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* ''Carmina Burana'' itself. Originally it was a collection of medieval poems and songs, usually written by students and dealing with such topics as drinking, revelry, love and morality. Carl Orff, who composed the music in 1935 most likely thought that medieval texts in Latin must be definitely ominous, so he created famous and extremely dramatic score. 'O Fortuna!' ('Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi') is actually pretty mellow poem about waxing and waning whims of Fortune, clearly inspired by stoic poetry of Marcus Aurelius. If you know Latin, the [[LyricalDissonance dissonance between Orff's score and bawdier lyrics]] is outright hilarious.
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* ''Carmina Burana'' itself. Originally it was a collection of medieval poems and songs, usually written by students and dealing with such topics as drinking, revelry, love and morality. Carl Orff, who composed the music in 1935 most likely thought that medieval texts in Latin must be definitely ominous, so he created famous and extremely dramatic score. 'O Fortuna!' ('Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi') is actually pretty mellow poem about waxing and waning whims of Fortune, clearly inspired by stoic poetry texts of Marcus Aurelius.UsefulNotes/MarcusAurelius. If you know Latin, the [[LyricalDissonance dissonance between Orff's score and bawdier lyrics]] is outright hilarious.
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* "Requiem" by Avenged Sevenfold opens up with this and it can be heard again after the spoken-word bridge.
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* Music/{{Nightwish}} implements chanting in a few of their songs on their album ''Imaginaerum.''
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* Laserdance's aptly named "[[https://youtu.be/VYxjNeZt2AA Galaxy Choir]]" features Dutch(?) chanting alongside ForDoomTheBellTolls and OneWomanWail.
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* Music/{{U2}}: This one's inverted on "Gloria", where the climactic point in the song features joyous Latin chanting. And it is awesome.
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* The group Mecano has an ominous Latin chant at the end of their song "No es Serio este Cementerio" (This is not a Serious Cemetery"). It says "Finis gloriæ mvndi homini"([[WordSaladLyrics "The end of the glory of the world of men"]]).
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* The group Mecano Music/{{Mecano}} has an ominous Latin chant at the end of their song "No es Serio este Cementerio" (This is not a Serious Cemetery"). It says "Finis gloriæ mvndi homini"([[WordSaladLyrics "The end of the glory of the world of men"]]).
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* Featured in the stock piece [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WeYQpSGEvk "Hear The Movies" by Gregor Narholz]].
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* "O Fortuna". The piece has been popularly associated with Satanism ever since it was used in ''Film/TheOmen1976.''
** Which this student of Latin finds saddening, because it's the most awesome piece of musical [[ContemplateOurNavels navel contemplation]] you will ever hear.[[note]]It's a medieval college student complaining about how life isn't fair, possibly prompted by a loss at the gambling table.[[/note]]
** Which this student of Latin finds saddening, because it's the most awesome piece of musical [[ContemplateOurNavels navel contemplation]] you will ever hear.[[note]]It's a medieval college student complaining about how life isn't fair, possibly prompted by a loss at the gambling table.[[/note]]
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** Which this student of Latin finds
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* The beginning of "Ich seh die Schiffe herunterfahren" by German punk band Abwärts...although it might also be in Tokelau for no difference.
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** {{Parodied|Trope}} in their song "The Ancient Fires of Cosmic Destiny": "Vanitati! Latinae! Canentes!" which translates to [[LampshadeHanging "Singing Latin nonsense"]]. It's also in [[CanisLatinicus terrible Latin]], as is to be expected.
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* "[https://youtu.be/ebk877L4DeU Preliator]" by Globus, like O Fortuna, is often found in advertising to mean "Get ready because this will be totally Awesome"
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgpOKi2P3k Nordic]]/[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8ybtT_QWM Scandinavian music]] tends to have a lot of chanting and choirs in it.
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* The beginning of "Ich seh die Schiffe herunterfahren" by German punk band Abwärts...although it might also be in Tokelau for no difference.
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* Slovenian Industrial band ''Laibach'' bypassed ominous, going straight to nightmare fuel unleaded with "Vade Retro Satanas" from their album Nova Akropola. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KotfFBLl1Y]]"
* German electronica band Music/ENomine uses a lot of Ominous Latin Chanting -- with good results. Then they combine it with the guttural voice of a Chain-Smoking German to make it even ''more'' sinister. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqDuR1NM7ps Schwarze Sonne]]" is a perfect example of just how epic this trope can be.
* The song "Kann denn Liebe Sünde Sein" by the German metal band Eisbrecher has this in the beginning, but it's in German.
* B-Movie sample pioneer Rob Zombie has used this technique in a couple songs, more notably in the White Zombie song "Super-Charger Heaven" (supposedly using a Latin excommunication trial).
* Most power-metal albums, especially those with a fantasy theme. Any "[[http://www.rhapsodyoffire.com Rhapsody]]" album starts off with a choir chanting ominous Latin gibberish.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP__m7xQYOA Lux Triumphans]]" from "Dawn Of Victory" is an excellent example of Ominous English Chanting.
* While primarily instrumental, the band [[http://www.noxarcana.com Nox Arcana]] employs vocal tracks on each of its albums. Almost all of those vocal tracks are in ominous Latin, as befits the band's name. ''Winter's Knight'' includes Gregorian hymns, which are neither intended nor played as ominous, but they have a somewhat spooky effect regardless. ''Necronomicon'' also has plenty of ill-boding chanting, but it's [[CosmicHorror not in a human language]]. ''Blood of the Dragon'' is in the fantasy genre, not horror, but it still uses plenty of "O Fortuna"-inspired chanting throughout the album (particularly in the title track, where the influence is so obvious it's ridiculous). According to composer Joseph Vargo, most of the post-"Blood of the Dragon" albums contain pseudo-Latin Chanting.
