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I - Warriors on loop.

I kid. I kid.

The Sword (Winter's Wolves is a good one)
Metallica (mostly Kill 'Em All stuff)
Motorhead
ACDC
Some Tenacious D
Helmet (Unsung)
DethKlok

That's pretty much it.

Metal and classic rock all the way

Usually its prodigy (breath mainly)

Failing that, any jumpstyle / hardstyle / hardcore / techcore / dance / trance / rave.


anything fast paced and loud usually.

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:Black Metal and lots of it!

Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, Burzum, Early Cradle of Filth, Immortal, Emperor, Venom and Satyricon, among others. [Some bands highlighted for heresy. ]

Don't ask me how I can concentrate while listening to it though...

Black metal? I love Living Colour! (Sorry, couldn't resist...)

I have no trouble concentrating with black metal. Actually, much of it is pretty atmospheric, especially if your focus is elsewhere. The first rule of making a black metal album is to completely mix out all of the bass, so the droning guitars, barking/hissing vocals, and even the blast beats are all in a similar range that sort of blends together while in the background. Hell, drop the volume low enough and I'm sure you could convince someone that it was a damaged recording of crashing waves.

Personally, I tend to paint/model in concentrated bursts and my music selection usually follows suit - i.e. I listen to something completely different each time, but I listen to a lot of it, each time. Thinking back to my last few marathon sessions (in no particular order), I listened to (several hour blocks of):

-Mastadon
-Joy Division
-Kataklysm
-[industrial web-radio station]
-[hardcore web-radio station (of the electronic variety, before you strap on your bandannas and start floor-punching)]
-for the sake of continuity, I'll just call this "the Greg Bueno mix" (a good friend of mine, who has fronted two bands I really like - the long-defunct Semper Tyrannis (melodic death, only put out an EP) and the very much alive Dystrophy (tech/death/thrash, put out a few EPs, have a pretty sick DIY LP out with most songs up on youtube - metalheads should give a listen ))

Phayse wrote:

@Mewiththeface - when I first met my wife, I played in a post hardcore band. So many musical debates ended with the screaming of "IT'S NOT EMO, IT'S POST HARDCORE!"

Do you still listen to it? What bands and such, etc.?

The romantic era of classical music: Pachebel's cannon, "Slavic Dance", ect. Good stuff.

Or some Sonny Rollins, but sometimes he is too distracting, with his amazing skill...

micahaphone wrote:Pachebel's cannon,

Pachelbel's Canon in D



King Ghidorah

I always just go to pandora radio and put on whatever station I feel like and get to business. The stations range from techno to metal to classic.

Usually my iTunes just goes in shuffle mode, but sometimes I pick out an album and have that on repeat for a few days. Right now it's Pink Floyd's The Wall.

I pretty much listen to the same music I would otherwise, including:
Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, Frozen Plasma, Rotersand, Diorama, Covenant, Syrian, Seabound, Namnambulu and Neuroticfish, among others.

I just turn on the radio and listen as I model/paint. Either that or just put what I have stuck in my head on repeat on my iPod. It's currently Beyonce. Very appropriate for Halo to come up when I'm doing an iron halo.

Typically my roommate and I listen to 90s alternative music while painting, though eventually it gets so depressing that we need to switch to techno web-radio or ska or something a little bit more uplifting.

I never listen to the same thing. But what ever I listen to always falls under the same themes

Modern Videogame soundtrack:



8-bit game soundtack:



Movie soundtrack:





And finally the "What the hell am I listening to!?" remix thing:



I also listen to organ music and Beethoven.

Talk radio.

Im pretty eclectic with my music tastes. Basically anything but country or R&B. The Bands/Groups/songs I have in my phone are too numerous to name.

Usually (punk)rock, and most kinds of rock.

A few bands:
Sum 41
Zebrahead
Skillet
Green Day
Muse
Bloc Party
We Are Scientists
LOSTPROPHETS
Simple Plan
Rise Against
Air Traffic
Maxïmo Park
The Futureheads
AFI
Foo Fighters
DeWolff

And more...

I listen to The Electric Light Orchestra, some Van Halen, and a few other 70s and 80s rock bands. I also listen to allot of classical music.

I actually put movies on while I paint/model. Know it lame, but the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is my pick.

Guess soundtrack may be good for music.

