History Main / DroneOfDread

Music/{{Xera}}'s "Inda" starts off with a rather creepy, minute-long drone performed on a rabel.

* Music/TheCaretaker 's ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' starts off as slightly distorted old music, but resonant drones become increasingly prominent in the tracks as the series goes on, symbolizing the protagonist's memory loss. The final album consists almost entirely of empty droning, with any actual music samples being slowed down to the point of being practically inaudible.

* Music/CabaretVoltaire does this a lot with their earlier work, especially their first 3 albums.

* Music/TheCaretaker 's ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' starts off as slightly distorted old music, but gradually devolves into this.

** The drone appears again in-universe during book four when [[spoiler:Varrick's experiment with a spirit vine produces a similar blast of energy. His tech is weaponized against his will by [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans Kuvira]] for her conquest and then mounted on a [[HumongousMecha 25-story mech]].]] It's heard [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer many]], ''[[BeamSpam many]]'' times during the series fianle two-parter.

* Music/KlausSchulze's debut album ''[[https://youtu.be/R8tjPGCWlTM?si=wtQXnHKTl6gvbUcs Irrlicht]]'' consists predominantly of drones played on a broken and modified electric organ against a reversed recording of an orchestra rehearsal. Ominous organ and synth drones are also heavily used in "[[https://youtu.be/knItIJIYYmQ?si=wBRNqa90IWF7dqz3?t=22m48s Conphära]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/knItIJIYYmQ?si=wBRNqa90IWF7dqz3?t=1h12m27s Neuronengesang]]" from ''Cyborg'', "Ways of Change" and "Voices of Syn" from ''Black Dance'', "[[https://youtu.be/wtY7B4bSVqs?si=KSMwJd_FF2-BaF9w Wahnfried 1883]]" and the reissue bonus tracks "[[https://youtu.be/esGPTzkuFNk?si=21nHSkJ5aJLNfi8O Echoes of Time]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/sQEkj0MbRC0?si=Ejwa6Ph7EolLxJzl Solar Wind]]" from ''Timewind'', and the second half of "Mindphaser" from ''Moondawn''.

* Music/KlausSchulze's debut album ''[[https://youtu.be/R8tjPGCWlTM?si=wtQXnHKTl6gvbUcs Irrlicht]]'' consists predominantly of drones played on a broken and modified electric organ against a reversed recording of an orchestra rehearsal. Organ and synth drones are also heavily used in "[[https://youtu.be/wtY7B4bSVqs?si=KSMwJd_FF2-BaF9w Wahnfried 1883]]" and the reissue bonus tracks "[[https://youtu.be/esGPTzkuFNk?si=21nHSkJ5aJLNfi8O Echoes of Time]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/sQEkj0MbRC0?si=Ejwa6Ph7EolLxJzl Solar Wind]]" from ''Timewind'', and the second half of "Mindphaser" from ''Moondawn''.

* This is the entire basis of the award-winning sound design in the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series. When there isn't all that scraping crashing metal or absolute silence, there's usually low drones of things along the lines of, for example, deepened breathing sounds on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlYuwa-gDRo the streets of the fog town]] in the original game. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekPaYGVLifY "Black Fairy"]] from the [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 second game]]'s otherworld hotel, with its [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Giygas-style]] distorted drone chords accompanied by a periodic [[SinisterScrapingSound screeching sound]], ranks as one of the most horrifying music pieces in video game history. On a similar level of horror is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvR5n4nZGwg high-pitched ringing drone]] that accompanies the lethal red light at the end of the [[VideoGame/SilentHill3 Borley Haunted Mansion]].

* ''VideoGame/YsIIAncientYsVanishedTheFinalChapter'' has a rare {{chiptune}} example in the form of [[https://youtu.be/RCBMY8RqgUE "Pressure Road"]], which plays in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon prior to breaking [[BigBad Darm]]'s spell on the Twin Goddesses.