1. Black Sabbath
This song was the birth of heavy metal. Butler’s ordeal was the inspiration for this song. The moniker “Black Sabbath” evokes a sense of foreboding.
2. Mr. Krinkel
The dark tone of the music, the camera angle, the moving background, the eerie pig mask, and the guy’s gentle voice all combine to give the audience spooky vibes in this song.
3. Come to Daddy
This tune is simply horrifying from start to finish, combining a massively distorted drumming break with bone-spoken word voices and screechy synths. The essence of terror captured by Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham is nonetheless a piece of art.
4. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
The popular band ‘The Beatles’ created this song. ‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!’ sounds startlingly akin to what we’d imagine some mad circus show to sound like, with the falling bassline, harsh harpsichord, and dissonant harmonies in the bridge feeling awfully evocative of that weird boat scene we all feared as kids.
5. Angel of Death
The song is brutal lyrically and musically, with the band blazing through the tune at breakneck speed to produce one of the most unforgettable opening tracks of all time. Angel Of Death,’ one of Slayer’s most famous songs, was inspired by Josef Mengle’s heinous human experimentation on unsuspecting victims in Auschwitz.
From Black Sabbath to the Slayer, we looked at how instrumentation, poetry, production, and theory can all be used to make music menacing to give out that spooky Aesthetic Goth vibes.