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Anyone know of a few awesome sci-fi or fantasy songs? (I'm mainly looking for metal here, but If you know of something else please just post it. Unless it's rap or pop.)
Some good songs I know:
Titan by Hammerfall (About a disaster on Earth and Colonizing Saturn's moon Titan. A quote from the song is in my signature.)
To Tame a Land by Iron Maiden (About the book Dune. epicness here)
The Chief Goal of Alchemy by Storm the Castle! (About a doomed expedition to the North Pole. They only have one album, which you can download on Itunes. It's called "The History of doomed expeditions volume 1" or something like that.)
May the the blessings of His Grace the Emperor tumble down upon you like a golden fog. (Only a VERY select few will get this reference. And it's not from 40k. )
I know you said no rap but this video is too cool. Besides, not all 'rap' is stupid and unlistenable to. I usually hate the stuff but this is different. This is by the guys from 'gorillaz' with a guest rapper for a concept album set in 3030.
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Rush, "2112" is a full on rock opera that takes up the first half of the album. It only makes sense if you listen to all the songs back to back though, otherwise it just sounds like Rush sounding like Rush and singing about abstract geeky stuff as they are wont to do.
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(just to make up for the Rush nerdyness... I am quite a fan of this band):
About half the Bolt Thrower "songs" I've heard are generally 40k oriented and very sludgey violent death metal sounding (if you can understand what he is gurgling about).
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I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
Loreena Mckennitt has some nice songs that I would consider fantasy/folk. Also Clannad, they did the sound track to a robin hood tv series nearly 20 years ago as well as lots of more recent stuff…
but then again you asked for metal...
There was this other song by manowar but I can't remember what it was called... time to search youtube
ok found what I was looking for
I don't usually like this time of music but this one is all right.
GalacticDefender wrote:Anyone know of a few awesome sci-fi or fantasy songs? (I'm mainly looking for metal here, but If you know of something else please just post it. Unless it's rap or pop.)
just about any good power metal band will have something like your looking for.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
Rush's 2112 is actually based loosely off Ayn Rand's We the Living, so I don't know how "fantasy" that falls, more of a post-apoc I'd say. I don't have much of value to contribute so I'll shush now
Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Rush's 2112 is actually based loosely off Ayn Rand's We the Living, so I don't know how "fantasy" that falls, more of a post-apoc I'd say. I don't have much of value to contribute so I'll shush now
I guess you could read at it between the lines in such a way... So far as the surface story is concerned... In the future all art and thinking and such in the 'Solar Federation' is dictated to the masses by the 'Priests of Syrinx'... who keep everyone nice and complacent. Then a traveller finds an ancient artifact in a cave (a guitar!) and brings it to them to show them. They tell him to forget about it because all it will do is disrupt their carefully established idealism and 'utopian' plan... so of course the guy has his epiphany moment and decides to learn to play it anyway, and ends up bringing back the 'Elder Race' who come back and assume control from the priests... last words on the rock-opera are "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation, we have assumed control..." Does that sound much like Ayn Rand to you? Perhaps the theme is similar to her (ridiculous) ideas, but that's like saying that Star Wars isn't science fiction because so much of it is based on Bible themes.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
What heresy is this? A thread about sci-fi music without Magma?
For those not aware of Magma they are for want of a better word unique. Their music is a combination of jazz, rock and choral music. If that isn't weird enough their whole discography is one long (and very dark, possibly even grimdark ) science fiction story sung entirely in a made up language.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
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