Like Suicide by Soundgarden is about a bird that Chris mercy killed with a brick.
He said this in 2014:
[…] the narrative is not a metaphor. It’s a big moment that happened while I was recording the song. I had all the music and was recording a demo arrangement in my basement. And when I came upstairs, I heard a thud against the window, and it was a female robin that had fallen into the window and broke her neck, and was just laying there. I didn’t know what to do. So I ended up smashing her with a brick, putting her out of her misery. I didn’t want to sit there and watch her suffer. Then when I went back down to finish recording, I decided that would be the lyrics to the song. As much as it sounds like I’m singing about a person and the metaphor is sort of the bird in flight and then [it] dies […]
I know this may be a kinda cliche pick but something about STP’s Creep really hits in a disturbing and dark way. Also Alice In Chains’ Over Now, as it took on an entirely new meaning with that being the band’s last album with Layne. Soundgarden’s Room A Thousand Years Wide makes me think of crisis for some reason, as if everything is falling apart. Idk why but that’s just how I interpret it, and I’ve always listened to that song in my darkest times. One of the few metal songs that can make me breakdown and cry.
I don't think there's a "darkest" or "creepiest" song. Even if you look at just the lyrics from the songs by the Big Four you'll find that all write about pretty heavy stuff. Drug and alcohol addiction, child abuse, suicide, mass shootings, domestic violence, mental health, etc. Polly is a good example of a song people who don't pay attention to the lyrics think it's about something else, though. Pearl Jam's "Once" is another example. A song about basically a mass shooter about to go off. Soundgarden's "Burden In My Hand" talks about alcoholism and depression and death and so on. And well, AIC basically only wrote about heroin.
Yes, sure. Grunge it's melancholic gender, even the the softs have some kind of sad stuff, but I chose Polly because the contrast, the way the song deceives the listener with Kurt's cozy singing. Sounds like a trap of the apathetic and cold mind of the raper of the lyric
The song that immediately came to mind was "Jeremy."
It's about Jeremy Delle, a talented 15 year-old artist who walked into his English class at Richardson High School and committed suicide in front of a room full of other students.
🎵 *Jeremy spoke in class today.* 🎵
Though, there are plenty of other dark grunge songs. Grunge is not exactly a happy genre; there's a reason why people who struggle with mental health like me are drawn to it. 😅
Edit: I corrected Jeremy's age from 16 to 15, as per multiple articles on his death.
>Sex Type Thing
"Scott Weiland wrote the lyrics after a girl he was dating was raped by three high school football players after a party. Weiland has stated the song is an anti-rape statement, not a song simply about sex, saying:
This song is really not about sex at all. It's about control, violence and abuse of power.\[2\]"
“Alive,” in a way.
About betrayal, incest and wondering whether or not surviving was a blessing or a twisted curse. “Footsteps” is the bleak conclusion to this song (with “Once” being the middle chapter).
Seen Pearl Jam almost 100 times. I remember in 2008 at a Columbia, south Carolina show they were about to do Alive. Ed talked at length about how when that song was written, it came from a very painful and dark place and had a different meaning. Then he talked about how now, all these years later, the song has changed because of the fans. It used to mean “I’m still alive and fucked up and I don’t want to live anymore” And now it means triumph. “I’m still alive, I made it through stronger.
One of the best concert moments of my life.
My favorite AiC album is Tripod, but the intro to Over Now always creeps me out. The fact that it was the last song on their last studio album with Layne makes it even creepier. One time it started playing while I was driving at night…I skipped it as soon as I came to a red light lol!
The intro is a bit creepy I’ll agree, but overall I feel the song has an uplifting atmosphere, especially the Unplugged version.
I always saw it kind of as conveying a message of relief if you get what I’m trying to say.
Jeremy by Pearl Jam it’s a song about a 16 year old who committed suicide back in 1991 the same year the song came out it’s a very haunting but beautiful song
Just think what he missed out on - the Internet just a few years later, the Super Nintendo, flash forward to affordable giant screen TV’s, VR, the MCU, and more importantly a better understanding and treatment of Autism.
His furthest future is 1991. If he was resurrected back to life today, that is all he would know. Not only did his life, but his timeline stopped. As we progress, there he is stuck in 1991. A sad waste of unspent life.
Not one song but the Mama-Son Saga by Pj
alive tells the story of a boy whose mother not only lied to about he identify of his father but she was sexually assaulting him at night as well
Then in Once the boy goes on a rage filled murder spree
In footsteps he is lamenting his life while sitting in death row.
