A while back, almost immediately when I started the AoW campaign, I had the idea of making a soundtrack for it. I eventually made one, and gave my players all cds with issue #124's cover--the image by Wayne Reynolds--as the cd art. It came out pretty nice, if I do say so.
I was wondering if any other DMs had done something similar to this. I went with mostly rock songs, with an odd one here and there--seemed appropriate w/a rock band adopting the name of the main antagonist in AoW, namely Kyuss. So, here's the track list I went with:
Age of Worms Soundtrack
1: “Dirty Black Summer”—Danzig
2: “Immigrant Song”—Led Zeppelin
3: “The Chain”—Fleetwood Mac
4: “Ring of Fire”—Johnny Cash
5: “Gimme Danger”—Iggy & The Stooges
6: “Negative Creep”—Nirvana
7: “Wave of Mutilation”—Pixies
8: “Voodoo Chile”—Jimi Hendrix
9: “Colossal”—Wolfmother
10: “Carry on Till Tomorrow”—Badfinger
11: “Bad Moon Rising”—Creedence Clearwater Revival
12: “Waiting for the Worms”—Pink Floyd
13: “Whiter Shade of Pale”—Procol Harum
14: “Infra-Red”—Placebo
15: “The Supermen”—David Bowie
16: “The Ride of the Valkyries”—Wagner
17: “Black Hole Sun”—Soundgarden
18: “Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll”—Blue Oyster Cult
19: “I’m Not”—Kyuss
20: “Epic”—Faith No More
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I'm a huge fan of soundtracks while gaming. The right music, subtely played, can make any RPG session very memorable. I tend to avoid music by bands, but that's just a personal preference, it works just as well if everyone is into it.
I have a pretty long list of film soundtracks that I draw upon. The more obscure ones are better, that way no one identifies the music with a particular scene they love. Here are some:
Aliens
The Abyss
The Descent
Passion of the Christ
Last of the Mohicans
Passion (Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel)
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings
Stargate
The 13th Warrior
Conan the Barbarian
The Last Samurai
Way of the Gun
(some) Star Wars
...
There's a lot more but that's all I can think of at the moment.
This weekend my players are going to enter the Tabernacle of Worms.
I was wondering if any of ya could suggest a particular piece of music (or compilation of songs) for the fight with Big D.
Thanks.
I think it depends on the gaming group, but for me, I think Slayer would suit Dragotha quite nicely...such as "Screaming from the Sky." Other good ones might be (and I'm loathe to say this one, but) Metallica, or even Rage Against The Machine. Finally, I found, quite ironically, that Kyuss--the band, not the demigod--works quite nicely as gaming music.
These are all under the presumption that you and your gaming group like this kind of music. If not, and when all else fails, go with what makes you all comfortable.
This weekend my players are going to enter the Tabernacle of Worms.
I was wondering if any of ya could suggest a particular piece of music (or compilation of songs) for the fight with Big D.
Thanks.
My tastes for gaming music run to classical/orchestral, but for the fight against Dragotha "Night on Bald Mountain" by Mussorgsky is always a good choice.
I don't play music much during our games, but when they went into the arena for the first round of the Champions Games I cranked up "Beasts of the Wizard" from Midnight Syndicate's D&D album. It's basically a march that leads off with a lot of stomping feet and follows with big horns and whooshing crescendos. I described it as the noise the crowd was making as the gladiators entered. The whooshing sound was the Waterdeep griffon cavalry doing a flyby. Awesome stuff.
Manufactura, Converter, and Asche have some lovely ambient tracks, for spooky electronic fans.
This weekend my players are going to enter the Tabernacle of Worms.
I was wondering if any of ya could suggest a particular piece of music (or compilation of songs) for the fight with Big D.
Thanks.
Mine will enter next weekend, but I don't see them reaching Dragotha until the session after that one. Still, I am looking for some funky music too...
I go for big orchestrals, not metal (metal is for Traveller or Halo, IMHO). Godzilla (the score), Reign of Fire, and Matrix Revolutions have epic-sounding choral-backed music-I have also sampled long fight tracks from the Neverwinter Nights and Temple of Elemental Evil PC games, both of which I own. In a half hour, one can rip and burn a good battle CD from these sources...
"Aliens" is probably the single best soundtrack for several of the creepier moments of AoW. Perfect tracks for a battle with some really wormy undead horror and extremely creepy "exploration" music for delving into ancient cairns and tombs. You can download it off of iTunes.
