Granted as I got older, fewer things scared me, but a few of them still gave me jumps as I grew into my teens and adulthood. With this list, I'll give my "Top 10 Scariest music Videos." Now, I will state that this is my personal list, if you disagree...oh well, deal with it, it's my list.

So, lets see what my top 10 list is that had music with creepy visuals.

One of the videos I saw when I was older; it gets the lowest on the list because of when I saw it and it didn't really scare that much. For the ones who don't know them, Lordi is a monster themed Metal band who wear giant over the top costumes and have lyrics that match. They're very horror themed and their videos show that, this one in particular. This video is a tribute, in a way, to the classic Evil Dead series, as it has a bunch of teens exploring an abandoned cabin. They're suddenly attacked by the band members, who can only be seen at first by the video camera they're shooting with. Only one girl remains as the band strap her to a chair and she watches them perform. When the video is ending, we see her walking away and about to be free, but suddenly the singer "Mr. Lordi" attacks her from behind. That last bit actually made me jump. Even though it's at the bottom, it still makes the list.

Obviously Metallica's greatest hit single and most memorable song to date (you don't even need to know a single album title by the band to know this track). I remember when it first came out when I was young. The song itself plays off of the simple fear of the horrors you see in nightmares and how your truly are helpless as you need to sleep. The video in turn follows this, as we have scenes of a young boy praying at bedside with an older creepy man watching. We also see him pulling his bed sheets off and seeing his bed full of snakes. The most memorable scene, though, is the boy waking up to see his bed in the middle of a road and seeing a semi-truck racing towards him. He manages to run away as his bed is run over and destroyed. It was creepy and dark, but it wasn't anything that kept me up at night. Besides, Metallica had released a video before that would top this, which you'll find higher up on the list.

I discovered Dimmu Borgir when I was only 18, back in 2004. Like many, I discovered them through there breakout hit "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse." Now, even though I was a Christian then and I knew little of real Satanism, I didn't mind the dark and evil sound of the black metal epic, because, well...it was epic. It had an orchestral backing and it introduced me to my now hero, bassist ICS Vortex. Sorgens Kammr II though was a different story. This wasn't mega epic or Orchestral backed, it was dark and gritty, and it was sung in Norwegian which is a rather evil sounding language, similar to German. The video was just as dark, as it had images of singer Shagrath burning in the flames of hell, scenes of torture, some of the band members performing in a dark dungeon like setting, and to top it off, guitarist Silenoz betraying Jesus in a deliberate disgracing manner. I was still a Christian when I saw this, and it really made me afraid to like the band. Since then though, I've become more independent in my beliefs and know true Satanism, plus Dimmu is light compared to other bands of Black Metal, but this was to me what Venom did for a lot of metalheads in the early 80's.

This song wasn't just a song if you were a kid who got tired of school, it was a holy chant of God. What kid didn't love the lyrics "We don't need no Education" and "Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone?" There's only one thing though, the music video, like Pink Floyd's music itself was a fucking acid trip. We get a scene from the feature film by the band which had the lead being harshly bashed by the hard ass Scottish teacher for writing poetry. We then get to see images of the kids being broken in, the teacher yelling at them and them having to walk in a military like line around him. The scene we all remember though is the part where they're walking, with some fucked up deformed masks on, in a straight line and one by one falling into something. We learn though they're falling into a meat grinder and are coming out hamburger meat. I feel like making a Soilent Green joke. At the end, the kids finally rebel and burn the school along with the teacher, but alas, it was just a dream by the lead in class. So, national anthem or disturbing nightmare for children, I'd say both in the same song.

Legendary Shock Rocker of the 90's Marilyn Manson on a top scary videos list, who saw that coming? Now granted, all of Manson's videos are fucked up, but most of them I saw at an older age. I would have added "Beautiful People" but I don't think I saw that at a young enough age to have a longer effect on me. I did, thanks to my older brother though, see his infamous cover of "Sweet Dreams" at a young age, and boy, is that an experience. There's no real storyline to the video or anything, it's just him and his band mates running around abandoned buildings and tunnels. The only thing is though, is that it's Manson being Manson and that means it's a trip down the rabbit hole. The video has images of Manson in a wedding veil/dress (I don't remember), singing into a light bulb, and some insane camera effects. One of the more notable things though is him wearing stilts in a tunnel and wandering around on them. And of course, there was him riding a pig. I don't think I saw another music video by him until Dope Show and I was 12 going on 13 then, so by that time most of them didn't have the same effect (Although seeing him naked in "Long Hard Road" was a little freaky), but this one was something else and was just fucking crazy.