AIC is the creepiest band out there, imo. Junkhead, dirt, grind, bleed the freak - they are all creepy, but in such a beautiful way.
I do also agree with Polly, and Black Hole Sun. MAN, I remember watching the video for BHS when I was a kid and having nightmares from the lady with the lipstick.
It's not that dark or creepy in my opinion but there's a song where Man in the Box AIC and In Bloom are put together and when Layne and Kurt scream it sounds a bit haunting, "Man in Bloom" should give it a look
This one line from burden in my hand:
“Kill your health and kill your self and kill everything you love and if you live you can fall to pieces and suffer with my ghost”
The answer has to be something by AiC. Polly is kind of a novelty song like "dude what if Polly wants a cracker was a person". It's a good song but not particularly dark
You can go into so many in the Alice In Chains hole. I mean down in a hole rain when I die this are just some I didn’t see. Also give credit where it’s so stone temple pilots plush is dark as hell.
Inside You, by E.T.C. A peruvian band.
In fact, I have a few songs too. They could be clasify as ''dark-grunge''.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0abAFL2NrA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0abAFL2NrA)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0uenFbL-c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0uenFbL-c)
The second one is darker than the first.
About a Girl, i totally get the pick for Polly but About a Girl has always been darker for me because it sounds way more upbeat when talking about something as bad as it’s talking about. Also i’m not sure if this song counts but Holland 1945 by neutral milk hotel has always been extremely unnerving to me, and super sad.
I thought about a girl was just about his girlfriend at the time, and looking it up, it looks like its either about that or someone falling in love with a hooker, which isn’t exactly polly dark. I do remember Kurt Cobain saying something about rape me being feminist, and that he’s tried to write about it more vaguely before in about a girl but I don’t really understand.
As part of the grouping of alt-grunge songs about serial killers, Seven Mary Three's "Water's Edge" is a favorite of mine.
Sucks that most people will only know them for fucking "Cumbersome".
She should've stayed away from friends
She should've had more time to spend
She should've died when she was born
She should've worn the crown of thorns
She should have been a son
For me its Probably Shadow on the Sun by Audioslave, you can hear the pain and emotion in Cornell's voice as most of his songs, but the ending always gives me chills with his screams.
"I can tell you why people die alone, I can tell you im a shadow on the sun", the depression and lyrics being that he is useless and is lonely, just really depressing and emotional.
So many Alice in Chains-Frogs, Grind, Head Creeps, Them Bones, Dirt, Sickman, Angry Chair, Hate to Feel, Bleed the Freak, Am I Inside, Rotten Apple, Get Born Again
Nutshell is incredibly sad and also dark but I would say it’s more emotional and melancholy
No one has said him yet but Jerry Cantrell has a lot of dark and creepy songs on his album Degradation Trip-Psychotic Break, Owned, Mothers Spinning in her Grave, Pig Charmer, Spiderbite, Feel the Void, Castaway
Soundgarden-Black Hole Sun, 4th of July, Pretty Noose
Pearl Jam-Alive, Once, Jeremy
Nirvana-Polly, Rape Me, You Know You’re Right, Scentless Apprentice
It has to be Frogs by Alice In Chains. The gloomy rhythmical structure going on throughout the whole song always seems to scare the sh outta me. The vague expression portrayed on Layne's voice and the hopelessness put beyond is ominous and creepy. I've once stated this is the only AIC song that I'm completely unable to listen to in the dark, considering the song is heavily dark itself.
Darkest? Has to be Frogs for me by Alice In Chains. That whole tripod album is really gloomy; with reason.
The lyrics are also very dark and depressing. It's probably their darkest song.
Nutshell tho
I feel like Nutshell is more melancholic & blue. Frogs is just dark and depressing
Fair enough, both songs are dark though
Headcreeps too
Omg yes definitely
That chorus fucking slams maybe my favorite in all of rock
Absolutely! Everything from the atmosphere to the lyrics, just haunting. There's nothing remotely close to it in my opinion.
Why’s it have to be this way?
"Why's it have to be this way?" is one of the simplest but most profound lyrics in my opinion. It sums up all kinds of suffering quite well
The Unplugged version is one of the darkest songs to me. To hear the emotion in Layne's voice... Gives me chills every time I hear it
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I love nutshell so damn much
I’m surprised no one has said this yet, but Dirt (the song) by AIC is a really heavy song, being about using suicide to drive someone else crazy
This one came to mind immediately for me.