* In the penultimate scene of [[Music/HectorBerlioz Berlioz's]] ''La damnation de Faust'', a male chorus chants in a made-up demonic language ("Ha! Irimiru Karabrao!") as Mephistopheles triumphantly brings Faust into Pandaemonium. The final scene is set in the ''other'' place, where a CherubicChoir welcomes Marguerite.
* ''Music/PinkFloyd'' showed they were just as capable of this as anyone else, with the "Atom Heart Mother Suite." It's a tangled mess of steel guitar, cellos, a brass band, organ and a ''lot'' of chanting in made-up languages, varying from merely otherworldly to absolutely doom-laden. Bonus points for having both male and female choirs in one piece.
* Puccini's ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', at the end of Act I, with the Latin prayers underscoring the nefarious schemes of corrupt chief of police and sexual predator Scarpia, though the prayers themselves culminate in the first lines of the Te Deum, which is usually considered [[LyricalDissonance more celebratory than ominous]]. More ominously, Spoletta mumbles a few lines from the "Dies Irae" during the torture scene in Act II.
* Puccini's ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'' (based on a Chinese fairytale) has the chorus (singing in Italian) playing the people of Beijing, reflecting the changing moods of the crowd, first as a frenzied mob screaming for blood, then cheering the Unknown Prince on as he successfully answers the princess' riddles, and pleading with slave-girl Liù, who has killed herself, to reveal the prince's name. Especially at the death of Liù, the sound of the chorus is chilling.
* Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov'' has [[GreekChorus the chorus playing the Russian people]]. Many opera lovers consider the chorus to be one of the main characters, and they get their own curtain call. Their prayers, mob scenes, and laments, sung in Russian, sound spooky as well as heartrending, particularly at the death of Boris. At several points, some really ominous Latin chanting is heard.
* The band Enigma combines Gregorian-esque chants with ethereal electronic sound effects. The album "The Screen Behind the Mirror" samples ''Carmina Burana'' -- so much so that it could be said to be ''Carmina Burana'' with samples of Enigma. It was one of the few times where the original publishers sanctioned its use.
* The band Gregorian plays covers of popular songs in a Gregorian-chant vocal style with modern instrumentation. There are a few of their songs which feature Ominous Latin Chanting including their cover of the inevitable "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWcTT__1CI O Fortuna]]" and their original, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkicUiDIOc Gregorian Anthem]]".
* While Swedish symphonic metal band Therion does not always implement Ominous Chanting into their songs, almost all of them have choirs singing in some capacity. They, too, have covered "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMrpRN4eZ3w O Fortuna]]". Other songs like "Seven Secrets of the Sphinx", "Via Nocturna", or "The Wondrous World Of Punt" may also fit this trope.
* Although in English, AFI's "Miseria Cantare" tells you that Sing The Sorrow's plot (it is a concept album) is not going to have a happy ending. Yeah, the lyrics are nihilistic, but it is the background chorus and eerie music that show you the magnitude of the unhappy life the main character of the plot is going to have.
* Brazilian power metal band Angra employed this in their song "Acid Rain", first to open the song, then to mark the passage from the bridge to the guitar solo.
* "Warszawa" on the album ''Low'', by Music/DavidBowie, has a long chanting sequence, made of Bowie overdubbing his own voice in several keys. Ominous, yes, and quite appropriately based on an old Polish composition, but the actual lyrics are gibberish.
* Music/{{Evanescence}} use it in the songs "Whisper" and "Lacrymosa," as well as the unreleased song "Anything for You." Whisper's lyrics translated are, "Save us from danger, save us from evil," and the other two are just from the "Lacrimosa" section of the Requiem mass.
* Enya's ''Tempus Vernum'' is entirely Ominous Latin Chanting, which is essentially a list of pairs of opposites. ("Therefore, the earth and the stars. Therefore, the east and the west...")
** ''Pax Deorum'' and ''Cursum Perficio''. Enya seems to like this trope a lot.
** She's also very fond of Gaelic (not surprising at all, given her musical and cultural background), and for ''Amarantine'' even developed an ''artificial'' language -- complete with its own script -- for those moments when neither Latin nor Gaelic met the dramatic requirements.
* Power/thrash metal band Iced Earth has the 16-minute epic ''Dante's Inferno'', based on, well, [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]. It has sections of what sounds like this trope, although songwriter Jon Schaffer has admitted that it's just gibberish invented to sound evil. This chanting also shows up in the songs ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTjrUIDtQuA Damien]]'' (based on the movie ''Film/TheOmen'') ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ_EGqAgRSg The Coming Curse]]'', and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HWPy1Y9mwY&feature=related Harbinger of Fate]]''. Also in the middle of their song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINnkM9ji14 Divide Devour]]" (''Dies Natalis, Odisse, Mortalis'').
** Demons & Wizards also uses this: "[[Franchise/TheDarkTower Crimson King]]" starts with chanting choirs and "Chant," the outro on their first album is a (pseudo?) Gregorian chant that Hansi Kürsch made by multi-tracking his voice. For Hansi, the second album by his main band, Music/BlindGuardian, opens with "Inquisition": ''Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem'' chanted repeatedly. (This is the same as the chanting in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.) It's fairly relevant; the first song is about John the Baptist.
* Inversion: "Orchestral metal" group Trans-Siberian Orchesta's rock opera ''Beethoven's Last Night'' features some chanting of this kind, but it's generally uplifting and set to a variation of ''Ode to Joy''. The piece has the [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven titular composer]] reflecting on his life and career, and how his music has affected the world.
