D&D General Entrance Themes!

[Maialideth]

When I had a larger group of players, we would create a pre-game playlist where each player sent me a song that represented their character and situation in the game, and I would choose a song that represented the campaign. Then I would start the playlist when people started showing up before the game and my song was always the last on the playlist (the players could change their song when they wanted to, especially if something significant happened to their character and they had a song that fit well with it). When my song finished, we had agreed that regardless of any out of game talk that was going on at that moment, I was allowed to interrupt and start the session. It worked really well to get the game started, while also allowing for some pre-game chit chat. Sometimes I would allow the current conversation to finish (maybe because that person needed to get some real-world stuff off their chest), and other times I would interrupt mid-sentence (if it was a random anecdote or something like that).

For the first campaign where we did this, I used Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas (anyone who has watched Supernatural knows why). To this day whenever I hear the last notes of that song, I want to instinctly ask "So what happened last time?".

Edit
Also for Big Damn Heroes I'd use Immortals by Fall Out Boy.

 

[Bohandas]

Elemental Evil: Water - The Water God by Dethklok
(also Go Into the Water by Dethklok and Murmaidur by Dethkok)

Elemental Evil: Air - It Must Be the Wind by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
(also Mustard Gas by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, and In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins

Elemental Evil: Fire - Fire by Arthur Brown
(also Burn The Earth by Dethklok)

I had a whole Elemental Evil playlist. At some point I've gotta get it off my old mp3 player and write it here

 

[Voadam]

My viking vow of glory paladin's concept theme song was "I'm too sexy".

When they entered a dream realm and could exert a bit of control on the environment his entrance to meeting an oneiromancer was coming in riding a flying hammerhead shark, lightning flashing, with Thunderstruck playing as if he was a Frazetta poster come to life.

 

[Bohandas]

I had a whole Elemental Evil playlist. At some point I've gotta get it off my old mp3 player and write it here

Air Temple
In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
Ghost Riders in the Sky (The Outlaws)
Ghost Riders in the Sky (Spiderbait)
Hell's Bells (AC/DC)
Hell's Bells (Gregorian)
It Mus Be the Wind (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Mustard Gas (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)

Earth Temple
A Thousand Fists (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Diggin Up The World (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Dirty, Filthy (GWAR)
Filthy Flow (GWAR)
Murderer's Muse (GWAR)
Rock Lords (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
The Metal (Tenacious D)

Fire Temple
Burn In Hell (Twisted Sister)
Burning Up (ICP)
Burn the Earth (Dethklok)
Black Fire Upon Us (Dethklok)
Fire (Arthur Brown)
I [censored] Fire (Dethklok)
Volcano (Dethklok)

Water Temple
Go Into the Water (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Jimmy the Squid (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Murmaider (Dethklok)
Murmaider 2: The Water God (Dethklok)
One Gilled Girl (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Run Silent Run Deep (Iron Maiden)
The Innsmouth Look (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
A Thousand Fists (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)

Greater Temple/Misc
Ave Satani (Gregorian)
Bark At The Moon (Black Sabbath)
Comet (Dethklok)
Darkest Magic
Immortal Corruptor (GWAR)
Lost God (GWAR)
Ogdru Jahad (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
Pixel Shrooms (Mr.Weebl)
Slime Creatures From Outer Space (Weird Al)
Temple of Doom Soundteack track 13: 'The Temple of Doom' (John Williams)
Unstoppable (Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)

EDIT: Also, not on the original playlist, "What is Rock" and "Kingdom of the Spiders"