Music to Make War(Gaming) By

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**Napalm**

Kind of a light question, but what (if any) kind of music do you like going on when you game? My local store plays lots of movie score type stuff, and I know in others it's heavy metal. Personally one day I had the Sound of Silence going through my head in a SM v Necron game I was playing that set the mood for me.

**Quintinus**

Jefferson Airplane. And Neil Young. Maybe some Pirates of the Caribbean for good measure.

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

Local GW store plays Metallica, Linkin Park, Ramstein and other generic heavy metal on a constant loop. Good thing the kiddies don't understand German...

As far as we go, my CD collection consists almost exclusively of soundtracks and scores. My most recent list of acquisitions were:

Armageddon (score, not the Aerosmith-heavy 'sound track')
Aliens
The Mummy Returns
Conan The Barbarian
Stargate: Ark of Truth
Stargate: Continuum
Halo Trilogy + Halo 2 Volume 1 (which doesn't come in the Trilogy, funnily enough)
King Kong (Peter Jack's King Kong the Official Soundtrack of the Movie)
Gladiator (the second Gladiator soundtrack)
Clone Wars

And I think that's it. Usual soundtracks that we put on are the Pirates of the Caribbean ones, the Lord of the Rings complete soundtracks (the boxed sets that go for about $100-$150 used on Amazon), the Star Wars soundtracks, plus a few random other ones like Starship Troopers, The Rock (the movie, not the wrestler), God of War II, Run Lola Run (German Techno FTW!) and heaps of other stuff.

I've been meaning to rip them all to MP3 and put them onto some sort of iPod-ish device that I can plug into a speaker system.

**99MDeery**

I like some soft background music my current faves are:

Final Fantasy 7 Soundtrack (all 4 CDs of it)
Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age
Prodigy

**ifyouseekamy**

Eh, some good music I like and can feel myself wargaming to is(bands):

As Blood Runs Black
As I Lay Dying
The Devil Wears Prada
Carnifex (YES! There is a band named carnifex. How B.A.?)
Arsonists Get All The Girls
Metallica
Nightwish
Amon Amarth
Stone Temple Pilots
Escape The Fate(some, but too much is bad)
Bring Me The Horizon
and....
Cancer Bats

and of course some of the lighter metal/rock (like LP, A7X, etc.)

**Zip Napalm**

Same things I listen to all the time. Dissonance works for me.

Green Day
King's X
Dave Brubeck
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Stone Temple Pilots
Stravinsky
Mushroomhead
Jeff Beck
Muse
Holst
Gentle Giant

**FoxPhoenix135**

What??? No Apocalyptica????

They set a very good gothic 40k scene for me. They new album is primarily instrumental.

**warpcrafter**

Kreator
Nile
Hate Eternal
Cannibal Corpse
Slayer
Suicide Silence

It's playing in my head even if I'm nowhere near a stereo.

**Lord Lankington**

ifyouseekamy wrote:
As Blood Runs Black
As I Lay Dying
The Devil Wears Prada
Carnifex (YES! There is a band named carnifex. How B.A.?)
Arsonists Get All The Girls
Metallica
Nightwish
Amon Amarth
Stone Temple Pilots
Escape The Fate(some, but too much is bad)
Bring Me The Horizon
and....
Cancer Bats

and of course some of the lighter metal/rock (like LP, A7X, etc.)

Your the man!!!
check out:

The Red Shore
I Killed the Prom Queen

But i listen to LOTR sound tracks, Final fantasy 7+8 soundtracks, also Requiem for a Dream, Jurusalem, Land of Hope and Glory

**Fafnir**

I always listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBQlpDFb54

**Quintinus**

Zip Napalm wrote:
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

I think that you're the only other person that I know of that actually listens to this band besides my dad and me.

You rule.

**unclehomefries**

When We Ride on our Enemies - Tupac

Listen to it...just wow

**greenskin lynn**

generic metal radio station sometimes

depends on the day what i want to listen to

sometimes its a red hot chili peppers day
sometimes the beatles white album
perhaps some dargaad
or nightwish
about the only thing i don't game to is country, rap, or gospel

**Miguelsan**

Klendathu Drop from the SST OST is spot on for playing with/against IG

M.

**karmaiko**

Disturbed, JP, Iron Maiden, basically any metal that gets us in a mood to kick ass

**Cryonicleech**

I actually listen to the entire Madden 07 Soundtrack.

It's a good soundtrack

**typhus**

iron maiden slipknot system of a down disturbed and most importantly ROB ZOMBIE!!!!

**ph34r**

My IG's song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbw1pGUhG7Q&fmt=18

**AlexCage**

Dethklok for 40k, Dragonforce for WHFB. There are NO acceptable alternatives.