** The more traditional version makes its appearance in "Requiem (The Fifth)" from said rock opera, which, as its name implies, is a mash-up of Mozart's Requiem and [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven's]] Fifth Symphony.
* AIM's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe2z0RSoyk Demonique]] combines, to wonderfully creepy effect, ominous chanting with dialogue from the movie "Halloween" and a trip-hop beat.
* "O Fortuna". The piece has been popularly associated with Satanism ever since it was used in ''Film/TheOmen1976.''
** Which this student of Latin finds saddening, because it's the most awesome piece of musical [[ContemplateOurNavels navel contemplation]] you will ever hear.[[note]]It's a medieval college student complaining about how life isn't fair, possibly prompted by a loss at the gambling table.[[/note]]
** Also from ''Carmina Burana'' is "In taberna quando sumus", an Ominous Latin ''Drinking Song''.
** See a hilarious animated video with misheard lyrics [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8 here.]]
* Music/{{Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}}'s "Dies Irae" from the ''Requiem'' gets almost as much play as "O Fortuna" in dramatic situations. Unlike most of the pieces on this page, though, it has the thematic weight to match its ominous tone when translated: the lyrics are describing the Apocalypse. In fact, the "Dies Irae" from practically ''any'' Requiem Mass qualifies by ''definition'' as this trope. ''Especially'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFFHaz9GsY Verdi.]]
* The original Dies Irae Gregorian chant is pretty freakin' spooky all on its own.
* ''Adiemus'', a classical piece by Karl Jenkins, isn't technically Latin (the composer invented all the "words" himself), but it's spine-tingling ''awesome.''
** His pieces containing real Latin chanting are even more ominous, like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOAaNFuVi3c&feature=related Dies Irae]]'' from ''Requiem'' or ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VlZOg9iv4 Sanctus]]'' from ''The Armed Man''.
* Music/DeathspellOmega frequently incorporate chanting in Latin and other languages into their music, usually to [[NightmareFuel hellish effect]].
* Check the Music/ESPosthumus album ''Unearthed'' and you're less likely to find a song ''without'' this type of chanting. The reason behind their use of it is the fact that the songs are all about dead civilizations and ruined cities of the ancient world.
* ''A Song For Europe'' by Roxy Music has Bryan Ferry repeating the song's last couplet in French, then in Latin.
* The song "Sister of Charity" by Finnish Gothic-Rock band The 69 Eyes contains repeated usage of this trope, made even more ominous coupled with the deep bass voice of the singer. The Latin words translate to "Between hope and fear... Charity in war".
* Some Latin chants are so well known in classical music that they can be quoted in an instrumental piece without the words being used. The most ominous of these chants is the Gregorian ''Dies Irae''. Examples of its many uses appear in the Witches' Sabbath movement of Hector Berlioz's ''Symphonie fantastique'', Camille Saint-Saëns's ''Danse macabre'' and third symphony, Sergei Rachmaninov's ''The Isle of the Dead'' and ''Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'', Modest Mussorgsky's ''Night on Bald Mountain'' and Franz Liszt's ''Totentanz''. Or in "Making Christmas" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. Or as part of "[[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet The Ballad of Sweeney Todd]]".
* Era, while very fond of the Latin Chanting, isn't usually Ominous. But then there's ''Enae Volare Mezzo'', which is probably one of the sexiest sounding examples of this trope ever. There's also Ameno which manges to be genuinely ominous and creepy.
* The French prog rock band Magma uses ominous chanting in many of their songs. They even made up their own language for it, called Kobian.
* ''Our Solemn Hour'' by Music/WithinTemptation ("San-ct'''u'''s Espiri-t'''u'''s...").
* Music/{{Nightwish}} implements chanting in a few of their songs on their album ''Imaginaerum.''
* "Saltwater" by Chicane features ominous Gaelic chanting, sampled from the ThemeTune of ''Harry's Game''.
** "Four Seasons" by Blue Amazon also uses a Gaelic-sounding chant.
* Epica has a whole album in which each features at least one verse with Ominous Latin Chanting.
** All of their intros (with the exception of the largely instrumental "The Score: An Epic Journey") begin with Latin Chanting; some songs that feature ominous chanting are "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIcot4-FvT4 Cry For the Moon]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfE2Ul7pV60 The Phantom Agony]]" (Ominous English Chanting) and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq3FB8WTGHU The Divine Conspiracy]]" (Ominous Latin Chanting). "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQS7seVSGRc Seif Al Din]]" may feature Ominous Arabic Chanting.
* As mentioned in ''Film/TheMatrix'' entry above, the Juno Reactor songs "Mona Lisa Overdrive"(Kyrie Eleison) and "Navras"(ominous Sanskrit chanting).
* Music/Starflyer59's "Underneath" and "First Heart Attack" (the first and last track from the album ''Old') feature sampled, wordless chanting, courtesy of Richard Swift's mellotron.
* "Memories in a Sea of Forgetfulness" by BT uses (not so ominous) Arabic/Muslim chanting, which sounds like the Adhan prayer call. Also, "Firewater" has the Muslim chant "La illah illa Allah" ("I bear witness to no god but Allah").
* "Scorched Blood" by Xorcist has this.
* ''Vangelis'' has used the ominous singing, more often sounding closer to Greek but can evoke Latin and sometimes other languages (like Egyptian Arabic in one of the ''Blade Runner'' cues, courtesy of one-time bandmate Demis Roussos). Examples of this includes ''Heaven and Hell'', ''Mask'', his soundtrack to ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'', ''Voices'', his various El Greco works and ''Mythodea''
** There's even a moment when baby sounds are used ... "Message" from ''Direct''
* Parodied with the mashup "Crank Dat One Winged Angel"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA78MQf-kMY]], by Valley of Walls. [[JustForFun/XMeetsY Soulja Boy + One Winged Angel]] = the most sinister rap jam you've ever heard.
