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I was just listening to some music the other day (well, everyday) while looking up some minis in GW site when the following question struck me: what music do people listen to when playing a game of Warhammer or 40k or -insert game name-...
I personally always found Manowar's Kings of Metal to be an enthusiastic accompaniment when my Black Orc Warboss declares his bellowing WHAAAGH! against the stunties or humies or anyone else for that matter, but Blind Guardian's entire album Nightfall in Middle Earth is also a personal favorite.
Of course, I can write down an entire playlist but that is not the point of this thread.
So here is your question people: what music do YOU like to hear (if any) when wargaming?

PS: MODS feel free to move this thread to the appropriate forum if you feel it does not belong here.

I'm sure this one's been asked before, but hey..

For me it depends on the army

Orks- E Nomine, Nightwish, asstd other Scandanavian goth/metal OR (not AND, and especially not on random play) Wierd Al

Necrons- Ywngie Mamsteen, Bon Jovi, Guns and Roses seem to fit for me

Dark Eldar- Steeleye Span or Heather Alexander.

Weird Al? I suppose I can understand that!

I like radiohead, and a lot of dubstep and drum and base. Some nice trip-hop or downtempo is always fun, and I am a fan of jazz.

Honestly? ACDC, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses and The Rolling Stones.

Not army specific, just stuff I like.

Slayer, Sodom, Megadeth... Thrash of some sort always makes the game go by soooo well.

And then there's the ablative Bolt Thrower.

Also D-Rok Oblivion, if you can find a copy.

I'd give semi-vital parts of my body for one, as that was THE music we played to back in the RT days when I started

I had some Bolt thrower playing as a joke at one club meeting.

It got shouted down by the DragonfArce fanboys.

Now, no music is played.
(Although it is rather odd watching teens with ipods playing each other across a table, both listening to different music loud enough to block out any other sound.)

chromedog wrote:I had some Bolt thrower playing as a joke at one club meeting.

It got shouted down by the DragonfArce fanboys.

That's why you never let Dragonforce fanboys live through the night.

Dragonforce is musical tofu.

In that no matter how many times I hear it, I can never figure out WHAT it is.

I'm sure I've had tofu - but I can't remember what it tasted like.

chromedog wrote:Dragonforce is musical tofu.

In that no matter how many times I hear it, I can never figure out WHAT it is.

I'm sure I've had tofu - but I can't remember what it tasted like.

It's Power Metal for the hipsters that are "too cool" to be caught listening to Power Metal.

SLAYER, Sabbath, any good thrash metal or harder oi. I also feel like a lot of RAC fits wargame vibes with my friends quite well, but it definitely weirds some people out when they walk in on a couple of brown men playing with toys and listening to Skrewdriver.

at the store its whatever the owner has on the radio, something like 80s, 90s, and today... which is the radio slogan.

At home, whatever the computer plays, which is everything but metal, death metal, speed metal, stuff like that.

Soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian.

Metal of any kind if I remember to put some on, drag the corpses by seven year kismet is a fav at the moment

I usually put on soundtrack scores from my fav action/war/sci fi movies as background noise if I feel the need for music.

Last thing I want to do when i am trying to concentrate on a game is listen to my opponent sing along badly to some metal/rock/rap song...

Oh, you can play just about anything, but power metal, the soundtracks to Gladiator or the Dawn of War games, and absolutely anything featured in an action movie trailer nowadays will do fine for the epic action of moving models around.
By contrast, classical music creates an interesting dissonance, and gives a game a more high-brow "chess-like" feel.
Or you can just put on a playlist of various clips from war films and NASCAR races to give your battle a background sound of explosions, engines, gunfire and screams. Your choice.
What really matters is that neither player is distracted or annoyed by the choice of musical accompaniment.
The exception of course is that the winner gets to play his army's leitmotif after the game is over. (...what, yours doesn't have one? But that's the best part of winning! I have a little dance to go with mine and everything! If that won't give your opponent an incentive to play well, nothing will. )

God damn it I love how everyones in to metal here, that rules

Music for every 40k player

Frank Sinatra, Jonathan Coulton, Garfunkel and Oates. I'm a weird kid.

Old-fashioned heavy metal: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Dream Theater, Iced Earth, Symphony X.

Kylis wrote:Music for every 40k player

I'm guna write a song for Sisters of Battle players, a cover of Cyndi Lauper.... Girls just wana..... Just wana have guns....

Its whatever happens to be on the radio (Planet Rock usually)

Failing that, and if i can be bothered, Ill stick on some Metallica, Tool, Beethoven, Clutch or Jethro Tull.....Pretty much whatever my laptop throws up from its rusty silicon chips

Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult. Also Pallas.

I usually play the russian songs from call of duty world at war, as they just have the atmosphere for 40K, its even better if the opponent is playing vostroyan gaurd...

Iron maiden-powerslave is good for a TK song...

Any metal or Rock song will do. Of course, this is coming from a massive metalhead

kitch102 wrote:God damn it I love how everyones in to metal here, that rules

Hell yes, I was almost afraid someone will come up and say they listen to Lady Gaga or something while gaming.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Any metal or Rock song will do. Of course, this is coming from a massive metalhead

True Necron here!
And Necrons are metalheads! As are Orks.

I am a big nerd and love Nerdcore music.

Jonathon Coulton

Blind Guardian

ManOwaR

Dream Evil

Weird Al

Bolt Thrower

Hollywood Undead

and the Lonely Island.

All on random.

Fear Factory, Mastodon, Bolt Thrower, and Slayer are what I listen to while paint, write lists, and well pretty much anything mini related.