I'm in a filmmaking class and I'm looking for some music for my next proj. I need something that depicts fear and pure evil, something similar to Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain". Any suggestions? The more bombastic the better.
Although it was written as a religiously exalting piece, Messiaen's "Quatour pour la Fin du Temps" ("Quartet for the End of Time") has some moments where its divinity is so sublime it is, actually, quite frightening. Evil, not so much, but taking something to such extremes sometimes can result in pushing through to its exact opposite. That oxymoronic height is reached from time to time, at least in my opinion, in this work.
OK, and I know this thread is long defunct, but I thought of a perfect demonic piece: "Suggestion Diabolique" (Pieces, Op. 4, No. 4) by Prokofiev--solo piano, chord-clanging, hell-raising madness. Fucking brilliance.