The most badass track is "Bishop's Countdown." It's a really powerful musical piece that paints the picture of a party locked in mortal combat with some monstrous, horrible beast. It begins with really evil sounding horror-action music and then slowly turns to what I envision as the heroes gaining the edge until finally bringing the beast down! Incredible track.
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"Run Like Hell" Pink FLoyd
When the PCs see the Froghemoth under the Arena
"When I think about You I ... Myself" Divinyles
Prince Zeech to Lashonna
"Material Girl" Madonna
Prince Zeech to himself
"Master of Puppets" You BETTER know who!
Lashonna to everyone
"The Times They Are A Changin'" Bob Dylan, aka, God
Kyuss to the World
If I had my Dungeon Mags with me to reference I could come up with more.
-W. E. Ray
A while back, almost immediately when I started the AoW campaign, I had the idea of making a soundtrack for it. I eventually made one, and gave my players all cds with issue #124's cover--the image by Wayne Reynolds--as the cd art. It came out pretty nice, if I do say so.
I was wondering if any other DMs had done something similar to this. I went with mostly rock songs, with an odd one here and there--seemed appropriate w/a rock band adopting the name of the main antagonist in AoW, namely Kyuss. So, here's the track list I went with:
Age of Worms Soundtrack
1: “Dirty Black Summer”—Danzig
2: “Immigrant Song”—Led Zeppelin
3: “The Chain”—Fleetwood Mac
4: “Ring of Fire”—Johnny Cash
5: “Gimme Danger”—Iggy & The Stooges
6: “Negative Creep”—Nirvana
7: “Wave of Mutilation”—Pixies
8: “Voodoo Chile”—Jimi Hendrix
9: “Colossal”—Wolfmother
10: “Carry on Till Tomorrow”—Badfinger
11: “Bad Moon Rising”—Creedence Clearwater Revival
12: “Waiting for the Worms”—Pink Floyd
13: “Whiter Shade of Pale”—Procol Harum
14: “Infra-Red”—Placebo
15: “The Supermen”—David Bowie
16: “The Ride of the Valkyries”—Wagner
17: “Black Hole Sun”—Soundgarden
18: “Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll”—Blue Oyster Cult
19: “I’m Not”—Kyuss
20: “Epic”—Faith No More
Wow we have some cross songs :) Awesome, this is my soundtrack for Age of Worms---
Age of Worms -Sound Track Take 21. On the Turning Away -Pink Floyd
2 The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
3 Ring of Fire- Johnny Cash
4 Voodoo-Godsmack
5 Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
6 Black Hole Sun- Soundgarden
7 Riders on the Storm- The Doors
8 Nights of Fire- Type O Negative
9 In the Air Tonight- Phil Collins
10 Ordinary World- Duran Duran
11 She Moves In Mysterious Ways- U2 (Lashonna's Theme *lol*)
12 Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
13. I will Find you- Clannad
14. Mummer's Dance - Lorranna Mckinit (sp)
15. Possession (Sarah Mcluaghlin)
16. Hurt-Johnny Cash
17. We are the Champions - Queen
I find that the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack is hard to beat for high-powered hack-em-up gaming like the Tabernacle of Worms.
Adding some more moody movie soundtracks:
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Ninth Gate
Army of Darkness
Dreamcatcher
Creepiest musical selection I put on repeat during the Wormcrawl Fissure adventure:
Artist:Pink Floyd
Album:Let's Make Love in London 66'-67'
Track: Nick's Boogie
15 minutes of subtly, distorted dissonant notes. The guitar almost writhes in some parts, with this weird percussive beat of heavy drums and unidentifiable scraping sounds. No words, just a long, rhythimic instrumental. It sounds like bad heavy metal but totally isn't...Just weird. Good ol Syd Barrett..If a worm's brain made music, this is what it would sound like.
I have also found that some tracks from the World of Warcraft soundtrack work extremely well as background music. No lyrics and most of the songs are titled as the environments in the game. eg. Ashenvale Forest, Ruins, Duskwood, Badlands, etc. so its easy to figure out which track to play during each scene of the adventure.
