Beware! Midget in the raincoat!

Ondskapt - Witch (mp3)
Ondskapt is a quartet from Sweden and this is the closing track of their 2005 album "Dödens evangelium". The rest of it wasn't enough interesting for my taste - pointlessly lost in the realm of metal cliche's. OK, there still was something, but I don't care to make difference between average and a little bit less average music. But this song... vow! This song is like a soundtrack for a ghost story. Slow creepy melodies describe perfectly how the unconscious fear gathers. The song is mostly instrumental, there are some whispers and distant voices, but no ordinary BM vocals. And there is something strangely grotesque in this music.
As I listen to it, immediately some of the creepiest movie episodes come to mind. A scene from David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"- some guy has had a terrible nightmare and he is describing it to his friend in a diner. This nightmare took place in the parking lot of that same diner, so they are going to check the place out. When they reach the spot, the tension is really high. Nobody knows what to expect, the whole situation is just ridiculous and then ... a spooky figure dressed like some tribal witch slowly steps out behind the corner. It's so surrealistic, like childhood fears coming back to real life.
Or the final scene of Nicholas Roeg's "Don't look now" - man chasing a little girl dressed in red raincoat in the narrow streets of Venice. There's a schizoid atmosphere of despair, because that girl looks exactly like his own daughter, who had lately drowned. And finally in some dead end street the girl turns around . It has been a setup. It's not a girl, it's a disturbingly ugly midget, who attacks the man with a knife.
The final seconds, the best part of this song, create the same feeling. For five minutes the tension has slowly gathered. It has been like a fun trip through the house of horror in tivoli with all the skeletons and vampires popping out. And when everything is supposed to be already over, your worst nightmare comes true