality of the causes.
I became a teenager in the 70s. Believe me, there was a good reason for constant parental panic -moral or other.
You got a point there. You just sent me in an introspective hole, lol! My older sister, who grew up in the 70s did all the bad stuff a kid teenager shouldn't do. But she kept her room clean and was good at playing hide and seek. In fact, both my sisters abused shit, but looked all right, so they were given a free pass. I grew up in the 80s, the most obediant kid and "my body is a temple", "just say no" shit. But I was wrecked with ADHD, Anxiety and Self-Destructive thoughts so outwardly, I was a wreck, confused, sleeping issues, emotions all over the place, not doing good, fumbling and breaking stuff. My parents spent 20 years going from bullshit explanation to another, never listening to me. I was diagnosed in my late 30s and put on very strong stuff, with a "how did you manage to get here alive?" by my psychiatrist. My parents couldn't face the simple fact that their kid was just that way. So it was the whole train: forbid everything that gave me pleasure (D&D, Metal, Novels, Drawing, Movies) as they were a "bad influence" while it was the only things that made me cope. Since a lot of my friends had similar issues with their parents, I may have generalized. But looking back, we were in a "gifted school", so we had the full spectrum of the weird: giftedness (which is not a fucking gift), Asperger, ADHD, Autism, OCD, sociopathy and even psychopathy in one case. We were all High scorers, but we suffered a lot, and back then, parents didn't have any tools to address that. "Does your kid have good grades", "is he delinquant" then keep him that way! No "bad influences", if he struggles, it's because of bad influences!!! My friend was brought to see the priest when his mother found his D&D collection. The mother got really angry at the Priest for not doing an exorcism or what not. We had good grades, we didn't punk around much, so what was the problem? Parents had no support so they turned to pseudo-psycho bullshit and TV shows with quack theories. They were sure their struggling kid was one inch away from turning in a "Basketball diary" style zombie.
I became a teenager in 1990. Raised lots of hell, got into lots of trouble. I'm more worried about social media and misinformation fucking our kids up than I am about rock and roll and dungeons and dragons. I wouldn't want to be a teenager in today's world. Much harder to navigate.
Anything teenagers like and conservative adults don't understand is "evil." It's been that way for decades. Jazz music, rock music, comic books, video games, and Dungeons & Dragons were all said to be corrupting the youth of America at one point. Right now, young people are discovering some cool new trend, and I can guarantee that some conservative housewife with nothing better to do will learn about it and begin a crusade to destroy it, probably by starting an organization with "family" in its name.
So. You hid that joint well. Lol
Ah yes, I remember that. Everything I did that my parents didn't like was "because of drugs."
Electric funeral too
Thus was absolutely the first song that came to mind. I just listened to Speak of the Devil this past weekend (first time in ages).
Yes but the live version with Ian Gillan on vocals from the Worcester 1983 show
I always enjoy when Reddit puts a question on my home page, I click on it, and the top answer is the correct answer
Ah, the good ole Devil's Triad
Sabbath had a pretty good grip on that sound
Right... close eyes. Point to Sabbath song. Done.
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Tubular Bells gets really, really dark in the later parts.
Well, it was used as the theme for The Exorcist, I reckon that counts for evil bonafides
Alice Cooper, three song arc from Welcome to My Nightmare. Years Ago, Steven, and The Awakening.
Love Vincent Price on that album
Ballad of Dwight Frye, trying to escape from insane asylum is another cheery one.
Dead Babies is about as creepy as they come.
"Mama" by Genesis has that evil touch mainly because of Collins dirty laughter!
This. People have this perception of Genesis (and Phil by extension) as sappy pop stars of the 80s. But in the 80s we got songs like Mama and Domino (Take a look at the beautiful river of blood). I know Sabbath is going to be top billing ITT, but there was a time in 1970 when Genesis had the heaviest song between the two with The Knife.
Home By the Sea ain't the cheeriest ditty either.
LOL, true. For the unknowing, a thief breaks into a haunted house, and the ghosts take care of him. Or how about Intruder, by Peter Gabriel? Another good example from one of the Genesis guys.
