When you worldbuild or plan your games, do you have certain songs or albums that inspire parts of your work? Not necessarily background music for while you play, but music that captures your vision.
Working on a gothic/cosmic setting for my players, somewhere between Innistrad and Bloodborne. Reading lots of Poe, and I'm thinking the album that sets the mood for me is The Hunter by Mastodon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acna6jcCU28
>>43614475
Blood Mountain is basically a one-man adventure.
>>43614475
I strongly recommend the first two "Hellraiser" movies' soundtracks for any kind of horror campaign type thing. Some great epic fantastic tracks in there.
Is this the most apt shit ever cuz Mastodon is like the most neckbeard metal band out there? Anyway I got a variety of shit that comes to me.
Obligatory Bolt Thrower for everything Warhammer. Their unique take on Old School Death Metal literally is like using the death metal sound to get the feel down of an army of overthetop badasses slogging through war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL19beIJSE0
Early Swans for some really downtrodden hopeless shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSRjYYUE-_c
If I want some truly surreal out of this world shit, I love me some Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Deathspell Omega, and Amon Duul II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mzoso95-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WayVS0gnBNc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnVT86eQlas
For something that maintains some kind fantasy with a lot of feels, Slint gets it done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAApF-FDkoY
Oh and I always have Front Line Assembly on repeat if I am doing some Shadowrun/Neuromancer/cyberpunk FATE and Savage World games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B3WvSWCRwA
And last but not least if I want something that's fucking huge and epic I listen to newer Swans albums (yes I love Swans gtfo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEJl94PTN4
>>43614475
I have a bunch of "modern medieval" music I usually listen to when working with fantasy stuff.
Vox Vulgaris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glrBz3GrFsQ
Corvus Corax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoJYyxzoQVA
Sorkar och Strängar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgh8UE4aoSQ
While I don't believe in playing music with vocals during session, I'm a big fan of some stuff while I'm worldbuidling/campaign writing
Here's what I used for that Dune campaign I ran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMa_TMIifno
For Vampire: The Requiem & Mage: The Awakening, I listened to a lot of nu-jazz, trip-hop & depeche mode. Something about those genres of music make me think of urban decay, malaise and inner-city strife which is a perfect backdrop to a nWOD campaign.
The Transistor soundtrack is excellent for that purpose as well, and I always cringe when people use terrible, 3rd-wave 90's goth music for their campaigns.
>>43615250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEVpCu-9qro
https://youtu.be/nvUeo5sagkA
I wish I could articulate how beautiful, wonderful the inner-city looks to me, plumb its mysteries and spend an afternoon under the tawdry neon-lit portraits of Mary Magdalene's in the apartment of a hispanic family..
Anything Septicflesh, gets my Black Crusade juices going
>>43614475
Why are you basing something off their worst album?
I really need music for my worldbuilding. Atmosphere, for me, in everything, is key, above all else. So I need music that suits the atmosphere of what I'm writing. This can change depending on whatever I'm writing, but it's usually weird ambient stuff, so I'll post some of that.
Gae Bolg - Dies Irae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guvOxRaMtGc
Mortiis - Battles on Ice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idu16LUcKOk
Mortiis - Blood and Thunder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaB7IfaZHpY
Some Tuvan stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF7Fl4SXh8
Kyrie Eleison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDJtBh3LGJg
Whatever the genre, for whatever, reason, my inspiration is prog rock bands. Right now I'm spinning this while planning a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL5qSj26NvU
I have a whole playlist of music for setting the mood when I draw stuff for my setting, that includes music like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--luVEnDxC8
Slow, near-ambient songs with occasions of chaos. It can't be overbearing all the time, but a little chaos can push an idea through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEluoeMLTCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6lyNC3D9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts3YWVFUnvU
(And pretty much everything else by Om on Youtube)
Vidya soundtracks usually offer a good variety of sounds for hatching ideas, especially games with out-there soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87zI3E7kQgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmoYLtObCtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAK9MaIZqA
>>43615833
>worst album?
I think you read that wrong, OP wrote 'The Hunter', not 'Once More 'Round The Sun'.
>>43619026
>Everything else by Om
Mein neger.
I find Tribes of Neurot to be a nice ambience; dark and unusual, understated but engaging. Really, anything to do with Scott Kelly is gold in my eyes, although it's impossible to find a full album of his Blood and Time stuffI might actually have to cough up my precious shekels for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF9qgaQEnZw
I've been running a gritty modern era semi-cyberpunk/eldritch horror style game. lots of nightclubs. lots of deep house, neurofunk and half-time drum and bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kjvfD8dt9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHlCEzIpwhM
pic related
>>43621129
Addendum, only played at pivotal moments mind you, its mostly silence until they get into a tense situation or the story prompts music from me
>>43614475
>>43614795
MAH FUCKING NIGGAS
>>43620529
They're both terrible buttrock albums, Mastodon were god tier before those two though.
