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Hell Is That Noise
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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. What the hell is that noise? That noise is hell. A character within the story hears something odd. Unnatural. When they hear the sound once, it may not be that terrifying, but as time passes, they become more and more frightened. The sound gets scarier as it gains more and more relevance. Given time, the sound comes to haunt them, even away from the source. The sound has taken on a nightmarish relevance because of the setting. The sound could come from anywhere. The trope isn't limited to a sentence, a catch phrase, or a song. The sound that terrifies the character can be made by the living, such as footsteps, a laugh, the call of a loud little animal. The sound may be made by the non-living, such as the creak of a chair, a door, a bouncing ball, the crackle of radio static, or any one of hundreds of other seemingly mundane noises. Often times it signals the coming of a yet-unseen threat, usually one you don't want to be anywhere near you, and hearing it is more than enough of a sign to tread carefully, brace yourself, or run. Better pray it doesn't mean that You Are Already Dead. This isn't a Brown Note, a sound or image that causes involuntary action or harm. This trope is about the psychological effect of a repeated noise to the character(s) in the story. See also Hearing Voices, which can also be this depending on what kind of voices they are, and Nothing Is Scarier, which is almost the Visible Silence version of this. Sinister Scraping Sound is an intentional, psych-out type of hellish noise; if a noise foreshadowing a threat is produced by something attached to, or ingested by, that threat, it's The Croc Is Ticking. Compare Terrible Ticking. Contrast Most Wonderful Sound, which people are happy to hear. Compare and contrast Scare Chord, where the audience learns to fear the music. |
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Blind Guardian will make you fear both the song and the mere phrase "Mr. Sandman." In addition, the eerie jingle accompanying the "bung bung bung bung" will no doubt instill some fear into your dreams. | |
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Super Danganronpa Another 2: Chapter 5 ends with a successful Frame-Up and a Total Party Kill. The sound of the "wrong verdict" alarm sums up the entire horror of the situation perfectly. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne's voice on the first two Black Sabbath albums, especially on the self-titled album's title track. Before he became a caricature of himself, Ozzy sounded like the lost soul he actually was at the time. This is especially notable on the pre-album demo track of "War Pigs" featured on the Ozzman Cometh collection, which is far creepier than anything Sabbath actually released. Just the first two? Ozzy's vocals on the third album, Master of Reality, are just as creepy, especially on "Lord of This World". First 30 or so seconds of Iron Man can qualify. "ALL ABOOOAAAAAAAAAARD, HAHAHAHA!" |
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A subverted example occurs in an early episode of Sesame Street. Mr. Hooper has to go to the post office first thing in the morning and asks Big Bird to open the store for him. Big Bird is already nervous about how dark the store is, and when he unlocks the door and hears a strange noise, he freaks and runs out of the store, not even bothering to turn on the lights. Fortunately for him, Mr. Hooper has just gotten back. He turns on the lights and shows Big Bird where the sound was coming from: the pay phone was off the hook. | |
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Kakos Industries: Episode 6 sees the Kakos Industries shareholders receiving Corin's announcements through an echo trapped in a box. The box is made of wood from Kakos Industries' GMO Echo Tree, which contains vibrations indefinitely. Corin goes on to explain, however, that the Echo Tree project is now in permanent beta after a project staff member murdered everyone else and burned all the notes. The reason he did this? He stubbed his toe walking through the Echo Tree Forest, which echoed his scream of pain for so long the sound of it it drove him mad. Between that and the sounds of being mercilessly axe murdered being added to the Forest's sounds, cleanup was handled by Kakos Industries sending in their best body-collectors-who-happen-to-be-deaf, who complained after the fact of a cold vibration inside of their bones. | |
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In Supergirl storyline Bizarrogirl, Dr. Light and Gangbust are examining what appears to be a Kryptonian rocket ship when they hear a strange noise in the darkness. Alarmed, the duo become alert right before being ambushed by Bizarrogirl. | |
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From Harvest to the Ark: The skittering of the Flood becomes this for Alley. It creeps him the hell out when he first hears it on Alpha Halo and when he hears it again in Voi, knowing exactly what it represents, he FLIPS OUT to the extent that his behaviour is enough to convince his commander to retreat immediately. | |
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Fraggle Rock: In the episode "Wembley's Wonderful Whoopee Water'', Wembley discovers that he can hear liquid inside rocks. He uses this ability to dig through one and find fizzy water that tastes like strawberries, boosts energy, and makes sleep unnecessary. The other Fraggles declare him a hero, but then Wembley hears a disturbing new sound in the rock the water is being pumped from. When he listens to the rock a while later, the noise has gotten louder and scarier than before. On top of that, the rock now has a crack in it. In the morning, the crack has gotten bigger, and the noise is even worse. A few minutes later, the rock opens a bottomless pit, which Gobo falls down. Wembley rescues Gobo and declares the well has to be shut down. | |
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Anaal Nathrakh invokes this in their music frequently, even by the standards of extreme metal. Have a listen. | |
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Children of an Elder God: In the prologue, two scientists and a team of spelunkers are exploring a network of caverns when they hear several faint, faraway screams. They freak out right away: | |
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The Magnus Archives: The whistled tune that the narrator of "First Hunt" hears as he and his friend hunt portends something very bad. The tune is "A-hunting we shall go". In "Boatswain's Call" the mate on a modern ship carries the eponymous old-fashioned whistle. As the narrator finds herself in the midst of a disturbing trip in the (also strangely old-fashioned) lifeboat with the crew, the mate blows it, making a sound that is unnaturally and disturbingly shrill and piercing, yet somehow also sounds far away. Of course, this signals that things are about to go From Bad to Worse. |
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Quicken: When Emma goes nuts, she screams. Her scream sounds so scary and inhuman than her assailants step back. | |
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It's Always Spooky Month: Skid can apparently make a high pitched shriek, and Pump can make what sounds like lawnmower noises. The narration lampshades it. | |
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Most of metal-bashing avant-garde group Einstürzende Neubauten's early output is like this. The worst offender, however, is "Negativ Nein", which opens to a creepy beat played on PVC pipes over what sounds like a badly plugged toilet being plunged, topped by Blixa Bargeld's broken-steam-whistle scream and heavily overdubbed and echoing chanting. In German. Speaking of Einstürzende Neubauten...never listen to "Halber Mensch" if you still want to sleep at night. It's probably one of the scariest songs ever. |
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Converge, considered a founding father of the Metalcore genre, released their 2001 album Jane Doe to critical acclaim. The album was based off of songwriter & lead singer Jacob Bannon's horrible, draining, and broken relationship with an ex-girlfriend. The tenth song, "Phoenix in Flames", is 42 seconds of Bannon screaming his lungs out over mad drumming. It has to be heard to be believed. | |
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Every Khanate "song" is completely demoralizing, especially on their first album. The worst examples of these would be the looping riff at the beginning of Under Rotting Sky and the entirety of No Joy. This is as close to Hell as a human being will ever come to. It should come as no surprise that Khanate features Steven O'Malley of Sunn O))) fame. PLEASE PLEASE NO MORE BREATHE |
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SCP-682's roar. | |
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The Fruit of Grisaia: The clicking sound of Yumiko's boxcutter is something you learn to fear in Mihama Academy, as it indicates that it's wielder is royally pissed. | |
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Lessons from the Mountain has Morgoth's laughter. Over five hundred years battling monsters, and Maedhros still considers his laughter to be the most frightful sound he has ever heard. | |
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