Café de Nuit

Gynsburghe wrote:I'm surprised that I haven't seen the 'haunted house' band Midnight Syndicate mentioned here yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFllOE4 ... 5B79EA8FB3

Oh, they've been mentioned loads of times. They're in four of the threads linked in the second post. Still great, though.

Heh, my bad - I didn't poke very hard. They are a fairly obvious choice, and still great indeed

Gynsburghe

My contribution:

Quake (video game) soundtrack
Castlevanie (video game) soundtrack
Demon's souls (video game) soundtrack
Dark Souls 1&2 (video game) soundtrack

Nox Arcana
Hellraiser OST
Midnight Syndicate
Luca Turrili 's albums
Myyu Horror Soundtrack
Nightwish 'the end of all hope' when confronting a DarkLord

Anyone have any good soundtracks or artists for Souragne?

Ender wrote:Anyone have any good soundtracks or artists for Souragne?

The OST of The Serpent and the Rainbow is an obvious one, but long OOP without an MP3 version.

Here are some ambiences that might fit:
http://horror.ambient-mixer.com/creepy-jungle-at-night
http://horror.ambient-mixer.com/cursed-jungle
http://rpg.ambient-mixer.com/creepy-jungle

You could also take Dub or other Caribbean instrumental music and play it half or 3/4 speed.

Here's a good theme for an idea that gets passed around a lot here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkLlN778ZU

This guy has got some pretty decent, non-vocal, multi-setting/"cultural" background tunes if you dig around a bit: https://m.youtube.com/user/AdrianvonZiegler

Oh man. This is (literally) my jam. I'm very much an audio guy so I've put way too much time into this.

The soundtrack to Le Portrait de Petit Cossette has some excellent atmosphere tracks, both ambient and action-packed. It's been my go-to for music choices in most of my Ravenloft games. Cannot recommend it enough: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiQ ... kuFpTChBO3

I've seen Castlevania brought up, but want to go a step further and pitch two specific tracks.
Castlevania 64's "Silent Madness" is an underrated gem and good for background haunting ambience on a loop (I've used it for both the House on Gryphon Hill and Dr. Dominiani's asylum): https://youtu.be/hYUNifUb4aE

In addition, "Pillared Corridor" from Super Castlevania IV has become the unofficial theme music of Dr. Rudolph van Richten for my group. Usually I try to find an arrangement of the music so it's not the chiptune version, but the melody just seems to fit the good doctor in my mind: https://youtu.be/lY3CdXffN44

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Philip Glass's Dracula score. It's got Barovia all over it.

Ender wrote:Anyone have any good soundtracks or artists for Souragne?

Dead Can Dance: https://youtu.be/1Y9xzA86RCs

I could go on but... I'd be here for ages.

In case it is useful, here is the Gregorian chant link I put in one of the April Fools' spam posts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBHg9T9j4qU

This soundtrack seems very Ravenlofty.

https://zingmp3.vn/album/Big-Screen-Sup ... 0ZEEO.html

We have a previous thread on this. Props to Mephisto for his list of music for the domains and many faiths.
viewtopic.php?t=11087

There's ASCIIMOV, a musician from Spain who does instrumental electronic and metal soundtracks for Doom-inspired video games. His work for BlooM (a fusion of Doom and Blood) is certainly too science fiction for Ravenloft, but some tracks feel distantly ethereal enough. That and I'm a bit biased, because BlooM is one of my favorite Doom mods. His recent work for the Hands of Necromancy series feels right at home in its dark fantasy vibes, at least from the released teaser tracks. Here's the artist's page.

Arise, from death!
So, this is TANGENTIALLY Ravenloft at best, but I gave the rather infamous album by The Cure, Pornography, another listen. The entire album oozes malice, macabre, anger, violence, resentment, resignation, and more. All in all, a look at where the band was at during that time, and a true goth classic for it. But hey, it was exactly what I needed for completing my QtR article from this year. The aggressive drums, uncanny distortion, lack of closure in many of the songs, and more isn't a clean translation for Ravenloft... but it sure puts me in the mood for it.
Judge for yourself.

doctornecrotic wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 2:39 pm Arise, from death!
So, this is TANGENTIALLY Ravenloft at best, but I gave the rather infamous album by The Cure, Pornography, another listen. The entire album oozes malice, macabre, anger, violence, resentment, resignation, and more. All in all, a look at where the band was at during that time, and a true goth classic for it. But hey, it was exactly what I needed for completing my QtR article from this year. The aggressive drums, uncanny distortion, lack of closure in many of the songs, and more isn't a clean translation for Ravenloft... but it sure puts me in the mood for it.
Judge for yourself.

I was eighteen when it came out, and this album blew our mind, from the first sentence of the first song to the chaos of the last song.

We danced like bats on these powerful songs.

It was the second record to be heavilly based on drums, by the way, a year after Public Image's Flowers of Romance.

Still in my top 10 albums after all this time.

Joël

The Sail North project takes a lot of inspiration from folklore, and can get pretty dark sometimes.
'Tale of the shadow' and 'Tales from Luria' could literally fit as plot hooks.