All of these are very nice songs and could very well play into the game save for a few but it think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BedFUHaWV0A has some really good epic music that fits better then some of the heavier rock influenced stuff people have been posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuVKVGC8vFk The Lord himself

If it has to be rock of some kind this song works and is probably as good as it gets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpc-831GPs I think classical music would fit more given the theme of the game. Unless they have electric lutes...

Or North Country by Two Steps From Hell

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only Manegarm fan.

I once listened to a large portion of Ronnie James Dio's discography while playing Oblivion.

Around May of next year, I may do the same while playing Skyrim!

His earliest songs, from way before metal was born, actually fit fairly well with Fallout.

Elf doesn't really fit with the fantasy trope or science fiction, but I listen to it while playing Oblivion anyway.

Rainbow... Judge for yourself! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj3mKYASycg

Weak [censored]. If Dohvakiin heard that and knew you were listening to it while slaying beasts, he would disapprove and promptly eat an animal heart to apologize for your hubris to the gods.

Metal is the music to play Skyrim to. Preferrably Amon Amarth, KALMAH or Arch Enemy.

Edit: HUGE props to the dudes repping Wolfchant and Dimmu. You guys really know your metal.

This thread is physically painful to me and serves only as a reminder to why I absolutely despise folk metal and its fanbase.

There are no 'props' to be given out to people for knowing Dimmu Borgir and Wolfchant, [censored], so far the only remotely good posts in this thread where those mentioning Bathory and the guy posting Summoning and Graveland. Oh, I have to include the guy posting Antaeus as well - great band. But Folkearth? Seriously? People actually like that 'band'? Ensiferum? Arch Enemy? Kalmah?

Really guys? Have you been listening to metal for more than a year? If so punch yourselves right in the nuts. If not, then well, hopefully you grow out of it like all proper metal fans should do.

Anyways, I don't really care so much for what fits Skyrim as I do for wanting to express just how gut-wrenchingly SICK this thread has managed to make me. I am cringing in near physical pain from reading some of these posts.

So I have decided to take it upon myself to smack some [censored] taste in you even if you are kicking and screaming the entire way.

This is how black metal, folk metal, etc. is supposed to be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1YXIdfwX9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3NizcqK5oo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgXlUxDGFvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmIpaPPfjuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBll5LyMnAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74sVVZxm0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqsWJ56_GVk

So I like how this kid thinks his opinion is more than just than opinion.

Considering it actually, you know, is an opinion that is actually informed ... yes it kind of is more than just an opinion.

If you've been listening to metal for a year or two, your opinion on it is not as valid as mine. If you just float around on the surface of it and listen to whatever bands Roadrunner throws at you, then your opinion is not a valid as mine.

Dedicate yourself to the music more, and show me that you actually know what you're talking about and then maybe I'll consider your opinions to be worth considering.

Oh, well, SORRY if I don't sit around sifting through every metal band out there just because, apparently, I can't hold an opinion otherwise. I know what I like and I stick with it. You have a problem with that? Too bad. I like the folk metal I linked better than most of the stuff you linked.

You have no right to tell me I'm wrong.

Screamo/Heavy metal and Skyrim do NOT mix well. Sorry.

I don't go through every metal band just because I can, I go through different bands because I actually like the music beyond it being something I enjoy listening to on some superficial 'noise to fill the room' level. Sticking with what one likes is fine and all, but it is impossible to know what one likes without actually exploring beyond ones comfort zone.

And what I posted is, on an objective level, superior to what you linked.

Wow dude. That's ridiculous. Assuming people who listen to Arch Enemy and Wolfchant haven't listened to metal for more than a couple of years? Do you play instruments, compose, or even understand music on a deep level compared to just listening to what is underground or "kvlt"? I understand that Wolfchant aren't extremely musically talented, and their ideas aren't very original, but they do some things that I haven't heard other bands do, and it does something for me personally. Arch Enemy has been extremely innovative and has evolved their sound so much since they first started. They are the true essence of a band, and progressive composers (though their latest stuff has been going into a direction that I don't really like).

