Shades of Green
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Rhea's Obsession and the Alien soundtrack quite fit the bill...
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Jolly Giant
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I've never used music at all during gaming, but there is one track I've been wanting to use for some time now, and that is "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. It's from his original music score for Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt'.
The track is certainly creepy enough in its own way, although its probably not exactly what you're looking for. In the scene this piece belongs to, Peer Gynt has been lured into the dungeon hall a troll king by the seductive dancing of the king's daughter. The music sets in as an entire clan of mountain trolls emerge from the shadows and close in around Peer. They proceed to perform an intimidating dance around Peer, as they taunt and mock him. As their dance grows faster, louder and wilder; so does the music. An extremely dramatic piece, where the bass drums take some heavy beatings. Its 19th century heavy metal, just perfect for a giant encounter!
As I said, this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I recommend it to everyone who likes to use background music for their games. Even I am just waiting for the right moment to use it, and I never use background music...
The track is certainly creepy enough in its own way, although its probably not exactly what you're looking for. In the scene this piece belongs to, Peer Gynt has been lured into the dungeon hall a troll king by the seductive dancing of the king's daughter. The music sets in as an entire clan of mountain trolls emerge from the shadows and close in around Peer. They proceed to perform an intimidating dance around Peer, as they taunt and mock him. As their dance grows faster, louder and wilder; so does the music. An extremely dramatic piece, where the bass drums take some heavy beatings. Its 19th century heavy metal, just perfect for a giant encounter!
As I said, this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I recommend it to everyone who likes to use background music for their games. Even I am just waiting for the right moment to use it, and I never use background music...
Firebeetle
Explorer
Celine Dion does fill me with terror.
However, John Christopher's self-done soundtrack for Prince of Darkness is the scariest movie music outside of Psycho (the classic standard, some musicians use it to judge if their music was really scary. They play their bit than the psycho music to the same scene and see if if they did any better.) It is VERY hard to find however. My current CD I ordered ten years ago from Europe. The sort of thing you have to come across in a bargain bing. If you do, GRAB IT! It is very appropriate for evil temples, I've used it more times than I can count.
Danzig (yes, the 80's heavy metal rocker) has a treat of an album called "Black Aria".
Tangerine Dream's Atem and Zeig albums are terribly creepy and have lots of spooky vocals.
There is a great trance like track off of the "Eyes Wide Shut" album by Dead Can Dance that's plenty creepy too.
However, John Christopher's self-done soundtrack for Prince of Darkness is the scariest movie music outside of Psycho (the classic standard, some musicians use it to judge if their music was really scary. They play their bit than the psycho music to the same scene and see if if they did any better.) It is VERY hard to find however. My current CD I ordered ten years ago from Europe. The sort of thing you have to come across in a bargain bing. If you do, GRAB IT! It is very appropriate for evil temples, I've used it more times than I can count.
Danzig (yes, the 80's heavy metal rocker) has a treat of an album called "Black Aria".
Tangerine Dream's Atem and Zeig albums are terribly creepy and have lots of spooky vocals.
There is a great trance like track off of the "Eyes Wide Shut" album by Dead Can Dance that's plenty creepy too.
Remathilis
Legend
Firebeetle said:
However, the album is out of print and rather expensive on ebay (around $40). There is also a Black Aria II, but I've heard its not as good.
You might get lucky at a second-hand music store though.
Job
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Lustmord. Anything by Lustmord will set a very creepy tone. You can easily find his CD's on ebay.
My favorites from Lustmord are "Heresy", "Monstrous Soul", and "Where the Black Stars Hang". The "Heresy" CD starts off with something that I can only describe as an infernal klaxon, and I use it to kick off every D&D session with my players.
Job.
My favorites from Lustmord are "Heresy", "Monstrous Soul", and "Where the Black Stars Hang". The "Heresy" CD starts off with something that I can only describe as an infernal klaxon, and I use it to kick off every D&D session with my players.
Job.
Mouseferatu
Hero
Oh, dur. I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier.
Deep voice, chanting, spooky... What you want, my friend, is "Ave Satani" from the Omen soundtrack. (The original; I have no idea what the soundtrack of the remake is like.)
Unfortunately, at least IMO, the bulk of the soundtrack is fairly boring, and it's certainly not much use in gaming--but it's almost worth it for that one piece alone.
Deep voice, chanting, spooky... What you want, my friend, is "Ave Satani" from the Omen soundtrack. (The original; I have no idea what the soundtrack of the remake is like.)
Unfortunately, at least IMO, the bulk of the soundtrack is fairly boring, and it's certainly not much use in gaming--but it's almost worth it for that one piece alone.
Mouseferatu
Hero
Piratecat said:
Fair enough, PC. That's why I asked.
Ominous music?
Try finding: The soundtracks to The Shining, The Omen, The Last Temptation of Christ or the like; something that has "Tibetan Throat Music;" early psychedelic Tangerine Dream; assorted tracks by Kodo (very rhythmic); Buckethead's Colma or Death Cube K, or Bill Laswell's projects like Praxis, Material or even Chaos Face's Doom Ride.
Try finding: The soundtracks to The Shining, The Omen, The Last Temptation of Christ or the like; something that has "Tibetan Throat Music;" early psychedelic Tangerine Dream; assorted tracks by Kodo (very rhythmic); Buckethead's Colma or Death Cube K, or Bill Laswell's projects like Praxis, Material or even Chaos Face's Doom Ride.
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