Well, not exactly since it's not lore friendly.
Anyway, this is Nordland (link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsp0Q4mWAo), a song from Swedish Viking Metal band from Sweden called Bathory (link http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=184 for more info about band).
I was listening Nordland I & II today and felt like sharing this with you people here since it gives (at least to me) Skyrimish feeling.
Anyway, enjoy the song and comment if you want.
Also, you can post links to stuff you find to be Skyrimish (doesn't need to be metal necessarily) or just post a good song to share it with people.

What about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzjW--KUH1g (It's still melodic death metal though, so most of you won't like the vocals)
Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXjF9po2hYk&feature=related (A bit softer)

I wanna kill dragons hearing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAQQujgSxQ

Opeth is better than any of these guys.

I was thinking the new Moonsorrow album Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa should be the official soundtrack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Rbjo3ijBw&feature=related

I love Bathory.


That would be ridiculous.


:verymad:

Nah, Opeth is all right.

In Morrowind and Oblivion I stuck to the folky-ness of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtENaKCtSY
But Skyrim needs something a bit more harsh.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWyfnp-ghaE

Edit: Fixed links

Although I am not opposed to scream-o or heavy metal. A lot of people hate the genres so for the sake of not destroying a really good game for the vast amount of people I say go with something that very few people extremely dislike.

@ Nutimik: Amon Amarth all the way!!

Even though TES games tend to have really good music, I think I'll be disabling it some times to listen to to Viking Metal. You know, mood music...

Imagine fighting a dragon to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPRt6Tt6RyM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqEBPpg7M6A's At the hearth of winter always makes me want to ride through frozen tundra's.

Sorry, but I just can't stand metal.

There are too many good songs that would fit. Can't choose a single one, so I had to vote no. :shrug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVr6qzfpdas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzTD3qP52U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDE_oeYC_GM&feature=related

Not directly related to northern lands, but still epic soundtracks for Skyrim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNoadKcIWg & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCWeufCP1Rc

I like old Bathory better, but I have admit, this is pretty Skyrim-ish! :mohawk:

I voted "Other" as I can't really speak on what metal is good or not (obviously not my genre). TBH I can't see any modern music fitting with a fantasy setting like this, but that's my opinion.

I'd prefer killing dragons to this song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sKH8yjVsM

Also that song is rather good.. So I voted yes.

Signed in just to respond to this thread. Bathory is amazing (Blood on Ice, anyone?)

- but -

I'd have to go with Emperor, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcOSPEI0Bg

F**king beyond epic, imo.

Apologies if this has already been posted, didn't have time to listen to all the links.

*Edit 'Anthems' is the album. 'With Strength I Burn' is the track. Around 1:50 is where it gets most groovy.

Metal will never be in any TES, and I'm glad for that.

No, Opeth are a stupidly hyped up band who really don't live up to this "Gods of everything" thing they seem to portray themselves as.
In Mourning > Opeth.

Many of the bands mentioned in this thread are what I'd go for.

Immortal, Emperor, Ensiferum, Bathory, Wintersun, Amon Amarth, Wulfgar, Equilibrium, Rhapsody Of Fire, Epica. There's so much good metal that goes so well with this sort of stuff.

I kinda hoped for something good out of this but this sounds like something 13 year olds would listen to while they mutilate cats.

I didn't think Skyrim would attract this type of demographic. Nords=/=Norse. Hope all the elves, orcs and redguards don't ruin the game for ya.

We're bad people for liking metal? You're cool.

When I see a dragon and Im about to attack it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsdU-kh_pw

Okay okay. That was too far on my part. I was in a bad mood this morning but it's no excuse for being a dike.

Sorry guys. Honestly I listen to metal too, just not normally the hardcoe stuff.

Agreed. It just doesn't fit in my opinion. Most of those songs are either too fast or too heavy on the electric guitars.

Funny how i know every band that has been pointed out in this topic i like most of em, and about opeth being better, that is a matter of taste but i do agree that opeth is unique. but what happened to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s? come on how could it be no one has mentioned it here!!!! also for more skyrimish, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ZhkLUcKT8 ftw!!! have some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGywo81G6lk :celebration:

I approve of this thread.

I would never listen to metal while playing the game itself, I think Jeremy Soule's soundtracks are pitch perfect (though I did insert the Morrowind score in along with some picks from his Guild Wars work into the Oblivion /music directories.) I do like "Nordland" for a good 'thinking about the game' song. Good call OP.

Props for Amon Amarth and Enslaved for 'combat music' (also consider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_twzj4ZAtrA).

But for exploration music, you need a little blackened folk metal: Agalloch .

Even if you didn't like any of the other music in this thread, you might want to check out Agalloch, they are different, to say the least.

Agalloch is hard to categorize, but they make great albums full of wintery mood, which songs ranging from soft and bleak, mystic and sweeping, and to coarse and brittle. They put me in a very Skyrim mood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsSn4Y1nGa4&feature=related", very mellow accoustic work, at the extreme end of their soft sound, from a split EP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aJPEFtoNgwhich is the middle part of the second side of Ashes Against The Grain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQHQsxvW5b4&feature=related, which has more vocals than the others, from The Mantle

And finally, a little louder is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o0g2SIdnKw&playnext=1&list=PL3BC6772F45B576A6 off their most recent Marrow of the Spirit album. This is more representative of their harder songs.