Recommend Me Some Diabolically Appropriate Music

[jhallum]

I submit to you Lovecraftian creepy: Payne's Gray - Kadath Decoded (vocalist may be too creepy for some tastes).


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ_WaFya_c]YouTube Moonlight Caves[/ame]

 

[mac1504]

Erdenstern's Into the Dark. You can find it on the iTunes store.

 

[Dausuul]

The Imperial March is far too well-known to work for background music, but consider the "Emperor's Throne Room" piece from Return of the Jedi. It's this low, ominous, wordless chant, perfect for a noncombat encounter with a truly diabolic villain. (Although there might be a few places where the Imperial March theme crops up, don't remember offhand. How good are you at sound editing?)

For a more martial theme, "March of the Dead" from the Army of Darkness soundtrack is very good.

Are you looking for orchestral music or something in a more modern vein?

 

[lkjopajdowma]

Depending on the theme, some of Karl Sanders' solo stuff could work:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuUijpmNSTU"]Karl Sanders - Slavery unto Nitokris[/ame]

 

[Elphilm]

For background music, I would go with pure ambience rather than structured songs. Have a listen to the first 10 minutes of Nurse With Wound's Salt Marie Celeste, which is basically an album's worth of deliciously black drone:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5FmAb4BGK0]YouTube - Nurse with Wound - Salt Marie Celeste 1[/ame]

 

[Nebulous]

Requiem for a Dream the movie soundtrack has some songs that would be appropriate.

You could sample dozens of video games as well. Gears of War 1 has some awesome bombastic music for fighting demons and devils (or Locust).

 

[Shroomy]

Thanks for the suggestions. The PCs are only half way through 1st level, so keep the suggestions coming. BTW, I did end up using Ave Satani, the theme song from The Omen, during the last session and that seemed to work on the players!