Hey,

It's been awhile since I had time to post on here...

Does anyone have any suggestions for some good rock/metal instrumental songs for background noise during role-playing?

I have a lot of soundtrack songs, and wanted some metal to liven them up a little.

Thanks

The Call Of Ktulu
Orion

That's all I can think of off hand.

Example Song

* Band - Song Name (Any clarification or description, "If song has a few lyrics")

Here is what I actually have so far:

Slow/Rock/Less Metal/Etc.
----------
* AP2 - Cold Breath of Sorrow (feedback-like noises, light piano)
* AP2 - The End ("I Am The Damage." repeated at the start which is a little annoying, whispers, piano, echoed note, techno metal)
* AP2 - A Thousand Terrible Things (Marching feet, Echoed synth notes, background sounds)
* AP2 - The Pact (Voiced Notes "Ay Eye Ay", vocalizing chanting Native American, Snyth notes & drums)
* Apocalyptica - Angel (Theme song to Joss Whedon's Angel)
* Apocalyptica - The Legend of Zelda Main Theme (Classical)
* Becoming The Archetype - Denouement
* Becoming the Archetype - March of the Dead (gets more metal towards the end)
* Becoming The Archetype - Night's Sorrow
* Dark Tranquility - The Mind's Eye (Guitar, small low voice samples that are hard to understand, drums)
* Ethereal Scourge - Shroud of Mist (slow guitar)
* Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine (Slow low guitar)
* Extol - Abandoned (Classical with weird noises)
* Extol - Meadows Of Silence (Slow sad accoustic guitar)
* Living Sacrifice - Emerge (some spoken word, monk singing, creepy sound)
* Living Sacrifice - Into Again (Guitar & drums)
* Living Sacrifice - Presence of God (Acoustic guitar, whispers)
* Mogwai - Burn Girl Prom Queen (very quiet start, slow)
* Mogwai - Fear Satan (16:17 slow rock)
* Mogwai - I Can't Remember
* Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick
* Nine Inch Nails - (300 Theme) Just Like You Imagined
* Rush - YYZ (Rock)
* Stavesacre - Minus (rock, with slow intro)
* Symphony In Peril - Beauty Forgotten (a few growled lyrics at the end, "Lets not let the sun go down." I think)
* Symphony In Peril - Perelandra (slow guitar)
* Symphony In Peril - Three Months (slow guitar, "In the game of solitude there is a road.")
* The Black Mages - Dancing Mad (Final Fantasy 6 )
* The Black Mages - Terra In Black (Final Fantasy 6 )
* The Black Mages Nobuo Uematsu - Battle Scene (The synth is a little annoying to me)
* The Black Mages - Vamo Alla Flamenco (Electric guitar, Rock, Flamenco guitar, Snyth, Final Fantasy 9 )
* Tiamat - Diyala (slow, notes played backwards?)
* Tiamat - Four Leary Biscuits (India instruments, woman vocalizing, borders on annoying)
* Tiamat - Kite (slow & sad, bird noises at the end)
* Tiamat - Trillion Zillion Centipedes (Guitar & whispers)
* Trivium - A View of Burning Empires (Guitar & String Instruments)
* Trivium - Ashes (Slow Guitar)
* Trivium - Inception, The Bleeding Skies (Orchestra)
* Trivium - Intro (Piano, Guitar, & some choir)
* Yngwie Malmsteen - Canon In D (Guitar solos toward the end)
* Zao - I Lay Sleepless In My Grave (slow guitar and drums)
* Zao - Violet (slow sad repetitive piano, then more uplifting piano, heartbeat)


