More music for Skyrim

[NearLifeExperience]

I have recently picked up Skyrim again and have downloaded a mod that lets me change the in-game music. Very neat indeed, since the game's vanilla music is boring and repetitive. I am looking for dramatic and intense songs for battles, adventurous music for exploring, folkish and festive music for towns and inns, a creepy soundtrack to dungeons, dreamy stuff for nights/mornings, et cetera, et cetera. You get the idea. The music doesn't have to be entirely lore-friendly (for instance, they can be from other games or movies, and don't have to be 100% 'unplugged'), but the songs have to fit in the game's atmosphere.

Some examples

Spoiler

Battle songs:

Adventure/exploration:

Towns & Inns

Night & morning

Can you help me fill my music folder?

 

[Elfgore]

This may have nothing to do with what you're asking but most of those were pretty bad. The first one had some techno sound going with it, which doesn't match Skyrim's theme at all. But I will agree that Skyrim's soundtrack was mediocre at best. My only suggestion would be to take Jeremy Soule's best work (AKA: all of the oblivion soundtrack) and put it into Skyrim.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Which mod is this? Do you have a hyperlink if it's on the Nexus, or just the full name if it's on Steamworks?

I used this mod for extra skyrim music: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/33740

After 250+ hours of play and tinkering it's amazing what a profound change the soundtrack can have on opening up the game again and breathing new life into it, so I'd love a mod that allows me to download my own music into Skyrim!

P.S. Go to Youtube, type in "2 steps from Hell". You should check them out.

 

[Xdeser2]

the game's vanilla music is boring and repetitive.

The fuck are you talking about?

The soundtrack was one of the best parts about that game

OT: That being said....The mod does sound like a good idea though, I wouldn't mind adding a few tracks to the game

 

[Risingblade]

Those songs seem better off in an JRPG to be honest.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Why not get rid of the Skyrim soundtrack and replace it with the much better Oblivion soundtrack?

 

[RedDeadFred]

the game's vanilla music is boring and repetitive.

The fuck are you talking about?

The soundtrack was one of the best parts about that game

This. I bought the soundtrack and love listening to it. So many of the tracks are amazingly peaceful. It's beautiful.

 

[Polarity27]

Go check out Garmarna. Actual Nordic folk music seems like a good fit for a Nord-based game!

 

[aceman67]

the game's vanilla music is boring and repetitive.

The fuck are you talking about?

The soundtrack was one of the best parts about that game

OT: That being said....The mod does sound like a good idea though, I wouldn't mind adding a few tracks to the game

I think the person is talking about the fact that after 200+ hours, it can get boring and repetitive.

 

[piinyouri]

Use Lustmord and some of Sunn O)))'s songs for dungeon delving.
NEVER FEEL SAFE AGAIN

 

[Proverbial Jon]

since the game's vanilla music is boring and repetitive.

I think Skyrim suffers from the problem that it's a game played for many, many hours so gamers are naturally going to be exposed to its soundtrack way more than most games. This does not make the music boring and repetitive though.

I've been listening to the OST on my big music speakers away from the game and I've really found an all new appreciation for sounds that I honestly thought I had heard enough of.

It's fair enough that you're trying to spice up a game that you've probably played for a long time now, but please don't condemn an awesome soundtrack in the process!

 

[Daggedawg]

For battle, obviously.

 

[sextus the crazy]

For battle, obviously.

HOLY! HOLY FORCES!

OT: I'd just swap out the music for Japanese composed music, which I find to generally be more engaging than western composed stuff.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

You need a mod for that in Skyrim? In Oblivion you just went into the sound files and put things where you wanted it. At one point, I had Master of Puppets blast out every time I was in danger.

So uh, why not move the Oblivion music in? It was pretty damn good, if memory serves.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Just take all of Jeremy Soule's soundtracks and mash them in together. They all share the same large brass and string sections, honestly, it wouldn't sound out of place to have the Dungeon Siege theme playing alongside the Sith Temple music while you go cave crawling in Skyrim.

 

[Rip Van Rabbit]

Oooh, try having a look at anything from Two Steps From Hell (Especially their "Invincible" album):


Fighting a dragon will never feel the same after that.

For a sheer godly battle:


0:16 is where the inspiration begins...

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This helps if you're entering a particularly heroic battle...



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This can work if you're stalking your prey, picking them off one by one...


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These two creates a tense atmosphere when entering an unknown creepy dungeon



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But that's just me, I have odd taste in music.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

I used this mod for extra skyrim music: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/33740

I think you might suffer from mod misidentification, that mod doesn't add any music or sounds; it only alters/improves[footnote]that's what the author says, I haven't used this mod yet.[/footnote] the way sound effects are handled by the game engine. While looking for another mod I thought you might have meant, I found a mod called Personalized Music [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13286]; maybe that's what you (and the OP as well) are looking for ;-)

Okay, I just tried to track that music mod that I downloaded some time ago (Fantasy Music Overhaul) on the Nexus, but it's currently set to hidden status on the Nexus... No Idea why.

But I found something called the PSYRIM Music Overhaul [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/1041], which "replaces all the music with psychedelic ambient trance, creating a magical, other world fantasy."
After hearing the examples I'd say it's space game music
Maybe it's not what you're used to hear in a medieval fantasy setting, but I have no problem with games or movies doing that. So now it's on my Skyrim mod bucket list

Enough rambling, here's what I actually wrote first so I wouldn't forget it after a lengthy round trip around Youtube and the Nexus:

Age of Conan has awesome music!
Some YT Playlist links
Age of Conan Soundtrack [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kn99vRCbww&list=PLBEA7270DA219EAB8] from the Vanilla game
Rise of the Godslayer Soundtrack [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0tq2B_Ssw&list=SP030397D09A713F4B] from the East-Asia themed addon.

 

[V3rtig0]

I thought Skyrim's soundtrack was pretty good. But then again I didn't even finish the main story(and thus didn't manage to get bored of it), I lost my save files and never bothered to start over... Maybe some time...

If I were in your situation, I'd probably just replace every song with the main theme. Yes, I love it that much.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I used this mod for extra skyrim music: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/33740

I think you might suffer from mod misidentification, that mod doesn't add any music or sounds; it only alters/improves[footnote]that's what the author says, I haven't used this mod yet.[/footnote] the way sound effects are handled by the game engine. While looking for another mod I thought you might have meant, I found a mod called Personalized Music [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13286]; maybe that's what you (and the OP as well) are looking for ;-)

Opps, sorry, I linked the wrong mod, I've a hundred or so in my Nexus Mod Manager and I just selected the first I saw that mentioned sounds in it, didn't realise that wasn't the right one. It was called Fantasy Music Overhaul, but I tried linking it and it's been taken down now (most likely it used copyrighted music)

I've also got a mod going on the Steam Workshop called Enhanced soundtrack (Part 1 - Explore) and Enhanced soundtrack (Part 2 - Everything Else) (It's so big they had to split it into 2 files.)
It's in 2 files because it was too big to fit into one. Does the same job as the one I originally talked about there, except this one still works.
P.S. Thanks for finding that music mod, I'll start experimenting with it right away!

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

these songs by rhapsody of fire.
they make songs about fantasy related things. thier first 5 albums supposedly were telling a high fantasy story. The third video has christopher lee singing in it and it's awesome. these are the only songs they made that were able to catch my attention(I am very picky about music), so feel free to look up more of there songs .