Creepy Hag Forest
Added 2021-02-06 16:08:50 +0000 UTCSometimes when I'm making spooky / dungeon / ambient exploration music, I wonder if what I'm really making is music at all, and then I wonder if that distinction matters! You obviously don't want a song with verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus structure for your "Creepy Hag Forest" track, but do you want melody at all? It's a tricky question! I think dark atonal stuff is often appropriate for particularly dark and moody locales, and so I absolutely stuck to those parameters when working on your February track request.
"The Woods Reject You" is all about those sinister wiccan vibes. Scratchy strings and discordant harps and howls are paired with distorted moans and unknowable tippy-tapping. There's a moments of saccharine childish glee in there (pleasant-ish (?) violin lines and simple music box), but the context is unambiguously malicious. I know hags are typically not super high level foes in D&D and are often played off as early campaign villains, but the actual lore behind truly malevolent witches is often insanely dark! If you want a truly horrible early game villain, you need appropriately sinister music to match that!
In addition to creepy forests, this music would be totally at home in cultist lairs, mysterious caves, or even some of the more wicked outer planes. If you want a combat variant or a looping version of this track, you can nab that at the Artist tier and up. Also, big shout out to the podcast Dice Will Roll who suggested both this and last month's track request winner. They're certainly getting their money's worth!
