Help with mood-setting music

[Xenos scum 0]

Hi Guys

I'm looking to start a new campaign and I have become bored with the music I know and I would love some new ideas. So any input or suggestions on music would be greatly appreciated Really, it could be any genre or mood, I like to use a lot of different music depending on what mood I want to create. As long as you think it fits the universe of 40k, I'll give it a chance

Cheers

[Simsum 220]

Really old Einstürzende Neubauten maybe? Halber Mensch could pass for 40K I think.

Gregorian Chant'y stuff might also be suitable.

Or the soundtracks from the various 40K video games.

 

You might want to be a tad more specific though. I mean, official 40K stuff tends towards either things like Boltthrower, or the stupidly bombastic choir stuff. I'm guessing chances are pretty good the lot of you would go bonkers listening to either for 4 hours straight, or however long your average play session lasts.

[Jargal 200]

Well, I can give the link to few good WH40K songs ... but they are in Russian :-)

[Xenos scum 0]

Well, I rarely like anything with vocals, since it draws to much attention to the music while gaming. Much like it seldom works with vocals on a movie soundtrack. I am looking for a bit of high-strung choir, but I probably won't need a lot of it. I won't need 4 hours to loose my sanity listening to that, but it might be useful from time to time.

I really don't want to narrow it down much further, since I'm trying to broaden my horizon and hear what other GM's like to use

 

Even if it is in Russian

[Darth Smeg 234]

Mostly ambient music at my table, lots of it soundtracks from films and video games. Someone compiled a collaborative Spotify playlist a while ago, and you can find it here:

 

Dark Heresy

[Lexdamus 7]

The dune soundtrack might be a good fit. Some ambient industrial/electro depending on what mood you are angling for. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6EJ2iPWfCA

For exploring some abandoned underhive/ wasteland? 

[Adeptus-B 926]

If you want something to contrast with the overall 'ambient' sound for fight scenes, I think Ministry works well.

[Magnus Grendel 11,679]

Fight Scenes and dramatic moments - Pretty much anything by Two Steps From Hell or Epic Score.

See most of Youtube for more details. Hans Zimmer music is good too. Black Hawk Down is a nice one.

 

Alternatively, the original Danse Macabre (AKA the Johnathan Creek themetune) feels appropriate for background music for hive-spire balls, etc.

 

Also, at some point the acolytes are likely to be in a lighter, valkyrie, or gun-cutter with some Guard soldiers or Inquisitorial stormtroopers descending towards a fight on the surface. At this point, the only music allowable is 'Klendathu Drop'.

[Brother Orpheo 243]

Or 'Flight Of The Valkyries'...

[Adeptus-B 926]

Or 'Dies Irae'...

 

-Oh! Speaking of classical music known today for appearing in movies, check out 'Tubular Bells', best known today for being used in The Exorcist...

Edited November 3, 2013 by Adeptus-B

[ogier300 0]

My game's mood music is pretty much a bunch of soundtracks from the Remote Control Productions composers - Hans Zimmer, Steve Jablonsky, Nick Glennie-Smith, Ramin Djawadi, Harry Gregson-Williams and Brian Tyler's Iron Man 3 soundtrack.

I start the session with the Pacific Rim main title and do a short recap of the past sessions events as though its the main titles for a 70s cop show.  I leave things on random play after that, and finish up with the Can You Dig It end titles from Iron Man 3, recapping some of the funnier/cooler bits of the current session.