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For a horror game I’m looking for anything that sounds even vaguely like this.

A Comfortable Fear of Rock was an unusual Norwegian Metal band. Their sound was best described as the bastard child of a three-way between Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Abba with a heavy dose of Norwegian folk and liturgical music. This is what Norse folk music sounds like for those curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drömde_mig_en_dröm.ogg

Their unique sound and bizarre lyrics about “the frozen third world” made them something of a cult phenomena. They even opened for David Bowie for three shows. He described them, in a documentary made on them years later as “nice lads, but jumpy. You could walk up behind one of them and say hi and he’d jump like you shoved a poker up his butt.”

The band was not without controversy. They were accused of satanism, witchcraft, and dealing with the occult. Their interviews were almost lynchian as the band members seemed to deliberately avoid explaining their lyrics and instead preferred talking about literally anything else. They also controversially released a hidden track on one album dubbed by their fans as the Drowning Song of Chappaquidick that includes the line in Old Norse “Dear cursed Kennedy Brother, you will wander the dark caverns of heck for all eternity for the drowning of Lady Mary Jo” and , in English, “you have lost your inheritance for vile participation”. They included literary references like that.

Pirates World was their last show. What exactly happened that night is unclear. What is known is that eighteen people were killed, including the four band members. The four members of a Comfortable Fear of Rock were found, upon autopsy, to have died of exposure to extreme cold in spite of it being a warm Florida Fall night. The park closed soon after and was demolished, but the resulting development was quickly abandoned. The area is unusually cold and silent for Florida.

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Is this a real thing or did you make it up?

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I made it up but it’s based on real history. In the real world Pirates World was an amusement park that had concerts with a tendency to get crazy. You got into the park for one admission price that included the rock and roll show.

https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/pirates-world-ffb3d207-9359-40aa-96ff-9be56b5358bf

And these were big name bands. Bands like Led Zeppelin

  https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OtzJtp-EM

David Bowie

Frank Zappa

 https://youtube.com/watch?v=qq-ZxExHzm8

Iron Butterfly

The Beach Boys

The Grateful Dead

Faces

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SCi69gft4wc

All played there. It was a real bit of weird musical history. A Comfortable Fear of Rock is not, however, a real band and because it’s not real it never performed at Pirates World. It’s name comes from two pseudonyms Ramsey Campbell used, as the horror campaign they are a part of is partially ripped off from based on his book Midnight Sun. While it is possible there was a Norwegian metal band in the seventies I have found no evidence of its existence.

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The Pirates World part was what made me start to think it was real because I had just finished watching a video on the history of that park right before I clicked into the post.

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I wish Pirates World end was that cool.

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thank you for sending me down a fricking circle rabbit hole.

lmk if you get closer than this:

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Gorgeous. Pirate’s World was a fascinating dramatic place. It allegedly closed because Disney World opened but a more likely explanation is that the out of control crowds at the concerts, which were the big attraction, did it in.

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finntroll, b-word?

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Too modern

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actually maybe closer, b-word?

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huh. I can't think of it now, but some of the fricking side projects of circle seem like they'd almost for the fricking bill, but 8 don't know how modern is too fricking modern.

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how close is fricking this, b-word?

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On point. This could be a track straight off their lps.

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cool, that's a fricking very early, maybe first album, they have a fricking ton more, with pharoah overlord, and like i said I swear I have some cd somewhere where they did like a fricking folksy album with some other scandanavian groups.

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It’s Black Sabbath style rather than cookie monster growling.

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Kaizers Orchestra- Bak Et Hallelujah

This definitely has a traditional Norwegian sound to it but lacks any rock influence.

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I’ll post music close to it

Scissor Sisters- Comfortably numb

It’s sort of Abba meets Pink Floyd but far too disco

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