Ever hear a song that makes you think of D&D?

[Algolei]

Black Blade by Blue Oyster Cult

I have this feeling that my luck is none too good
This sword here at my side don’t act the way it should
Keeps calling me it’s master, but I feel like it’s slave
Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave
And it howls! it howls like hell!

I’m told it’s my duty to fight against the law
That wizardry’s my trade and I was born to wade through gore
I just want to be a lover, not a red-eyed screaming ghoul
I wish it’d picked another to be it’s killing tool

Black blade, black blade
Forged a billion years ago
Black blade, black blade
Killing so it’s power can grow

It’s death from the beginning to the end of time
And I’m the cosmic champion and I hold a mystic sign
And the whole world’s dying and the burden’s mine
And the black sword keeps on killing ’til the end of time

Black blade, black blade
Bringing chaos to the world we know
Black blade, black blade
And it’s using me to kill my friends
Black blade, black blade
Getting stronger so the world will end
Black blade, black blade
Forcing my mind to bend and bend

I am the black blade
Forged a million billion years ago
My cosmic soul it goes on for eternity
Carving out destiny
Bringing in the lords of chaos
Bringing up the beasts of hades
Sucking out the souls of heroes
Laying waste to knights and ladies
My master is my slave
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
You poor f*ing humans

(That and Boris the Spider--ahh, my high school days. )

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

ManOWar, classic stuff. Demon's Whip always cracked me up.

Except Flash of the Blade is by Iron Maiden...


What about Weezer's In the Garage? Opening verse:

I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide
I've got a 12-sided die
I've got Kitty Pryde
and Nightcrawler too
Waiting there for me
Yes I do, I do

 

[freebfrost]

Black Blade by Blue Oyster Cult

Funny, for some reason that reminds more of Elric's sword Stormbringer...

 

[Arnwyn]

Yeah, it's Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth... entirely due to nostalgia. My buddies used to play it before every session back in my University days.

 

[Ryltar]

"Sleight of Hand" by Eyes Adrift. Of course .

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Funny, for some reason that reminds more of Elric's sword Stormbringer...

Could it be that Michael Moorcock was hanging around with BOC in those days and writing songs with Buck Dharma? Hmmm...

Deep Purple's "Stormbringer" is also a charming lil' tribute to Moorcock's tortured albino anti-hero.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Iron Maiden produces a lot of music that remind me of D&D and other games: pretty much all of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, plus many of the other Maiden tracks mentioned, as well as "Alexander the Great," "The Trooper," "The Prisoner," "Fear of the Dark," "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner," and a bunch of others. "New Frontier," "Rainmaker," and "Gates of Tomorrow" from their latest, Dance of Death, are also good candidates.

"Night Prowler" from AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

"The Call of Ktulu" and "Creeping Death" from Metallica's Ride the Lightning. "The Four Horsemen" and "Phantom Lord" from Kill 'em All. "Harvester of Sorrow" from . . . And Justice for All. "Of Wolf and Man" from The Black Album. "Hero of the Day" from Load. "The Thing That Should Not Be" from Master of Puppets.

"And the Gods Made Love" from the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland.

"King Contrary Man" from The Cult's Electric. "Spiritwalker" from Dreamtime. "Fire Woman" from Sonic Temple. "The Witch" from the Pure Cult compilation.

Others already mentioned: Rush, Sabbath, Megadeth, etc.

Warrior Poet

 

[freebfrost]

Could it be that Michael Moorcock was hanging around with BOC in those days and writing songs with Buck Dharma? Hmmm...

Nah.

Next you'll say that Hawkwind's Chronicle of the Black Sword was about it too!



(For anyone interested, they did two other songs based on Moorcook novels. The first was The Great Sun Jester from "The Fireclown" and Veteran Of The Psychic Wars which was based on "The Dragon and the Sword.")

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Nah.

Next you'll say that Hawkwind's Chronicle of the Black Sword was about it too!



(For anyone interested, they did two other songs based on Moorcook novels. The first was The Great Sun Jester from "The Fireclown" and Veteran Of The Psychic Wars which was based on "The Dragon and the Sword.")

Nah...I'd NEVER say that.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Black Blade, The Trooper, Fear of the Dark, Flight of Icarus, Two Minutes to Midnight, The Ruins of my Life, Whiskey in the Jar, Of Wolf and Man...

Lots more, but too many by far to type out

Within Tempation's good, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, others.