Metal
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* Apocalyptica - Creeping Death (Electric Classical String Instruments, Metallica Cover)
* Apocalyptica - Sepultura (Electric Classical String Instruments)
* Becoming The Archetype - Elegy (Instrumental Parts II & III from 5:50 - 11:14)
* Canibal Corpse - Relentless Beating (brutal 2:13)
* Canibal Corpse - Skin To Liquid
* Dark Tranquility - Ex Nihilo
* Death - Cosmic Sea (slow slightly weird keyboard in the middle)
* Death - Voice of the Soul
* Extol - Into Another Dimension
* Extol - Where Sleep Is Rest
* Few Left Standing - 10,000 Angry Hardcore Kids (short)
* In Flames - Dialogue With The Stars
* In Flames - Man Made God
* In Flames - Whoracle (low female vocalizing over music)
* Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan
* Iron Maiden - Losfer Words Big 'Orra
* Iron Maiden - The Ides of March
* Iron Maiden - Transilvania
* Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Small amounts of spoken word about Bagdad, heavy music)
* Metallica - Orion
* Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
* Metallica - Heavy Instrumental (hard to find)
* Metallica - To Live Is To Die
* Overcast - Styrofoam Death-Machine
* Primus - Hamburger Train (not technically metal, but it's good)
* Symphony In Peril - ...And She Was Drunk On The Blood Of The Saints
* The Agony Scene - Nausea (some growling)
* The Black Mages - Gilgamesh (some synth)
* The Black Mages - Maybe I'm A Lion (some synth, and the words "Maybe I'm a lion." Final Fantasy 8 )
* The Black Mages - One Winged Angel (Metal, Syth, Orchestra, Choir)
* Trivium - The Crusade (Over 8 mins of great stuff)


Metal with foreign lyrics (since you don't know what is being said it slides into the background more I think):
* Extol - Renhetens Elv (Swedish)
* Extol - Innbydelse (Swedish)
* Extol - Jesus Kom Til Jorden For A Do (Swedish, an old Hymn I think)




I'm still looking for more. So I will post another list when I have it.

Joe Satriani--Surfing With the Alien

Man I guess Metal Heads and Firefly don't mix... hehe.

I posted a similar thread on various boards I post on, and this one was the least productive.

Oh well.

For those that care here is a sort of updated list of those that I have.


Here is a copy paste of my list again with some new additions.

Example Song

* Band - Song Name (Any clarification or description, "If song has a few lyrics")

Here is what I actually have so far:

Slow/Rock/Less Metal/Etc.
----------
* AP2 - Cold Breath of Sorrow (feedback-like noises, light piano)
* AP2 - The End ("I Am The Damage." repeated at the start which is a little annoying, whispers, piano, echoed note, techno metal)
* AP2 - A Thousand Terrible Things (Marching feet, Echoed synth notes, background sounds)
* AP2 - The Pact (Voiced Notes "Ay Eye Ay", vocalizing chanting Native American, Snyth notes & drums)
* Apocalyptica - Angel (Theme song to Joss Whedon's Angel)
* Apocalyptica - The Legend of Zelda Main Theme (Classical)
* Becoming The Archetype - Denouement
* Becoming the Archetype - March of the Dead (gets more metal towards the end)
* Becoming The Archetype - Night's Sorrow
* Dark Tranquility - The Mind's Eye (Guitar, small low voice samples that are hard to understand, drums)
* Ethereal Scourge - Shroud of Mist (slow guitar)
* Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine (Slow low guitar)
* Extol - Abandoned (Classical with weird noises)
* Extol - Meadows Of Silence (Slow sad accoustic guitar)
* Living Sacrifice - Emerge (some spoken word, monk singing, creepy sound)
* Living Sacrifice - Into Again (Guitar & drums)
* Living Sacrifice - Presence of God (Acoustic guitar, whispers)
* Mogwai - Burn Girl Prom Queen (very quiet start, slow)
* Mogwai - Fear Satan (16:17 slow rock)
* Mogwai - I Can't Remember
* Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick
* Nine Inch Nails - (300 Theme) Just Like You Imagined
* Rush - YYZ (Rock)
* Stavesacre - Minus (rock, with slow intro)
* Symphony In Peril - Beauty Forgotten (a few growled lyrics at the end, "Lets not let the sun go down." I think)
* Symphony In Peril - Perelandra (slow guitar)
* Symphony In Peril - Three Months (slow guitar, "In the game of solitude there is a road.")
* The Black Mages - Dancing Mad (Final Fantasy 6 )
* The Black Mages - Terra In Black (Final Fantasy 6 )
* The Black Mages Nobuo Uematsu - Battle Scene (The synth is a little annoying to me)
* The Black Mages - Vamo Alla Flamenco (Electric guitar, Rock, Flamenco guitar, Snyth, Final Fantasy 9 )
* Tiamat - Diyala (slow, notes played backwards?)
* Tiamat - Four Leary Biscuits (India instruments, woman vocalizing, borders on annoying)
* Tiamat - Kite (slow & sad, bird noises at the end)
* Tiamat - Trillion Zillion Centipedes (Guitar & whispers)
* Trivium - A View of Burning Empires (Guitar & String Instruments)
* Trivium - Ashes (Slow Guitar)
* Trivium - Inception, The Bleeding Skies (Orchestra)
* Trivium - Intro (Piano, Guitar, & some choir)
* Yngwie Malmsteen - Canon In D (Guitar solos toward the end)
* Zao - I Lay Sleepless In My Grave (slow guitar and drums)
* Zao - Violet (slow sad repetitive piano, then more uplifting piano, heartbeat)

some more I found recently:

