Music that makes you think of 40k background...

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**Algorithm**

Just to mix it up, try and pick a single song for each category. Throw in a lyric or two that exemplifies why.

1. Song that inspires thought of your favorite faction:

2. Song that inspires thought of the Heresy:

3. Song that inspires thought of modern 40k:

I'll start.

1. Chaos Space Marines: Today We Are All Demons by Combichirst. "I want you to feel, And I know you will, And everything you see, Will bleed straight through, Reveal the truth"

2. Right in Two by A Perfect Circle. "Angels on the sidelines, puzzled and amused. Father gave these humans free will, and this is what they choose?"

3. Crucifixion in Space by Marilyn Manson. "We are dead and tomorrow's cancelled, Because of things we did yesterday. We are dead and tomorrow's cancelled, they crucify us in our space."

**Harriticus**

This is more or less the official anthem of the Imperial Guard in my book:

**DarthMarko**

My Wolves -

Immigrant song - Led Zeppelin
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!.....

Of Wolf And Man - Metallica
Bright is the moon high in starlight
Chill in the air cold as steel tonight
We shift
Call of the wild
Fear in your eyes
It's later than you realized

Burning of prospero - Run to the hills (I know it's a kind of cliche)
White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery

He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard, we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell

But many came, too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free

**The Observer**

1. Word Bearers CSM : O Fortuna, O Fortuna Velut Luna statu variablis!

2: ACDC Evil walks: Evil walks behind you! Evil talks around you! Evil sleeps beside you!

3: Gotye Dig your own hole : In the end
You dig yourself the hole you're in
When you don't know what you want
You just repeat yourself again

**baptistcreature**

Dark Angels - "Perseverance" by Hatebreed, especially back when they had the "Intractable" rule.

Face your torment and dismantle your doubt
Refuse this legacy of shame and deceit

Your world is coming apart
Remain steadfast

Perseverance
Against all opposition
Crushing all limitations
Pure strength through solitude
Discipline and determination

**Arcsquad12**

Valkyries by Blind Guardian always makes me think of the Valhallan Ice Warriors:

When the battle is lost
And the slain ones are chosen
Valkyries will guide us home
When the battle is lost
And the slain ones are chosen
Valkyries will guide us home

Price of a Mile by Sabaton is for the Death Korps:

Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army on the march
Long way from home
Paying the price with young men's lives

Thousands of feet march to the beat
It's an army in despair
Knee deep in mud
Stuck in the trench with no way out

Tanith 1st and Only:

March of Cambreadth just fits perfectly.

**Psienesis**

I play John Williams' "Imperial March" whenever the Inquisition is making a grand entrance (like skimming the upper atmosphere of a planet with their fleets) in my DH games.

**VorpalBunny74**

1. "Eat It" by Weird Al Yankovic

2. "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin

3. um. . . "Play the Game" by Queen?

**Tiger9gamer**

Makes me think of the monkish feeling for the Dark angels

**Arcsquad12**

Reminds me of Chaos in general. Whirling, spinning, ever changing and totally wild.

**Color Sgt. Kell**

Reminds me of my Catachans

**Las**

The hosts of the Archenemy draw near. Arm yourselves with your faith and ready your soul for the Emperor's judgement.

WAAAAAAGH

**dreamakuma**

1. My orks, anything by primus. The fun in the music really helps and I even listen to them when I build my ork lists.

2.HH- Somewhat damaged by NIN. The whole idea of everything falling apart from some betrayal and the music reflecting that.

3. Current 40k. liberi Fatali by Nobuo Uwematsu

**Living Still**

Definitely this! Just fast forward it a bit. There is a very disturbing scene from the move Requiem for a Dream associated with this as well, but we wont go there lol.

**SabrX**

Escape - Craig Armstrong

Gothic cinematic music invokes the grim dark sci-fi universe that is 40k.

**DarthMarko**

Errr, this...!!!