I find it handy to create playlists for all the soundtracks which are split into 2 groups, ambient and battle. I put the slower/softer toned songs into ambient and put the faster/louder tracks into battle, so its easy to switch between the heroes walking into a tavern to enjoy some ale and an epic battle scene where they need to defeat a pissed off black dragon dracolich.
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I found, quite ironically, that Kyuss--the band, not the demigod--works quite nicely as gaming music.
I'm a huge Kyuss fan, and I was just as surprised as you that it worked as background music. I also created a soundtrack for the Aow campaign I'm in:
1. Franz Liszt - Danse Macabre
2. Kyuss - Space Cadet
3. Hans Zimmer - The Kraken
4. Midnight Syndicate - Relic Uncovered
5. Marilyn Manson - Resident Evil (main theme)
6. Kyuss - Odyssey
7. Creed - Bullets
8. Modeste Mussgorsky - A Night on Bald Mountain
9. Kyuss - Mondo Generator
10. Marilyn Manson - Coma Black
11. A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless
12. Midnight Syndicate - Heroes' Valor
13. Refused - Tannhauser
14. Tool - Stinkfist
15. Metallica - The Thing that Should Not Be
16. Avenged Sevenfold - Radiant Eclipse
17. Franz Liszt - Dante: Malebolgia
18. Kyuss - Apothecaries' Weight
19. Tool - Doom (main theme)
20. A Perfect Circle - Pet
21. Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
22. Tool - Third Eye
23. Kyuss - Green Machine
24. A Perfect Circle - Judith
25. Amon Amarth - The Beheading of a King
26. Kyuss - Asteroid
Hell's Yeah!
- The Eldritch Mr. Shiny
I mostly stick with instrumental soundtracks for my background music, but I found that the song "Crush 'Em", by Megadeth, works perfect for the arena battles of the Champion's Games!
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I found, quite ironically, that Kyuss--the band, not the demigod--works quite nicely as gaming music.
I'm a huge Kyuss fan, and I was just as surprised as you that it worked as background music. I also created a soundtrack for the Aow campaign I'm in:
1. Franz Liszt - Danse Macabre
2. Kyuss - Space Cadet
3. Hans Zimmer - The Kraken
4. Midnight Syndicate - Relic Uncovered
5. Marilyn Manson - Resident Evil (main theme)
6. Kyuss - Odyssey
7. Creed - Bullets
8. Modeste Mussgorsky - A Night on Bald Mountain
9. Kyuss - Mondo Generator
10. Marilyn Manson - Coma Black
11. A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless
12. Midnight Syndicate - Heroes' Valor
13. Refused - Tannhauser
14. Tool - Stinkfist
15. Metallica - The Thing that Should Not Be
16. Avenged Sevenfold - Radiant Eclipse
17. Franz Liszt - Dante: Malebolgia
18. Kyuss - Apothecaries' Weight
19. Tool - Doom (main theme)
20. A Perfect Circle - Pet
21. Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
22. Tool - Third Eye
23. Kyuss - Green Machine
24. A Perfect Circle - Judith
25. Amon Amarth - The Beheading of a King
26. Kyuss - Asteroid
Hell's Yeah!
- The Eldritch Mr. Shiny
I forgot to add a couple of tracks:
27. Refused - Circle Pit
28. Kyuss - One Inch Man
29. A Perfect Circle - Blue
30. Refused - Rather Be Dead
31. Kyuss - Writhe
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Our age of worms game has had the amazing BOLT THROWER "warmaster" LP cranked almost non-stop for the last few sessions. I don't like the band too much, but SIX INCHES of BLOOD has a lot of songs related to orcs scavenging the lands and can be entertaining from time to time.
EDIT: we have also been enjoying DEERHOOF, CHRISTIAN DEATH, and POLVO for some of our mellow sessions.
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Our age of worms game has had the amazing BOLT THROWER "warmaster" LP cranked almost non-stop for the last few sessions. I don't like the band too much, but SIX INCHES of BLOOD has a lot of songs related to orcs scavenging the lands and can be entertaining from time to time.
EDIT: we have also been enjoying DEERHOOF, CHRISTIAN DEATH, and POLVO for some of our mellow sessions.
NICE! I have been using my above mix, plus the following:
- Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
- Tool - Lateralus
- Refused - Rather Be Dead
- A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
- Rammstein - Rosenrot
- Lamb of God - Sacrament
For Diamond Lake in general:
House of the Rising Sun - (the Animals version comes to mind, but other artists have done variously suitable versions as well, which is a good thing if you want to play with theme and variation.)