* Alice In Chains - Whale & Wasp
* Richard (rhymes with Pick) Dale - Misirlou
* Richard (rhymes with Pick)Dale - Surf Rider (Pulp Fiction Theme)
* Richard (rhymes with Pick) Dale & His Deltones - Ghostriders In The Sky
* Eels - Going to your funeral II
* Evanescence - Silver Rain Fell
* Godspeed You Black Emperor - Glass Museum
* Godspeed You Black Emperor - A Silver Mount Zion
* In flames - Timeless
* Opeth - Requiem
* Spitfire - All Indentured Lovables
* Stretch Arm Strong - Transmission Demolition

InstruMETAL songs
--------------------------
* Apocalyptica - Creeping Death (Electric Classical String Instruments, Metallica Cover)
* Apocalyptica - Sepultura (Electric Classical String Instruments)
* Becoming The Archetype - Elegy (Instrumental Parts II & III from 5:50 - 11:14)
* Canibal Corpse - Relentless Beating (brutal 2:13)
* Canibal Corpse - Skin To Liquid
* Dark Tranquility - Ex Nihilo
* Death - Cosmic Sea (slow slightly weird keyboard in the middle)
* Death - Voice of the Soul
* Extol - Into Another Dimension
* Extol - Where Sleep Is Rest
* Few Left Standing - 10,000 Angry Hardcore Kids (short)
* In Flames - Dialogue With The Stars
* In Flames - Man Made God
* In Flames - Whoracle (low female vocalizing over music)
* Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan
* Iron Maiden - Losfer Words Big 'Orra
* Iron Maiden - The Ides of March
* Iron Maiden - Transilvania
* Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Small amounts of spoken word about Bagdad, heavy music)
* Metallica - Orion
* Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
* Metallica - Heavy Instrumental (hard to find)
* Metallica - To Live Is To Die
* Overcast - Styrofoam Death-Machine
* Primus - Hamburger Train (not technically metal, but it's good)
* Symphony In Peril - ...And She Was Drunk On The Blood Of The Saints
* The Agony Scene - Nausea (some growling)
* The Black Mages - Gilgamesh (some synth)
* The Black Mages - Maybe I'm A Lion (some synth, and the words "Maybe I'm a lion." Final Fantasy 8 )
* The Black Mages - One Winged Angel (Metal, Syth, Orchestra, Choir)
* Trivium - The Crusade (Over 8 mins of great stuff)

Some more I found recently:

* Apocalyptica (String instruments with distortion) any Metallica covers. They have a lot of them : )
* August Burns Red - Eve of the End
* Becoming the Archetype - Nocturne
* Blind Guardian & Iced Earth - Beyond The Ice
* Cannibal Corpse - Infinite Misery
* Everdown - One Knuckle Shy
* Faith No More - Woodpecker from Mars
* Isis (many songs have a few lyrics and they are pretty cool)
* Megadeth - Absolution(Instrumental)
* Megadeth - I Know Jack (few spoken words, short)
* Megadeth - Into the Lungs of Hell
* Megadeth - Trust (ECW Instrumental Mix)
* Nightwish - Moondance
* Opeth - Ending Credits
* Opeth - Epilogue
* Pelican (not a real big fan, but they have nothing but instrumetal droning long songs)
* Symphony In Peril - Beauty ForgottenThe Black Mages - The Man with the Machine Gun (Final Fantasy)
* The Black Mages - Battle with the four Fiends (Final Fantasy
*Yngwie j malmsteen - zelda theme
* Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Beethoven's 5th
* Yngwie Malmsteen - Blitzkrieg
* Yngwie Malmsteen - Pachelbel's Canon

Metal with foreign lyrics (since you don't know what is being said it slides into the background more I think):
-----------------------------------------------
* Extol - Renhetens Elv (Swedish)
* Extol - Innbydelse (Swedish)
* Extol - Jesus Kom Til Jorden For A Do (Swedish, an old Hymn I think)