On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:44:16 GMT, Ba r r y
wrote:

In rock and roll, It could go back to the Black Sabbath's "Black
Sabbath". Leaving rock, who knows who invented it? Scary,
dissonant sounding passages appear in all kinds of classical music.

One of my favorites is the Germans marching into the
Soviet Union in one of Shostakovich's symphonies
(the Leningrad ?)