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In music, a drone is a sustained, low, continuous sound, note or tone-cluster. Music based around drones is minimalist and focuses on texture, timbre, and in some cases harmonic sonorities, with less focus on rhythm and melody. The drone note or chord, called a "pedal point", creates tension as the chords and harmonies change over top of it, leading to temporary dissonance. Because the atmosphere created by this kind of music tends to be creepy and unsettling, it is a close cousin of the "Psycho" Strings and Scare Chord, and the two often overlap, but are just as often very distinct: the original psycho strings, for instance, are not drony at all. Many drones do not use strings, rather relying on low brass instruments, woodwinds, buzzy synthesizers, pipe organ, or weird apparatuses and machines to produce their sounds. Drone-based music can delve into Nightmare Fuel particularly efficiently if it uses what is called "infrasound," which simply put, is sound pitched so low that it's just barely above the human threshold of hearing it as an individual tone. Studies have been conducted showing that this ultra low pitched sound, while almost undetectable to people, has a strange ability to cause nervousness, and even physical discomfort, despite the listener not even being aware of hearing it. There's even some speculation that local harmonic resonance in certain areas is responsible for people perceiving those locations as being haunted. Frequently used in Horror stories (particularly Psychological Horror ones), but can show up in other genres as well, such as thrillers and mysteries, ( generally as a way to highlight that, whatever the appearances are, something very wrong/unusual is going on under the fragile surface of reality. The low drone acts as musical foreshadowing. Not to be confused with the similarly named part of a bagpipe (which however does produce a droning sound), an Attack Drone, the sound made by a heavy bomber aircraft before it bombs its targets to rubble, or a male honey bee (even though the musical element, the instrument part and the robot are all named after the animal, which in turn is named after the onomatopoeia for the sound it makes). Note that old-fashioned bagpipes and the like do rely heavily on the more contemplative drone in place of a bass section. |
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Terminator: In The Terminator, a frightful metallic-sounding droning theme plays as the Terminator prepares to shoot Sarah Connor in the night club. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a terror-inducing droning sound plays in the background whenever the T-1000 makes an appearance. |
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The miniseries Manhunt: Unabomber overkills the heck out of this, with many scenes involving the Unabomber not only using a drone but also using a very shrill, almost eardrum-piercing pitch. | |
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a terror-inducing droning sound plays in the background whenever the T-1000 makes an appearance. | |
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The World 4 background music from Super Mario Galaxy 2. Also, the meteorites Mario/Luigi uses to fight Bowser. |
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My House, as an homage to the aforementioned "Everywhere At The End of Time", starts with the Doom II MAP 01 music "Running From Evil", but progressively corrupts it upon entering the second version of the house, ultimately degrading it into a drone ambient track titled "Memory=Entryrrrr////" when the player enters the Dark World. | |
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Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter has a rare chiptune example in the form of "Pressure Road", which plays in The Very Definitely Final Dungeon prior to breaking Darm's spell on the Twin Goddesses. | |
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In Luna Game 3, the music changes to a Giygas-esque drone after the slowdown and white noise Scare Chord. note This is actually a slowed-down and reversed version of the Sonic Rainboom Theme Music Power-Up from the MLP episode of the same name. | |
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John's Carpenter's The Thing (1982) makes heavy use of minimalist drones to evoke apocalyptic dread. The political/sociological documentary The Power of Nightmares borrows from The Thing's soundtrack. | |
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A staple of the FEAR soundtracks: Insertion, Initiation, She's Afraid of You, Bad Water, Armacham Rooftops, Premonition, Distorted Realities, et al. | |
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Appears various times in Thomas & Friends, particularly in the more electronic-sounding early episodes. Combined with "Psycho" Strings in Season 2's "Ghost Train" | |
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Metroid Fusion bases its entire soundtrack on this, with every song that isn't a boss theme, a chase theme, or background ambient noises featuring drawn-out low notes to increase the tension in every environment. Fittingly, this game is the closest the series comes to the Survival Horror genre, and given the series' roots in the Alien series, this is almost certainly a direct homage to The Thing (1982). | |
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Feel Good: Mae experiences a sharp, staticky drone whenever they get an addiction trigger, like seeing someone do cocaine, but the first time we hear it is when Mae and George hit off at the comedy club, and Mae realizes they're going to end up in another whirlwind romance. | |
