The sound design at the beginning was great. The bells work great and there's a lot of dissonance which is great for a horror track while staying exciting and thrilling!
Thank you so much for listening and commenting! I wanted to try using a dark modal sound and what I ended up writing came out to be some chromatic modal mixture somewhere in between locrian and a half-whole diminished scale sound. So yes, lots of dissonance. It felt very non-intuitive to resist going into a beautiful redeeming melodic passage representing the triumphs of the main character, which is against what I was trying to do and I think I was successful with that. I’m glad that it was engaging for you! Thanks again!