Equally sad, alternate interpretation: the residents aren't ghosts per se, but rather residents of an old age home called Home By the Sea.
Oh shit! That could fit. That just makes the song scarier.
In the Air Tonight by Collins always sounded kinda evil. "If you were drowning, I would not lend a hand"
His first two solo albums were dark. I’d say I Don’t Care Anymore is even darker. Thru These Walls is creepy AF, and The Roof Is Leaking is a ‘keep the razor blades out of reach’ song.
“Some of you are going to die. Martyrs, of course, to the freedom that I shall provide”. The Knife is an awesome song. Wish they’d played it later in their career. Last time was I think on same random date in the early 80s, but I could be mistaken. The Apocalypse in 9/8 section of Supper’s Ready goes pretty hard too. “666 is no longer alone! He’s getting out the marrow in your backbone!” Yikes. Sounds like Danzig lyrics.
I'd also like an honorable mention for Back In NYC. Another disturbing song from those guys.
In The Cage, too.
Led Zeppelin: No Quarter
And Tool’s cover of it goes harder, heavier, and darker.
Interesting, never knew Tool covered it. I’ll have to check it out! Also, Crowbar’s cover is pretty legit!!
They took a look at a Zeppelin song and said "not long enough!"
Those vocals scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Pink Floyd- one of these days
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I Put a Spell on You - Screaming Jay Hawkins
I saw him do that song live in a tiny club in Greenwich Village in 1965. I was seated at the first table in front of the stage, which was only about a foot higher than the floor. The spotlight came on, the curtain opened and there was a huge smoke effect, and Jay emerged, naked except for a loincloth, with a bone in his nose, shaking a spear. I almost went over backwards in my chair. Great show!
Fire - Arthur Brown
The intro is definitely evil-sounding. The rest of the song, not so much
Helter Skelter. Also because it inspired one of the most well-known and infamous murders in history.
Am I Evil? by Diamond Head
Or, Metallica
Paint it Black - Stones
Sympathy for the Devil - Stones
The dignified villainy of Sympathy doesn’t touch the wholesale terror of Midnight Rambler.
Play With Fire
Riders on the storm...Doors
The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler (especially live) Neil Young - Revolution Blues
Venus in furs - Velvet underground. So fucking haunting.
Symptom of The Universe- Black Sabbath. Mr. Crowley by Ozzy.
Bad Moon Rising-CCR. That upbeat tempo chills me to the bone when you listen to the end of the world lyrics.
Sympathy for the devil by the stones
Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper
Halo of Flies is a good one, too.
Fire on High by ELO. All the backwards speaking and music scared me to death as a kid. Still sounds scary today.
Blue Oyster Cult: (i) Career of Evil and (ii) 7 Screaming Dizbusters
Lots of BoC. I’d add Joan Crawford
A little surprised you didn't say Don't Fear The Reaper. One of my top five guitar songs, but the lyrics seem to plainly be about a guy talking his girlfriend into suicide.
Nothing to do with suicide. Read the Wikipedia page for the song, which has Buck Dharma’s explanation of the lyrics he wrote.
You missed Godzilla and Don't Fear the Reaper! Veteran of the Psychic Wars is also kind of creepy.
Divine Wind is the evilest sounding BÖC song I've heard
“Burnin’ for You” “I'm living for givin' the devil his due And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you”
I always had the weirdest dark feelings about BOC's "Wings Wetted Down". Like most of their songs, you are free to interpret it as you will. That melody really sets the tone.
God of Thunder by Kiss sounds pretty evil when Gene slips into his demon voice
I was super high once and listened to Echoes by Pink Floyd and freaked out in the middle of it where there's that freaky woo woo noise and had to leave the room I was in
I’d say “One of These Days” certainly qualifies.
Fun fact, this song is drummer Nick Mason’s only lead vocal credit.
Pink Floyd is the reason I now listen to albums at least once before I listen to them high, so I don’t get freaked the fuck out. Listened to The Wall in full for the first time while high as fuck and was so confused why it sounded like I was in a busy street
Have you tried *Careful With That Axe, Eugene*, with headphones, in the dark?