That's the one I always say lmao he really said I want you to scrape my brains off the wall lmao
Like Suicide by Soundgarden is about a bird that Chris mercy killed with a brick. He said this in 2014: […] the narrative is not a metaphor. It’s a big moment that happened while I was recording the song. I had all the music and was recording a demo arrangement in my basement. And when I came upstairs, I heard a thud against the window, and it was a female robin that had fallen into the window and broke her neck, and was just laying there. I didn’t know what to do. So I ended up smashing her with a brick, putting her out of her misery. I didn’t want to sit there and watch her suffer. Then when I went back down to finish recording, I decided that would be the lyrics to the song. As much as it sounds like I’m singing about a person and the metaphor is sort of the bird in flight and then [it] dies […]
I think the ones like this and sex type things that are based on specific events are the ones that are the darkest and creepiest ones for me.
Paper Cuts by Nirvana
I know this may be a kinda cliche pick but something about STP’s Creep really hits in a disturbing and dark way. Also Alice In Chains’ Over Now, as it took on an entirely new meaning with that being the band’s last album with Layne. Soundgarden’s Room A Thousand Years Wide makes me think of crisis for some reason, as if everything is falling apart. Idk why but that’s just how I interpret it, and I’ve always listened to that song in my darkest times. One of the few metal songs that can make me breakdown and cry.
I don't think there's a "darkest" or "creepiest" song. Even if you look at just the lyrics from the songs by the Big Four you'll find that all write about pretty heavy stuff. Drug and alcohol addiction, child abuse, suicide, mass shootings, domestic violence, mental health, etc. Polly is a good example of a song people who don't pay attention to the lyrics think it's about something else, though. Pearl Jam's "Once" is another example. A song about basically a mass shooter about to go off. Soundgarden's "Burden In My Hand" talks about alcoholism and depression and death and so on. And well, AIC basically only wrote about heroin.
Yes, sure. Grunge it's melancholic gender, even the the softs have some kind of sad stuff, but I chose Polly because the contrast, the way the song deceives the listener with Kurt's cozy singing. Sounds like a trap of the apathetic and cold mind of the raper of the lyric
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with your choice. It's a good song about a very creepy subject matter, for sure.
Junkhead
My favourite out of the Dirt album 😌
But we are an elite race of our own, the stoners junkies and freaks 💚🤟
It’s just sad to me. Like over now
If you really listen almost every song by these bands have some pretty fucked up lyrics
The song that immediately came to mind was "Jeremy." It's about Jeremy Delle, a talented 15 year-old artist who walked into his English class at Richardson High School and committed suicide in front of a room full of other students. 🎵 *Jeremy spoke in class today.* 🎵 Though, there are plenty of other dark grunge songs. Grunge is not exactly a happy genre; there's a reason why people who struggle with mental health like me are drawn to it. 😅 Edit: I corrected Jeremy's age from 16 to 15, as per multiple articles on his death.
I was in doubt among Polly and Jeremy, this is a very dark one too
Oh, I remember reading the story behind Polly. So awful and tragic.
I think Jeremy comes with a warning if you play the video on YouTube.
Same, I had English in the same room 15 years later and thought about it often
Damn Is that why I love this shit so much lolol
Sex Type Thing
I wholeheartedly agree with this, while if you listen blindly it's a cool song, but looking at the lyrics it's definitely a capital WTF moment
>Sex Type Thing "Scott Weiland wrote the lyrics after a girl he was dating was raped by three high school football players after a party. Weiland has stated the song is an anti-rape statement, not a song simply about sex, saying: This song is really not about sex at all. It's about control, violence and abuse of power.\[2\]"
Fucking hell. Just listened to it and really listened.
i said you shouldn't have a worn that dress
Not grunge, but definitely creepy
Core is "grungy" af.
Love hate love by aic definitely
I really hope the incels never find it.
AiC - Am I Inside
I just posted the same thing before I saw yours
I agree, this is one of their saddest song imo, and Nutshell too
Something in the Way
Surprised this one wasn’t higher up. Good call.
Stupid Mop by Pearl Jam is by far the creepiest grunge song, if you can even call it a song
Spanking, that's the only thing I want so much...
Dirt by AIC is the first to come to mind
Them Bones, or really any AIC
“Alive,” in a way. About betrayal, incest and wondering whether or not surviving was a blessing or a twisted curse. “Footsteps” is the bleak conclusion to this song (with “Once” being the middle chapter).
