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[Brandeles]

While it's always best to be on steady comms with your lance-mates, sometimes that's simply not possible, or perhaps you just want to listen to something other that the hurrahs of victory and the cries of defeat. So I wonder, fellow 'mech jockeys:

What tunes do you listen to while you're thundering across the battlefield?

Some of my favorite fightin' tunes are:

Tyranny of Steel - Iron Savior (Hunchback)
Ghost Division - Sabaton (Catapult)
Vulgaris Magistrales - Heidevolk (Atlas)
Black Betty - Spiderbait (Jenner)

How about you folks?

[von Pilsner]

The No Guts No Galaxy (Battletech) podcast!

[Petosky]

I typically listen to the soundtrack to Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Its pretty nostalgic, as it brings me back to that game- the first mechwarrior game I ever played on PC, back in '95-'96... that, and its pretty damn high-energy and heavy. Great battle stuff for any mech class and occasion.

[Cattra Kell]

Usually don't have music when I play, mainly com chatter in my ears.

If I do drop lone wolf I usually have something like:

Kings Of The City - Make Me Worse (Muzzy Remix)
Persona 5 -Reincarnation- CONTROL FREAK 「 Yasutaka Mix 」
deadmau5 - Maths
Gigi D'Agostino - Another Way "angeli in festa"

[DarkAlman]

Jeehun Hwang - Soundtrack to Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries

[Rabid Monkey]

The bloodcurdling screams of my fallen enemies.

[Lorcan Lladd]

With exclusivety, I listen to the manliest and most harcore stuff available in the form of music.

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Edited by Lorcan Lladd, 18 October 2012 - 08:17 PM.

[Brandeles]

Lorcan Lladd, on 18 October 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

With exclusivety, I listen to the manliest and most harcore stuff available in the form of music.

Indeed, the manliest of battle-song. And what else would we listen to? Because, after all...

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Edited by Brandeles, 18 October 2012 - 08:30 PM.

[Mechwarrior1426]

I listen to a mix of Mechwarrior 2,3,4 and mechassault 1,2 music but sometimes i mix in a bit of two steps from hell and a bit of linkin park

[The Raptor]

Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries mostly... I was brought up on that game... XD

[Eevl]

Muse, Rob Dougan, Max Richter

Sometime something heroic and epic like a "Globus" or "Two Steps from Hell"

[Norris J Packard]

I typically go with the hardest beats, and dirtiest rhymes I can find.

I am very particular with my Rap/Hip-Hop selection as a result, most of it is experimental or militaristic in cadence. Many people would find my tastes to be eclectic as a result, and might not find it particularly tasteful.

Eyedea
Death Grips
Prof
Die Antwoord
MAYDAY
Immortal Technique

That kind of stuff.

[JaviSS]

Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaris OST.




Katya Hess
DRG-1N

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

MW2, mercs, Mw4, 4 mercs if I'm running with some oldschool players.

Otherwise Kyary Pamyu Pamyu all day 'err day.

[Kibble]

Corrosion of Conformity
Black Label Society
Pantera
Clutch
Down

[CCISolitude]

The screams coming from the basement of all the blakists I keep down there for my torture parties.

[WondrousWally]

War Pigs by Black Sabbath

[TheFuzzyBunny]

Flogging Molly channel on Pandora.

[Magnumaniac]

Anything that the random shuffler picks, but some that just sounded right when they came on...

Turisas - Battle Metal
Rhapsody - Knightrider of Doom / Dawn of Victory
Blind Guardian - Valhalla
Muse - Knights of Cydonia ("No-one's gonna take me alive" seemd very apt)
and, of course, Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction

Some tracks also ignite a subconscious compulsion to play the sub-game of synchronising weapons fire to the music. Muse's 'Uprising' seems to be particularly good for this

Of course, having said all that, if I were really in the position of riding 100 tons of steel into battle, raining death and destruction down all around, only one piece of music would do (regardless of how cliche'd and over-used it is)... Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyrie'

[Brandeles]

Occasionally, I feel the need for something in a more traditional/classical style. In that case:
March of Cambreadth - Heather Alexander
Dance of the Knights - Prokofiev
Mars, the Bringer of War - Gustav Holst