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Serial Experiments Lain: The powerlines make an ominous humming sound, made creepier by the implication that Lain is the only one who hears it. | |
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Ys: The TurboGrafx-16 CD arrangement of "Beat of the Terror" from "'Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen'' features a droning ambient synth pad that enhances the creepy atmosphere of the Abandoned Mine. Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter has a rare chiptune example in the form of "Pressure Road", which plays in The Very Definitely Final Dungeon prior to breaking Darm's spell on the Twin Goddesses. |
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Shin Megami Tensei: Shin Megami Tensei I when the music plays for the Terminals which acts as save points, starts with a long drone and repeats with a single tune that adds in the eerie soundtrack. Used for macabre effect during the first couple of blocks of Eldritch Location Tartarus in Persona 3, since the party is venturing into the unknown in a place crawling with metaphysical manifestations of the human psyche. The effect goes away as they climb more floors and more and more instruments are added to the piece, and by the time they reach block 6 it's a complete composition. Persona 4 features the glitchy, distorted, hard rock boss theme "A New World Fool", representing the damaged, twisted psyches of the characters who have the song as their theme: Taro Namatame and especially the true Killer and big bad, Adachi. |
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Mario: The Big Boo's Haunt theme from Super Mario 64. The World 4 background music from Super Mario Galaxy 2. Also, the meteorites Mario/Luigi uses to fight Bowser. |
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Hannibal uses one for its uniquely ominous opening sequence. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei I when the music plays for the Terminals which acts as save points, starts with a long drone and repeats with a single tune that adds in the eerie soundtrack. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane's theme "Gotham's Reckoning" begins with a long droning note to start the film off with tension, but then the rest of the song proceeds with long-held low notes and a manic repetition of Bane's "Deshi Deshi Bashara Bashara" motif, communicating that even though the CIA feel like they're in control of the situation, they're playing right into Bane's hands. Once Bane executes his plan, the music ramps up in intensity. | |
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Rabbit Games: Ominous droning music plays when the player puts butter in the bowl in "Cooking Rabbit". | |
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The ominous drones denoting the presence of evil spirits in The Evil Dead (1981). | |
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The film Eraserhead loves using it, and to great effect; an especially unnerving drone is played at the end, matching the equally terryfing imagery. | |
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Some of Marathon's music tracks, e.g. "Landing" and "Aliens Again", utilize Drones of Dread for atmospheric effect in the ship's dark corridors. The Pfhor ship and derelict Jjaro ship levels in Durandal and Infinity use eerie droning alien ambient sounds for the same purpose. | |
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For the documentary De Nuremberg à Nuremberg, Vangelis used several menacing/sad synth drones to convey War Is Hell and the horrors that came in the wake of Nazi Germany. | |
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Experimental 45-minute short film Wavelength has a buzzing drone on the soundtrack that starts out low (50 Hz) and goes all the way up to 12,000 Hz where it becomes a high-pitched whine. The droning noise establishes a sense of unease and discomfort that is combined with bizarre, surrealistic imagery from beginning to end. | |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has the Probe make this droning WUB WUB WUB sound along with an inhuman electronic sounding screeching, which turns out to be whale calls when played back underwater. | |
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SIGNALIS: That low humming noise that you can sometimes hear in the background isn't your system fan. It's the game. Yes, it is a Survival Horror game, why do you ask? | |
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Obsidian uses this trope in two of its dream worlds with general MIDI. The cube-shaped Bureau has a giant light bulb on one of its faces, which hums in this manner when you get close. The second dream world uses this as background music, fitting what's meant to be a character's nightmare about an ominous Mechanical Spider. The hub factory it resides in consists largely of dark bass guitar notes, overlaid with high-pitched whining tones, and climbing scaffolding around the spider plays a distorted choir as you go. As you repair the spider, this music can make the situation more and more unsettling each time you return to the hub. And when you finish, the Spider comes alive and eats you, sending you to the next dream world. |
