Kudos to Ggroy for the thrash/grind core/death metal/black metal references, I love most of them. But I think you're moving away from the OP perimeter at the speed of light.

Never managed to use extreme metal bands for RPG background music. As much as I love this shit they're just square pegs in round holes when it comes to background music.

Quote from: boulet;398107Kudos to Ggroy for the thrash/grind core/death metal/black metal references, I love most of them. But I think you're moving away from the OP perimeter at the speed of light.

I never really got into black metal that much, other than maybe the first few albums by Mayhem, Emperor, etc ...

I suppose by then, I was getting kinda bored of listening to extreme metal type bands.

Quote from: boulet;398107Never managed to use extreme metal bands for RPG background music. As much as I love this shit they're just square pegs in round holes when it comes to background music.

Same here.  Even back in the day, anything heavier than Metallica was somewhat distracting at many gaming tables I played around.

The only times I ever heard heavier stuff as background music at the gaming table, was when the other players were into that style of music.  At one game, the DM was playing stuff like Possessed's "Seven Churches" and Sodom's crappy sounding "Obsessed by Cruelty" records, largely because all the other players were into that thrash/proto-death metal stuff back in the day.

EDIT:  This was before Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" was released.

Quote from: ggroy;398112I never really got into black metal that much, other than maybe the first few albums by Mayhem, Emperor, etc ...

I suppose by then, I was getting kinda bored of listening to extreme metal type bands.

My bad. I read Bathory and for some reason my brain transformed it into Cradle of Filth (probably because of their Cruelty and the Beast album)

Quote from: boulet;398116My bad. I read Bathory and for some reason my brain transformed it into Cradle of Filth (probably because of their Cruelty and the Beast album)

I was really into the first three Bathory records, and the fourth record "Blood Fire Death" to a lesser extent.

I thought the first two Bathory records, "Bathory" and "The Return", sounded more like thrash and/or proto-death metal.

Cradle of Filth sounded good, though I was never really heavily into them.  They were one of the many hundreds of bands which flooded the metal cd market during the early/mid-1990's from labels like Century Media, Relapse, Nuclear Blast, etc ... (ie. after Roadrunner dropped most of their death metal bands from their roster).

Along with the standards like Iron Maiden, Dio, etc, I think some of the doom metal bands could be appropriate as well, like Solitude Aeturnus and Candlemass (at least their stuff up to about the mid 90s---not familiar with either of their later material. ).

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;398119Along with the standards like Iron Maiden, Dio, etc, I think some of the doom metal bands could be appropriate as well, like Solitude Aeturnus and Candlemass (at least their stuff up to about the mid 90s---not familiar with either of their later material. ).

Candlemass' "Nightfall" record is good.

Slightly thrashier sounding doom metal stuff at the time, was a band like Paradise Lost.  I was listening to their first record "Lost Paradise" quite a bit, when it was first released.

Quote from: Joethelawyer;397625METAL!  only!  Because basically, if you played D&D while listening to Bananarama, well, you were a loser, and likely still are.  

Bite me. I have "Venus" on my music pod.

I was just listening to Bananarama's "Pop Life" and The Bangles' "Everything" earlier today.

Quote from: ggroy;398132I was just listening to Bananarama's "Pop Life" and The Bangles' "Everything" earlier today.

Ahh, the bangles, when women in music could be successful without adding in a softcorn porn show. *KOFF*'lady'gaga*KOFF*

Quote from: Shazbot79;397636Bah. Metal.

Give me The Jam or Elvis Costello and the Attractions any day of the week.

Seconded (add in The Clash & The Undertones for good measure).

I like me some Jethro Tull and Wishbone Ash too...but they're not very metal