Spooky Music Roundup
Spooktacular greetings from the Lab!
While working in the lab late one night, our ears beheld some grooves that were tight. But not every spooky spot needs the “Monster Mash,” zombie dancing, or Harry Belafonte. So we rounded up some of our most haunting albums for all of your Halloween licensing needs, complete with this ghoulish playlist of the stand out tracks from our entire catalog.
For all those mischievous skeletons out there who love orchestral scores and stop-motion animated classics. This album has a perfect mix of oddball fantasy and spine-tingling moments complete with pizzicato strings, tuba, woodwinds, and tasteful percussion. With just the right amount of spooky, these tracks are ideal for themed competitions, products, and podcasts.
Trick-or-treat and costume parades never sounded so good. A little silly, a little scary, this album is for folks who grew up with certain ghoulish families, crime-solving dogs, and a general affectation for the barrage of family Halloween movies in the 90s. Classic sounds of kitschy organs, surfer guitars, piano, and a host of other familiar combinations fill your trick-or-treat bag to the brim with ghoulish delights.
Unsettling sonic explorations with horror movie soundtrack vibes, don’t let this be the last album you listen to before bed. Nightmarish, sparse, and tortured, Cinematic Creep is perfect for haunted houses and horror trailers. You’ll hear electronic soundscapes, harsh effects, delayed guitars, and plenty of tension. The album artwork should give you a strong indication of the creep-factor.
Bringing a more modern, distorted take to the hellish sounds of Halloween, Undertaker features elements of hard rock and electronica and adds a poisonous dose of darkness. True crime programming with tales too twisted to come from anyone’s imagination will partner well with these ultra dark, tense, and blood-pressure-raising tracks.
Taking it down a notch from the gory pits of hell, this album is no-less unnerving. Using subtle synth pads, sequences, and trailer tom hits to play with suspense and fear-scapes, this collection brings a meticulous and conniving approach to Halloween. No matter if it’s a creepy scientist or a twisted game with higher than usual stakes, the uneasy feeling in your stomach is almost always right. Perfect for trailers, podcasts, and ghost hunters.
Drones can have such an unsettling effect, playing with our emotions and expectations. Mysterious and tense, the tracks on this album center around drones, rumbles, noise collages, and creepy fx. From The Depths is definitely a great fit for any haunted programming with shaky night vision cameras or scary storytelling.