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Scariest Albums Ever Made

Celebrate Halloween with these psychologically creepy albums

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 28, 2009 2:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – James Montgomery, tasked with listing the scariest albums ever made for MTV in honor of Halloween, resisted the temptation to include Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing. Instead, he went for the "dense, raw, positively horrifying albums, guaranteed to turn your Halloween into a total fright-fest." Check them out:

The Cure, Pornography: "Opens with Robert Smith bleating, 'It doesn't matter if we all die,' and, really, it's all downhill from there."

Geto Boys, We Can't Be Stopped: The album that started the "horrorcore" genre is "more terrifying than anything that's followed since, mostly because it doesn't rely on gimmickry to make its point."
Korn, Korn: "Sure, there's also plenty of goofball scatting (and the occasional bagpipe), but there's an oddly spooky level of subtlety throughout."
Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral: "Recorded (partially) in the house where the Manson Family murdered actress Sharon Tate, sampling guttural squeals from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Spiral represents Trent Reznor at his most depraved, his most dark, his most visceral."

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Robert Smith of the English rock band The Cure arrives to the 2007 MTV Latin Video Music Awards at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Jonathan Davis, singer of the US metal band Korn, performs on stage during the Greenfield Open Air festival in Interlaken, Switzerland, on Sunday, June 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Peter Klaunzer)

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails performing on the 1999 MTV Music Video Awards at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center in New York City on September 9, 1999. (Getty Images)

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