History Main / SensoryAbuse

* Most production logos from the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly those by Viacom ("The V of Doom"), Columbia/Screen Gems ("The S From Hell"), and Paramount ("The Peak of Fear"). The combination of bombastic synthesized jingles and symbols that seem to charge toward the screen caused no end of distress for young children, who still grit their teeth through the logos as adults. Fortunately, these logos were retired in favor of less frightening ones in the late 1980s. Paramount went one step further by replacing the Peak of Fear in its legacy series, first with a full color, computer-rendered mountain, then with the CBS Syndication logo. You actually have to hunt for a scary Paramount logo on television these days, and frankly, who would want to do that to themselves?

** From the actual ''{{Homestuck}}'' series, we also have [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004748 Jade: Wake Up.]] Starts off nice enough, but [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel doesn't stay that way for long...]]

** Whitehouse and Merzbow focus on this heavily-some Whitehouse reviewers have stated that they feel literally violated by the sounds used.

* Nirvana has two songs on their In Utero album that fits this trope, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter and Tourrettes.

* [[Other horrifying sounds HellIsThatNoise]].

* Metallica's ''Death Magnetic'' is one of the worst offenders in the LoudnessWar. Ted Jensen claimed the tracks were "already brickwalled", but this is a BlatantLie, as the ''GuitarHero'' versions of the tracks, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes which can be pirated]], had far more dynamic range.

* HellIsThatNoise.

* {{Scare chord}}s

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMOorKpIKM The third level of Lollipops]] in ''{{Action 52}}''. [[{{Earthbound Gigyas]] has possessed your cartridge!

* The third level of Lollipops in ''{{Action 52}}''.

* Metallica's [[RecordOfLoudnessWar infamously brickwalled]] ''Death Magnetic'' album.

* Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music"

* Shock Sites

* Trolls like this, especially on forums that let them post images.
** One infamous example, related to the above video, was when famous troll Jonathan Fortuny sent [[MoralEventHorizon GIFs and vidoes of flashing lights to The Epilepsy Foundation's website, which caused at least one to have a seizure.]] This one landed him [[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html interview in the New York Times]], in which he claimed he was [[WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou just demonstrating why they should beef up their security.]]

* Anal Cunt

* Nine Inch Nails has been known for this in both their music and their videos. Most infamously were the "Broken" videos of the early '90s.

** Same goes to some of the YTMND fads, like Poland one.

* Room 23 from Lost DEFENETLY qualifies as this. Note the Sensory Abuse is so bad that [[spoiler: it's designed to literally erase the short term memory of the unlucky vitim]]

* A lot of experimental bands release entire albums of this to try to be "edgy." It almost never works.

* Many Youtube Poops

* A lot of hardcore electronic genres are based on this, including noizecore, power electronics, speedcore, splittercore, glitch, and some gabber.

* SweetBroAndHellaJeff.... [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/movies/SBAHJthemovie1.html SwEEet BrO And hEEeElLA JeEeEeFFF!!!]]

*When The Melvins are playing to a particularly unappreciative audience (especially if they're playing at a festival where everyone's really waiting for the big name acts), they've been known to just break into an endless, deliberately irritating noise jam in order to get everyone to leave. If only a few people are left, ''then'' sometimes they start playing actual songs. ''The Colossus Of Destiny'' was essentially their attempt to replicate this on record. ''Chicken Switch'', a remix album heavy on contributions from experimental noise artists, also probably applies.