Evil Laughter in Art
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:57 pm
Inspired by the forum discussions pointing to attempts of desperate measures, I would like to start a topic where we gather attempts to express the evil laugh of Satan. You can point us your favourite or noteworthy laughters of diabolical tone from music (for example, metal music has quite alot of these), movies, books etc. This topic is meant to be a place of grounding in times of desperation.
I'll start with a classic:
Black Sabbath - Am I Going Insane
Here the possible grounding effect of laughter is at juxtaposition with the laughter of insanity.
And one of more obscure nature needin a bit of interpretation: Abruptum - Evil EP's ending. I'm approximately pointing to the following 1½ minutes from the timestamp. I take the synth voices to be a sort of evil laugther, as they ridicule the more or less set tempo of the other instruments, while there's a kind of chuckiling frequency and rhythm here and there. At the same time there's clarity to the sound reminiscent to a starlit sky, as if the "laughter" comes from a pure source. I'm not trying to be witty for wits sake, the piece with such interpretation just notes the problem of managing to recognize the laughters meaning while sunken in the obscure astral atmosphere. Sometimes the synth rhythms follows better the overall tempo, and those places seems like the starlight reaches the place obscured by the darkness.
I'll start with a classic:
Black Sabbath - Am I Going Insane
Here the possible grounding effect of laughter is at juxtaposition with the laughter of insanity.
And one of more obscure nature needin a bit of interpretation: Abruptum - Evil EP's ending. I'm approximately pointing to the following 1½ minutes from the timestamp. I take the synth voices to be a sort of evil laugther, as they ridicule the more or less set tempo of the other instruments, while there's a kind of chuckiling frequency and rhythm here and there. At the same time there's clarity to the sound reminiscent to a starlit sky, as if the "laughter" comes from a pure source. I'm not trying to be witty for wits sake, the piece with such interpretation just notes the problem of managing to recognize the laughters meaning while sunken in the obscure astral atmosphere. Sometimes the synth rhythms follows better the overall tempo, and those places seems like the starlight reaches the place obscured by the darkness.