Mood music for writing horror

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Tinman

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Hi guys. I thought I'd share some of the tunes I listen to while writing horror. Some of them are self-explanatory from the titles.

Cry Little Sister (Sisters of Mercy-Lost Boys Soundtrack)
Burn It to the Ground (Nickelback--Yes, I listen to
Nickelback, wanna make something of it?;))
Make Me Wanna Die (The Pretty Reckless)
Lunatic Fringe (Red Rider)
Dragula (Rob Zombie)
Save Yourself (Stabbing Westward)
Animal I Have Become (Three Days Grace)
I'd Die For You (Candlebox)
Highway to Hell (AcDc)
Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
Crawl (Breaking Benjamin)
Hey Man, Nice Shot (Filter)
Land of Confusion (Disturbed/Genesis)
Mama (Genesis--this one because of the insane laughter)
Welcome to the Jungle (Guns n Roses)
Good Man in a Bad Time (Ian Hunter from Fright Night)
Cult of Personality (Living Colour)
I Get Off (Halestorm)
Just Can't Leave You (.38 Special--stalker lyrics)

These are some of mine. Please share yours.
 

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34 people have viewed this and not one has made a suggestion of other music? Am I the only one who uses music as white noise?

BTW... only 12 more posts and I can post an excerpt for critique:hooray:
 

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Bohren & der Clud of Gore
Giles Corey
Have a Nice Life
Obscure Sphinx
This Will Destroy You
Timber Timbre

Happy?
 

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I listen to a lot of VideoGame soundtrack music so as far as horror scenes go, I listen to the Bbig bad Boss battle.. mostly JENOVA or OWA or Judgement Day.. <3
 

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I'll let you know after I listen to them lol. Thanks!!!

Empty churches by Giles Corey still keep me up all night.

Here's the transcript from the song:

Voices of unknown origin appearing on radio frequencies were first noticed by Scandanavia by the military in the thirties. They were put down at the time to secret Nazi transmitters, but the voices spoke in unknown and mixed tongues. And after the war, no record of secret Nazi transmissions ever came to light. The voices didn't stop after war, but their rapidity and their transient nature precluded static. That is, before the tape recorder came into common usage in the fifties. A group of radio hams in Chicago studied the strange transmissions. Male and female voices, speaking in colored melodies and lyrical tones.

But it was not until 1959 that a Russian born Swedish citizen, radio and TV producer and filmmaker, Friedrich Juergenson, noticed intrusions on tape, and commenced his own systematic study. A disturbing fact soon emerged. The voices zeroed in on the Swede, addressing him by name, revealing a knowledge of his thoughts and actions, and claiming to be the the voices of deceased friends and acquaintances. The news spread rapidly, and soon experimenters and scientists all over the world were attempting to duplicate Juergonson's work.

The effect on parapsychologists was dramatic. Accustomed to investigating the blind forces of artifacts through endless and somewhat boring amount of dice guessing experiments, they were confronted with living voices, which answered back. Taken by surprise, the British parapsychologists, without conducting experiments, rejected the objectivity of the voices, explaining them as breakthroughs from police messages, or simply mechanical noises from the tape recorder. But their European counterparts were more cautious, and possibly, with greater technical resources, they soon found out that they were indeed confronted with voices of unknown origin on tape.
 

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I don't write horror (intentionally), but I do write Dark Fantasy.

I put on music I hate so much that it makes me want to kill things gruesomely.

Stuff like I'm Walking on Sunshine by whoever that was that should eat s*** and die horribly. Anything by Michael Bolton also qualifies.

I know that Michael Bolton worked really well when writing the torture scene on my present MIP, FWIW.
 

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I listen to music almost all the time, and if I happen to do so while writing horror, it's probably something I would listen to at other times too.

Noisia and The Glitch Mob usually puts me in the mood to write something horror-like though. :)


Edit; Forgot about Black Sun Empire. Same style, only a little darker.
 
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Marilyn Manson's score from "Resident Evil" - particularly the opening scene.

Music from the Castlevania series.
 

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What, no staunch traditionalists?

Very well... Bach; Toccata und Fugue in D minor...
 

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You people need to learn how to make a proper music thread. Suggestions are great (and I'm definitely looking some of these up) but use links! :p You gotta have links!

All the stuff by Akira Yamoaoka, like the Silent Hill soundtracks, is gold:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyd2loU5eOw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4HfgwLmyd8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI5YV-jok1U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCoRc3hX99U

The song "Hanging Gardens" by the Neck is over an hour long, but it's kinda surreal/creepy and really awesome because it's unintrusive and perfect for writing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVebUZ0L8U

This redone version of an Super Nintendo track is very moody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBEIg_gIBQ

John Carpenter soundtracks FTW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Tn1Y-ERCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLPnk9-6MM

Miasma & the Carosel of Headless Horses is good for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgpLga3VSk

Random creepy anime tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZuAzJGTTOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKBFtAJaTQ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1G1GbWgHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pph2gEKpbM

Random creepy songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUbTW928sMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPVUa29kHu8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZDsSDbA7rg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5BDyjgbjPU

Hope that helps!
 

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*takes notes*

I usually listen to wordless techno because it's the only thing that fades in the background enough for me, and forces my fingers to move quickly. :Shrug: Though it's not particularly hard or horror-ish.
The Xx
Daft Punk
Ratatat
(sorry, no links)

:idea: Depeche Mode's two albums Ultra and Playing the Angel are just gritty enough to put me in the horror writing space.
 

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Thanks Graphite and Phineas!!!

Justin, thanks for the links. This was what I was looking for. Appreciate it!!!
 

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The soundtrack for Hellraiser still works (magnificently) as mood music all these years later - not subtle, in any way, but awesome.
 

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I have to add the deftones. Change, Minerva, teenager, mx ...these are some of my favorite ones to write to.
 
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