I can't believe your somebody who listens to metal, and knocks other people for their musical taste. That is the true disgrace.

Arch Enemy? Progressive? You'll have to explain this to me.

They've been playing the same Carcass inspired melodies and At the Gates riffs since they've started out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARb1S1RAWFc&feature=related enjoy :wink_smile:

Now THIS is a post I can get behind.

ITT: I huddle in a corner and don't actually try out any other bands or genres or what the hell ever. I've already listened to all of the bands you linked (excepting Belenos, which I'm not enthusiastic about now that I've listened to a couple of their songs) and I can admit freely that I don't mind Arkona nor Primordial. That doesn't mean they got to stay in my library.



Fix'd.

the guy raised his fist with every single word he said..wow that was awful lol Muse falling away would be better though the words don't fit at all

Depending on the Belenos album you're listening to songs from, I understand that, some of their more recent output is bad. But Spicilege is one of the best metal albums to come from France.

And nope. Broke it more so.

Carcass inspired melodies? Please tell me you're joking. Carcass only had melodies on their Heartwork album, and that was because Mike Amott (the founder of Arch Enemy, who recorded on Carcass' Necroticism, and Heartwork albums) wrote on that album, and even the harmonies on that are hardly anything like what Arch Enemy writes (listen to what Bill and Jeff from Carcass have to say about that). The feel of At The Gates music, and Carcass' compared to Arch Enemy is so ridiculously different (though still in the same genre) I can't even believe you've listened to these bands having said that.

At The Gates experimented a lot with mixing two completely different guitar rhythms, creating a very distinct melodic, but still gritty tone (very cathartic). Carcass has an extremely gritty tone, and their melodic stuff was generally in minor harmonies, while Arch Enemy sticks to major scales and generally power metal-ish chord progressions mixed with a lot of death metal stylings.

And I didn't care for it. The gods forbid I have a different opinion on something.



No, because everything you've been saying is YOUR opinion. You can sit there and argue hover who has better rhythms or melodies or who does that better and blah blah but its all freaking opinion. Someone could be singing like he has a turd in his mouth and if I like it who the hell are you to say I'm wrong?

Metal elitism is astonishing sometimes.

Aw come now Mort, give em a break.

There is no denying the stuff you posted has vastly more substance than almost all else that was posted here, but is that really the point? Remember you're on an Elder Scrolls forum, not a metal one haha. There is a time and a place. These guys were jus looking to sit back and hear a cheerful folky tune to get their spirits up for Skyrim, not some deep musical discussion. Not everyone knows about bands like Enslaved, Graveland, Kroda, Falkenbach, Windir, Thyrfing, Satanic Warmaster, Ulver, etc. , we were all there at one point. Even if most folk metal isn't the best music out there, don't tell me you don't enjoy a drunken viking jig every now and then. Let them have their Fintroll and Ensiferum, you gotta admit that that stuff is still by far better than 99.5 % of all other music out there.

By all means expose them, but no need to act like an elitist dike right?

This is turning into a discussion about music, musical taste and bands with no relation to Skyrim whatsoever. If you wish to talk music, please go and find the relevant threads in the Community Discussion forum or take it to pm. Thanks.

Carcass and At the Gates were the first two bands to play that melodeath style (at least the first two to make it known to relatively larger audiences) so you'll have to excuse me if I associate a band who plays in that same genre with said bands. They may not rip them off, lord knows metalcore bands do enough of that with At the Gates, but they draw heavily from both (and yes, I know it is mostly due to Amott, but I still can't see them as 'progressive.')

As far as At the Gates goes, I wonder. The description you use for them sounds a lot as if you've actually listened to their album The Red in the Sky is Ours instead of being just some random Slaughter of the Soul fan. If not, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOnd0hhDRbc