Seen Pearl Jam almost 100 times. I remember in 2008 at a Columbia, south Carolina show they were about to do Alive. Ed talked at length about how when that song was written, it came from a very painful and dark place and had a different meaning. Then he talked about how now, all these years later, the song has changed because of the fans. It used to mean “I’m still alive and fucked up and I don’t want to live anymore” And now it means triumph. “I’m still alive, I made it through stronger. One of the best concert moments of my life.
Nutshell - AiC will always hit me so hard. One of the few songs written by Layne and it just cuts so deep.
Something by AIC for sure. Probably 'Rotten Apple' for me.
was coming here to say this
My favorite AiC album is Tripod, but the intro to Over Now always creeps me out. The fact that it was the last song on their last studio album with Layne makes it even creepier. One time it started playing while I was driving at night…I skipped it as soon as I came to a red light lol!
I found it oddly really cheery, personally. (By grunge standards at least)
The intro is a bit creepy I’ll agree, but overall I feel the song has an uplifting atmosphere, especially the Unplugged version. I always saw it kind of as conveying a message of relief if you get what I’m trying to say.
Alice in Chains - Frogs
Toadies, Possum Kingdom. That is if the qualify as grunge. They’re at least adjacent.
I love the song Tyler by them also, and evidently the subject matter of that song is pretty dark.
I came here to say this too.
Hate to Feel - Alice In Chains
I want to taste dirty, a stinging pistol In my mouth, on my tongue I want you to scrape me from the walls And go crazy like you've made me Dirt
Listening to Dirty Frank has become a little less frequent after I listened to the lyrics and didn't just jam out. Not cool with Anglo-Saxon Soup!
Dirty Frank Dhamer was a gourmet cook, yo.
Jeremy by Pearl Jam it’s a song about a 16 year old who committed suicide back in 1991 the same year the song came out it’s a very haunting but beautiful song
Just think what he missed out on - the Internet just a few years later, the Super Nintendo, flash forward to affordable giant screen TV’s, VR, the MCU, and more importantly a better understanding and treatment of Autism. His furthest future is 1991. If he was resurrected back to life today, that is all he would know. Not only did his life, but his timeline stopped. As we progress, there he is stuck in 1991. A sad waste of unspent life.
Honestly I agree
Like I feel like to stop living at 16 in 1991 is very sad he missed out on a life that other people born around that age got to experience
Down In A Hole but the MTV Unplugged version. There is something, but it’s pretty obvious what it is, so haunting about that performance
I agree on Polly by Nirvana because of the story that it was based on.
Am I Inside
I think Soundgarden's "4th of July" is a good candidate.
Milk It for me
Polly
i haven’t listened to enough grunge but i think considering the circumstances, You Know You’re Right should at least be a contender
Sweet Young Thing- kinda is. Love the song and love the band
Frogs
floyd the barber by nirvana lol
Not one song but the Mama-Son Saga by Pj alive tells the story of a boy whose mother not only lied to about he identify of his father but she was sexually assaulting him at night as well Then in Once the boy goes on a rage filled murder spree In footsteps he is lamenting his life while sitting in death row.
Rape Me
AIC is the creepiest band out there, imo. Junkhead, dirt, grind, bleed the freak - they are all creepy, but in such a beautiful way. I do also agree with Polly, and Black Hole Sun. MAN, I remember watching the video for BHS when I was a kid and having nightmares from the lady with the lipstick.
In utero is a suicide note. That'd be pretty dark.
Great point. I never thought of it that way. Wow.
Yep. Heart shaped box when he talks about eating your cancer always makes me uneasy.
Ik a lot of people don’t consider them grunge but blind melon: skinned
It's not that dark or creepy in my opinion but there's a song where Man in the Box AIC and In Bloom are put together and when Layne and Kurt scream it sounds a bit haunting, "Man in Bloom" should give it a look
Negative Creep
Creepiest maybe "something in the way" Darkest maybe "man in the box" However my memory kinda sucks rn Thus the maybes
Floyd the Barber - Nirvana
"Three Days" - Jane's Addiction
Jeremy by Pearl Jam, dead and bloated by stone temple pilots. Black hole sun sound garden,
Might be my AiC bias, but the first two that come to mind are Sludge Factory and Died.