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The Resident Evil games like to use this, for example: "The Second Floor", "Wandering Alone", and "The Underground Laboratory" in Resident Evil 2. "Feel the Tense" and "Never Give Up the Escape" from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. "Deathtrap", "Lost in Darkness, "Narrow and Close, "Rush of Fear" and "Rush of Horror" from the Resident Evil remake. Resident Evil 4, while more actionized, still has a plethora of scary drone pieces, especially Ruined Village, Noche(heard when first encountering a Plaga), Bitores Mendez(combined with "Psycho" Strings), Cold Sweat(combined with Heartbeat Soundtrack), Novistadors, and *cough* *cough* Regenerador. |
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The soundtrack for the Soul Cairn (plane of the undead) in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim consists of soft but held bass notes and silent ambience to create a feeling of unease in such an unnatural location. Some night overland themes for the regular Skyrim world contain this, too. Particularly the ones meant to play near ruins or magical locations. |
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Persona 4 features the glitchy, distorted, hard rock boss theme "A New World Fool", representing the damaged, twisted psyches of the characters who have the song as their theme: Taro Namatame and especially the true Killer and big bad, Adachi. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has a number of original drone ambient tracks, such as Garden of Evil (Dungeon 6) and Boys & Ghouls (Dungeon 8)(especially disturbing when heard in the Divide), as well as reusing many from the first two games. | |
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Undertale has You Idiot which plays as Flowey gloats over the player before his boss fight. Also, during the Genocide route, the music that plays when you've killed everyone in an area, "But Nobody Came", actually "Your Best Friend" massively slowed down and the "music" that plays when the Fallen Child speaks to you. Chapter 2 of Deltarune has "Digital Roots", a droning sound that plays when Kris explores the basement of Queen's mansion alone as part of a quest leading to the chapter's Superboss. |
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In Turning Red, this is combined with "Psycho" Strings and a Scare Chord for the sequence where Mei discovers her mother is spying on her at school. | |
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System Shock 2 has dark ambient hums and occasional thumping noises lining almost every bit of the Von Braun and Rickenbacker spaceships. Sometimes it's obviously coming from computers or industrial machinery nearby, but other times...you can't really tell at all what's making those noises. And to top it all off? Even the main menu has a low electronic drone to it. | |
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Several of the background songs from Yume Nikki, like the appropriately named "Hellish Hum". | |
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In The Dark Knight, the Joker's leitmotif is a dissonant droning which sounds like running a razor across a piano string. (It was actually achieved by heavily sawing on the D note on a cello.) | |
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Resident Evil 4, while more actionized, still has a plethora of scary drone pieces, especially Ruined Village, Noche(heard when first encountering a Plaga), Bitores Mendez(combined with "Psycho" Strings), Cold Sweat(combined with Heartbeat Soundtrack), Novistadors, and *cough* *cough* Regenerador. | |
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This is the entire basis of the award-winning sound design in the Silent Hill series. When there isn't all that scraping crashing metal or absolute silence, there's usually low drones of things along the lines of, for example, deepened breathing sounds on the streets of the fog town in the original game. "Black Fairy" from the second game's otherworld hotel, with its Giygas-style distorted drone chords accompanied by a periodic screeching sound, ranks as one of the most horrifying music pieces in video game history. On a similar level of horror is the glass armonica drone that accompanies the lethal red light at the end of the Borley Haunted Mansion. | |
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Avengers: Infinity War opens with one of these, notably replacing the bombastic music accompanying the Marvel Studios-logo. This immediately clues the audience in to just what kind of movie this is... | |
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The Dark Knight Trilogy: In The Dark Knight, the Joker's leitmotif is a dissonant droning which sounds like running a razor across a piano string. (It was actually achieved by heavily sawing on the D note on a cello.) In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane's theme "Gotham's Reckoning" begins with a long droning note to start the film off with tension, but then the rest of the song proceeds with long-held low notes and a manic repetition of Bane's "Deshi Deshi Bashara Bashara" motif, communicating that even though the CIA feel like they're in control of the situation, they're playing right into Bane's hands. Once Bane executes his plan, the music ramps up in intensity. |
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Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days makes the unusual choice of having this instead of your usual crime shooter orchestral soundtrack. Created by Mona Mur, it uses a mixture of real life city noises, vintage synths, unusual software, guitar amps, and generally unsettling noise to create a sense of unease and to reflect the deteriorating mental states of its two criminal protagonists as they find themselves in increasingly chaotic situations. Here are some great examples of the soundtrack. | |
