Just been looking at a similar thread on the WFRP board and wondered what films or music would be appropriate for the 40k background?

Both in terms of inspiration and actual flavour materiel?

S.K.

One could use the soundtrack of the Warhammer 40,000 strategy computergame Dawn of War or the soundtrack of the fan-film Damnatus, available for download on the internet (but as for the latter I don't like that bombastisc heavy-handed metal stuff).

I am thinking of coming up with my own cd, with music of:
Joy Division
Devotchka
The Cure
Rage Against The Machine
The Doors
and some soundtrack songs from Twin Peaks, Requiem for a Dream and Ghost in the Shell

Movies: Blade Runner, Blade Runner, Blade Runner, Mutant Chronicles, Damnatus

Soundtracks: Vampires the Masquerade - Bloodlines, Dune, Blade Runner, Max Payne, The Dark Knight, Alone in the Dark, Dawn of the Dead, Hellboy 2, Chronicles of Riddick, Fate of Atlantis, Alone in the Dark 4, Animatrix

Luthor Harkon said:

Also, for sheer creepy mood sound; the Silent Hill video game soundtracks/scores. Some fun creepy mood music in there. And I must say, having just watched Mutant Chronicles this evening (unedited) it was pretty good.

-=Brother Praetus=-

Movies:

Casshern; Highlander (the Anime!);

Take a look at this thread. not much music but plenty of movie suggestions

Well, as for music i go with: 300 OST, Black Lagoon OST, Gladiator OST, Ghost in the Shell (SAC) OST, Final Fantasy 7 AC OST, Diablo 1, System Shock 1+2, Bio Shock (these games got imo a good music to build up suspension), WarCraft II, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian, Metallica, Mozart, Bach, Bethoven, Wagner, Dvorak, a whole buch of other Classical music, ...

Movies I thin are good inspiration for Dark Heresy :

In a weird kind of way, the Lexx series also works... at least for my slightly warped version of 40k.

Well the most obvious movies are Blade Runner, Event Horizon, and Mutant Chronicles. As for music, Holst is good.

Triarii and similar martial industrial bands are really great for scenes involving, well, military.

music - disturbed, seether, metallica, type o negative

As for music, I'd not really use music played by bands with lyrics, but rather use the soundtrack from movies and video games. But if you want suggesstions for bands that have a 40K feel then these might be worth looking up:

Sabaton (power metal with songs about war and pretty much nothing else)

Vader (death metal, but with many songs about the same thing as above. War but from Chaos point of view)

Manowar (like Sabaton, but with a more "fantasy"-like feel to it. some songs might work)

Deathstars (not death metal, but lot's of lyrics about depravity. More stuff from Chaos point of view)

Slipknot (has a lot of really "Chaotic" songs, like Heretic's Anthem and Pulse of the Maggots)

Although the brunt of it is really more 40K in general, rather than Dark Heresy specific...

Have a listen into anything by Diary of Dreams - especailly the Album "One of 18 Angels" - trust me, the "dreams" are more of the Nightmare-variety

Anything from the matrix soundtrack, Ministry the band from texas and Enigma

Khorgan, is that all 3 resident evil movies?

Does Doom count as a 40k ish movie?

Along with various movie and game soundtracks trailer music is very fitting. Tell me this doesn't scream 40K :

http://www.4shared.com/file/125223151/fd8c6fe8/Rogue_Trader.html

Check out my Pandora Station: Slow Burn

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Isis, Grails, Neurosis, Red Sparrowes, Explosions in the Sky, etc.

As for movies, everyone's suggestions are awesome...any zombie flick, Nightbreed, Chud, Serenity, FF:Spirits Within, Riddock movies, Aeon Flux the animie series, and the Matrix movies.

As for music I would have to agree with the Silent Hill soundtracks, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, anything with chanting monks, Disturbed, Type O-, and pretty much anything hard and gritty or dark and dangerous.

On the old BI forums, there was a similar thread, and everyone was going on about a band called LUSTMORD, who I'd never heard of. I gave them a try - it's basically horror ambient music. As an ambient fan (Orb, system 7, Biosphere etc) it was a bit of a shock!

Lustmord are very creepy, very scary, best listened to on a proper high end stereo system. Lots of distant scuttling, clanging, muttering etc. It's the best analogue for a lot of 40k that I've heard.

Some of the more abstract Aphex Twin stuff is pretty 40k-lite, too, and I'd also recommend Biosphere's album "Patashnik" which contains a lot of space-motif distant beeps, clangs and soundscapes.

Ambient music isn't to everyone's tastes though, it;s quite passive and requires a good 10-20 minutes of quiet contemplation to get the most out of. I reckon it's good for background music for "Inquisitor briefing" sections of a DH game, rather than the "frantic gunfight" sections.

Hi, for music: - The soundtracks to Batman Begins; Bladerunner, Dark Knight and Gladiator. Rammstein is another fave, alongside Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Slipknot... with elements of Apocalyptica, Avenged Sevenfold and My Chemical Romance.

For movies - Bladerunner, Constantine, Chronicles of Riddick, Hellboy (for the tech-occult heresy slant), Outpost, Pitch Black, The Prestige, Split Second.

Oh and a little of the recent BSG series.

in the final battle against the skae-thing deeamon i had one winged angel from final fantasy VII playing. the crisis core or advent children versions are good, it was epic!!