Sound Ideas, ANIMAL, CREATURE - LARGE ANIMAL DEATH SCREAM

This particular monster roar is typically associated with the Spider Mastermind from the classic Doom games.

This particular monster roar is typically associated with the Spider Mastermind from the classic Doom games.

This sound effect can be found on The General Series 6000 Sound Effects Library, which was made by Sound Ideas. It is almost identical to Monster, Fantasy - Large Boar-Like Creature: Long Screeching Growl. A cut-off excerpt is the nineteenth and last sound in Elephant Tiger Combo PE980903.

Basic Info

  • First recorded: Around 1991 - 1992
  • Creator: Mike McDonough
  • Owner: Sound Ideas (1993-present)
  • Origin: United States
  • Year debut: 1993
  • First heard: Doom
  • Area used: Worldwide

This creature effect was created in around 1991 to 1992 by Mike McDonough, by mixing sound recordings of pigs or wild boars to thematically give the impression of a bone-chilling roar from a large monster. The first few seconds of the sound were used in retail versions of Doom in 1993, as an alert sound for the game's final boss, the Spider Mastermind (albeit higher-pitched).

By 1994 and onward, this has been used for various large creatures in some animated TV shows and movies, the most famous of which is often heard for Gyarados in the Pokemon anime. Though somewhat frequently used by some studios, this creature effect is not as used as often as the Sharptooth sounds (also from the same library), Jurassic Park's T-Rex, Godzilla, and the King Kong roars.

Despite the age of the sound effect, it is still being used in much newer media such as Prey and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (listed below), an indication it is very effective at conveying fear and horror among audiences.

Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect

Used In

TV Shows

TV Specials

Movies

Commercials

  • Coppertone - Powerpuff Girls (Heard once in a low pitch, when Mojo Jojo appears in Blossom's thought bubble.)

Video Games

3DS:

Arcade:

  • Akuma: Mortis Immortal (used as Nyxgonoitt's death scream)

DS:

GameCube:

GBA:

  • Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World (The edited version from Super Mario 64 is used as the Koopalings' death cry.)

N64:

Nintendo Switch:

Nintendo Virtual Console:

PC:

  • Bionicle: Battle for Power (Commonly played when Makuta are defeated or when they combine with a Shadow Matoran.)
  • Carnivores 2 (1999) (heard for Plesiosaurus if the Carnivores: Legacy total conversion mod is installed; is not heard anywhere in the base game otherwise)
  • Clock Tower for Windows 95 (Used in the Trophy Room.)
  • Diablo II (High pitched version used for when a set of sharp spikes bore through the Dark Wander as he is transformed into Diablo himself)
  • Doom (Used in a high pitch for the Spider Mastermind.)
  • Doom 3 (Heard as part of one of the Wraith's death sounds; somewhat obscured due to a sound design process.)
  • Gothic (Used as the molerat's death sound.)
  • Lost Planet 3
  • Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning (Heard briefly when Gekk take damage or are killed.)
  • Serious Sam 2 (Normal and reversed playback for ScorpSoldiers; very high pitched)
  • StarCraft 2 (Only a tiny fraction of the scream is used to accent an explosion, when a structure is destroyed.)
  • Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Heard once in a quicktime event when Grimlock is about to attack Shockwave; modified.)
  • Turok (Video Game) (Used for the raptors in a distorted pitch.)
  • Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos/Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (Heard when Quilboars get killed in battle in a different pitch. High pitched for when a beastmaster makes a gag quote, and for the gryphon's roar.)
  • X-COM: UFO Defense (A high pitched, reversed, and edited version is used for Mutons.)

PlayStation:

PlayStation 3:

  • Dante's Inferno (Sometimes heard when Cerberus gets stunned.)
  • Dino Stalker (Used for a Tyrannosaurus before it falls into the lava)
  • Lost Planet 3
  • Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Heard once in a quicktime event when Grimlock is about to attack Shockwave; modified.)
  • Turok (Video Game) (Used for the raptors in a distorted pitch.)

PlayStation 4:

SNES:

  • Clock Tower (Used in the Trophy Room.)

Wii:

Xbox:

  • Serious Sam 2 (Normal and reversed playback for ScorpSoldiers; very high pitched)

Xbox 360:

  • Dante's Inferno (Video Game) (Sometimes heard when Cerberus gets stunned.)
  • Lost Planet 3
  • Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Heard once in a quicktime event when Grimlock is about to attack Shockwave; modified.)
  • Turok (Video Game) (Used for the raptors in a distorted pitch.)

Xbox One:

Music Videos

  • FRED - My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010)

Trailers

  • The End of Oak Street (2026) (Trailers) (Used for the Allosaurus in the second trailer.)
  • HOPE (2026) (Trailers)
  • The X-Files Home Videos - Seasons 1-3 (1993-1995) Trailer (Heard once when a brief clip from 'Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" was shown; not heard in the actual episode itself otherwise.)

Web Originals

YouTube Videos

Anime

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Audio Samples