I’m not talking about Goth/Death Metal or anything of the sort, but I am looking for good pieces in a collection of music which has creepy or demonic overtones (a la The City of Lost Children theme song. Think anything with chanting, strings, and/or accordians)
Essentially, anything that would give you chills if you walked into a dark room playing it at full blast. Recommendations?
Oh, another one I like is Mozart’s Requiem. Just for the sake of an example.
Hell’s Bells by AC/DC
I hate to derail my own thread, but I just have to mention the Simpsons episode I saw the other night (I don’t know if it was old or new) where Lisa becomes a spelling bee champ, and people all around town are asking her to spell things.
Otto the bus driver asks her how to spell “AC/DC”
Lisa says: “A-C-D-C”
Otto: “Nuh-uh! You forgot the lightning bolt!”
OK, back on track folks.
Jerry Goldsmith’s original Omen soundtrack
Paganini
Opeth
[ul][li]Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (aka the Exorcist soundtrack)[/li][li]Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch - mostly a capella, and Germans get +50 to sinisterness. The rest of the album by the same name has good stuff as well.[/li][li]O fortuna! aka “the song from Excalibur.”[/li][li]Nobuo Uematsu - “One Winged Angel” from Final Fantasy VII, which borrows heavily from the previous.[/li][li]VAST - many of his songs have choral singing and may fit.[/li]The Cure - Pornography[/ul]
Tiny Tim- Tiptoe Through The Tulips
Seriously. Listen to that song and ask if it couldn’t be coming from the lips of a deranged axe murderer. Again, this is not a joke post.
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[li]O fortuna! aka “the song from Excalibur.”[/li][/QUOTE]
That was the first one I was going to mention. Though the ending is so triumphant and not nearly so dark or menacing. (and Og that’s a beautiful scene in Excalibur where they use that song. Gorgeous.)
And I’d start the album with a (comparatively) lighthearted Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil.” (Their “Time Is On My Side” was also used to fairly creepy effect in the movie Fallen).
Two words: Nick Cave
Although he’s less Satan than one of the damned.
Danse Macabre by Saent Saens
A Night on the Bare Mountain by Mussourgsky
Also, I don’t know if I’d call it satanic, but Anton Karas’ zither music in The Third Man is really eerie and jarring. It makes the hair on my neck stand up.
The album “Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls” by Coven (not sure if the same group who did ‘One Tin Soldier’ or not) should do the trick. Side two is supposedly an entire transcript of an actual black mass. Ebay usually has an original copy or two for 60 bucks or more, but it has been re-released on CD and LP for around 15.
According to wikipedia, same group.
It’s only triumphant in that the singer is announcing the victory of cruel, capricious Fate, and calling for all to weep with him. So if you know what the lyrics mean, it still fits what’s being asked for. 
I saw a movie once that had an acoustic cover of 666 - The Number of the Beast as the opening song.
I don’t think the movie really impressed me so I don’t know the name of it but, hey, the song’s out there. It sounded pretty good.
The Litanies of Satan and Wild Women With Steak Knives by Diamanda Galas
Here is an Amazon page with a sound sample. Although they screwed up*, and you have to click on the “Wild Women With Steak Knives” link to hear the Satan sample, and vice versa
*Actually, as I recall, my LP is screwed up the same way, in terms of the tracks receiving the wrong label, but Amazon continues the screw-up.
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Pretty much anything by The Tiger Lillies, then. (Such as “Hell,” “Start a Fire,” “Banging in the Nails,” etc.)
After that…
•Any of the tracks from the Alexander Nevsky soundtrack centered around the Teutonic Knights. (Helpfully marked with a “(Peregrinus Expectavi)” note on my copy of the soundtrack—which comes from the Latin chant used in said tracks.)
•A number of works by composer Krzysztof Penderecki, such as his “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima”; the Passacaglia from his Symphony No. 3 (which was to be used for a “history of Earthly violence” segment in the film Heavy Metal, but which was cut early in production); and his Canticum canticorum salomonis. (Which, at 16:51, is a bit long…but DOES sound like it’s being sung by a chorus of ghosts.)
•The “Lullaby of Hell” song from Guinea Pig 2: The Flower of Flesh and Blood. (It’s that Japanese splatter film that was so realistic that Charlie Sheen thought it was a real snuff film. Available on Netflix.)
•The moog synth version of Ode to Joy, from A Clockwork Orange.
Those are just some of the “classier” selections from my “Goth” and “Villainy” iTunes playlists.
“Credo” from Verdi’s Otello.
Last movement of Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique.
Red Right Hand
black sabbath - black sabbath