Feeling sick of listening to the same half-whispered, slurred English singers who pronounce every ‘s’ as ‘sh’? Are you looking to expand your musical horizons to the extent that you can find yourself in another universe? Take a look at these different music genres, drop the idea that ‘current’ and ‘new’ means ‘good’, and you very well might just find your latest old jam.
The horror genre is one that plays well in literature. Horror would probably work better in film (given that the goal of the horror genre is to induce fear, so that the visual nature of the film would allow fear to enter the bloodstream, so to speak). And it tends to suck in music. When bands carry “horror” themes, it’s usually cheesy (excessive use of fake blood, shitty costumes and plaintive band names) or excessively reliant on a sensual homage. It’s not scary.
The Italian occult psychedelia movement seems to have addressed this problem. Such music can be very disturbing and even creepy while still avoiding the loss of translation from the musical literary and cinematic tropes that shape the music, in particular the work of legendary Italian film director Dario Argento, Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini, along with the forbidden “cannibals” of the ’70s and ’80s films and sometimes even spaghetti westerns.
You will either love hugging shivers that make your back jump up and down, or you will toss your earplugs against a wall and run and hide in a closet (that’s where the serial killer wants you to hide). Stay tuned for more different music genres.
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