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Metal found through Video Games.

Absoluteaggressor
Sat, 01/12/2018 - 21:00

Kind of an utter curiosity. How many metalheads here have found new music through Video Games? I mean anything ranging from the games themselves with a killer soundtrack (GTA, etc), to player made videos on their game play with metal soundtracks.

What games? What bands? Got links? haha

Personally, I heard my favorite band (Testament) the first time on a Planetside video way back on google videos. Wish I saved that thing,


conorm's picture

sure... I remember hearing Iced Earth for the first time playing Brütal Legend on PS3, as well as an old school heavy metal band called Brocas Helm that had some great songs. Definetly one of, if not the greatest video game soundtrack of alltime for that game.

obviously not a metal band, but I remember hearing Talk Talk for the first time playing GTA:Vice City on PS2, who went on to become one of my favorite bands of the 80’s.

meaningless's picture

im old...so...there were no games with such a music in it.haha..but i can tell ya, how i found WASP :P
When i was a kid, i picked up a VHS in our local Video-rent store, called GHOULIES 2.

SO...i found WASP for me :D ...and i still love this Band..haha

Absoluteaggressor's picture

come on, I know there were some heavy midi sound tracks for those 8bit games hahah.
I miss being able to rent VHS and such. Horror movies usually hid great songs

meaningless's picture

could be...yes....but IF...then i cant remember anything..hahahahaha

conorm's picture

Also first heard 3 Inches of Blood from playing Brütal Legend, “Destroy the Orcs”, kickass tune.

Absoluteaggressor's picture

Brutal Legend has a lot of great songs hidden within. I really need to beat it finally hah

Unjustifiablexistence's picture

The killing floor games have a kickass metal soundtrack! I mean the songs are just instrumentals written for the game but anyways what's more fun than killing zombies while listening to metal??

Pecivo's picture

anyone played zombiegrinder 60000? with awesome grind soundtrack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77xKkohFAA

Grimlord's picture

Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators on Sega Saturn (I think it's by japanese Metal legend Loudness): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGB4dZh_HpQ
Fighting Vipers on Sega Saturn
Lords of Thunder on TurboDuo/PC Engine/Sega CD has a pretty awesome 80s Hard 'n' Heavy guitar hero (Satriani/Vai/Malmsteen-influenced) soundtrack
Rock n Roll Racing on the SNES has great classic rock tunes.
various SNK Neo Geo 2D Fighters from the 90s also had lots of guitar driven stage themes

bad_american1992's picture

Rock N Roll racing! Hahaha

Nater90's picture

The Tony Hawk Pro Skater games had some decent tunes, personal favourites

Lamb of God - Black Label
Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio
Millencollin - No Cigar
3 Inches of Blood - Deadly Sinners
Papa Roach - Blood Brothers
Less Than Jake - That's Why They Call It A Union
The Stooges - 1970

The GTA series
Slayer - Raining Blood
Anthrax - Madhouse
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin' / Electric Eye
The Alan Parsons Project - The Games That People Play
Queensrÿche - Queen of the Reich
Dio - Holy Diver
The Cure - A Forest
Danzig - Mother

MelFromHell's picture

Man Tony Hawk's pro skater!!! That takes me back. Can't tell ya the amount of times me and my brother spent up burning the midnight oil button tapping on this for days on end haha the soundtrack was quality too

Pecivo's picture

yeah tony hawk was awesome! i do have a tattoo about it: roses are red, violets are blue, tony hawks pro skater 2! :D

Nater90's picture

Ahahahahahhah, Legend.

Nater90's picture

Hell yeah!!! Same, I always go back and play the originals, was playing number 2 and won gold first shot back in the Day settled for bronze just to unlock everything haha.

doomtilldeath's picture

Rock n' Roll Racing for Super Nintendo! Paranoid and Highway Star 16-bit \m/

bad_american1992's picture

I always liked the Halo 2 theme, even funnier when I realized it was a rip-off of a Death song.

