History Main / HellIsThatNoise

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode "Wembley's Wonderful Whoopee Water'', Wembley discovers that he can hear liquid inside rocks. He uses this ability to dig through one and find fizzy water that tastes like strawberries, boosts energy, and makes sleep unnecessary. The other Fraggles declare him a hero, but then Wembley hears a disturbing new sound in the rock the water is being pumped from. When he listens to the rock a while later, the noise has gotten louder and scarier than before. On top of that, the rock now has a crack in it. In the morning, the crack has gotten bigger, and the noise is even worse. A few minutes later, the rock opens a bottomless pit, which Gobo falls down. Wembley rescues Gobo and declares the well has to be shut down.

* ''Fanfic/LessonsFromTheMountain'' has [[GodOfEvil Morgoth]]'s laughter. Over five hundred years battling monsters, and Maedhros still considers his laughter to be the most frightful sound he has ever heard.
-->'''Maedhros:''' I proudly told him that he may kill me or torture me, but that would never be. He laughed. I think that was the most awful sound I have ever heard, and I have heard many things that no one should hear.
* ''Fanfic/ItsAlwaysSpookyMonth'': Skid can apparently make a [[SensoryAbuse high pitched shriek]], and Pump can make what sounds like lawnmower noises. The narration [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.
-->The Monster wasn't exactly sure how he was able to make those sounds, but he wasn't one to question.

%%* Music/CrystalCastles. Dear ''lord'' do they fit this trope to a T.

What the hell is that noise? That noise is '''hell'''.

* Anything involving HarshNoise and [[{{Industrial}} Power Electronics]] automatically qualifies as this. Music/{{Whitehouse}} and Music/{{Merzbow}} are the worst offenders.

* Music/CrystalCastles. Dear ''lord'' do they fit this trope to a T.
* Music/{{Khanate}}. Dear God, KHANATE. Every "song" of theirs is completely demoralizing, especially on their first album. The worst examples of these would be the looping riff at the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDP3-lPA_M&ab_channel=BeauJoshuaAmorDavidson Under Rotting Sky]] and the entirety of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo45E11AwsE&ab_channel=FreedomGrindFighter No Joy]]. This is as close to Hell as a human being will ever come to.
** It should come as no surprise that Khanate features Steven O'Malley of Music/SunnO fame.

* Krzysztof Penderecki's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA&ab_channel=PatricioApaez Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima]] is a freakish, atonal string piece that attempts to capture the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, with convincingly rendered air raid and emergency sirens, bomber noises, and even screams of the burning bomb victims. The opening note alone is one extended, unidentifiable piercing screech.
** Actually, it's the other way around. It was originally titled as "8'37", and only after he heard the piece performed did he decide to dedicate it to the victims of Hiroshima. Originally, he'd just written it as an experiment and had nothing specific in mind.

* Music/PinkFloyd's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWJv7alqQE&ab_channel=PinkFloyd-Topic Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict.]] The whole song is unsettling despite the innocuous name, but toward the middle they do this whispering/heavy breathing sound and cap off the song with a long-winded and completely incomprehensible speech in a dramatic tone of voice with an unidentifiable accent that may indeed by from Hell itself.
** The song is orders of magnitude worse played in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4r1KIrnu8&ab_channel=MooMoo reverse]]. Almost everything is eerier, but the long, shrill animal howl in the background sounds far more like a reedy, human voice in intense distress or pain, rising in pitch and volume instead of fading off.
** It gets worse: Waters revived the Pict's vocal stylings for the schoolteacher from ''Music/TheWall'' ten years later, and that guy sounds ''even more'' deranged and hellish.
*** Speaking of ''The Wall'', the noises at the start of Empty Spaces, and the bridge in Hey You (with buzzing, dental-drill like noises) deserve an honourable mention, as does the absolutely batshit-insane megaphone speech at the end of "Waiting for the Worms." It's like a dramatic reading of WebOriginal/TimeCube that deteriorates into incoherent garble.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-lXjOyUWo&ab_channel=PinkFloyd-Topic "Speak to Me."]] Seriously, it will go out of its way to make your hairs stand on end.

* Music/AphexTwin: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDAtMPoBHA IIIII WANNNNT YOUR SOULLLLL! I WILL EAT YOUR SOULLLLL!]]

** On the subject of "A Day in the Life", that goddamn 15khz tone near the end of the track. Dear lord, that tone!

* Anything by Music/NurseWithWound will automatically qualify.

This isn't a BrownNote, a sound or image that causes involuntary action/harm. This trope is about the psychological effect of a repeated noise to the character(s) in the story. See also HearingVoices, which can also be this depending on what kind of voices they are, and NothingIsScarier, which is almost the VisibleSilence version of this. SinisterScrapingSound is an intentional, psych-out type of hellish noise; if a noise foreshadowing a threat is produced by something attached to, or ingested by, that threat, it's TheCrocIsTicking.