# Good Satanic music recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529 "2006-09-21T04:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/1 "2006-09-21T04:58:16Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/2 "2006-09-21T05:00:15Z")
Oh, another one I like is Mozart’s _Requiem_. Just for the sake of an example. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/3 "2006-09-21T05:04:33Z")
**Hell’s Bells** by AC/DC ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/4 "2006-09-21T05:09:58Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] **Hell’s Bells** by AC/DC [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/5 "2006-09-21T05:11:11Z")
Jerry Goldsmith’s original _Omen_ soundtrack Paganini Opeth ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/6 "2006-09-21T06:06:32Z")
[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] ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/7 "2006-09-21T12:05:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/8 "2006-09-21T12:47:24Z")
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror] [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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119099/)). ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/9 "2006-09-21T12:57:18Z")
Two words: Nick Cave Although he’s less Satan than one of the damned. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/10 "2006-09-21T12:58:03Z")
_Danse Macabre_ by Saent Saens _A Night on the Bare Mountain_ by Mussourgsky ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/11 "2006-09-21T13:04:43Z")
Also, I don’t know if I’d call it satanic, but Anton Karas’ zither music in [The Third Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/) is really eerie and jarring. It makes the hair on my neck stand up. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/12 "2006-09-21T13:35:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/13 "2006-09-22T02:14:38Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] 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. [/QUOTE] According to wikipedia, same group. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/14 "2006-09-22T02:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] 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.) [/QUOTE] 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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/15 "2006-09-22T03:09:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/16 "2006-09-22T05:07:27Z")
_The Litanies of Satan_ and _Wild Women With Steak Knives_ by Diamanda Galas [Here](http://www.amazon.com/Litanies-Satan-Diamanda-Galas/dp/B000026ZJC) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/17 "2006-09-22T09:23:56Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] 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)** [/QUOTE] (Bolding mine) Pretty much anything by [The Tiger Lillies,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Flesh_and_Blood#Flowers_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. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/18 "2006-09-22T10:44:04Z")
“Credo” from Verdi’s _Otello_. Last movement of Berlioz’ _Symphonie Fantastique_. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/19 "2006-09-22T11:24:28Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Two words: Nick Cave [/QUOTE] Red Right Hand ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-satanic-music-recommendations/373529/20 "2006-09-22T12:13:12Z")
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