# Scariest song in the g\*damn world...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song-in-the-g-damn-world/356292 "2006-05-10T23:15:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song-in-the-g-damn-world/356292/1 "2006-05-10T23:15:32Z")

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This _is_ pretty mundane and pointless, but I thought I’d share.

You know the _Horst Wessel Lied_? Basically the Nazi party anthem—used notably in the _Wolfenstein_ games for the whippersnappers out there.

Anyway, I found out, quite by accident, if you take the MP3 famous period recording of that song, and slow it way down—in Apple quicktime, by control-clicking the fastforward/rewind buttons on the player window, and moving the unhidden slider over one “notch” from the center—you get the scariest goddamn song you’ll ever hear.

Seriously, it’s what you’d expect a friggin’ demon army to chant as they slowly trudged across a postatomic wasteland, dragging mauls and axes behind them in the sand in their skeletal grip. Like _Wizards_ or _The Black Cauldron_ or somethin’. :eek:

That’s all. 'Thought I’d share.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song-in-the-g-damn-world/356292/2 "2006-05-11T09:44:30Z")

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Thank you. Now I know what _not_ to listen to.