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Fallout, epically with the songs composed by Mark Morgan, notably in City of the Dead, Vats of Goo, and Industrial Junk. Likewise for Gold Slouch from Fallout 2. Fallout: New Vegas has a number of original drone ambient tracks, such as Garden of Evil (Dungeon 6) and Boys & Ghouls (Dungeon 8)(especially disturbing when heard in the Divide), as well as reusing many from the first two games. Fallout 4: Far Harbor has "The Children Of Atom" with it's heavy drone being punctuated by ominous chanting to Atom. |
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Fallout 4: Far Harbor has "The Children Of Atom" with it's heavy drone being punctuated by ominous chanting to Atom. | |
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Pokémon Yellow's version of Missingno causes the battle music to become dead static. Not quite a drone, but close and creepy as hell. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Fire Temple (v 1.0) music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time combines this with Ominous Arabic Chanting, somewhat reminiscent of the aforementioned "Requiem" from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also from Ocarina, the Shadow Temple music, which fits its undead and ghosts theme. The re-done Fire Temple music in later versions of the game replaced the Arabic Chanting in the Fire Temple with the same MIDI instrument. In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the final boss theme features an eerie droning tune in the background. The Day 3 Clock Town theme also has ominous low tones, which makes the cheerful melody from Days 1 and 2 sound pretty darn creepy. Two words: Ikana Valley. Some of the dungeon soundtracks in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. |
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Doom: The soundtracks to Doom 64 and the PSX/Saturn port of Doom, both scored by Aubrey Hodges, are mostly made of this trope. Doom³, in keeping with the more unsettling atmosphere, has a soundtrack and ambient sound design composed largely of subtle drones. My House, as an homage to the aforementioned "Everywhere At The End of Time", starts with the Doom II MAP 01 music "Running From Evil", but progressively corrupts it upon entering the second version of the house, ultimately degrading it into a drone ambient track titled "Memory=Entryrrrr////" when the player enters the Dark World. |
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Halo: Several pieces in Halo 2, eg the first and last parts of "Sacred Icon Suite", use choral drones. Of particularly disturbing note is the Gyorgy Ligeti-esque ambience in the dark corridors of the Flood-infested High Charity. As with the first game, the remastered Anniversary soundtrack amplifies the horror factor. The original Halo: Combat Evolved has "Suite Autumn"(even creepier in the remake), the bass drone in The Gun Pointed at the Head of the Universe, the middle of "Truth & Reconciliation Suite", which also uses "Psycho" Strings, "Lament for Pvt. Jenkins", and parts of "Library Suite" (remastered as "Dewey Decimate" in Anniversary). Other reworked ambient tracks in Halo: CE Anniversary that amplify the creepiness include "Unfortunate Discovery" (originally "What Once Was Lost") and "Bad Dream" (originally "Trace Amounts"). |
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Mass Effect 3 gives the Reapers a chilling BWWOOOAAARRMM when they arrive. It's part of the soundtrack too. The Reapers actually use this with this trope in mind. The sound is there for the purpose of putting fear into their enemies. | |
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Several parts of the soundtrack to Close Encounters of the Third Kind use drones reminiscent of the aforementioned Gyorgy Ligeti; e.g., the piece when the aliens emerge from the mothership at the end is similar to "Requiem", the Monolith music from 2001: A Space Odyssey. | |
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The music in Hotline Miami switches to rather unsettling droning ambiance after a mission is completed, helping to unnerve the player and keep them on their toes even after everyone's dead which comes in handy in one mission when a van crashes through the entrance on your way out and tries to run you over. | |
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The original Halo: Combat Evolved has "Suite Autumn"(even creepier in the remake), the bass drone in The Gun Pointed at the Head of the Universe, the middle of "Truth & Reconciliation Suite", which also uses "Psycho" Strings, "Lament for Pvt. Jenkins", and parts of "Library Suite" (remastered as "Dewey Decimate" in Anniversary). Other reworked ambient tracks in Halo: CE Anniversary that amplify the creepiness include "Unfortunate Discovery" (originally "What Once Was Lost") and "Bad Dream" (originally "Trace Amounts"). | |
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Pizza Tower has the track "Meatophobia", which plays whenever you approach a level's Pillar John. Interestingly, it's actually the taunt sound effect, just slowed down to an unrecognizable degree. | |
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In The Journeyman Project, the underground maintenance area of the Mars Colony features a proto-Silent Hill-esque ambient drone that enhances the Nothing Is Scarier atmosphere. The ambience in the adjacent Shield Generator, where the player has to solve a Timed Mission Mastermind puzzle, is equally unsettling. The Pegasus Prime remake replaces the original's upbeat Mars Maze theme with a similar dark ambient track. | |
