scary music

Gundark · Sep 17, 2004

looking for scary sounding music to play at my game that takes place in a haunted sanitarium,,,,suggestions?

The Other Librarian · Sep 17, 2004

Umm Sanitarium, by Metallica. Might not be atmospheric enough. What type of setting/time period is it?
Maybe try some music by Krzystof Penderecki.

Gundark · Sep 17, 2004

The Other Librarian said:
Umm Sanitarium, by Metallica. Might not be atmospheric enough. What type of setting/time period is it?
Maybe try some music by Krzystof Penderecki.

looking more for instrumental music....like from horror movies.

Desdichado · Sep 17, 2004

Sountracks from Signs, Sleepy Hollow, Alien, Minority Report, Pirates of the Caribbean, Last of the Mohicans and Van Helsing get pretty heavy rotation in my game. Which, incidentally, is billed as a dark fantasy/horror fantasy type of game.

Kemrain · Sep 17, 2004

I'm a fan of the Quake soundtrack. Ambient and oppressive at the same time. It makes babies cry.

- Kemrain the Ugly.

The Other Librarian · Sep 17, 2004

Penderecki is instrumental, a modern classical composer. Try his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.

Kemrain · Sep 17, 2004

Shinjuku Thief has some good instrumental pieces that are dark and ambient.. Try The Witch Hammer and The Witch Hunter. Good albums, both.

- Kemrain the Shinjuku Filth.

DJ_Colossus · Sep 17, 2004

I used to play Aphex Twin Select Ambient Works volume 2 during my Call of Cthulhu games.

It's very quiet, subtle, and just off enough to make everyone particularly unsettled. Very effective for a horror game.

Jim Hague · Sep 17, 2004

Midnight Syndicate has some good, if generic, bits out there.

If you can find it, Glenn Danzig's Black Aria is excellent. Not goth-rock, but extremely moody orchestral and choral music. Normally I can't stand Danzig's music, but this album is such a 180 from his normal work that it's worth a serious listen.