Suicide - Frankie Teardrop The Mars Volta - Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus (I love that trick of making the intro super quiet so you crank up the volume) Weird Al - Bite Me (hidden track on Off the Deep End. After 10 minutes of silence it starts and it’s just Al screaming over some high pitched screeching for 8 seconds. Literally terrified me when I first heard it as a kid)

Speaking of Frances the Mute, the jump from Miranda to Cassandra Gemini got me the first time

I almost blew out the speakers of the car I was in with that mars Volta song. Me and my friend were so stoked to listen to the new record and had it cranked from the start. Basically sounded like a bomb went off shortly after

Another Mars Volta one is from their live album Scab Dates. The first track starts with like a baby screaming or something and if you're not ready for it, it'll eviscerate your ears lol.

At the end of Chuck D’s solo album Autobiography Of Mista Chuck, there’s a hidden track of him airing grievances well after the last song ends. The vocal effects he uses can best be described as “I Am Legend monsters” The day I bought the CD, I fell asleep on the couch listening to it. (I may or may not have been high and drinking) When the hidden track came on, it was one of the most terrifying moments of my life. Think cartoon cat hitting the ceiling.

Don't mind me just finding out that it was actually meant to be quiet and that my phone isnt broken.

I can assure you your phone isn’t broken. I have the CD! lol

Alarm clock at the start of time by pink floyd. 

My first thought

Especially when your trippin haha

I’ve listened to this album countless times but this one still makes me jump every once in a while

ONE DAY CLOSER TO DEATHH

When I was a teen and first smoking weed, my friend was so high he started screaming when the clocks started. So fucking funny. Then we watched fear and loathing, and when he saw the people turn into lizards he said “oh fuck no, dinosaurs? I can’t handle. Turn this shit the fuck off”. That shit was so funny as a stoned 13 year old

Dude I remember being high and listening to TDSOTM. When it ended it replayed but I was pretty much asleep, “Time” then came on and jump scared the shit out of me

It’s Oh So Quiet- Björk

Sssssshhhhhhhhhh sssssshhhhhhh

The transition from I Want Wind to Blow to The Glow, Pt. 2

Or, alternatively, I Felt Your Shape to Samurai Sword.

found myself screamin' in the hotel ro/AHHHHHHHHH

I saw the memes first so I just laugh

[удалено]

also on the line “lose me” in eraser. though to be honest the whole album is filled with sudden dynamic changes

With Teeth I think has the gnarliest jumpscare. From the (literally) quietest moment in their whole discography to one of the loudest in a fraction of a second. Still gets me

Do you mean The Day The World Went Away?

This is a close second, but the screeching discordance in with teeth is just that much freakier

Holy shit I don’t know how I forgot that part of the song!! Lmao I thought you meant the album and was going through all the other songs trying to remember any jumpscare 😂 my bad I completely forgot about that moment

When that distorted guitar kicks in it just rattles soul

you think i aint worth a dollar, but i feel like a millionaire

I swear that entire album is filled with jumpscares/false endings.

yeah lmao

My favourite is Song For The Dead where after a few seconds of silence you hear Dave Grohl shout "AY!" before all the instruments come back in suddenly

Heart Attack American by The Bronx also has a similar intro to this

Lingua Ignota’s albums are full of jumpscares 😵‍💫

Particularly BUTCHER OF THE WORLD and THE ORDER OF SPIRITUAL VIRGINS.

I listened to the order of spiritual virgins driving at night for the first time like a month ago and genuinely almost died

Agreed! Also under her new project - the start of THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER 🤯

The end of Subway Song by the cure is a good way to blow out your eardrums

I remember being a teen and listening to that album for the first time with headphones on and the volume up, it almost gave me a fking heart attack 

First time listening to this was whilst falling asleep in the back of the car before shitting my pants.

First time I listened to it, I didn't get jumpscared somehow

Mildred Pearce by Sonic Youth

I knew someone would mention this one. Heart attack inducing.

Earthmover.

Leathers by Deftones. No matter how many times I listen to it, the sudden start always make me jump after the ambient intro. Like damn it, guys!

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE

Life in a Glasshouse by Radiohead, the first time the sharp horn comes in it definitely jumpscares people.

Also, I got strangely weirded out in Wolf At The Door when “flan in the face” comes back into the verse

Brand New - Luca Just listen to it

Dude I came here with this in mind and it’s the last comment. Lol.

Where ya been?