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Antichrist: With the exception of Händel's "Lascia ch'io pianga", used in the prologue and conclusion, the soundtrack consists entirely of drones. | |
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Goblin's soundtrack for Dawn of the Dead (1978) is full of this trope. | |
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Cabaret Voltaire does this a lot with their earlier work, especially their first 3 albums. | |
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Not for Broadcast: In the third part of Day 296: The Heatwave (although with no music), during the time Jeremy Donaldson is talking to Andy and Jenny, a low-pitched infrasound drone is faintly heard, but over time, it grows louder and louder, indicating that security is coming for Jeremy. It's pretty kinda bad if the Disrupt ad tape is not played, but it borders on Nightmare Fuel if Alex Winston did play the tape. What's even more unsettling is that in the latter scenario, when Jeremy dismisses Jenny and Andy on realizing that security is coming for him, he makes a final mano-a-mano broadcast with all tapes focused on him as the drone grows louder and louder, eventually reaching its climax as he puts the gun up close toward his head and, barring Jenny's pleas to cut to the ads, caps off his Final Speech with his usual Signing-Off Catchphrase before ending his own life with a Pretty Little Headshot to the temple. | |
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One accompanies a victory for the Imposter(s) in Among Us as a sort of hopeless note following the defeat of the innocents. | |
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Law & Order makes extensive use of this (at a low pitch) when the (usually disturbing) key revelation comes out, either on the witness stand or (better yet) in chambers or an interview room. | |
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In The Terminator, a frightful metallic-sounding droning theme plays as the Terminator prepares to shoot Sarah Connor in the night club. | |
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Ecco the Dolphin: The Medusa Bay theme uses creepy sitar-like drones, which adds to the desolate feeling. Undercaves also has a droning bassline. The Lagoon, in addition to the level of the same name, also forebodingly plays in Home Bay after Ecco's family is swept away by the storm. |
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The use of a crescendo-going ominous drone in the very first seconds of There Will Be Blood quickly established the strange nature of the movie. | |
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It led to the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000 chanting the film's name anytime a film's music resorted to this trope. | |
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Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon has Mystery of the Fossils which has a drone as the bass which is paired off with an Ominous Music Box Tune. It plays out during two of the story's Gut Punches that both involve Pokémon being turned into stone. | |
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Chapter 2 of Deltarune has "Digital Roots", a droning sound that plays when Kris explores the basement of Queen's mansion alone as part of a quest leading to the chapter's Superboss. | |
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Pokémon: Pokémon Yellow's version of Missingno causes the battle music to become dead static. Not quite a drone, but close and creepy as hell. As for deliberate musical uses, the Distortion World theme in Platinum features a lot of drone. Kyogre's theme in Sapphire can be described as "wow, things look pretty bad right now". Groudon's theme in Ruby can be described as "the sky is on fire and we are all going to die". Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon has Mystery of the Fossils which has a drone as the bass which is paired off with an Ominous Music Box Tune. It plays out during two of the story's Gut Punches that both involve Pokémon being turned into stone. |
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In Baba is You, whenever you lose control over all in-game objects (either by breaking "X is You" rules or creating situations where the rules no longer apply), the music cuts out in favor of a deep, windy howl. | |
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This trope is part of the appeal of the Hypnotoad from Futurama. Interestingly, it was originally just a placeholder sound until they found something better, but they decided it was just so wrong sounding that they had to keep it. According to David Cohen, the name for that particular sound effect in the editing machine is "Angry Machine". ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD. | |
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Used in The Hurt Locker when the main character finds a cord on an IED that reveals a daisy chain of about 8 more | |
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The injury list for UrinatingTree's "This Week In Sportsball: NFL Week Two Edition (2020)" eschews the usual Taps in favor of a piece of ambient music that incorporates this. Considering the list consisted of forty-five injuries (eleven of which were season-enders) and two deaths, Taps would've been insufficient in terms of both tone and duration. | |
