D&D 5E What music do you listen to to get into your current character?

SmokingSkull

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To help me get into the mindset of characters I play I listen to music that fits their personality and/or past to better RP it. The current character I'm playing is a Goliath Fighter/Champion whose background is Soldier. He's 45 years old, a veteran of two wars, an artisan in two trades and has lost everything a man could possess besides himself and his memories. To help me get into this character I listen to the following:

Metal Gear Solid Original Soundtrack: The Best is Yet to Come
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Original Soundtrack: Boss's Theme, Afghanistan's a Big Place, Introduction to Africa, Metal Gear Online, Sins of the Father
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Original Soundtrack: Calling to the Night
Mike Oldfield, Man on the Rocks: Nuclear
Berserk Golden Age Arc I Original Soundtrack: Et Voici Guts, The Wrath of God (Part II), Griffith's Dream, Des Cambrioleurs, New Horizons
Berserk Golden Age Arc II Original Soundtrack: Et Voici Guts Opus 2, La Bataille Pour Doldrey 2, Griffith's Dream - Doldrey Mix 2, My Brother 2, Hundred Years War
Berserk Golden Age Arc III Descent: Original Soundtrack: Bruit de Pierre

Am I the only one who does this? If not what music do you listen to to get into character?
 

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As I am ever so rarely a player in a game that it may as well be fitting circumstances to commune with the great old ones, my answers here are the music I listen to when getting into the mindset I prefer for each different game I run:

The Sword for anything meant to have old-school D&D styling.
Ministry for Shadowrun.
The Pretty Reckless for Vampire chronicles focused on the monster aspect, Type O Negative for chronicles that romanticize the vampiric condition in some way.
Pantera for anything Hunter related.
...and I haven't run anything else for a long time so I don't have current musical pre-game for them.

And an honorable mention to a mix of Massive Attack, The Glitch Mob, Deadmau5, Celldweller, Bassnectar, and Lindsey Stirling that I listen to while doing things like drawing maps, making visual aids, character sheets, or handouts, and absorbing game rules or setting information because it keeps me laser-focused and on-task to a ridiculous degree.
 

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