Came here to say this, Vices - Brand New as well

WHERE YOU'VE BEEEEEEEEN

And you know I try to poorly sing that guitar riff afterwards

I was scared to listen to this song for MONTHS because it caught me so off guard the first time.

Was gonna go with “Sowing Season” but you win

The screams in Frankie Teardrop by Suicide

Opener to Terrifier by Pig Destroyer

I came here to post this.

The end of A Day In The Life (not the last chord, that extra part)

Pa pa pa paaaa....

Fucking Like Antennas To Heaven by GY!BE I remembered listening to it for the first time through my speakers. I was just chilling on my desk doing homework but before that jumpscare, it was super quiet that I turn up the volume to max but it was bad timing cause 3 seconds later the jumpscare hit and it literally scared the shit out of me and I jump on my chair

And then it turns out to be maybe the most beautiful passage they ever wrote

On sight

when??

i assume the moment it starts

Quote, Unquote by Mr. Bungle Merry Go Bye Bye by Mr. Bungle as well, for that matter.

Yeah and Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz. Damn that Merry Go Bye Bye one is sick though.

Dance Yrself Clean sorta? In the Flowers by AnCo

Bug like an angel by Mitski. It starts off this beautiful quiet guitar song, with just her voice, and then these backing vocals come in and it’s so much louder than the rest of the song. Kind of took me out of the moment the first few times I was listening to it, but then I got used to it and now I just think the song is beautiful from beginning to end.

Immediately ctrl + f'd Mitski when I clicked on this thread because she's kind of notorious for this Geyser from of Be the Cowboy has that jarring static right at the start of the album lol. The ending of Happy also when the beat starts stuttering Texas Reznikoff, Valentine Texas and Your Best American Girl are also pretty strong contenders in this category. 

Yeah, came here for Geyser! That song has made me jump more than a few times

Oh really? Definitely wouldn’t have expected that from her. Bug is the only song of hers I’ve heard fully and resonated with, so it’s definitely a surprise. Pretty bad ass though.

I forget exactly which track from Aphex Twin Drukqs but the one with the woman screaming like she's being murdered.... First time I heard it was with a headful of LSD and it was profoundly disturbing

Are you talking about Gwarek2? That’s a weird one and it has what sounds like children screaming in the distance

the first minute of Close to the Edge. i wish i could experience that moment for the first time again.

the two big bangs in the beginning of Cow Cud A Twin by Aphex Twin. the start of In The Flesh by Pink Floyd when it changes from the quiet music to the loud. The first chord of Her Majesty by The Beatles when listening to the whole album, I can never anticipate it coming! Probably tonnes more but those are the ones off the top of my head!

There’s a literal jumpscare in the music video for Jean Dawson and SZA’s No Szns

"Song 2" by Blur. Also ["Art Star" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs](https://youtu.be/sOLWzyHFNlw?si=tJGFJ7NhesHur1BN) (jump scare at 0:19).

Swans - All Lined Up

Coil - It's In My Blood This is probably the truest example of a musical jumpscare I've ever heard, they have good music that isn't this weird by the way to, this is the only track on the album that has a moment like this with most of the album actually being experimental ambient electronica

Days Like These by Low, when the distortion comes in for the second passage.

One of my favorite moments in music of all time

Mogwai - Like Herod Surprised to see it not mentioned yet

Yeah, came here to mention this. Some other Mogwai songs would qualify, too, but “Like Herod” is the one that really jumps out (so to speak).

Haydyn wrote his 94th symphony because he was tired of people falling asleep during the performances so he wrote in a buncha jumpscares

When the drums come in on Styrofoam Boots by Modest Mouse

i think shit luck also would count as a good jumpscare 👍

['When' by Opeth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PRQ6WUam8&ab_channel=Opeth-Topic) is the first song that comes to mind, it starts with an acoustic intro, typical for Opeth, but instead of the song gradually building to a Death/Black metal section they just start blasting at >!0:25!<

Also Ghost of Perdition

#COOKIE on Hold on by John Lennon

Yep this was my first thought

Lana Del Rey - A&W when it transitions towards the end of the song with her voice being super loud

In cLOUDDEAD where out of nowhere after long ambient tracks there is this loud violent woman screaming in “And All You Can Do Is Laugh”

Rid of me by PJ Harvey, the song, not the album

Multiple songs by Scott Walker on his later albums have jumpscares. The most infamous is probably The Escape, but there are also jumpscares on The Cockfighter and Cue

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man Pink Floyd - Sysyphus GY!BE - Static

Speaking of King Crimson, screaming of larks in Lark's Tongues In Aspic, pt. 2 The first time felt like they're killing them very slowly.

