Some of it is just too weird for me, like as much as I love Mastodon, some of it is just too crazy for my tastes. Oh, and I absolutely draw the line at mathcore. TOO much, man.

Not a DT fan, but too each their own, I guess. :mellow: My dabbling in metal overall has been minimal so far, since hardcoe and punk were the first genres I ever really got in to. It pretty much comes down to some borderline-metalcore bands, some post/drone and a couple death.

Yay for punk!

All genres I don't like. Punk is really fun to play on drums, but I don't really like listening to it if I have a choice. Metalcore just sounds like mutilated, sub-par metal, and Death metal is soooo boring and monotonous.

Depends on the metalcore, really... a lot of it's just god-awful cookie-cutter, and you really have to sift through the garbage, I tend to listen to the music that's more melodic or closer to the hardcoe side of it. I guess if you aren't a punk kinda guy you wouldn't see the appeal, but it's usually quite fun and uplifting.

As for the death metal, it's pretty much the Faceless who put on a good show a couple years ago, and a local melodic death band In Dread Response, who also do a bit if post-metal.


All started with the Skateboard Park Tycoon soundtrack... I didn't like punk as a kid (in fact I didn't listen to any music at all), but the songs were really catchy and I could still remember them years later...

I've never heard of that....
I got into it because of where I lived. I grew up around bands like Bickles Cab and Grazes. Tony Hawks Pro Skater helped out too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjHBcBCi6Q, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q6SgHUYGxs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjRyeYW4M54, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG66uHRFUS0... pretty much all bands who don't exist anymore. Such a good soundtrack, after hearing each song a hundred times it's not hard to see how I still remembered all the choruses haha.

Never heard of those bands tbh, I had to let video games do all my educating. I listened to a bit of Millencolin at first, but was TH: American Wasteland that showed me the light. Strike Anywhere were the first punk band I ever got really into.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISzK6e237II would be sweet with some epic cinematic.

They're local underground bands. Not many people have heard of them.

What's wrong with your link. :mellow: "http://http"... and I have to add in the http:// when I get taken there.

Don't know what happened there, but I fixed it.

hmm depends the way i'd be playing kinda got multiple personality's almost ,if i'm a soldier i need something fast paced and totally bad (censored) favorite Tank n' Bake song is Indestructible-Disturbed ,but covert ops needs some rush or something in that area.

Well I followed that link JORRRG posted since it's been a good few years since the last time I heard DT (it was back before I listened to any form of metal at all), and though my connection crapped out and stopped loading the video after 7:50, I was impressed by what little I heard and I'm probably going to listen to some more.

As for prog music in games in general, it's not really well suited... the passages varying between soft and loud, the frequent use of uncommon time signatures or syncopation, it all makes for quite distracting listening. And with game soundtracks, or at least songs in games, the music should support the world of the video game - not the other way around, really. Devs put a lot of work into a game, and their intention isn't for players to think "THIS SONG IS REALLY COOL, and look, I'm making pretty flashing pictures to go with it", be it an in-game song or one they're listening to.

The problem with this type of thread is people imagine things differently. i can see death/prog/math metal chaotic-ness with the fluidity of a Mozart/Bach/Beethoven piece.

)LP(- Wretches and Kings. The edginess to it and how it just has that "BOOM EPIC!" feeling. listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEzx4JPeAc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SvNkG9MtQY

Damn. THAT was a good, fitting song. Props!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUxjYP4QEK8

Coheed has a unique sound that meshes well with the "street vibe" in certain games, notably Crackdown and Mirror's Edge.

Sometimes I like to step back from the action and have fun just for fun's sake, and for that I turn to more upbeat tunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTVA4g6MWZA

This is really fun! I have to go find something now!

The dubstep entries are great haha. Dubstep makes walls explode.

I PAUSED MARINA & THE DIAMONDS FOR THIS? :tongue: Jk, these guys sound better than the first time I heard them years ago, just not sure I derive that same "street" vibe from their music that you do... at least not any kind of futuristic vibe that would be well-suited to Brink.

Drum & Bass makes walls explode.

Dubstep doesn't have the climixes to achieve that.

props to the Coheed fan!! They are my favorite band haha.

But I would have to say this is what I related to Brink, no idea why..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxk1BY6wKT0

Glitch Mob - "Drive It Like You Stole It"

Yeah I hear you haha when I play my bass the china in the cabinet rattles pretty bad hehe

But Dubstep induces seizures in small animals? Is that more fitting

What the ... I don't even ...


Anyhoo, if you like good Dubstep, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdKEsyO2_0
And if you like good Drum & Bass, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n1UHAbZ-5w

Fair enough, I'm kinda well-known among my friends for my fondness to associate music with stuff. I have synesthesia, so I already see colors in things which don't have color.

The Resistance faction in Brink seems heavily street-focused, and variations of punk music always seemed appropriate to me for that.

Here's my backup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTw2YvutJRA