Monsters of Modern Music
This 1982 Michael Jackson mega-hit is the ultimate Halloween anthem and features a famous music video filled with dancing zombies and a creepy voiceover.
What is Thriller?
This famous composer started losing his hearing in his late 20s and was completely deaf when he finished his famous Ninth Symphony, a nightmare scenario for any musician.
Who is Beethoven?
This piece of brass gear is constantly vanishing into thin air, leaving their keys stuck forever.
What is valve oil?
In this mega-popular game, you survive five shifts as a night security guard watching surveillance cameras to avoid being caught by creepy animatronic animals.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
This word, meaning a mournful song, a lament for the dead, or a slow, solemn funeral march, when pronounced correctly.
DIRGE
This electronic music producer wears a giant, glowing white mask shaped like a sugary campfire treat that looks like a friendly ghost.
Who is Marshmello?
Camille Saint-Saëns wrote Danse Macabre (Dance of Death), famously using a this instrument to make a sound like rattling skeleton bones.
What is the xylophone?
What is hit it and get it stuck?
This incredibly popular Roblox horror game traps players in a hotel where they have to unlock a sequence of 100 rooms while hiding from entities named Rush, Seek, and Figure.
What is Doors?
Pronouncing this word that you may see in your music for with voice.
COLLA VOCE
What is Calla Voh-Che?
This incredibly famous pop star—known for hits like "Bad Romance" and "Poker Face"—calls her massive fanbase of loyal followers her "Little Monsters."
Who is Lady Gaga?
This child prodigy composer wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" as a kid, but his eerie Requiem (mass for the dead) was left unfinished when he mysteriously died at age 35.
Who is Mozart?
When you play your instrument in the band room there may be a frightening disembodied buzzing noise that is caused by this.
What are turned on snares on a snare drum?
While it's usually a fun sandbox building game, your first time hearing a loud hiss right behind you in a dark cave from one of these exploding monsters is pure survival horror.
What is a Creeper?
This word, meaning something disturbing, horrifying, or unpleasant, deeply connected with death, decay, injury, or violence, when pronounced correctly.
MACABRE
What is muh-cob?
This rock band is famous for wearing black-and-white face paint, giant platform boots, and features a bass player nicknamed "The Demon" who spits fake blood and breathes fire on stage.
Who is KISS?
This American composer is known as the "March King" and wrote The Stars and Stripes Forever, a song your band director has definitely made you play or listen to.
Who is John Philip Sousa?
Marie Antoinette learned to play glass armonica, an ethereal 1761 invention, which was rumored to cause listeners to drop dead and induce madness before its lead-crystal construction was blamed for poisoning musicians, it was invented by the same founding father who flew a kite in a lightning storm.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Set in an abandoned toy factory, this spooky survival game has you solve puzzles using a "GrabPack" device while fleeing a giant, blue, long-legged monster named Huggy Wuggy.
What is Poppy Playtime?
This word, that means the unique quality, color or texture of sound, when pronounced correctly.
TIMBRE
What is Tam-ber?
This animated "virtual" band has giant cartoon characters as its members and is named after a species of giant, hairy forest apes like King Kong.
Who are Gorillaz?
This German composer's Toccata and Fugue in D minor features a dramatic, crashing opening that is played on the pipe organ and has become the ultimate theme song for movie villains and haunted houses.
Who is JS Bach?
You can find this fun item in one of the back cupboards of the band room that was left here by band directors past.
What is a light saber?
In this spooky co-op game that went viral on YouTube and Twitch, players act as professional ghost hunters using EMF readers and spirit boxes to identify what kind of ghost is haunting a house.
What is Phasmaphobia?
Pronouncing this word, that means a fast, light, often playful musical movement, may be frightening.
SCHERZO
What is scare-tsoh?