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Originally Posted by DM Magic

I use fast-paced, thundering music from movie soundtracks for combat encounters. I have a wide range of tracks, organized by how "fast-paced" I want the encounter to feel. Fights with the boss of an adventure will be pulled from a different, more epic track list than yet another encounter with kobolds and goblins; similarly, combat with undead has a different "sound" than fights with other kinds of monsters.

Anyhoo, lately I've been playing with introducing contemporary rock tracks -- mostly as "themes" for certain characters when they do something amazing or awesome in combat. Altertanivly, if the fight is going bad for the players, I've been known to play Drowning Pools' "Bodies."

Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the FLOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!11!111twelve

Following is a list of songs I've started to use. Anyone have any ideas of other, well known rock/industrial/alternative songs that would be a good addition?

AC/DC, "Back In Black"
AC/DC, "Hells Bells"
AC/DC, "The Four Horsemen"
Blur, "Song 2"
Drowning Pools, "Bodies"
Joe Esposito, "You're the Best"
Led Zeppelin, "Immigrant Song"
Metallica, "Enter Sandman"
Metallica, "The Unforgiven"
Metallica, "The Unforgiven II"
Metallica, "Until It Sleeps"
Nine Inch Nails, "Dead Souls"
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"
N.R.G., "Instruments Of Destruction"
The Smashing Pumpkings, "The End Is the Beginning Is the End"
Stan Bush, "The Touch"
Type O Negative, "Blood & Fire"

I suggest, "Highway Star," by Deep Purple.