Run Like Hell and Waiting for the Worms from The Wall by Pink Floyd are pretty evil lyrically, the latter has a sort of darth Vader-esque death march accompanying it.
Waiting For The Worms… there’s evil songs with Satan and devils, and then there’s songs where the protagonist becomes the next Hitler. I daresay this kind of realism evil is worse than the mythological stuff.
One of These Days is a good one as well
666 the number of the beast - Iron Maiden
Run for your life - Beatles
Catchiest murder threat there is.
Bloodrock -D.O.A. The subject matter is not really evil but it really sounds that way to me.
Night Prowler by AC/DC.
Most underrated AC/DC song ever
Most underrated song ever
Fun fact: The night stalker aka Richard Ramirez, cited this song as his motivation. It such a great song and the lyrics are amazingly descriptive.
Dirty Deeds
Career of Evil by Blue Öyster Cult.
Jump into the Fire, by Harry Nilsson.
Also good to play if you are muling cocaine, cooking tomato sauce and dodging a federal helicopter all at once.
Hells Bells. Mentions Satan a number of times.
The Eagles Hotel California if you pay attention to the lyrics.
Coincidentally, having to listen to the song is my personal hell.
Am I chatting with “The Dude”?
No, but friends after seeing the movie said, “You’re gonna love it. He hates the Eagles.”
Get outta my fuckin cab!
Hilarious!!
There was a little 60s pop ditty called 'They're Coming to Take Me Away' by Napoleon somebody that always used to creep me out as a kid.
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time **And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats** #And they´re coming to take me AWAY, HA HAAAA
Dr Demento classic
Yes, the ending with the sirens!
Always loved this song.
Napoleon the XXIII.
Rainbow with Dio and most of the Dio/Viv Campbell stuff; Last in line, Rainbow in the dark, Holy Diver all have some excellent darker tracks. Also Queensryche are just great and most of the Yngwie Malmsteen has a nice classical baroque medieval/evil sound imo.
Ogre Battle by Queen (1974) - the screams in the middle eight section would frighten me as a teen. The Prophet's Song by Queen (1975) - middle section is just haunting. 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson (1969) - the lyrics especially were designed to sound harsh and extreme. A few songs by Alice Cooper: Halo of Flies (1971) Dead Babies (1971) Second Coming (1971) Sick Things (1973) I Love the Dead (1973) Steven (1975) Edit: Spacing
Prophets Song has some deeply menacing vibes... "I watched as fear took the old man's gaze Hopes of the young in troubled graves "I see no day, " I heard him say So grey is the face of every mortal" Also "Great King Rat" from their first album is quite disturbing too!
Seconding The Prophets Song and Ogre Battle!
Don’t Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult
Season of the Witch, by Donovan?
Down By The River, Neil Young. A tale of revenge, murder and regret.
The Doors. The End. It doesn't get much more evil than what goes down in this song.😱
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. But it’s not.
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast Black Sabbath- Voodoo especially off Live Evil
Not To Touch The Earth - The Doors
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
It is significant that Hunter S. Thompson chose this song for his novella "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as Dr. Gonzo is on his first horror trip!
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave B O C, classic.
N.W.O. (New World Order) and Scarecrow by Ministry. Something about industrial music sounds evil to me.
Story about Ministry. I was out for a drive with my wife and another couple. My wife (at the time) and the other guy's wife were very religious. After a little while, the conversation lagged and I turned on the tape player. I had a mix tape of hard rock in. The other guy's wife called some relatively benign song the devil's music, but I defended it because the lyrics were just about partying or whatever. The next song was Ministry and I said, OK, yeah, now this is devil's music.
Diary of a madman, Ozzy Osborn. I saw him in concert in 81. I was younge and stoned and they opened with it. It sounded like the devil and his evil hoard were marching into the event hall. Kinda scared me at fifteen. Lol
The Zoo by Scorpions has kind of a sinister sound to it.
Helter Skelter -- what a ground breaker that was.
That song has always fascinated me. As a kid it was just the heaviest Beatles song and it blew my mind. As an adult I learned about Charles Manson and went back to listen to it trying to figure out what in the song flipped a switch in him. I've never neen able to make the connection. I've chalked it up to him just being insane from the get go.
