I'm making a movie...

[Guest]

I need some songs that help to set the mood...it's a darker film, so I'd need something to reflect that. But I don't want the standard scary/gothic Slipknot/Mushroomhead stuff. What I'm looking for is either dark-sounding classical/opera music or some somewhat evil piano music. Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated!

 

justsoyouknow

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

hmmm....can't help with music...but I am a Media Study major...so if you have any questions about the actual movie aspect...I'm all over that.

[Guest converge241]

stuff of Skinny Puppy - Remission

Front Line Assembly - Immortal

Zao - 5 year winter

[Guest Renegade]

Apocalyptica, check some of their songs out

[Guest Addy]

I'm telling ya the only song you will need is:

 

Mortiis - Towards The Gate Of Stars

 

It runs 7 minutes 45 seconds long and has a VERY crypted tune. Pretty well composed piece of music actually!

[Guest razazteca]

O Fortuna would be perfect for fight, chase or flashback scene.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone for responding....Bps, where are you majoring? O Fortuna is a perfect song, but are there any songs in that vein that are similar? I've got the whole Carmina Burana (at least I think so) and Verdi - Requiem Mass - Dies ir, but are there any other songs that have similarities? Again, any help would be appreciated.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I did the first half at Bowling Green in Ohio, and am finishing up at the University of Buffalo

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I know you didn't want a Mushroomhead rec, but this song is fucking CREEPY...

Mushroomhead - "Epiphany"

It's a "happy" song, actually, but imagine it as somebody is going all-out postal, kinda like Hannibal Lechter in Silence Of The Lambs to the guards that are feeding him...beautiful music over horrendous violence.

 

Hmmm...Type O Negative's too "goth" for you, I take it...but the songs are really good, especially "Red Water"...

 

There's a classical piece on Cradle Of Filth's album Midian called "At The Gates Of Midian" that might fit, especially since Midian is a fictional city for demons and monsters and creatures of the night created by Clive Barker...

[Guest]

I know the Silence of the Lambs song you're talking about, but I can't remember the name of it offhand. Do you happen to know what song it is? Bach rings a bell, but I'm not really sure about that.

[Guest razazteca]

"Sadness Part 1" by Engima

 

or that chanting monk album that was out a few years ago

 

"Club to Death" from the Matrix movie

 

"Children" by Robert Miles

[Guest godthedog]

well you could always go the irony route & choose stuff like 'what a wonderful world'.  in high school some friends of mine used that song for the finale while all the characters wore blank masks & held hypodermic needles toward the audience, and it creeped the fuck out of me.

 

the 'lost highway' soundtrack has some very good dark, subdued stuff.

 

aphex twin has always struck me as pretty creepy, but the sound may be too artificial & electronic for your purposes.

 

this mortal coil released an album called 'it'll end in tears' way back in the day, with a very slow, dark, ethereall sound.  there's a handful of instrumentals on it.  but the tone is more sad than disturbing.

 

hope that helps.

[Guest AzkulKazul]

Beyond Twilight - Perfect Dark

[Guest Matt]

The Silence of the Lambs music is from The Goldberg Variations by Bach.

[Guest swan]

Tiamat

[Guest mesepher]

Careful with that Axe, Eugene and Saucerful of Secrets both by Pink Floyd are pretty far out... they might work well for your film... if you can get the versions from the Ummagumma Live disk those are great ones... or the Pompeii versions will work well too.

[Guest]

Techno's always good, you don't have words to get in the way and there are some pretty dark Techno songs, although I can't name any right now.