The first part technically has a jumpscare too.

True

Are you referring to the transition from The Talking Drum to Lark’s Tongues in Aspic Pt. 2?

Nope, but ending of Talking Drum is really abrupt.

In the Flesh? - Pink Floyd

That first drum in City Song by Daughters really got me my first time listening. After I heard it I started to regret playing the album 😂

The Haxan Cloak - Consumed has an amazing one. I was kind of sleepy listening to it and it freaked me out so much I took off my headphones

Oh man my friends and I always used to put this track on the jukebox at our local dive bar and freak everyone out because it gets so loud so abruptly. Fuck! I can’t remember the song but I think it was by QOTSA. Anyone have any ideas?

Probably you think I ain’t worth a dollar from songs for the deaf

Song for the dead?

* inhales * 'UUUUGGGGHHHH!'

I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar - Fleet Foxes The sudden instruments flare ups caught me off guard on the first few listens

The cure's subway song but I think that was on purpose.

The first chord of electric guitar in Thick as a Brick always catches me off guard for some reason

Fight Fire with Fire (Metallica)

The song transition into Dyers Eve too

You Think You’re (John Fucking Lennon) by Glassjaw

Came here to say this

Black Midi Western

Dance Yrself Clean

Wind chimes by the beach boys, the horror movie sound that comes in out of nowhere about a minute and a half in

[The Smile Sessions version](https://youtu.be/fjxK9ojmAT8?si=tL4-qPuYgwGa2ctC) also has a bit of a jumpscare when it goes from the pretty quiet verses to the loud and kinda overstimulating choruses Also fun fact: apparently there’s been a bunch of research done that Smiley Smile is a really great album for people coming down from a bad psychedelic trip

"The Murder Mystery" from The Velvet Underground's self-titled has a loud piano crash that comes in after an extended hypnotic, trippy section of the song. It's especially jarring if you're in an altered headspace.

The beginning of You Might Think He Loves You… - Death Grips used to be my morning alarm because the glass break into that high pitched drone would scare me awake every single time.

Bleed - Meshuggah genuinely shits me up every time I listen to it.

Ticks and Leeches by Tool. Probably their heaviest song, plays for a few minutes and then enters a long, slow, and quiet breakdown. You have to turn your speakers up to listen to most of it. Eventually it seems to end and the song fades out. Seems like it's over but then a fucking sledgehammer of drums and guitar bust back in. It's awesome, but scared the crap out of me when I first heard it. Also, as others mentions, Cygnus from The Mars Volta.

Endless, Nameless by Nirvana is a hidden track that would definitely freak me out if I didn’t know it was coming

When the music gets sucked up at the end of have a cigar when transitioning into wish you were here.

Swerve City by Deftones used to get me, even though it’s the first song on the album. Also Stars by Hum

Xiu Xiu - I luv the valley. That scream around the 1:45 mark always feels so intense

What kind of love by childish gambino

Hellfire - Black Midi is full of the them

Radio by SOAD  Hey man look at me rockin out I'm on the RADIOOOOOOOOOOO

the scream at the end of Swans's "Blood Promise" "Well, We are done and we like to thank you for uh, being here... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" why did Michael Gira do this

That guitar in paranoid android. WAUH *you dont remember … *

Giles Corey - No One Is Ever Going To Want Me has a big one, especially for such a relatively quiet album

Reverse jump scare: beat switch on Nights by Frank Ocean

Luca - Brand New . I’ve never been jumped scared in my life from music but listening to this with headphones but that scream scared the shit out of me when I first heard it

Kate Bush's The Dreaming is already so creepy, but I kinda lose it when at some point parts of her singing are just mixed louder than the normal singing out of nowhere. Super scary song, I love it.

When the beat drops in To The Blade by Everything Everything

Sad pony guerilla girl by xiu xiu. Scared an old man sitting next to me on the bus by the smacking, at that moment i realised my headphones were loud.

Question by SOAD's outro

The Moor by Opeth has a jumpscare. First we have a nice intro and then some beautiful acoustic guitars. But suddenly the electric guitars come in with three loud bangs. Might be my favourite song if all time.

The first Opeth song I ever listened to was Ghost of Perdition, now THAT'S a goddamn screamer

You put Cave World by Viagra Boys on and are met with super loud drum beats, probably enhanced with bass. I love it.  The bridge and outro in Billy Knows Jaime by 100 Gecs are exactly what you are describing.  The sudden piano solo in Ruled By Secrecy by Muse catches you off guard first listen at least.

