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Quazimofo

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Brutal legend?s a fairly obvious one. Tons of good music on that car radio and during the battles in the background.

A somewhat more indirect case though would be how I learned of nightwish: a band I recommend everyone look into immediately. Sample a bit of music from dark passion play onwards as well as before dark passion play, since they did change singers starting with that album and the earlier music was more?. Orchestral I guess you could say. If nothing else listen to Nemo and poet and the pendulum.
I am a big fan of star wars: empire at war. I?ve since lost my copy (both of them? somehow), but while I had it I played the ever-loving shit out of it. At some point though, I got interested in mods (as many pc gamers do). Looking at a video showcasing a mod that puts the executor in the game (the original, not forces of corruption where it is a playable unit), there was a terribly unfitting but still very intriguing song playing. I messaged the person and he told me it was amaranth by nightwish. I currently have legally purchased copies of a large bit of their discography and they remain one of my favorite bands of all time.

KingsGambit said:
- Archive: Bullets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6nbFZtxAL4] - From the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer. This song was a perfect choice by CD Project and I can't wait for this game.
- Drunken Whaler [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlkYz6Il4JM] from Dishonored - At least in the trailers. It literally sends shivers down my spine to hear it. A fusion of grungy rock and a nursery rhyme, I've never heard anything like it before or since, though I'd love to.
Seconded ON BULLETS. Absolutely perfect choice for the trailer and the game given the subject matter.

The Dishonored version of the drunken sailor is certainly very chilling. It is refreshing to have something so different than what you have heard before (part of the reason I love reel big fish and that one vampire weekend song, ?cousins?, as well as animal alpha, particularly ?FIRE FIRE FIRE?. They are all strangely different yet similar to what I?m used to in a great way.)
Personally though, I prefer the drunken sailor sea shanty. It?s so simple and upbeat and just about sailors dicking around with each-other as they do on long voyages.
 

M K Ultra

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For better or worse...
The most insidious earworm, classified as banned weapon of annoyance in 1832
 

mhb77

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A few years ago I played a bizarre game called Space Funeral. The music for the first area was so good I quit playing to look it up. Turns out it was White Waking by Les Rallizes Dénudés, a band which wound up reshaping my taste in music.


(Space Funeral is pretty great too. You can play it for free here: http://gamejolt.com/games/rpg/space-funeral/3492/)
 

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Phoenix1213 said:
Pretty much every band in Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines.

Chiasm
Lacuna coil
Aerial2012
Genitortorers
Ministry
Darling Violetta

That game had a lot of great lesser known artists.
You mention some solid bands featured in an amazing game and you don't mention Tiamat?
Outside of that the song used for Mass Effects end credits in IMO an amazing song by a very middling band:
 

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SSX 3 got me listening to Royksopp's Melody A.M., which despite being ambient electronica, I absolutely love.

I was playing Jet Moto when my dad came into the room. Now the soundtrack is kick-ass on its own, but my dad said "It kinda sounds like Joe Satriani." Now, I had no idea who this guy was, but my dad has a good taste in music, so I decided to check him out. Now his Surfing with the Alien is one of my all time favorite albums.

Guitar Hero helped me shape my musical interests. If it wasn't for that game, I'd probably into modern pop or something like that. The Tony Hawk series also helped out a lot, with its ska/punk tracks.
 

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Thanks to Halo 2, I was introduced to one of my favorite bands of all time:


Breaking Benjamin. Love those guys.