Skeleton Carnival

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calliope, carnival, chilling, circus, creepy, dark, disturbing, drums, eerie, fear, ghastly, ghostly, glockenspiel, Halloween, horror, mellotron, monsters, mysterious, off-kilter, Other, piano, scary, sinister, skeletons, spooky, terrifying, terror, uncanny, unearthly, unnerving, weird
Skeleton Carnival
Royalty Free Spooky Music
Shane Ivers
2016
There are carnivals, and then there is this carnival. Skeleton Carnival is the kind of funfair you’d stumble across at midnight in the middle of nowhere – everything is technically the right shape, but something is profoundly wrong. A creepy calliope grinds out a warped melody whilst dark piano chords lurk underneath, and the glockenspiel picks out notes that feel like they’re being played by someone who learned music from a very old, very damaged instruction book. The drums keep pace like a heartbeat that’s slightly too slow. It’s unsettling, off-kilter, and more than a little bit grotesque – which is precisely what makes it so effective.
An ideal fit for Halloween-themed content, horror game soundtracks, and spooky YouTube videos where atmosphere is everything. Works brilliantly for haunted house sequences, horror movie trailers, and any content that needs that specific feeling of carnival-gone-wrong unease. Also effective for comedic horror content and sketch comedy where the absurdity of the uncanny is part of the joke.
150
UKEZT1600075
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BFNH_ZYptU
Other, Soundtrack
Dark, Mysterious, Scary
Drums, Glockenspiel, Mellotron, Piano

A warped calliope, dark piano, and off-kilter glockenspiel create a deeply unsettling carnival atmosphere – the funfair you definitely shouldn’t visit after dark.

Category: Royalty Free Music Tags: calliope, carnival, chilling, circus, creepy, dark, disturbing, drums, eerie, fear, ghastly, ghostly, glockenspiel, Halloween, horror, mellotron, monsters, mysterious, off-kilter, Other, piano, scary, sinister, skeletons, spooky, terrifying, terror, uncanny, unearthly, unnerving, weird

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BPM 150

ISRC UKEZT1600075

Released 2016

Length 3:08

Downloads 42.8k

calliope carnival chilling circus creepy disturbing eerie fear ghastly ghostly Halloween horror monsters off-kilter sinister skeletons spooky terrifying terror uncanny unearthly unnerving weird

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Royalty Free Spooky Music

There are carnivals, and then there is this carnival. Skeleton Carnival is the kind of funfair you’d stumble across at midnight in the middle of nowhere – everything is technically the right shape, but something is profoundly wrong. A creepy calliope grinds out a warped melody whilst dark piano chords lurk underneath, and the glockenspiel picks out notes that feel like they’re being played by someone who learned music from a very old, very damaged instruction book. The drums keep pace like a heartbeat that’s slightly too slow. It’s unsettling, off-kilter, and more than a little bit grotesque – which is precisely what makes it so effective.

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An ideal fit for Halloween-themed content, horror game soundtracks, and spooky YouTube videos where atmosphere is everything. Works brilliantly for haunted house sequences, horror movie trailers, and any content that needs that specific feeling of carnival-gone-wrong unease. Also effective for comedic horror content and sketch comedy where the absurdity of the uncanny is part of the joke.