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The last of the six Sea Interludes in Britten's opera Peter Grimes (and the only one not available in a concert version), "Fog", sustains one fifthless dominant seventh chord quietly for several minutes under various orchestral laments and outbursts. | |
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Twisted Metal: "Stalk 'n Roll", the ambient track that plays in the Warehouse District Warfare and River Park Rumble stages of the first game when not in combat, is a drone-backed Anti-Christmas Song medley more suited to a Survival Horror game, in contrast to the heavy metal that makes up most of the soundtrack. Most of the ambience in Twisted Metal: Black fits this trope, but Snowy Fields is the epitome of terrifying drone. |
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In Dark Fall II: Lights Out, one of the places you visit is an underwater lab, and its machinery emits a steady ambient drone while you're inside it, with ocacsional bits of futuristic music to provide variety. | |
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Portal 2 combines this with a One-Woman Wail in the track PotatOS's Lament | |
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The Witness: As there is no score, the environments will give off subtle ambient cues — and some of the plot-heavy areas fall squarely into this trope. | |
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The theme of the eponymous Darkest Dungeon, "The Final Combat", uses this to underscore its status as The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's features drone ambient which is pretty akin to Aubrey Hodges' soundtrack for the PlayStation port of Doom, all of this to keep the player on edge as they're stalked by Freddy Fazbear. | |
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The Caretaker 's Everywhere at the End of Time starts off as slightly distorted old music, but gradually devolves into this. | |
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In Marble Madness, the Aerial Race music changes to a pulsing single-note drone towards the end of the stage to ramp up the tension as they near the finish line. | |
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John Cale tends to carry this with him wherever he goes. | |
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Metroid Prime has this in the Chozo Ruins Depths, the Space Pirate research facilities in Phendrana and the Phazon Mines, and Phazon-heavy areas such as Mines Level 3. Nearly every Phazon environment will also feature long notes coupled with Geiger Counter clicks to emphasize how unnatural phason is. | |
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Lockdown's leitmotif in Transformers: Age of Extinction has a prominent one. Because being an Implacable Man, Hero Killer and Knight of Cerebus all rolled into one wasn't enough. | |
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Robert Fripp and Jeff Fayman's 2000 collaboration A Temple in the Clouds uses "Frippertronics" guitar drones. link | |
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Transformers Film Series: Repeated drones were used in the trailer for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. Lockdown's leitmotif in Transformers: Age of Extinction has a prominent one. Because being an Implacable Man, Hero Killer and Knight of Cerebus all rolled into one wasn't enough. |
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Nope: An ominous synth drone swells beneath the "from Jordan Peele" credit in the trailer. It is the same sound the UFO makes when it is first seen at the ranch during the film proper. | |
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György Ligeti's compositions spanned a large array of different styles, but some of them featured really prominent drones, notably the pieces Requiem and Atmospheres (both heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey). The former combines drones with Ominous Latin Chanting, and the latter features the largest cluster chord ever written, with every note in the chromatic scale over a range of five octaves being played at once — that's 60 different notes. | |
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When Velvet Underground alumnus Nico started writing her own music on harmonium, she used this trope ubiquitously. The Marble Index, Desertshore, and The End... contain particularly notable examples of it. | |
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The march of the SS battalion in Fury (2014) in accompanied not just by the soldiers singing an (authentic) SS marching song in universe, but also by a drone on the soundtrack to amplify the sense of fear at seeing several hundred SS marching for war while our protagonists are down to five men and an immobilized tank. | |
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Syphon Filter 2 uses this in the ambient score for its Airbase levels, both being tense insta-fail Stealth Based Missions playing as the virus-infected Lian Xing, and the first starting as a No-Gear Level where Lian is clad in only a hospital gown and has a limited time to find an adrenaline booster. The first ambient track is used again when Gabe Logan infiltrates the Agency Biolab, also sans equipment. Ditto Aljir Prison, the last mission where the player controls Lian before her condition worsens. | |
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The long organ notes at the beginning of Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi score have this effect. It led to the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000 chanting the film's name anytime a film's music resorted to this trope. |