* Ominous German Chanting, admittedly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LF6WA9rxI Halber Mensch]] by Einsturzende Neubauten. Very awesome. Very creepy.
* Music/IronMaiden's "Sign of the Cross", based on ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' (a work full of priests) opens with one.
* The[[note]] 1970s revival of the[[/note]] operetta ''Literature/{{Candide}}'' accompanies an attack on the hero's home with a new Gregorian chant, which [[ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity takes some liberties with Catholic doctrine]]. The chant include the phrase "Agnus Dei, Ora Pro Nobis" ("Lamb of God, pray for us"), which traditional Catholics would consider heretical.[[note]]"Lamb of God, have mercy on us" would be appropriate, but "pray for us" is said to saints, ''not'' to God--and in Catholic doctrine, the "Lamb of God" is himself God.[[/note]]
** The chant was written for the 1970s revival using the music of a pre-existing song, "It Must Be So." Most productions use the instrumental "Battle Music" instead.
* Symphonic Metal band Tristania uses this a lot, along with SopranoAndGravel, with fairly epic-sounding effects. The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duST2l6c0sQ Wormwood]]" uses a passage from ''Carmina Burana''
** As do Morten's side projects Sirenia and Mortemia. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxP1pBP0PqE The Mind Maelstrom]]" is essentially a praise chorus to Ominous Latin Chanting while Mortemia is strictly Morten's death grunts and Latin chanting-- His formula is demonstrated well in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKeaCjnOUj4 The Malice Of Life's Cruel Ways]]".
* The 1965 Yardbirds B-side "Still I'm Sad" features wordless ominous chanting of the same melody to which Keith Relf sings the lyrics.
* Most of the songs by ''Audiomachine'' are like that and can be heard in numerous film trailers.
* Most of the songs by Music/TwoStepsFromHell contain epic chanting set to a driving, [[OrchestralBombing orchestral soundtrack suitable for battle scenes]], for example ''Nemesis'', ''Flameheart'', and ''Freedom Fighters'' (used in a trailer for J.J. Abram's ''Film/StarTrek2009''), although it's hard to make out the exact words.
* Enigma's song, "Gravity Of Love," uses "O Fortuna" to great effect at the start of the song.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tFXh8fMBek Gekkakou by Versailles]] has a bridge supposedly in Latin, when it is in fact [[http://nerimaku.altervista.org/further%20projects/Lyrics/gekkakou.htm a list of spells from ''Harry Potter'']]. Somewhat justified in that the spells themselves mostly consist of CanisLatinicus, but are still shoved in there to sound cool.
* ''Apoptygma Berzerk'' originally used a sample of ''Carmina Burana'' on the track "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzskwgD85Sw Love Never Dies: Part One.]]"
* Funker Vogt often uses ominous English, German, and [[SingingSimlish non-lyrical]] chanting.
* ''Carmina Burana'' itself. Originally it was a collection of medieval poems and songs, usually written by students and dealing with such topics as drinking, revelry, love and morality. Carl Orff, who composed the music in 1935 most likely thought that medieval texts in Latin must be definitely ominous, so he created famous and extremely dramatic score. 'O Fortuna!' ('Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi') is actually pretty mellow poem about waxing and waning whims of Fortune, clearly inspired by stoic poetry of Marcus Aurelius. If you know Latin, the [[LyricalDissonance dissonance between Orff's score and bawdier lyrics]] is outright hilarious.
** The original Carmina Burana was written by vagant monks, more into the business of drinking and women than anything else. Most of the chanting was in Latin, but the topics were ''anything'' but ominous.
* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Paid tribute to]] in Gowan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKcRfsELPk&list=PL3E8CA42FB3E80B50&index=15&feature=plpp_video "(You're A) Strange Animal"]] during the final chorus, where Gowan belts out "Oh, Ominous Spiritus!" in a decidedly non-ominous, non-chanting way.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQv0v5euJI Omnis Mundi Creatura]] by Helium Vola is very ominous, and the creepy synths in the background only make it scarier.
* BlackMetal has a lot of examples of this trope. Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' title track is probably the most famous example.
* ''Music/MeatLoaf'' uses this in his album "Bat Out of Hell 3: The Monster is Loose". It is in Spanish, not Latin, but still ominous.
* Music/JohannSebastianBach has both Latin and German examples in his vocal works.
** The St. Matthew Passion contains an example of Ominous German Chanting that doubles as a SongStyleShift. The movement "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen" starts out as a fairly traditional duet, with occasional interjections of the choir. After the duet ends, the movement immediately turns into an incredibly angry-sounding chorus with such lyrics as "Open the fiery abyss, o Hell, crush, destroy, devour, smash with sudden rage the false betrayer, the murderous blood!"
** The motet ''Jesu, meine Freude'' (BWV 227) contains Ominous German Chanting as well - this example is more forceful than the previous, with a strong emphasis on the word "Trost" (Defiance).
** Bach's B Minor Mass, while mostly positive in tone, has a bit of strong and dramatic Greek at the very beginning of the work, with an ominous chanting of "Kyrie eleison!"
** Bach's Magnificat also has ominous Latin in the movement "Omnes generationes".
* A Soviet rock opera ''Music/JunoAndAvos'' uses Ominous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic_language Church Slavonic]] Chanting for the same effect. Opera also features an actual Latin chanting, but surprisingly it's not ominous at all.