Some of you have allready mentiond what i listen to so here is a small list:
-Motorhead (how freaking AWAZOM CAN YOU GET!)
-Rammstein
-Airbourne
-ACDC
-System of a down
-Girls school (sound a bit odd i know, but they have toured with M.head and are realy good)
-Black sabbath
-Dio
-Saxon
-skew skin
-Anvil (how came to the uk for the first time in what ,20 years (4 years before i was bourn) and was really hapy when i got tickets to see them!)
-Metalica
-iron madien
-hawkwind
thats it for bands that i listen to off of the top of my head but i also listen to a few podcasts such as
-40k radio
-Naked scientists (do not jump to conclusions)
-the shaft(again do not jump to conclusions, this is about a viedo game called minecraft)
-Blu PLZ (WoW related stuff)
-chemistery in its element
and that sums it up for what i listen to when painting!

General Seric wrote:I listen to The Electric Light Orchestra, some Van Halen, and a few other 70s and 80s rock bands. I also listen to allot of classical music.

Nice, all of that is definately in my list. How could I paint without the sweet melody of ELO....or vocals of Diamond Dave! And as for Classical, I cant leave home without a little Mozart, Vivaldi or Bach!

For me, it's usually black metal, thrash and classical, preferably all shuffled together.

witchery
marduk
venom
testament
exodus
rachmaninoff
Chopin

prime12357 wrote:

Chopin

good man

Hasharii wrote:Usually (punk)rock,

...and yet, nothing you posted is punk rock at all. Zebrahead or Rise Against is the closest, and only barely. Also... Skillet? Somebody actually listens to them? I guess when 3 Days Grace got too popular, all the 'too-cool-for-them-now' people flocked to a lesser known knock off.

Skillet... I lol'd.

The only noteworthy band on your list are the Futureheads. I love that their name is FUTUREhead, but their music is so retro late 70s - early 80s pop like the Knack, Tommy TuTone, or the Vapors.



King Ghidorah

I used to only listen to music when painting/building, mainly Black Metal or Folk instrumental stuff. Lately I've switch to watching movies. I say watch but I must only look at the screen for a total of around 15mins per film. That or listening to the awesome Eternal Warriors Podcast.

The race theme from DOW 2 or Anime OST
This is when I am painting Marine.... not Tau

Ghidorah wrote:

nuclealosaur wrote:- Black Eyed Peas

I lol'd.

I can just imagine somebody sitting there, painting a beautiful falcon grav-Tank while listening to Fergie saying,
"my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump
My hump, my hump, my hump , my lovely lady lumps"

Ahh... BEP... providing the soundtrack to the decline of civilization.



King Ghidorah

I can appreciate different tastes in music, but dissing the BEP is not on...

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:I never listen to the same thing. But what ever I listen to always falls under the same themes

Modern Videogame soundtrack:



8-bit game soundtack:

Video game soundtracks... wow... I never listen to them while actually playing the games...

Everything from Borknagar to Venom. Beethoven to Wagner. MC Frontalot to Wu-Tang Clan and everything in between.

Although most of the time I just have the TV playing in the background, so most of the time I paint to "Two and A Half Men"...which then gives me an urge to paint up a "Tiger Blood" squad!

I like this thread popping up every once in a while it helps me find new things to like, thanks for sharing!

I liked this:

lionfire wrote:The Sword (Winter's Wolves is a good one)

I liked this too!



Heh.

I listen to:

Movies (on DVD and blue ray)
Nightwish (Band)
Iron Savior (Band)
Hammerfall (Band)
Dream Evil (Band)
Soundtracks (Various)

Heres a couple you tube links, some of these are VERY Warhammer!

Hammerfall: Blood Bound



Hammerfall: Herats on Fire



Nightwish: Bye Bye Beautiful



Dream Evil: Kingdom of the Damned



Long live the fighters!

I jump around different genres... country, rap, rock, instrumentals...

here are some albums I listen to:

Toby Keith - Unleashed
Big and Rich - Horse of a Different Color
Talib Kweli - Eardrums
Swollen Members - Balance
Muse - Showbiz
Interpol - Turn On Your Bright Lights
Halo OST
Primal OST
The Sims OST
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
Weezer - Huxley
The Beatles - Whilte Album
Lady Gaga - The Fame
Blur - The Great Escape
Cake - Motorpool of Generosity

But this is when I don't have a current podcast I'm listening to.

the reverend horton heat (mostly for speed freaks) black flag and minor threat