Music that slowly increases in intensity until you almost can't even stand the intensity anymore

the last ≈ 45 minutes of Xela's album In bocca al lupo progresses from soothing dark ambient to noize/drone through the gradual introduction of white noise/electronics/tribal drums/damned souls in hell

(and it isn't half as corny as my description suggests)

sorry folks, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmwERlUYRE

then there's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceW4bimyA

but also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbxp3qt9LEc

haha but really let's focus on what's required

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8pZy5PmIoU

and have a few more idk there are so many this is just a small taste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPq4WhPir9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf0VntRIg1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiITP-zP-98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdcf_XUAKM

^^^you get a cool arty video with this one!

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Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa

otm! I listened to that song tonight as I navigated the final stretch of a traffic jam, and I half expected to emerge into a wasteland of sinkholes and lava flows and Sim City monsters

(but it turned out to be a paving crew, and the choral outro just made me feel sheepish..."sorry Herr Schnauss don't you think that's a little too on the nose?" etc.)

i haven't listened to this song in forever, but,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMmXU-K3d3k

(it sounds a lot better in the context of the album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFK1wKyuI_8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsfRZovsJc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhK1D-8o2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2dSlKdhBkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHm_h39jMis

^ great example

Man, how did I forget to include 'River Deep, Mountain High'? And, to an extent, Lorraine Ellison's 'Stay With Me'?

(Listening to some '66 jams this afternoon, obvs.)

Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxKE-wPySGc

bedhead- parade
low - days of..
slowcore is good for this. lots of codeine fits the bill but i'd have to pull the cd's out

Serena-Maneesh - 'Your Blood in Mine'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00TI8Q3ksT4

excellent shout

grieg, "in der halle des bergkönigs"

East 17 - Stay Another Day

The classic Romanian answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W395ryBuqg

gene pitney, "i'm gonna be strong"

Minimalism-wise, Philip Glass "The Grid" from Koyaanisqatsi, especially in the context of the movie.

Thomas Dolby 'Hyperactive (Heavy Breather SubVersion)' 12" mix, which comes to a crashing end instead of (what was he thinking?) fading out like it does on the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFGiIp4C3Q

SPK "Wars of Islam" (which is crazy intense from the start, so what's left to do but the "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" turn-up-the-noise-and-cut-the-tape trick)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJuKDlqCFJU

Equinox - Acid Rain (Breakage remix)

Eyvind Kang - Invisus Natalis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfhkrSOLtM

Portishead - The Rip

That Eyvind track was immense.