* Music/SunnO's ''Monoliths and Dimensions'' album has guttural Hungarian chanting courtesy of Attila Csihar, as well as traditional church choir on the aptly named "Big Church".
* ''Music/AkikoShikata'' loves to use this in her more epic songs, her privileged languages being Italian and Greek it seems. A good example is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVQnbbVadc Umineko no Naku Koro ni]], among others (the Italian here being about the greatness and cruelty of the witch Beatrice).
* While the effect is more epic than ominous, {{Music/Sakanaction}}'s song "Aoi" features Ominous Japanese Chanting in the verses.
* The group Mecano has an ominous Latin chant at the end of their song "No es Serio este Cementerio" (This is not a Serious Cemetery"). It says "Finis gloriæ mvndi homini"([[WordSaladLyrics "The end of the glory of the world of men"]]).
* Music/TheStooges use Ominous chanting during "We Will Fall" from their SelfTitledAlbum ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]''.
* Music/TheCruxshadows use [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]] chanting in "Into the Ether", the opening track of ''Ethernaut''.
* Composer György Ligeti practically ''defines'' this trope, writing such pieces as the "Kyrie" and "Lux Aeterna." If you're not familiar with his name, he's the guy who wrote most of the eerie parts of the ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' soundtrack.
* The Fun Boy Three's self-titled debut has an AlbumIntroTrack consisting of 1:22 of them and Music/{{Bananarama}} chanting ominously in Latin.
* Music/DanielAmos's album ''Music/HorrendousDisc'' ends with about a minute of wordless, ominous chanting, over dirge-like backing music.
* Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s second album ''Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards'' has the lines "Sanctus! Dominus! Infernus! Ad Astra!" repeated at the start of the song "Rise of the Chaos Wizards". Roughly translated it means "Holy God! Universe on fire!" "Universe on fire" is the title of a later track on the album.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgpOKi2P3k Nordic]]/[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8ybtT_QWM Scandinavian music]] tends to have a lot of chanting and choirs in it.
* German electronica band Music/ENomine uses a lot of Ominous Latin Chanting -- with good results. Then they combine it with the guttural voice of a Chain-Smoking German to make it even ''more'' sinister. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqDuR1NM7ps Schwarze Sonne]]" is a perfect example of just how epic this trope can be.
* The song "Kann denn Liebe Sünde Sein" by the German metal band Eisbrecher has this in the beginning, but it's in German.
* B-Movie sample pioneer Rob Zombie has used this technique in a couple songs, more notably in the White Zombie song "Super-Charger Heaven" (supposedly using a Latin excommunication trial).
* Most power-metal albums, especially those with a fantasy theme. Any "[[http://www.rhapsodyoffire.com Rhapsody]]" album starts off with a choir chanting ominous Latin gibberish.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP__m7xQYOA Lux Triumphans]]" from "Dawn Of Victory" is an excellent example of Ominous English Chanting.
* While primarily instrumental, the band [[http://www.noxarcana.com Nox Arcana]] employs vocal tracks on each of its albums. Almost all of those vocal tracks are in ominous Latin, as befits the band's name. ''Winter's Knight'' includes Gregorian hymns, which are neither intended nor played as ominous, but they have a somewhat spooky effect regardless. ''Necronomicon'' also has plenty of ill-boding chanting, but it's [[CosmicHorror not in a human language]]. ''Blood of the Dragon'' is in the fantasy genre, not horror, but it still uses plenty of "O Fortuna"-inspired chanting throughout the album (particularly in the title track, where the influence is so obvious it's ridiculous). According to composer Joseph Vargo, most of the post-"Blood of the Dragon" albums contain pseudo-Latin Chanting.
* In the penultimate scene of [[Music/HectorBerlioz Berlioz's]] ''La damnation de Faust'', a male chorus chants in a made-up demonic language ("Ha! Irimiru Karabrao!") as Mephistopheles triumphantly brings Faust into Pandaemonium. The final scene is set in the ''other'' place, where a CherubicChoir welcomes Marguerite.
* ''Music/PinkFloyd'' showed they were just as capable of this as anyone else, with the "Atom Heart Mother Suite." It's a tangled mess of steel guitar, cellos, a brass band, organ and a ''lot'' of chanting in made-up languages, varying from merely otherworldly to absolutely doom-laden. Bonus points for having both male and female choirs in one piece.
* Puccini's ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', at the end of Act I, with the Latin prayers underscoring the nefarious schemes of corrupt chief of police and sexual predator Scarpia, though the prayers themselves culminate in the first lines of the Te Deum, which is usually considered [[LyricalDissonance more celebratory than ominous]]. More ominously, Spoletta mumbles a few lines from the "Dies Irae" during the torture scene in Act II.
* Puccini's ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'' (based on a Chinese fairytale) has the chorus (singing in Italian) playing the people of Beijing, reflecting the changing moods of the crowd, first as a frenzied mob screaming for blood, then cheering the Unknown Prince on as he successfully answers the princess' riddles, and pleading with slave-girl Liù, who has killed herself, to reveal the prince's name. Especially at the death of Liù, the sound of the chorus is chilling.
* Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov'' has [[GreekChorus the chorus playing the Russian people]]. Many opera lovers consider the chorus to be one of the main characters, and they get their own curtain call. Their prayers, mob scenes, and laments, sung in Russian, sound spooky as well as heartrending, particularly at the death of Boris. At several points, some really ominous Latin chanting is heard.