This one is tricky for me as, while I know Nine Inch Nails, I've never been a huge fan of them like other bands on the list. Don't know why, but they just don't wow me a whole lot. Like most videos, this one I saw via my older siblings and again it was an insane thrillride of a video. First off, we have a heart hooked up to an air compressor or something and blows air as it beats. We have a pig's head on a machine spinning for no reason. I didn't learn this till years later, but we have a monkey being crucified and some nude women, they where edited for TV. And of course there's Trent Reznor being a freak in some crazy situations, including spinning in the air for no apparent reason. We also should mention the lyrics, "I want to fuck you like an animal, I want to feel you from the inside." Need I say more? One thing though, the ending shot of Trent floating and playing the piano on the wall was awesome.

I'm not really sure how to describe this one. Tool's lyrics alone can be a challenge to figure out, and their music videos follow suit. Sober was one of the few I recall getting a TV release that I've seen. If you check out any of there official videos, you'd most likely need to be on crack or mentally screwed up to understand what's going on. The video uses rough claymation/stop motion with brief images of the band members playing. The video shows what I can guess is a scientist in some fucked up lab going around to find his expirments and well, that's all I can decipher. It's dark, it's creepy and you have no real bearing on what's really the story is. Again tough, if you looked up other Tool videos, it's really the same with them all (you think this is hard, try figuring out Parabol/Parabola).

Usual readers of BthroughZ will most likely recognize this from the article I did on Rammstein a few months back, but if not I'll go over it again. Pretty much, two men in Germany met up and one agreed to have his cock chopped off for them to eat, and then later agreed for him to be killed and the rest of him eaten. Rammstein heard this and made Mein Teil which was about that case, and the video was just as sick. The drummer, Doom, is dressed as a woman and eats candy until he's sick, the guitarists Paul is running around in a crazed state and spewing something and Richard was wrestling an alter ego of himself, bassist Ollie was almost naked and pale white and having spasms, Synthesis Flake was doing ballet in a drugged state and finally singer Till is getting a BJ by an angel until he eats it's wings and kills it. Then when the bridge hits, all but Doom are wrestling in mud and rain and at the end of the song, Doom is walking the other five members down a German street like dogs. I saw this in my older teens, but still, I was just in awe at what I was watching.

Really, I don't need to talk about Metallica with this one, but rather the book/movie "Johnny got his Gun.' In it, a young soldier during WWI has an artillery shell explode right in front him. The damage was severe, but since life is important and must be kept on, they simply remove his arms and legs, and he's lost his vision, smell, taste and hearing. All he can do now is feel and, trapped in his own mind, he must try to signal that he is aware and to, please, have mercy and end it for him. It was made into a film in 1971 and even though I haven't seen it, it's been considered one of the most depressing films ever and a strong anti-war message. Metallica bought rights to the film and wrote the song "One" about it for their "...And Justice for All" album (really, the album was them relaying there frustration with the death of their bassist Cliff Burton). The video was relatively simple, it had the band members performing the song in an abandoned warehouse while clips of the movie were shown with the actual audio, in fact you didn't even need to see the movie, the full 7+ minute version has pretty much the whole movie's story in it. Usually I hate videos that do that as it takes away from the movie (Brian Adams "Everything I do" with Robin Hood and Celine Dion's "My Heart will go on" with Titanic are perfect examples), but this time it works. The music video alone disturbs me and is hard to watch, I can't imagine a full hour and half of it. I still can't watch it today; it just disturbs me so much.

OK, first off, I will state that this has NOTHING to do with Michael Jackson's shocking death a year ago; he's not getting the top spot for it. To begin with, the video is a rollercostar ride. It starts off with Michael and his girl in the woods on a date and it's going well, until suddenly, the moon comes out and Michael turns into a werecat like monster and chases her down. After that tense moment, we see that really it's a movie being show and Michael and his girl are watching, but she gets scared and leaves and he follows. As they sing and walk down the street at midnight, Vincent Price's creepy as hell voice suddenly starts reciting a Halloween-like poem and a graveyard close by's inhabitants rise from there rotting graves. At first, Michael and his girl are surrounded, but then he suddenly turns into a ghoul and starts to dance with them and then begins to sing. But when he's done singing, he, along with the rest of the ghouls, stalk his girl to an abandoned house and are about to get her when she wakes up. Michael offers to take her home, but not before turning to us the werecat eyes and we hear Vincent Price's laugh. Like I said, it's a rollercostar as it's scary and then nice, then scary and then nice. What honestly makes it the #1 spot though is that unlike the other bands on the list, besides maybe Metallica, Jackson is the only artist who's music and videos (most of them) would be trusted with children (make your own jokes). So, to put it simply, most of us who saw this video most likely saw it at a young age simply because it was Michael Jackson and we trusted him to be ok. It was my first scary music video, I'm sure it was for several others as well, and that's why it gets #1.

So that's my top 10 list. Some used to scare me, and some still do. Hope you enjoyed it and if you have a video you think should have been added, feel free to leave a comment about it.