**Captaintyrius**

For my Renegade Wolves army their song is gonna be All Hope is Gone by Slipknot

For the Heresy my song would be Slipknot Duality

For the current day 40k it would be Slipknot Wait and Bleed

**monkeypuzzle**

"It's a sin" by the pet shop boys always makes me think of a space battle in 40k. Boarding actions particularly. A bit specific I know but I have had that connection since 2nd edition.

**Boreal**

1. Imperial Guard, fitting for a massive guard attack, tanks 'n all.

2. The Heresy

3. Moden (The Space Marine Soundtrack)

**Forcemajeure**

1. Imperial Guard. Light In Black, Sabaton

Spoiler:

2. Night On Bald Mountain: Mussorgsky

Spoiler:

3. Det finns bara krig, Raubtier
Sadly this last one is in Swedish (sorry dakka

). But translated to english the song is called "There is only war"

Spoiler:

**H.B.M.C.**

Anything by Era. We called their greatest hits album the soundtrack to Codex Black Templars.

**Novelist47**

Death Korp, if you saw what I did there

**perhow**

For the Tau:

Keep going, you can do it!

For the Dark Eldar:

Sing it like you mean it literally.

**Captain Roderick**

I'm sorry to go slightly off topic but have been wanting to say this for about 13 years;

So, listening all the way through, you can picture an Imperial world, not perfect, but lots of people going on with their lives, maybe not good people, maybe not doing good things, maybe even really sinister things, but totally unaware that just in the next valley is...
DOOMBREED'S BLACK CRUSADE AND ALL THE LEGIONS OF HELL OH MY GOD THE SIGHT THE THOUGHT MY EYES AHHHHH

....and then back to the Imperial settlement, blissfully unaware.

Repeat for 11m 54s...

**wfischer**

Always makes me think of Dreadnought pilots, or the game in general.

**Ozomoto**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whxcq4I0kAo

All an ork will ever need

"orks, orks orks"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH"

**SneakyMek**

I have a few songs that in some ways fit the Alpha legion,not as much their chaos nature but their more human side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtiR35EOm7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tQqe9mxwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NBHS3FtQ20

**captain bloody fists**

this song does it for me. the grand tone of it says 40K

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFZjegvE6OA

**Furyou Miko**

This always struck me as perfect for Slaanesh;

Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor

Bashee playing magician sitting lotus on the floor,
Belly dancing beauty with a power driven saw,
Had my share of nightmares, didn't think there could be much more,
then in walked Rodrick Usher with the Lady Eleanor.

She tied my eyes with ribbon of a silken ghostly thread,
I gazed with trouble vision on an old four poster bed,
Where Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head,
and bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead.

But it's all right, Lady Eleanor ,
All right, Lady Eleanor,
I'm all right where I am.

She gazed with loving beauty like a mother to a son,
like living, dying, seeing, being all rolled into one,
Then all at once I heard some music playing in my bones,
the same old song I'd heard for years, reminding me of home.

But it's all right, Lady Eleanor,
All right, Lady Eleanor,
I'm all right where I am.

Then creeping on towards me, licking lips with tongues of fire,
a host of golden demons screaming lust and base desire,
and when it seemed for certain that the screams could get no higher,
I heard a voice above the rest screaming 'You're liar'.

But it's all right, Lady Eleanor,
All right, Lady Eleanor,
I'm all right here in your arms...

The Thousand Sons;

Yuki Kajiura - Venari Strigas ('Owl Hunt')

The original CSI:Las Vegas theme

Ahriman;

Yuki Kajiura - Surgam Identidem ('I will rise again and again')

The Imperium of Man;

Yuki Kajiura - Les Soldats ('The Soldiers')

**kingleir**

I am wondering why I never see hip hop on this list.

Right now I can think of only one but I haven't browsed my library in a while

Jedi Mind Tricks - 'Uncommon Valor - A Vietnam story'

But really anything from them seems angry enough.