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As some might remember, back in 2004 Black Library released an extra special limited edition of the woobie saga book Traitor General. It was an expensive leather bound book that came with a little bonus: a complete soundtrack by John Bergin. This track was exclusive to this edition of the book and hasn't been seen again since then.

This morning I was cleaning out old bookmarks and stumbled upon John's site, where I found that he had the entire soundtrack of the book up for grabs. It's quite a hefty download for some people (140 MB) and the music featured there might be a tad, different from what people are used to.

You can find the tracks in one handy file here.

John's site can be found here.

Is it any, y'know, good?

Tastes differ comrade, I find some of them pleasing to listen to, others are horrible pieces of audio dung.

They're an... interesting collection, that's for sure.

BYE

i got that edition & still haven't listerned to the CD!

They're an... interesting collection, that's for sure.

QFT


Indeed, interesting is the right word. It certainly fits the description Soundtrack, and it sounds like it would fit to a 40k novel, altough I haven't read traitor general. I guess I will use some of it for roleplaying music.

Well, "There Are No Miracles (Only Men)" is as good as I remember it to be. The rest is well, to put in the words of my better half: as cringingly cheesy as that HH audio book or the aborted attempt at race specific soundtracks back in the 90's. How many people remember the Dark Eldar theme were some bloke would whisper Warhammer into the mic every so often while listen to a synthesiser play in oooooh, dark tones?

Thanks so much for this. I always lamented the fact that I missed out on this originally.

Certainly interesting..

well, it was free, so who is complaining.
interesting fits the bill nicely though

I've just had a quick listen to this, it's very Soul Reaver-esque. Which is a good thing.

BrookM wrote:Well, "There Are No Miracles (Only Men)" is as good as I remember it to be. The rest is well, to put in the words of my better half: as cringingly cheesy as that HH audio book or the aborted attempt at race specific soundtracks back in the 90's. How many people remember the Dark Eldar theme were some bloke would whisper Warhammer into the mic every so often while listen to a synthesiser play in oooooh, dark tones?

That passed me by completely.

Are you sure you didn't dream it?

I could put that Dark Eldar theme up if need be?

BrookM wrote:as cringingly cheesy as that HH audio book or the aborted attempt at race specific soundtracks back in the 90's.

.....NOISE MARINE...

who was that by??
i think it was some unheard of british metal band

jamessearle0 wrote:

BrookM wrote:as cringingly cheesy as that HH audio book or the aborted attempt at race specific soundtracks back in the 90's.

.....NOISE MARINE...

who was that by??
i think it was some unheard of british metal band

Bolt Thrower perhaps?

BrookM wrote:I could put that Dark Eldar theme up if need be?

<insert cheesy porn bass and/or saxophone solo>

Thanks for sharing, haven't got time to listen to it, though.

Greets
Schepp himself

So, has anyone tried listening to the soundtrack and reading the book at the same time? Does it actually enhance the experience?

Still busy downloading it, so what kind of music is it?

cheers brook, hmmm track 10 - sabbat sounds almost a little like the music of "portishead" cheers for the download

Wow, he sure added a lot of free stuff since I was there looking for "Music for Hammering" a few months back.

Hmm, I listened to the soundtrack, it sounds good but nothing really unexpected. I mean every song had that vibe of "ok, I already saw this one coming a mile away", know what I mean?

Malika2 wrote:Hmm, I listened to the soundtrack, it sounds good but nothing really unexpected. I mean every song had that vibe of "ok, I already saw this one coming a mile away", know what I mean?

yup