The Feral Dog:
Bad to the bone - (George Thorogood and ZZ Top are good places to start)
Free City Arena:
Kurt Angle - (the WWE wrestling theme song) yeah, I know, but by chanting "Auric! Auric!" along to this tune as a description of what the crowd's doing, you can seriously mess with the more competitive and/or jealous heads on your party.
Thanks to the other posters who have provided ideas for the yoinking perusal of all.
Creepiest musical selection I put on repeat during the Wormcrawl Fissure adventure:
Artist:Pink Floyd
Album:Let's Make Love in London 66'-67'
Track: Nick's Boogie15 minutes of subtly, distorted dissonant notes. The guitar almost writhes in some parts, with this weird percussive beat of heavy drums and unidentifiable scraping sounds. No words, just a long, rhythimic instrumental. It sounds like bad heavy metal but totally isn't...Just weird. Good ol Syd Barrett..If a worm's brain made music, this is what it would sound like.
Love this thread bth. Combines two of my favorite things; music and gaming. Rak, so glad someone else likes - or even knows for that matter - Nick's Boogie. Anywho.
Some recommendations off the top of my head.
Marilyn Manson - Seizure of Power
A good "boss fight" song in general. Great for the fight with the Ebon Aspect in TFoE.
Lords of Acid - Out Comes the Evil
Filge
Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
Lashonna
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire
The razing of Alhastor
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Starting off the campaign
More to come when I can sit down and think about it.
It's becoming a tradition that ominous characters Like Bozhal have Sephiroth's theme. I made the players anxious by his well known theme.
As the players are about to fight the Ulgurasta on the "Ship of Earth and Sea," I'm going to play the Pirates of the Caribbean theme as they sail over the desert.
The chase scene out of the Necropolis (Free city) was quite exciting due to the music.
I would suggest DMs set up a playlist of songs. The players will recognize the song you used for the intense combat with the Ebon Aspect, and come to associate it with the dark cult. Even just playing the music while on break is excellent
From the Spire of Long Shadows (going for creepy and combaty). I have tried to draw off of my rather odd collection of extreme, ethnic, and rarer music from the 80s and 90s.
Creepy Music:
Circled By Hounds - (An old Friend of mine, her Celtic band)
The Tinker's Set - Chasing our Tales
Download
Hevel - Furnace
Mal Lade - Furnace
Dead Can Dance
Track 10 - Into the Labyrinth
Track 9 - Into the Labyrinth
Track 7 - Into the Labyrinth
Track 6 - Into the Labyrinth
Track 5 - Into the Labyrinth
Track 1 - Into the Labyrinth
Echolalia - The Serpent's Egg
Song of Sophia - The Serpent's Egg
Chant of the Paladin - The Serpent's Egg
The House of the Seraphim - The Serpent's Egg
Kristen Braten Berg
Heiema - Her Song
Jai Uttal
Raghupoli - Her Song
Flesh and Bone
Compassion - Her Song
Talitha Mackenzie
Unknown Track - Her Song
Ofra Haza
Israeli - Her Song
!Thckung!
Nomaadology - Incite
Pigface
The Love Serenade (I Hate You-) - Welcome to Mexico...
Aliens
The Theme Song - Track 1
Planescape the Eternal Torment
The entire Soundtrack (it's all good and creepy)
Combat Music:
!Tchkung! - (Earth First industrial Band from the Northwest)
Feralcore
Pigface - (Industrial All-Star band from chicago)
War Ich Night Immer eing guter Junge - Gub
The Bushmaster - Gub
Download - (Ex-Skinny Puppy folks)
Mother Sonne - Furnace
Cannaya - Furnace
Killing Joke
Exorcism - Pandemonium
KMFDM
A HOLE IN THE WALL - ANGST
BLOOD (EVIL MIX) - ANGST
Ministry
Stigmate - The Land of Rape and honey
Hizbollah - The Land of Rape and Honey
Destruction - The Land of Rape and Honey
Golden Dawn - The Land of Rape and Honey
Burning Inside - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Thieves - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
So What - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Manufactura, Converter, and Asche have some lovely ambient tracks, for spooky electronic fans.
For the most part I would probably also go for spooky electronica...Nurse With Wound, Morthund, Brighter Death Now, Burzum...