What sort of music fits best for DH?

I once played a DH game with my frineds, one of them had just been revealed as a chaos cultist and we confronted him when a song came up on the record player. Now I don't remember what song that was, but it was awesome.

When we confronted him the song started and a guy in the song said. "You have been accused of witchcraft and heresy, how do you plead!?"

"Guilty!"

Man it was so timed.

Now my question is, do you have any good songs that fits into the Warhammer 40k universe DH style, in lyrics or music. Give some examples.

Gargarath said:

Wow, that really narrows it down. That song could only have been... any number of metal/industrial/monster groups ;-p I instantly thought Electric Hellfire Club, then I remembered Zombie might have had that in one of his songs, then, of course I'm sure somewhere in one of their songs Gwar would have had such an intro/refrain. And then i remembered that Gwar is coming to the House of Blues and got real happy and forgot everything else.

Back on topic, I find for games, instrumental music is usually better. I made a DVD with comprising about 3 hours or so of Lustmord with 40k art and Thoughts foe the Day fading in and out on the screen behind me so when the players are looking at me, they are assailed with 40k imagery and sagely advice on how to think like a 40k nutter.

The albums I used from Lustmord is Heresy, Metavoid, Purifying Fire, and Zoetrope (my favorite). It's all ambient, only the "opening credits" of Zoetrope has any real words and it's a good background style as it doesn't overpower players and GM's nor do you have to worry about it being the wrong music for a scene -like having a tender touching scene when thrash metal suddenly bursts through the speakers or having an intense combat scene with soft sparking music that makes one think of babbling brooks and soft spring breezes. They all have a strange eerie otherworld like quality to them that lends it's self well to Dark Heresy and most situations that crop up in your standard DH game.

If you want to here a few Lustmord tracks to see if they'd be rigt for your games before picking up an album or three, you can ere a few of my favorites here:

Zoetrope

Black Star

A Light that is Darkness

Immersion

I mainly use instrumental music for my campaign.

Battle scenes are mainly "Apocalyptica"

Hive areas are mainly "Lustmord" and "Orphic Endeavours"

I do however think that most Fear Factory albums (except Concrete and Soul of the new Machine) are awesomenly 40k-esque and very insipring.

I also mainly use instrumental music.

Movie and Videogame Soundtracks work quiet good to set my players in the right mood.

Some Movie OST i would recommend: 300, Terminator, Dark City, The Calling, Alien, Matrix, Saw, Starship Troopers

Videogames: System Shock, Chaos Gate, Dawn of War, Silent Hill

Sometimes Military Chapels like "the Red Army Choire" work quiet good too and once in a while i can´t resist to play some Debauchery (especially "Blood for the Bloodgod") in combat.

The Chosen Ones by Dream Evil

Primo Victoria by Sabaton

These help me get hyped for my games just before we start. I also use the Chronicles of Riddick soundtrack, some Battlestar Galactica, Dune, and DaVinci Code for background played low while in game. Helps keep me focused as the GM actually.

Dawn of War 2 soundtrack. Which is free.

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You can get it off of Steam. It's an utterly fantastic soundtrack for battle music and for a few other situations. Usually high gothic, crucial, tense, or something appropriate like that. When they get the ability to openly pull rank as members of the Inquisition I pop the Blood Angels theme on for the background and they all become hard-edged bastards. It's like the weight of the Emperor's fury presses down on them and drives them.

I also used one of the more dramatic pieces for the funeral march when one of my acolytes sacrificed himself valiently. Worked well.

Other music I'll use is the soundtrack to Republic Commando, which is full of GREAT gothic, militaristic tracks, and I use the Conan soundtrack too.

I've also used in no particular order:

Carmina Burana
Barber's Adagio for Strings
Hellmesberger's Danse Diabolique
Bits from the Braveheart soundtrack
Bits from Gladiator soundtrack
Most of the Vangelis soundtrack to Bladerunner (for hive cities)
Little bit of Darkwave or spooky ambient soundscapes for dealing with Chaos (the dance/trance is intentional. I want Chaos and corruption to be seductive and catchy)
The soundtrack to both Oblivion and Morrowind from Bethesda, mainly for feudal worlds
Bits from Lord of the Rings (The End of All Things I think is the song that's got the major choir in it that is beautiful)
Dune Soundtrack (the David Lynch version)
Bits from the original Fantasia movie
Joe Satriani for very specific moments

That's all I can think of right now. I avoid things that are too identifiable. John Williams, and thus anything Star Wars, is straight out for example. I don't want my players to pull a Darth Vader because the Imperial March came on. I push it with Braveheart and it's themes, but sometimes it works well. I like playing music my group is unfamilliar with, since it fades into the background and doesn't hook your attention away. If you can tell, I like instrumentals and soundscapes pretty much exclusively. Orchestral music is a godsend for background music. Seriously, look up dramatic orchestral pieces for ambience, or go for abstract with impressionistic. I played Debussy when the group first encountered an Eldar and I ended up speaking in the rhythem and melody of the piece, and I *felt* alien in that part.