* The band Enigma combines Gregorian-esque chants with ethereal electronic sound effects. The album "The Screen Behind the Mirror" samples ''Carmina Burana'' -- so much so that it could be said to be ''Carmina Burana'' with samples of Enigma. It was one of the few times where the original publishers sanctioned its use.
* The band Gregorian plays covers of popular songs in a Gregorian-chant vocal style with modern instrumentation. There are a few of their songs which feature Ominous Latin Chanting including their cover of the inevitable "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWcTT__1CI O Fortuna]]" and their original, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkicUiDIOc Gregorian Anthem]]".
* While Swedish symphonic metal band Therion does not always implement Ominous Chanting into their songs, almost all of them have choirs singing in some capacity. They, too, have covered "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMrpRN4eZ3w O Fortuna]]". Other songs like "Seven Secrets of the Sphinx", "Via Nocturna", or "The Wondrous World Of Punt" may also fit this trope.
* Although in English, AFI's "Miseria Cantare" tells you that Sing The Sorrow's plot (it is a concept album) is not going to have a happy ending. Yeah, the lyrics are nihilistic, but it is the background chorus and eerie music that show you the magnitude of the unhappy life the main character of the plot is going to have.
* Brazilian power metal band Angra employed this in their song "Acid Rain", first to open the song, then to mark the passage from the bridge to the guitar solo.
* "Warszawa" on the album ''Low'', by Music/DavidBowie, has a long chanting sequence, made of Bowie overdubbing his own voice in several keys. Ominous, yes, and quite appropriately based on an old Polish composition, but the actual lyrics are gibberish.
* Music/{{Evanescence}} use it in the songs "Whisper" and "Lacrymosa," as well as the unreleased song "Anything for You." Whisper's lyrics translated are, "Save us from danger, save us from evil," and the other two are just from the "Lacrimosa" section of the Requiem mass.
* Enya's ''Tempus Vernum'' is entirely Ominous Latin Chanting, which is essentially a list of pairs of opposites. ("Therefore, the earth and the stars. Therefore, the east and the west...")
** ''Pax Deorum'' and ''Cursum Perficio''. Enya seems to like this trope a lot.
** She's also very fond of Gaelic (not surprising at all, given her musical and cultural background), and for ''Amarantine'' even developed an ''artificial'' language -- complete with its own script -- for those moments when neither Latin nor Gaelic met the dramatic requirements.
* Power/thrash metal band Iced Earth has the 16-minute epic ''Dante's Inferno'', based on, well, [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]. It has sections of what sounds like this trope, although songwriter Jon Schaffer has admitted that it's just gibberish invented to sound evil. This chanting also shows up in the songs ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTjrUIDtQuA Damien]]'' (based on the movie ''Film/TheOmen'') ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ_EGqAgRSg The Coming Curse]]'', and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HWPy1Y9mwY&feature=related Harbinger of Fate]]''. Also in the middle of their song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINnkM9ji14 Divide Devour]]" (''Dies Natalis, Odisse, Mortalis'').
** Demons & Wizards also uses this: "[[Franchise/TheDarkTower Crimson King]]" starts with chanting choirs and "Chant," the outro on their first album is a (pseudo?) Gregorian chant that Hansi Kürsch made by multi-tracking his voice. For Hansi, the second album by his main band, Music/BlindGuardian, opens with "Inquisition": ''Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem'' chanted repeatedly. (This is the same as the chanting in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.) It's fairly relevant; the first song is about John the Baptist.
* Inversion: "Orchestral metal" group Trans-Siberian Orchesta's rock opera ''Beethoven's Last Night'' features some chanting of this kind, but it's generally uplifting and set to a variation of ''Ode to Joy''. The piece has the [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven titular composer]] reflecting on his life and career, and how his music has affected the world.
** The more traditional version makes its appearance in "Requiem (The Fifth)" from said rock opera, which, as its name implies, is a mash-up of Mozart's Requiem and [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven's]] Fifth Symphony.
* AIM's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe2z0RSoyk Demonique]] combines, to wonderfully creepy effect, ominous chanting with dialogue from the movie "Halloween" and a trip-hop beat.
* "O Fortuna". The piece has been popularly associated with Satanism ever since it was used in ''Film/TheOmen1976.''
** Which this student of Latin finds saddening, because it's the most awesome piece of musical [[ContemplateOurNavels navel contemplation]] you will ever hear.[[note]]It's a medieval college student complaining about how life isn't fair, possibly prompted by a loss at the gambling table.[[/note]]
** Also from ''Carmina Burana'' is "In taberna quando sumus", an Ominous Latin ''Drinking Song''.
** See a hilarious animated video with misheard lyrics [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8 here.]]
* Music/{{Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}}'s "Dies Irae" from the ''Requiem'' gets almost as much play as "O Fortuna" in dramatic situations. Unlike most of the pieces on this page, though, it has the thematic weight to match its ominous tone when translated: the lyrics are describing the Apocalypse. In fact, the "Dies Irae" from practically ''any'' Requiem Mass qualifies by ''definition'' as this trope. ''Especially'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFFHaz9GsY Verdi.]]
* The original Dies Irae Gregorian chant is pretty freakin' spooky all on its own.
* ''Adiemus'', a classical piece by Karl Jenkins, isn't technically Latin (the composer invented all the "words" himself), but it's spine-tingling ''awesome.''
** His pieces containing real Latin chanting are even more ominous, like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOAaNFuVi3c&feature=related Dies Irae]]'' from ''Requiem'' or ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VlZOg9iv4 Sanctus]]'' from ''The Armed Man''.
* Music/DeathspellOmega frequently incorporate chanting in Latin and other languages into their music, usually to [[NightmareFuel hellish effect]].