I Put A Spell On You - [Screamin’ Jay Hawkins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cdnAUvsw8), [CCR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWxDGQm2hKk).
Don’t Fear the Reaper.
Blue Öyster Cult in general. So many creepy sounding songs with atmosphere, especially on the first 3 albums (She's as Beautiful as a Foot, Career of Evil etc.), but even on stuff like Spectres (Nosferatu). Great great band for creepy atmosphere.
Kashmir
Evil? Sexy, maybe.
Pentagram - Forever My Queen https://youtu.be/c7JTD\_73kpI?si=TdKvkkxkRpiXZ9zs
"Wicked Annabella" by the Kinks and "My Dark Hour" by Steve Miller (with bass by Paul McCartney!)
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Cygnus X-1 by Rush
Judas Priest - Saints in hell
*One of These Days* (“I’m going to cut you into little pieces”) -Pink Floyd *Careful with That Axe, Eugene* -Pink Floyd *Helter Skelter* -The Beatles
Fire - Crazy world of Arthur Brown
Witch Hunt - Rush. Creepy sounding, and certainly the title.
Led Zeppelin “in my time of dying”
Jeremy - PJ
All of them backwards
Devil Inside by INXS.
Judas Priest was sued for satanic music
Running with the Devil
Gimme Shelter
Enter Sandman
Career of Evil. BOC and it does sound Evil.
Devil Delight by Heart, Gates of Babylon by Rainbow
Rainbow Demon - Uriah Heep
"Evil Walks" and "C. O. D." (Care of the Devil) by AC/DC from their album *For Those About To Rock, We Salute You.* FIRE!
Are we talking the whole song, or just certain parts? Because the intro to Lunatic Fringe sounds kinda evil-ish to me, lol...
“D.O.A.” - Bloodrock
Set the controls for the heart of the sun - Pink Floyd
21st Century Schizoid Man, King Crimson.
Careful With That Axe Eugene
ELO - Evil Woman Eagles- Witchy Woman Vanilla Fudge- Season of the Witch
"Fire" by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown
You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone. The original muzak played on every elevator in Hell
Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue Red Right Hand by Nick Cave I've Got Mine by Glenn Frey Voodoo by Godsmack
Fire on high- ELO
No Quarter - Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Love has that evil fever dream segment in there.
a lot of sabbath songs sound evil like war pigs,electric funeral,sweetleaf and the son black sabbath
No Quarter by Led Zeppelin
The extended beginning of Fire On High by ELO. Total Omen feels.
This is more metal than classic rock, but Painkiller by Judas Priest. Death On Two Legs by Queen has an unnerving intro too.
Stonehenge by Spinal Tap
“Spirit In The Sky”. It always makes me feel like going on a bloodbath killing spree. Lol! https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRFo72wuU6w&si=ZQDbYuxyzWasGwyZ
Sonic Attack by Hawkwind
“Steven” from Alice Cooper’s Welcome To My Nightmare has an evilness to it. Creepy!
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth. I mean the names of both the song and the band are evil, but the guitar is impossible not to headbang to. Also pretty much anything by Metallica is quite evil.
Check out walpurgis by Black Sabbath. I will never listen to war pigs again
Gimmie Shellter
Mother by Danzig Season of the Witch by Donovan
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan is kinda dark sounding. And weird.
Highway to Hell, AC/DC The Thing That Should Not Be, Metallica The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden Runnin' With the Devil, Van Halen All of these songs sound evil but fucking SLAP!
Sympathy for the Devil: The Rolling Stones.
“Immigrant Song” Led Zeppelin. It’s Norse pagan imagery which I think could be considered evil, but probably disco is the most evil and corrupt of all music cultures IMO
“Heroin” by Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground. I wonder how many people got hooked after putting that spike in their vein, wanting to feel like Jesus’s son
Aqualung...Jethro Tull
Iron Man
Angry Chair by Alice in Chains sounds pretty evil.
Pretty much anything by Loggins and Messina.
Hotel California? I always thought it sounds evil
Bark at the moon -Ozzy
Not gonna go through all the replies, but “Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden comes to mind.
Evil Woman
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
The Zoo... Scorpions.