An odd request- Songs of the Gibbering Mouther?

[Kol Korran]

(Trying capitalization, as some commented. Hopefully i won't offend people's sensibilities now?)

Hi there. In my next D&D meeting the party will have a "boss fight" with a monster which i like very much- the Gibbering Mouther. For those who don't know it- it's a horrific ooze like monster, made out of ever shifting flesh, multitude of eyes and biting teeth, which emits a horrible gibbering which may drive it's victims mad or confused, as it latches unto them, surrounds them and tries to digest them.

I've altered it from the original design so that it can split and regroup to different masses of flesh. I've also made it's gibbering a bit more frightening, in that it has a sort of innate uncontrolled psychic abilities to "hear" your secrets, thoughts and fears, and use them against you, often in the voices of people you know- enemies, loved ones, and so on...

(If you're really interested, you can check the monster compendium under my sig, it's the last monster added. However, it's really not required.)

Right! the thing is i would love to input some deeply disturbing music to the encounter. I imagine the battle might take some time. Ideally, i would love the music to somehow mimic the Gibbering/ mumbling/ shouting/ whispering/ multitude of voices and influences of the gibbering mouther, without losing the creepy effect.

So far i got only two songs on My little list of horror

Addition from Sutremaine (To come AFTER the horror part)
Devil may cry

By Admiral Squish
Somehwat Atonal music

By NichG
Akira Mutation
Akira Shohmyoh


I'd love it if you could suggest more?

Help me make this encounter one my players won't forget! (no matter how much they'll want to )

thanks in advance!

(search word: piratewitch)

[Yukitsu]

I kind of immediately imagined a gibbering mouther singing all the parts of a barbershop quartet by himself.

Several battle themes from Evangelion 2.0 contain old style chanting, but are definitely the sort of songs you'd listen to in a battle. Destiny in particular would fit.

But if you want the one they'll never forget, I'd go with the barbershop quartet.

[Analytica]

I am reminded of the comic character Axolotl: http://www.5ideways.com/2006/20060612-3.php

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whose soundtrack, barbershopped with multiple mouths, is

http://chronobolt.net/5ideways/foodforthought.mp3

More generally, anime soundtracks - such as some fight music from Blood+, and the aforementioned Evangelion, are always good places to start.

Closer to what you requested, though... there is an industrial band called Die Form which might fit the bill. Some of their songs, at least. Or maybe the song "Venus in fear" could work.

[Sutremaine]

I was going to suggest some good old-fashioned boss music, but after hearing that tuneless stuff you linked to...

Ah well, you can still start with this and let the mouther ease off a bit while that's playing. Then you can switch to the noises in the OP and give them the full Giygas experience.

[JellyPooga]

Check out the soundtrack to The White Chamber (check out the Downloads page for the MP3s). There's definitely a couple of tracks in there that might be appropriate. Some are a little sci-fi, but there's a fair bit in there that you can use (I'd also reccomend playing the game...short, but very awesome and creepy in a Lovecraftian way!).

[Kol Korran]

Evangelion 2.0

I checked quite a few of the You Tube Evangelion tracks. they seemed... not enough horror andway too composed for what i'm looking, but thanks.

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whose soundtrack, barbershopped with multiple mouths, is

Die Form

Axolotol does indeed remind a gibbering mouther. The original creature looks like this.

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I listened to Die Form. some interesting music, but isn't quite what i'm looking for, thanks anyway!

this

This can work quite nicely after the initial horror tracks, when it's "just" a fight. good call. Thanks! i'll add it up.

Check out the soundtrack to The White Chamber

Some nice tracks there. I think I can use tracks 1, 12, 13, and 16. I'm a bit of a techno incompetent guy. any way to link MP3 tracks together? So that I won't need to keep activating the music mid game? Any way to somehow connect these to You Tube vids?

Thank you all! Keep them coming?

[Admiral Squish]

Look up atonal music. We covered it in class and I was SO glad to be free of it when the section was over. It makes your soul hurt.

[NichG]

There are a few tracks from Soul Nomad I like for beautiful but horrifying things. You could mess with the players by having the actual song be beautiful but weird.

http://youtu.be/wkIGeP68ORA
http://youtu.be/iJ_rnnIRgr4

They also have a kind of polyphony going on. I might also suggest some stuff from the Ar Tonelico series where there's a lot of multiple-copies-of-the-same-singer, though it doesn't quite get the far realms vibe going (though the artificial language will help with alien-ness a bit).

EXEC_ViiBaCi_MjiiRa: http://youtu.be/qwi529twCpY

Doll's Polyphony from Akira might be good too: http://youtu.be/vwVFla6AFiU

The problem with all of these of course is that they're not dissonant or clashing like you might expect from a gibbering mouther. Shohmyoh is probably better for this by a little bit: http://youtu.be/ncRQvuT1Mac

Mutation would also be very good: http://youtu.be/w-Z_hbI3usA

[Kol Korran]

Look up atonal music. We covered it in class and I was SO glad to be free of it when the section was over. It makes your soul hurt.

thanks, found one track that is quite perfect, added it to the list above

There are a few tracks from Soul Nomad I like for beautiful but horrifying things. You could mess with the players by having the actual song be beautiful but weird.

http://youtu.be/wkIGeP68ORA
http://youtu.be/iJ_rnnIRgr4

They also have a kind of polyphony going on. I might also suggest some stuff from the Ar Tonelico series where there's a lot of multiple-copies-of-the-same-singer, though it doesn't quite get the far realms vibe going (though the artificial language will help with alien-ness a bit).

EXEC_ViiBaCi_MjiiRa: http://youtu.be/qwi529twCpY

Doll's Polyphony from Akira might be good too: http://youtu.be/vwVFla6AFiU

The problem with all of these of course is that they're not dissonant or clashing like you might expect from a gibbering mouther. Shohmyoh is probably better for this by a little bit: http://youtu.be/ncRQvuT1Mac

Mutation would also be very good: http://youtu.be/w-Z_hbI3usA

The Akira soundtracks are fantastic. The mutation one could be the Gibbering Mouther (or the chamber) intoning something before the battle... would add a bit of Creepy... thanks!