Horror & thriller

Slowed vocals, heavy reverb and occult symbols: the eeriest electronic music online around 2010.

Lets space arrive before events, and gives weight to what can't be seen.

Tape hiss, eerie samples and slow, hazy rap: dark hip-hop grown from '90s Memphis underground rap.

Empty pools, corridors with no way out and warped old records: an internet aesthetic that turns childhood memory into a dream.

Not making darkness louder, but giving loneliness a pulse it can keep up.

Puts shadow, theatre and bodily rhythm into the same song.

Guitars tuned lowest, voices dropped deepest, sound pressing down like bedrock.

Cold, raw and distant, shrill tremolo guitars painting an empty winter night.

As slow and heavy as it gets, every chord sinking.

Slow heavy metal draped in velvet, beautiful, romantic and touched by death.

Death-metal gutturals plus metalcore breakdowns: guitars tuned to the floor, landing like a wall.

Lanterns, paper charms and a night parade of spirits: guofeng melody telling tales of ghosts, karma and the human heart.

Lets the castle keep its former beauty while letting you hear what it's hiding.

Makes listeners start doubting the space instead of seeing the monster right away.