Sean Halloran |
So, my players are fast approaching the prison of Adimarchus and will soon by fighting mr. insanity himself. I was just wondering if anyone had suggestions for music to play during the titanic and epic final encounter. I'd expect something with church undertones and he is an angel afterall, but also something suitably last boss enough.
James Jacobs Creative Director |
You should check out the soundtracks to the three Omen movies. The first one's got lots of cool choir stuff, the third one's probably the most "epic" sounding, and the second one's got some weird croaking noises that are prety fun.
I play in Chris Tommason's campaign and he uses music all the time to help set the tone for the game, and the Omen soundtrack has served us well. Not as well as the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack, but then it's hard to compete with perfection.
Berandor |
So... let's see. Epic, perhaps bilbical connotations? Dramatic, tense music? maybe even a choir?
My suggestions:
Conquest of Paradise, Vangelis
The Omen Theme (nice choir chanting "Satanis!")
O Fortuna from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Balkan's Death from the Ninth Gate OST by Woiciech Kilar
Duel of the Fates, from Star Wars: Episode 1 by John Williams
The Bridge of Khazad'Dum from LotR: Fellowship of the Ring by Howard Shore
The Hunt for Red October Theme is a nice choir, though a more quiet theme that draws its tension mainly from the choir, not from a particularly loud or fast orchestration
To go a different route, you might also play
Come with Me, from the Godzilla Soundtrack
Smack my B*tch up by Prodigy
or something like Who wants to live forever by Queen :)
The severed head of Mike Hughey |
You could always use Metallica's "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and/or "The Frayed Ends of Sanity"... both available at the amazing low price of FREE on the very same internet you're looking at right now!
Yes, that was a joke, kids.
But seriously, I'm thinking I'll use "Sanitarium" for most of Skullrot and "Frayed Ends of Sanity" for the final battle (and maybe "Harvester of Sorrow" for Dark Myrakul, now that I think about it). And yes, I own legitimate copies of both albums.