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In Project Firestart, one plays occasionally to add tension to the otherwise still ambiance, such as when Jon first arrives on the Prometheus. | |
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Animal Crossing has the chilling and iconic “K.K. Dirge�. The song begins with a high-pitched, quiet drone that could probably equate to a One-Woman Wail in-universe, and the ‘chorus’ consists of several low-pitched ones as well. | |
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Irréversible has a horrible techno drone repeat over and over in the infamous Fire Extinguisher scene, consisting of one recurring note, bent higher than lower, in a cyclical wave. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the final boss theme features an eerie droning tune in the background. The Day 3 Clock Town theme also has ominous low tones, which makes the cheerful melody from Days 1 and 2 sound pretty darn creepy. Two words: Ikana Valley. |
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The soundtrack to Chernobyl is overall very subtle and understated, but uses a low, unsettling droning sound - reminiscent of the workings of the fateful power plant - as a common motif to add to the series' bleak, eerie atmosphere and the dread of nuclear radiations. | |
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In Chrono Trigger, when you enter Magus' castle there is at first no music, then when you proceed deeper into the castle this song plays. It is entirely a Drone of Dread, with only one violin chord and a half-laugh, half-sob sound effect repeated throughout. The battle music doesn't play when you encounter monsters, and an echo effect is added on to any sounds produced by the fighting. | |
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Klaus Schulze's debut album Irrlicht consists predominantly of drones played on a broken and modified electric organ against a reversed recording of an orchestra rehearsal. Ominous organ and synth drones are also heavily used in "Conphära" and "Neuronengesang" from Cyborg, "Ways of Changes" and "Voices of Syn" from Black Dance, "Wahnfried 1883" and the reissue bonus tracks "Echoes of Time" and "Solar Wind" from Timewind, and the second half of "Mindphaser" from Moondawn. | |
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Mononoke: When the Kabuki Sounds are replaced by low-droning brass instruments, you know something creepy is about to happen. | |
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Doctor Who: Throughout Season 11, any time they show the crack in reality, a quiet but deep pulsing rumble plays on the soundtrack. For a show known for gloriously melodramatic Orchestral Bombing, it's impressively creepy in its subtlety. | |
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The soundtracks to Doom 64 and the PSX/Saturn port of Doom, both scored by Aubrey Hodges, are mostly made of this trope. | |
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Rigid Force Alpha has "Suspense" when approaching a boss for the purpose of building suspense. | |
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The ABCs of Death: The closing credits cleverly uses dialogue, sound effects and bits of score from all of the shorts to create a dreadful ambient piece that lasts the duration of the credits. Sounds from each short pop up when the respective short's credits are on screen. | |
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Doom³, in keeping with the more unsettling atmosphere, has a soundtrack and ambient sound design composed largely of subtle drones. | |
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Several pieces in Halo 2, eg the first and last parts of "Sacred Icon Suite", use choral drones. Of particularly disturbing note is the Gyorgy Ligeti-esque ambience in the dark corridors of the Flood-infested High Charity. As with the first game, the remastered Anniversary soundtrack amplifies the horror factor. | |
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In Happy Feet Two one accompanies every instance of the moving icebergs advancing the conflict. | |
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Quake has a soundtrack featuring many creepy drones, composed by Trent Reznor. | |
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In Spore, when you encounter the Grox, this song plays in their planets. It's an eerie mix of mechanical sounds accompanied by singing that (depending on your perspective) is either goofy or disturbing. | |
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Used commonly throughout the Thief series in certain segments of its ambient/atmospheric music. Particularly in scary missions. | |
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The AMBER headset in AMBER: Journeys Beyond does this by the low hum it emits while you're wearing it, and given that it enables you to not only see and hear where ghosts are, but also project your mind into them, it fits this trope well. | |
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The Legend of Korra adds it to the soundtrack during season 2 with the Northern Water Tribe's invasion of the South Pole, among other instances. It also has an in-universe example: dark spirit Vaatu's Wave Motion Eye Beams go accompanied with a thrumming bass roar, similar to the Mass Effect example above. In Book Two's finale, the drone also features prominently in the soundtrack during the Dark Avatar's attack. The drone appears again in-universe during book four when Varrick's experiment with a spirit vine produces a similar blast of energy. His tech is weaponized against his will by Kuvira for her conquest and then mounted on a 25-story mech. It's heard many, many times during the series fianle two-parter. |