**assultmarine**

convoy convoy convoy is the only thing for it that and
anything from pirates of the carribian

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

For Fantasy Battle....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3PiNyRXhM

Full Throttle kicks arse! Still need to get the other albums of theirs.

**LuciusAR**

The Metalheads are out in full force I see.

I like a bit of Metal as much as the next man (The new Mastadon album is my favorite album of the year sofar), but for my gaming I prefer something a bit more sweeping and epic. Movie and Game scores with some Classical always goes down well.

for 40K:
The Scores from Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Black Hawk Down, Halo, Gears of War. Im not sure if there is a Battlestar Glactica soundtrack but if there is I indend to hunt it gown. Also the Music from the Command and Conquer games. The Music from Generals is excellent and Hellmarch from Red Alert is the perfect music for Imperial Guard armies. Also the Score for Hunt for Red October is very Guardlike. Ive also found the Music from Batman Begins and Dark Knight is suprisingly creepy and can be used to great effect in 40K games.

For Fantasy:
The Scores from Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Lord of the Rings, Excalibur, Conan the Barbarian tend to go down well.

Also I use the scores from WW2 movies for my games of Flames of War as well as music from the period. Nothing like a bit of Glenn Miller or Edith Piaf to blow up tanks to!

**ixlar**

I like to go old school. Epic sounds.

O Fortuna by Carl Orff - The best music to start any epic battle with.
Wagner
Beethoven's 5th
Tchaikovsky
Handel
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff
Paganini

Early Metallica
Rage Against the Machine
Primus - just a fan, can listen to them anytime.
Early Chilli Peppers
Any Hendrix
Most "Classic" Rock
Rush

**temprus**

I start up some Symphonika when I feel the need to be in a 40k mood.

**Anung Un Rama**

typhus wrote:iron maiden slipknot system of a down disturbed and most importantly ROB ZOMBIE!!!!

Wow! This must be the first time I see typhus use capital letters.

I recently finished a sampler CD with different movie and videogame music for playing 40k. Yeah, a CD, I like making sampler CDs

The track list is the following:

Incubation - First Contact
Metal Gear Solid 3 - Operation Snake Eater
Lost Planet - Battle Ready
Dawn of War - Space Marine theme
Starcraft - Terran theme 1
Mass Effect - Exit
MGS3 - virtous mission
Lost Planet - Main Theme
the incredible Hulk - give him everything you've got
Starship Troopers . Bugs!!
Resident Evil 4 - Back-Up
Super Mario Galaxy - Bowser Battle Theme
Alone in the Dark - and End for a Prelude
Stargate (movie) - battle at the pyramid
Republic Commando . GratuaCuun
Starship Troopers - Destriuction of Roger Young
Transformers - Skorponok
MGS4 - Metal Gear Saga
Lost Planet - Garave's Theme

All in all, this makes for a very satisfying 40k soundtrack. It starts silent to set the mood, but in the end, there's a lot of epic battle music.

**typhus**

Anung Un Rama wrote:
typhus wrote:iron maiden slipknot system of a down disturbed and most importantly ROB ZOMBIE!!!!

Wow! This must be the first time I see typhus use capital letters.

I recently finished a sampler CD with different movie and videogame music for playing 40k. Yeah, a CD, I like making sampler CDs

The track list is the following:

Incubation - First Contact
Metal Gear Solid 3 - Operation Snake Eater
Lost Planet - Battle Ready
Dawn of War - Space Marine theme
Starcraft - Terran theme 1
Mass Effect - Exit
MGS3 - virtous mission
Lost Planet - Main Theme
the incredible Hulk - give him everything you've got
Starship Troopers . Bugs!!
Resident Evil 4 - Back-Up
Super Mario Galaxy - Bowser Battle Theme
Alone in the Dark - and End for a Prelude
Stargate (movie) - battle at the pyramid
Republic Commando . GratuaCuun
Starship Troopers - Destriuction of Roger Young
Transformers - Skorponok
MGS4 - Metal Gear Saga
Lost Planet - Garave's Theme

All in all, this makes for a very satisfying 40k soundtrack. It starts silent to set the mood, but in the end, there's a lot of

epic battle music.

yea ROB ZOMBIE is the only one who deserves them lol

**Nerf_IG**

Dawn of War has already been mentioned, but I have to say that the Imperial Guard theme completely nailed the tone of the army IMO. It's got just the right mix of gothic chanting and military anthem.

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

**Zip Napalm**

Vladsimpaler wrote:
Zip Napalm wrote:
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

I think that you're the only other person that I know of that actually listens to this band besides my dad and me.

You rule.

It's still the ultimate geek music. Brain Salad Surgery and Tarkus were custom made for 40K.

**Augustus**

Nightwish - Anything
Iron Savior - Anything

10th man Down - Nightwish

and

Tales of the Bold - Iron Savior

are particularly excellent!