Minty's picture

I've never heard of that one! What Death song is based off of?

bad_american1992's picture

Mentally Blind off of ITP, skip to the 1:40 mark! You'll trip out haha

conorm's picture

forgot to mention the first couple Doom games. While already having a very metal sounding soundtrack, some of the 16-bit music that played during different levels were clearly ripped off from actual songs. No Remorse and MOP by Metallica, as well as This Love by Pantera are a few I can remember off the top of my head. I know they had some Slayer and Alice in Chains songs as well.

conorm's picture

just found this Youtube video with a pretty comprehensive list of the songs used for Doom. Fun watch, talk about nostalgia man: https://youtu.be/-IXNpPhfk1s

Absoluteaggressor's picture

That is fucking awesome

Nater90's picture

Read today that Trent Raznor and Nine Inch Nails did music for the original Quake game. Which kicks ass.

slayerslayer's picture

no, no time for games

Vectrex's picture

Phantasy Star 4 and Lords of Thunder, Castlevania bought me into Metal. They all have very heavy metal like Soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj1c2AvcuQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=araTayicJ3I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmpU0RZOdU

zmanzman1's picture

Carmageddon, Heavy Metal Thunder, GTA Vice City, Doom, Postal 2, Skate or Die just to name a few.

Absoluteaggressor's picture

Great list of tracks and games so far!

BroodOfHatred's picture

Splatterhouse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splatterhouse_(2010_video_game)

"Pounding Nails" – The Accüsed (03:08)
"Dream Song" – ASG (03:49)
"Must Kill" – Cavalera Conspiracy (04:50)
"Dying Breed" – Five Finger Death Punch (02:55)
"Apocalyptic Havoc" – Goatwhore (03:16)
"Hollow Ground" – The Haunted (04:10)
"Fire, Flood & Plague" – High on Fire (06:08)
"Dead Eyes" – Invisible Enemies (1:28)
"Walk with Me in Hell" – Lamb of God (05:11)
"Blood and Thunder" – Mastodon (03:49)
"Rigorous Vengeance" – Municipal Waste (02:13)
"Morbid Dismemberment" – Mutant Supremacy (03:14)
"Dead Shall Rise" – Terrorizer (03:32)
"Headlong into Monsters" – WolfShirt (03:18)
Note: Splatterhouse co-producer Dan Tovar is a member of the bands Invisible Enemies and WolfShirt. Also, Cannibal Corpse, In Flames and Gwar were mentioned by Tovar in the 10/2009 issue of Play Magazine as being on the soundtrack;[5] however, this ultimately proved to be false.

andermatten's picture

wow, I remember playing splatterhouse in the arcade in 88 or 89...no metal but terrifying experience for a boy in puberty at the time nevertheless

Mastercutor's picture

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Serious Sam, European video game gem from Croatia, made by Croteam.

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter introduced me to a band called Undercode. They make big part of OSTs for the series until today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqsIyJfwDp4 - UNDERCODE - Final Fight - Serious Sam 3: BFE (OST)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0edOd3VTkPk - Undercode - Hero (Music Video with Lyrics & game footage)

Their guitarist Ivan Spelljack Jitz then introduced me to a newer game called SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell. Another awesome video game.
So that was kind of a reversed process here "Video game discovered via musician". Of course I had to buy the whole soundtrack too, because it's basically his solo album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3lEyIsp3Us - SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnYybnzuys - SEUM: The Drunk side of the Moon

Claudandus's picture

I can't really think of anything apart from covers of songs in video games done in a "metal" fashion. These guys being the first who comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzFh9GuE0rA

andermatten's picture

no idea whether the jam was by a real, actual band or not but around the time I was first getting into to guns & roses' appetite, I got a game on my amiga called fighter bomber. the game wasn't all that but the soundtrack was just plain fascinating (especially because most music on early computers was just pings and bleeps). I have fond memories of it to this day and think it probably had a profound influence on my musical taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsLZ76GQpxA

Blüdrayne's picture

I'm generally against the concept of metal in general popular culture such as in movies or video games.
In most cases, I've found that the creative teams tend to treat metal as a novelty to be looked at from an external perspective. It often feels more that they're mocking the genre culture with over the top pastiches that overstate their prominence within metal culture, as with games such as Brutal Legend or shows such as Metalocalypse.
Additionally I am of the stance that the vast majority of metal, perhaps save some parts of NWOBHM, is written with the integrity of the entire release such as the album or demo in mind. It's quite apparent with examples of concept albums. To consume album-oriented music in a disjoint manner such as in an (often poorly) curated playlist, with little thought to conceptual flow, robs the music of the artistic integrity of the whole.

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