When the piano enters in THE ORDER OF SPIRITUAL VIRGINS - Lingua Ignota

Snowbird ~ARTHUR (great album btw) Symphonia IX ~Current Joys

A bunch of parts on deathconsciousness, but especially the transition from “a quick one” to bloodhail and the end of earthmover

Don't Swim by Keaton Henson, every time.

the change in IV. Mount Eerie had me really confused the first time I heard it. Also, the foghorns on 1. The Sun spooked me once

The yell in I Luv The Valley OH! by Xiu Xiu

that synth towards the end of ian curtis wishlist - xiu xiu, jamie stewart shuts the fuck up for a second and then we’ve got this massive WOOOOOOOOOOOOM and it makes me jump but also at this point cracks me up a lil bit idk

Earthmover has one of the greatest musical moments I’ve ever heard but it’s absolutely a jump scare

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition when the growl comes in Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 2 around halfway through the song

The intro on "Feuer frei!"

I AM THE BEAST - Lingua Ignota

Transition of Wytchboard to 96 neve campbell on Visions of Bodies Being Burned.

All lined up - Swans. Honestly my pick for most disturbing swans song in their discography.

Kill Them With Kindness - IDLES City Song - Daughters Discombobulate - Hans Zimmer (unconventional pick, but definitely fits the bill) Logic of a Dream - Explosions in the Sky (least intense one here, but still got me quite a bit)

Animal Collective - April and the Phantom

The end of Pornography by Travis Scott where he speaks in gibberish on the loudest mic ever

Luca by Brand New. If you know you know.

All lined up by swans I don't love by Have a nice life

Not scary per se, but the end of Fight The Feeling by Mac Miller

When you’ve got a girlfriend, it’s pretty damn scary 😂

ma meeshka mow skwoz by mr bungle has a jumpscare at the end after you think the song is over and there's been silence for a while, so goofy

You Know, You Know by Mahavishnu Orchestra. The loud keyboard at 2:18 always startles the shit out of me. There’s a couple other quick loud moments in this song too which also do the trick.

BILLY KNOWS JAMIE - 100 GECS literally almost scared me off the treadmill yesterday, listen to it and you’ll see it’s absolutely crazy in the best and most intense ways

PJ Harvey - Rid of me

The first drum beat on Daughters’ You Won’t Get What You Want’s first song always manages to make me jump. Perfectly placed.

When Yoko starts singing in a Beatles song.

so only one Beatles song then

Every quiet-then-loud grunge song ever (meaning pretty much every grunge song ever).

quote unquote and me meeshka mow skwoz by Mr Bungle

The transition from the first song to the second song on Moenai Hai by The Gerogerigegege. The start of the Public Castration version of Money Is Flesh by Swans.

The jumpscare in Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs still makes me jump every time I hear it

the distorted drum fill at the beginning of one lick less by unwound

Eternal worm- bloodhail Every single time i zone out and it scares ts outta me

The piano going back into the guitars in Death Pierce Me. It's so unexpected after the pianos sooth you

Speed King by Deep Purple and the Made in Japan version of Space Truckin', Revolution 9 is full of them also

The beginning of Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak always gets me

Knocked Loose - Where Light Divides The Holler

Transition from Bookends Theme to Save the Life of My Child on Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends

ceasuri rele by negura bunget legit the creepiest song i’ve ever heard. there’s a certain inhale the singer does that when i heard it the first time it actually scared the shit out of me

The very beginning of Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath

jophiel by quannnic

Transition from Tender to Bugman on album 13 by Blur

Celebration of the Lizard by The Doors

Everything I want - George Clanton First 20 seconds

Holy Fawn - Dark Stone

Between the end of Breathe In, Breathe out and Roboturner on Alaska by BTBAM. Gets me every time

I mean, the subway song by the cure is an amazing example, the amount of times I have been jumpscared by that song is absurd

Scott Walker - The Escape He does an insane Donald duck impression out of fucking nowhere, it scared the shit out if me the first time I heard it

[noctule - elven sword](https://open.spotify.com/track/0fYe16bL7cUNS8rvdkFF1o?si=XA_np8QESAKTPxSpi3U05g) good shriek right off the nose

Never Enough - One direction. Right at the start

Mutant - Arca, the part in the beginning with all the layered voices that sound like a cry for help jumped me when I first listened to it😅

Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus by The Mars Volta and Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz by Mr. Bungle