Music for Castle Ravenloft


Advice


Alrighty, so I'm making a homebrew Castle Ravenloft game using Pathfinder rules, and I want to know what kind of music, ambient noise, and overall sounds you would use in such a classic horror campaign. Before it's posted, I already have Toccata and Fugue at the ready, although I'm certainly open to different variations of the song if you believe it better fits the gothic tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFJV0yNCscU


Leon Boellman's Suite Gothique has a piece called Toccata. There are many different recordings available on youtube.

It is very similar to Bach's Toccata and Fugue except it isn't as overdone.

:D


I wonder if any of Castlevania would suit.

Scarab Sages

Castlevania soundtrack.
Metroid soundtrack
Moonlight Sonata, or better yet, Lestat's Sonata from Interview with a Vampire.
Anything by Jill Tracy.
Phantasmagoria soundtrack.


Some film score ideas:

The Ring (Hans Zimmer)
The Grudge, Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Uninvited (Christopher Young)
The Omen, Alien (Jerry Goldsmith)
Silence of the Lambs, The Cell, Seven (Howard Shore)
Predator (Alan Silvestri)


Anything from Tabletop Audio works well for RPG horror... over 50 tracks with music or music/ambiance mixes each 10 minutes long, all with specific themes, and all free to use, includes an onsite audio player! I use this resource for all of my RPG games. The creator even takes suggestions. You'll note the Samurai HQ track, that was created upon request by me for use in my Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG).

Dark Archive

The soundtrack for 'Castlevania: Symphonies of the Night' is amazing for this kinda thing. It has great background music, and exciting combat music. You just need to figure out how to get it to loop without repeating the intro parts of the pieces.


I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you simply dig up a copy of Castle Ravenloft. At least I think that was the name of the module (published all the way back when TSR existed) that came bundled with an audio CD. As I recall, the tracks were a mix of effects, music and narration, so probably not of any direct use, but why not leverage off of what the designers thought was suitable music?

Dang it. Now I'm going to have to see if I still have it and listen to the bloody thing again.

Scarab Sages

Black Aria by Danzig


HavokReigns wrote:

Black Aria by Danzig

and Mother if things get personal.


Brahm Stoker's Dracula soundtrack.


"Transylvania" by Nox Arcana. The entire album is available on Youtube.


Is it time for a revival of The Epic Pathfinder Music Thread?!


Also, I believe that Broken Zenith started a collection up on his site based on suggestions in that thread. Here is a link.

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