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An unintentional example is the Level 3 music in "Lollipops" from Action 52. Listening to it in a ROM utility is scary enough, but that's nothing compared to how it sounds in-game. | |
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Ori and the Blind Forest uses drony ambience in the Misty Woods, and when Kuro is stalking Ori after the Forlorn Ruins to put the player on edge, the latter being combined with "Psycho" Strings. | |
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Used repeatedly in the German film Das Experiment. | |
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DayZ has its entire soundtrack as this, and its pure, unadulterated, terror. The best part is the music always seem to come up at the worst moment, making nearly every situation incredibly tense and every player paranoid of what's around the corner. | |
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In LISA : The Painful RPG, entering the Nice Neighborhood has you greeted with Blood For Sex, and the sight of a scientist hanging on a makeshift gallows sets the tone of the area. It also makes an appearance in The Stinger, as a mutant Brad slowly crawls its way to Buddy, before a Smash to Black. |
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Myst, though the Trope Codifier of the Beautiful Void genre, has quite creepy ambient tracks at times; notably the gateway, hallways, and caches of the Mechanical Age, the Stoneship Age's arrangement of Achenar's leitmotif, and the Temple in the Channelwood Age. | |
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In Shredder Orpheus, the EBN programming is accompanied by a sustained droning sound to show the brainwashing, soul-sucking effects of prolonged exposure to Hades' network. | |
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In Vanquish, the Romanov-Gs' One-Hit Kill super missiles emit a droning sound. | |
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A Field in England uses this frequently throughout the soundtrack to signify that there is something off about the field the characters find themselves in. | |
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Repeated drones were used in the trailer for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. | |
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The level "Dark Side Part Two" in Duke Nukem 3D includes The Monolith as an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, accompanied by similar droning choral ambience. | |
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Metroid: Tourian in Super Metroid features long drawn out notes as Samus makes her way to Mother Brain. The Item Room theme is quite eerie. Oddly doubles as a Most Wonderful Sound since it often plays directly after beating a tough boss and/or getting a powerful upgrade. Though certain moments like discovering the broken metroid capsule after defeating Ridley can still make the music come off as incredibly ominous. Metroid Fusion bases its entire soundtrack on this, with every song that isn't a boss theme, a chase theme, or background ambient noises featuring drawn-out low notes to increase the tension in every environment. Fittingly, this game is the closest the series comes to the Survival Horror genre, and given the series' roots in the Alien series, this is almost certainly a direct homage to The Thing (1982). Metroid Prime has this in the Chozo Ruins Depths, the Space Pirate research facilities in Phendrana and the Phazon Mines, and Phazon-heavy areas such as Mines Level 3. Nearly every Phazon environment will also feature long notes coupled with Geiger Counter clicks to emphasize how unnatural phason is. |
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Citizenfour has an eerie, static-y noise that appears whenever the US government is doing something sneaky like surrounding Edward Snowden's house (and his unsuspecting girlfriend) with "maintenance vans" shortly after Snowden's leaks hit the news or detaining one of the reporters' partners for nine hours at an airport under "national security". | |
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In Hollow Knight, the Forgotten Crossroads theme changes to a much creepier drone arrangement after the Infection takes it over. The Hive also fittingly has a drone-based BGM. The Abyss's theme is a series of very low and very slow notes. They are actually part of the game's main theme, slowed by about 500%. | |
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Oracle of Tao has mostly okay music. But a few of the songs are Brown Note material. Especially this one. If you pregnant, nursing, or hell just don't want a stomach ulcer, don't listen to this music. | |
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Used by Hans Zimmer in the score of Inception to solidify the "wrongness" of the dream worlds. | |
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The end music of each episode of The Shadow Line is the siren drone of doom, but high pitched instead of low. It's singularly disturbing. | |
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Sinoia Caves' soundtrack for Beyond the Black Rainbow makes good use of droning notes, especially during the 1966 flashback scene with the song "1966: Let the New Age of Enlightenment Begin". | |
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