* Check the Music/ESPosthumus album ''Unearthed'' and you're less likely to find a song ''without'' this type of chanting. The reason behind their use of it is the fact that the songs are all about dead civilizations and ruined cities of the ancient world.
* ''A Song For Europe'' by Roxy Music has Bryan Ferry repeating the song's last couplet in French, then in Latin.
* The song "Sister of Charity" by Finnish Gothic-Rock band The 69 Eyes contains repeated usage of this trope, made even more ominous coupled with the deep bass voice of the singer. The Latin words translate to "Between hope and fear... Charity in war".
* Some Latin chants are so well known in classical music that they can be quoted in an instrumental piece without the words being used. The most ominous of these chants is the Gregorian ''Dies Irae''. Examples of its many uses appear in the Witches' Sabbath movement of Hector Berlioz's ''Symphonie fantastique'', Camille Saint-Saëns's ''Danse macabre'' and third symphony, Sergei Rachmaninov's ''The Isle of the Dead'' and ''Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'', Modest Mussorgsky's ''Night on Bald Mountain'' and Franz Liszt's ''Totentanz''. Or in "Making Christmas" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. Or as part of "[[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet The Ballad of Sweeney Todd]]".
* Era, while very fond of the Latin Chanting, isn't usually Ominous. But then there's ''Enae Volare Mezzo'', which is probably one of the sexiest sounding examples of this trope ever. There's also Ameno which manges to be genuinely ominous and creepy.
* The French prog rock band Magma uses ominous chanting in many of their songs. They even made up their own language for it, called Kobian.
* ''Our Solemn Hour'' by Music/WithinTemptation ("San-ct'''u'''s Espiri-t'''u'''s...").
* Music/{{Nightwish}} implements chanting in a few of their songs on their album ''Imaginaerum.''
* "Saltwater" by Chicane features ominous Gaelic chanting, sampled from the ThemeTune of ''Harry's Game''.
** "Four Seasons" by Blue Amazon also uses a Gaelic-sounding chant.
* Epica has a whole album in which each features at least one verse with Ominous Latin Chanting.
** All of their intros (with the exception of the largely instrumental "The Score: An Epic Journey") begin with Latin Chanting; some songs that feature ominous chanting are "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIcot4-FvT4 Cry For the Moon]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfE2Ul7pV60 The Phantom Agony]]" (Ominous English Chanting) and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq3FB8WTGHU The Divine Conspiracy]]" (Ominous Latin Chanting). "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQS7seVSGRc Seif Al Din]]" may feature Ominous Arabic Chanting.
* As mentioned in ''Film/TheMatrix'' entry above, the Juno Reactor songs "Mona Lisa Overdrive"(Kyrie Eleison) and "Navras"(ominous Sanskrit chanting).
* Music/Starflyer59's "Underneath" and "First Heart Attack" (the first and last track from the album ''Old') feature sampled, wordless chanting, courtesy of Richard Swift's mellotron.
* "Memories in a Sea of Forgetfulness" by BT uses (not so ominous) Arabic/Muslim chanting, which sounds like the Adhan prayer call. Also, "Firewater" has the Muslim chant "La illah illa Allah" ("I bear witness to no god but Allah").
* "Scorched Blood" by Xorcist has this.
* ''Vangelis'' has used the ominous singing, more often sounding closer to Greek but can evoke Latin and sometimes other languages (like Egyptian Arabic in one of the ''Blade Runner'' cues, courtesy of one-time bandmate Demis Roussos). Examples of this includes ''Heaven and Hell'', ''Mask'', his soundtrack to ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'', ''Voices'', his various El Greco works and ''Mythodea''
** There's even a moment when baby sounds are used ... "Message" from ''Direct''
* Parodied with the mashup "Crank Dat One Winged Angel"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA78MQf-kMY]], by Valley of Walls. [[JustForFun/XMeetsY Soulja Boy + One Winged Angel]] = the most sinister rap jam you've ever heard.
* Ominous German Chanting, admittedly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LF6WA9rxI Halber Mensch]] by Einsturzende Neubauten. Very awesome. Very creepy.
* Music/IronMaiden's "Sign of the Cross", based on ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' (a work full of priests) opens with one.
* The[[note]] 1970s revival of the[[/note]] operetta ''Literature/{{Candide}}'' accompanies an attack on the hero's home with a new Gregorian chant, which [[ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity takes some liberties with Catholic doctrine]]. The chant include the phrase "Agnus Dei, Ora Pro Nobis" ("Lamb of God, pray for us"), which traditional Catholics would consider heretical.[[note]]"Lamb of God, have mercy on us" would be appropriate, but "pray for us" is said to saints, ''not'' to God--and in Catholic doctrine, the "Lamb of God" is himself God.[[/note]]
** The chant was written for the 1970s revival using the music of a pre-existing song, "It Must Be So." Most productions use the instrumental "Battle Music" instead.
* Symphonic Metal band Tristania uses this a lot, along with SopranoAndGravel, with fairly epic-sounding effects. The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duST2l6c0sQ Wormwood]]" uses a passage from ''Carmina Burana''
** As do Morten's side projects Sirenia and Mortemia. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxP1pBP0PqE The Mind Maelstrom]]" is essentially a praise chorus to Ominous Latin Chanting while Mortemia is strictly Morten's death grunts and Latin chanting-- His formula is demonstrated well in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKeaCjnOUj4 The Malice Of Life's Cruel Ways]]".
* The 1965 Yardbirds B-side "Still I'm Sad" features wordless ominous chanting of the same melody to which Keith Relf sings the lyrics.
* Most of the songs by ''Audiomachine'' are like that and can be heard in numerous film trailers.