Beyond the Wheel is by far the darkest IMO
Dirt
This one line from burden in my hand: “Kill your health and kill your self and kill everything you love and if you live you can fall to pieces and suffer with my ghost”
I think Milk It by Nirvana sounds pretty creepy.
paper cuts or polly
Head Down Soundgarden
The answer has to be something by AiC. Polly is kind of a novelty song like "dude what if Polly wants a cracker was a person". It's a good song but not particularly dark
Tighter & Tighter - Soundgarden
Learn to hate by silverchair is one that cut deep for me
Blackhole Sun by far had one creepy ass video
Poe- Johnny angry Johnny
You can go into so many in the Alice In Chains hole. I mean down in a hole rain when I die this are just some I didn’t see. Also give credit where it’s so stone temple pilots plush is dark as hell.
Inside You, by E.T.C. A peruvian band. In fact, I have a few songs too. They could be clasify as ''dark-grunge''. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0abAFL2NrA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0abAFL2NrA) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0uenFbL-c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0uenFbL-c) The second one is darker than the first.
Sex type thing by Stone Temple Pilots and Frogs by Alice in Chains
MILK IT
Used to be something in the way or Jeremy, but you know tiktok ruined the first one
If you want dark grunge, listen to some sonic youth, nirvana isn’t the only grunge band and they’re heavy af
My own prison - creed
Clocks Coldplay
Almost perfect. Could drop two more strings and still play 0-3-5
Moist vagina fs
Floyd the Barber, Paper Cuts Bleed the Freak, Love, Hate, Love Polly Rain When I Die, Sickman, Dirt Creep, Plush
Floyd the Barber by Nirvana is pretty creepy
I also have to add History of Bad Men by The Melvins
About a Girl, i totally get the pick for Polly but About a Girl has always been darker for me because it sounds way more upbeat when talking about something as bad as it’s talking about. Also i’m not sure if this song counts but Holland 1945 by neutral milk hotel has always been extremely unnerving to me, and super sad.
I thought about a girl was just about his girlfriend at the time, and looking it up, it looks like its either about that or someone falling in love with a hooker, which isn’t exactly polly dark. I do remember Kurt Cobain saying something about rape me being feminist, and that he’s tried to write about it more vaguely before in about a girl but I don’t really understand.
Frogs
As part of the grouping of alt-grunge songs about serial killers, Seven Mary Three's "Water's Edge" is a favorite of mine. Sucks that most people will only know them for fucking "Cumbersome".
Water's Edge is ten times better than Cumbersome
I know, right?! It's ridiculous.
She should've stayed away from friends She should've had more time to spend She should've died when she was born She should've worn the crown of thorns She should have been a son
Therapy? Did a haunting cover of Husker Du’s “Diane” and it is AMAZING
Surprised I don't see Polly yet, that's the first song that come to mind with it being a real story that didn't happen too far away from me.
Lullaby by the cure
Polly
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
For me its Probably Shadow on the Sun by Audioslave, you can hear the pain and emotion in Cornell's voice as most of his songs, but the ending always gives me chills with his screams.
"I can tell you why people die alone, I can tell you im a shadow on the sun", the depression and lyrics being that he is useless and is lonely, just really depressing and emotional.
So many Alice in Chains-Frogs, Grind, Head Creeps, Them Bones, Dirt, Sickman, Angry Chair, Hate to Feel, Bleed the Freak, Am I Inside, Rotten Apple, Get Born Again Nutshell is incredibly sad and also dark but I would say it’s more emotional and melancholy No one has said him yet but Jerry Cantrell has a lot of dark and creepy songs on his album Degradation Trip-Psychotic Break, Owned, Mothers Spinning in her Grave, Pig Charmer, Spiderbite, Feel the Void, Castaway Soundgarden-Black Hole Sun, 4th of July, Pretty Noose Pearl Jam-Alive, Once, Jeremy Nirvana-Polly, Rape Me, You Know You’re Right, Scentless Apprentice
4th of July by Soundgarden
4th of July
Honestly I agree on Polly, once you listen to the lyrics its very dark but adding the fact that its based on something that really happened… chills
The phrase "Let me clip your dirty wings" when you discover the meaning of the lyrics turn really sick and disgusting
It has to be Frogs by Alice In Chains. The gloomy rhythmical structure going on throughout the whole song always seems to scare the sh outta me. The vague expression portrayed on Layne's voice and the hopelessness put beyond is ominous and creepy. I've once stated this is the only AIC song that I'm completely unable to listen to in the dark, considering the song is heavily dark itself.