Best Mood Music for Gaming

[InVinoVeritas]

Hey Mark, do you have my Theme Song Challenge for your list?

I had a soundtrack playlist worked out for my Paridon campaign. I'll see if I can find it. The Totentanz song from the link above was the basic theme music. It used stuff from Silent Hill and Nine Inch Nails.

 

[Pseudonym]

So my question is this, what are the songs, soundtracks, and other musical pieces that the EnWorld Community thinks work great for creating, or adding, to the particular mood of encounters, both social and combat?

Al Green, Barry White or Teddy Pendergrass. Maybe Marvin Gaye.

 

[Argyle King]

Basil Poledouris usually works pretty well for ambient music.

Dream Evil works very well. In particular, the song 'Chosen Ones' is great to set the mood for a dramatic moment.

The music from the Halo games works well too. Most people are familiar with the title theme, but there are plenty of other songs from the soundtrack which make great mood music and aren't as well known (which is nice if you want something your players aren't too familiar with.)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e98SFlzTS90&feature=related]YouTube - Halo 3 Official Soundtrack - Behold a Pale Horse[/ame]


It may be considered a little cheesy, but Manowar is good mood setting music.


It depends what kind of mood you want to set.

 

[Chainsaw]

If you like metal, you might check out some Ahab (Call of the Wretched Sea, Dvinity of Oceans; funeral doom), Isis (Oceanic/Panopticon; atmospheric sludge) or various funeral doom (Funeral, Thergothon) or drone (Sun O)))).

I especially like Ahab - the riffs are slow, heavy and set a good ominous atmosphere for gaming. It's good for background music because there aren't alot of distracting time signature changes, fast drums or wild guitar solos (or even vocals for that matter).

 

[Ghostwind]

The Mortal Kombat movies soundtracks are also great combat music.

 

[Mark CMG]

Hey Mark, do you have my Theme Song Challenge for your list?

Thanks! I do now!


(Anyone who finds an appropriate thread that appears to have some legs feel free to post the link in the thread and I'll add it to the top post when I update it now and again.)

 

[TarionzCousin]

Nothing quite says "TPK Coming Your Way" like 220 decibels of Rammstein.

 

[Chainsaw]

Well, I wouldn't want to hear Dark Angel's Darkness Decends either..

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWLbgqCkUk"]YouTube - Dark Angel - Darkness Descends[/ame]

 

[Burchard]

This is a gaming song we wrote while reflecting on our youth and our early years of gaming back in the mid 80's. I'm on bass and my buddy Aaron sings and plays the guitar.

Fourth Level Fighter

Here's a version with drums and electric guitars

Free downloads and please pass it along!