* Most of the songs by Music/TwoStepsFromHell contain epic chanting set to a driving, [[OrchestralBombing orchestral soundtrack suitable for battle scenes]], for example ''Nemesis'', ''Flameheart'', and ''Freedom Fighters'' (used in a trailer for J.J. Abram's ''Film/StarTrek2009''), although it's hard to make out the exact words.
* Enigma's song, "Gravity Of Love," uses "O Fortuna" to great effect at the start of the song.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tFXh8fMBek Gekkakou by Versailles]] has a bridge supposedly in Latin, when it is in fact [[http://nerimaku.altervista.org/further%20projects/Lyrics/gekkakou.htm a list of spells from ''Harry Potter'']]. Somewhat justified in that the spells themselves mostly consist of CanisLatinicus, but are still shoved in there to sound cool.
* ''Apoptygma Berzerk'' originally used a sample of ''Carmina Burana'' on the track "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzskwgD85Sw Love Never Dies: Part One.]]"
* Funker Vogt often uses ominous English, German, and [[SingingSimlish non-lyrical]] chanting.
* ''Carmina Burana'' itself. Originally it was a collection of medieval poems and songs, usually written by students and dealing with such topics as drinking, revelry, love and morality. Carl Orff, who composed the music in 1935 most likely thought that medieval texts in Latin must be definitely ominous, so he created famous and extremely dramatic score. 'O Fortuna!' ('Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi') is actually pretty mellow poem about waxing and waning whims of Fortune, clearly inspired by stoic poetry of Marcus Aurelius. If you know Latin, the [[LyricalDissonance dissonance between Orff's score and bawdier lyrics]] is outright hilarious.
** The original Carmina Burana was written by vagant monks, more into the business of drinking and women than anything else. Most of the chanting was in Latin, but the topics were ''anything'' but ominous.
* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Paid tribute to]] in Gowan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKcRfsELPk&list=PL3E8CA42FB3E80B50&index=15&feature=plpp_video "(You're A) Strange Animal"]] during the final chorus, where Gowan belts out "Oh, Ominous Spiritus!" in a decidedly non-ominous, non-chanting way.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQv0v5euJI Omnis Mundi Creatura]] by Helium Vola is very ominous, and the creepy synths in the background only make it scarier.
* BlackMetal has a lot of examples of this trope. Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' title track is probably the most famous example.
* ''Music/MeatLoaf'' uses this in his album "Bat Out of Hell 3: The Monster is Loose". It is in Spanish, not Latin, but still ominous.
* Music/JohannSebastianBach has both Latin and German examples in his vocal works.
** The St. Matthew Passion contains an example of Ominous German Chanting that doubles as a SongStyleShift. The movement "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen" starts out as a fairly traditional duet, with occasional interjections of the choir. After the duet ends, the movement immediately turns into an incredibly angry-sounding chorus with such lyrics as "Open the fiery abyss, o Hell, crush, destroy, devour, smash with sudden rage the false betrayer, the murderous blood!"
** The motet ''Jesu, meine Freude'' (BWV 227) contains Ominous German Chanting as well - this example is more forceful than the previous, with a strong emphasis on the word "Trost" (Defiance).
** Bach's B Minor Mass, while mostly positive in tone, has a bit of strong and dramatic Greek at the very beginning of the work, with an ominous chanting of "Kyrie eleison!"
** Bach's Magnificat also has ominous Latin in the movement "Omnes generationes".
* A Soviet rock opera ''Music/JunoAndAvos'' uses Ominous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic_language Church Slavonic]] Chanting for the same effect. Opera also features an actual Latin chanting, but surprisingly it's not ominous at all.
* Music/SunnO's ''Monoliths and Dimensions'' album has guttural Hungarian chanting courtesy of Attila Csihar, as well as traditional church choir on the aptly named "Big Church".
* ''Music/AkikoShikata'' loves to use this in her more epic songs, her privileged languages being Italian and Greek it seems. A good example is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVQnbbVadc Umineko no Naku Koro ni]], among others (the Italian here being about the greatness and cruelty of the witch Beatrice).
* While the effect is more epic than ominous, {{Music/Sakanaction}}'s song "Aoi" features Ominous Japanese Chanting in the verses.
* The group Mecano has an ominous Latin chant at the end of their song "No es Serio este Cementerio" (This is not a Serious Cemetery"). It says "Finis gloriæ mvndi homini"([[WordSaladLyrics "The end of the glory of the world of men"]]).
* Music/TheStooges use Ominous chanting during "We Will Fall" from their SelfTitledAlbum ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]''.
* Music/TheCruxshadows use [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]] chanting in "Into the Ether", the opening track of ''Ethernaut''.
* Composer György Ligeti practically ''defines'' this trope, writing such pieces as the "Kyrie" and "Lux Aeterna." If you're not familiar with his name, he's the guy who wrote most of the eerie parts of the ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' soundtrack.
* The Fun Boy Three's self-titled debut has an AlbumIntroTrack consisting of 1:22 of them and Music/{{Bananarama}} chanting ominously in Latin.
* Music/DanielAmos's album ''Music/HorrendousDisc'' ends with about a minute of wordless, ominous chanting, over dirge-like backing music.
* Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'s second album ''Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards'' has the lines "Sanctus! Dominus! Infernus! Ad Astra!" repeated at the start of the song "Rise of the Chaos Wizards". Roughly translated it means "Holy God! Universe on fire!" "Universe on fire" is the title of a later track on the album.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgpOKi2P3k Nordic]]/[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8ybtT_QWM Scandinavian music]] tends to have a lot of chanting and choirs in it.
