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Two Steps from Hell - Victory
Two Steps from hell - Armada
Those provide some nice background pieces without being too obtrusive. but if you want to go for Pure Pirate, Almost Anything by Alestorm.
ALESTORM - Shipwrecked is a favorite of mine.
Amon Amarth, The Pursuit of Vikings is another good one. Both Alestorm and Amon Amarth are probably a bit heavy for game music but they are Ship Game, if nothing else.
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O Fortuna - Carmina Burana It's great battle music all around.
Those provide some nice background pieces without being too obtrusive. but if you want to go for Pure Pirate, Almost Anything by Alestorm.
ALESTORM - Shipwrecked is a favorite of mine.
Alestorm is awesome, but I'm having a hard time imagining raiders singing . . . no, I'm having a really easy time imagining vikings belting those jaunty tunes. But it doesn't really fit the mood . . .
General epic nautical music list:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYTdzgc8sH_TOQtEYWWaGIrCUpkCpMV28
Not exactly ship combat music, but background sailing shanties. YouTube: Assassin's Creed Black Flag shanties.
Maybe they are not your cup of tea but in overall the Soul Calibur songs are pretty good.
Those come to mind for that scene:
Soul Calibur III - Approaching Tempest
A Night on Bald Mountain.
I would suggest this set for its split between "epic" combat music and slower, roleplay friendly music, (see the tracklist). Between 28:56-44:14 might be best for viewing the oncoming raiders and then moving onto the attack.
O Fortuna - Carmina Burana It's great battle music all around.
There is always room for a bit of O Fortuna. ^.^
Vikings, you say? Then, this one is a must:
How do you feel about opera? Wagner specifically, or if you can find it, The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth.
Roger McGuinn has an entire album of pirate shanties.
A Viking metal Pandora station?
Putting my pedantic hat on. There are no such things as pirate shanties. Shanties were sang by sailors of either merchant or military ships for either work or leisure. Either way, singing about pirates would have gotten you in huge trouble (even of the life ending type).
Pirates have had myriad forms, and the ones of the golden age of sail would have indeed sang shanties too, but likely the same ones that were sung in other ships, as that is from where these pirates came.Any shanties that deal about pirates are usually about sinking them (Coast of Barbary) or hoping you didnt come accross any. So any pirate lyrics are by necessity modern. Worth noting that many shanties even though thought traditional are a modern interpretation of what we have left. Only so many got written and not always by the people that employed them.
You can go as far as saying that train-track layers in the north american west also sang shanties - in fact many were sailors who alternated between sailing seasons and track laying, hence you'll find similar tunes. Song for getting through toil is afterall an old concept for humans.
Furthermore on Roger Quinn...he sings shanty lyrics but the accompanying music, vocals and composition makes them distinctingly not very shanty like. I like his music though!
Pendatic hat off.
Wagner is indeed amazing for an incoming storm!
Basically anything from The Witcher 3's Skellige area is good stuff.
Example: Skellige Theme 1
Caterpillars, I had no idea Tim Curry had done Pirate King, I must see this.
As for the pirate shanty thing, I was just highlighting the historical background. Pirate...ness sometimes overlaps and substitutes general nautical themes (in the USA especially) and I feel it is important to know the differences (not specifically you, just to anyone reading about shanties, an often obscure subject), even when enjoying either one. It is very interesting how shanties, or other non nautical working songs, are more prevalent in some cultures than others. For example spanish language shanties (in the english style sense) are basically non existent, but in scandinavian languages they are more common.
A great power metal pirate like album is Running Wild - Under the Jolly Roger. For something more foreboding, impending storm...Cutthroat Island score should have appropriate stuff, it is an excellent composition.
How about an old whaling song ? Sung by Stan Rogers ?
A Vikings battle?
There's always Ride of the Valkyries (one selection from Wagner's opera mentioned by Caterpillars).
For a more generic sea battle, Skull and Crossbones from Pirates of the Carribean is an option.
Up is Down from Hanz Zimmer.
Black Sails Main Theme from the show of the same name.
Norwegian Pirate from Two Steps from Hell.
And the few ones from Vikings that people already linked.
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It may not quiiite fit the theme, this theme is kinda neat for an extended battle scene and it's softer tone means it's super easy to talk over.
The following two songs are shorter and way more pirate themed, but I think they're pretty good any way.
Sea Shanty o' the One-Eyed, No-Armed Wench
She's a Sp8der