From Nefarius' rip.

Known for several legendary soundtracks, Chris Hülsbeck's signature vintage works have aged well even to this day.

I've had a few good motw candidates pop up during my monthly ditch digging, but only now did I really feel like posting anything. Mostly because this track seems to symbolize my single-minded march through the agonizing mental trainwreck of trying to convince myself to learn modeling and,...

Vocal tracks in games are really tricky. I generally try to avoid them. There's two elements you really need to pay attention to.

1 - Lyrics. This is moot if it's a foreign song and you don't understand shit, I guess. But lyrics usually should have some kind of relevance. It's not a big deal if it...

A study in ambiance and cinematography

A growing subject in podcasts, reviewers, and like-minded statements in regards to cinema within games/movies these days is that they are, in essence, awful. What makes them awful? Well, a lot of things. Everything from the abuse of camera shaking, depth of...

The search continues on for powerful ambient pieces. With a chance discovery on behalf of Nef, some more significantly useful material has come into my possession. I like this piece not only for the consistency and fluidity, but the motion it implies makes its usage multi-pronged, like a penis....

Nosing through Aion's files can find some pretty awesome, and certainly useful, music.

I meant to make a new mp3 of the week around the 24th but then I forgot and well, whatever. Here's a piece I have as part of an assembled collection for the 2042 campaign. As you can guess, it makes good background audio and general listening. I have it as a WESTLAND piece, which is kind of...

Memories are all that remain of our words and deeds, and memories are only as valiant as those whose will shapes their recollection.

Arising from the unexpected depths of Blizzard is a series of relatively talented composers, most of which are devoted only to the various WoW updates. WoW has an uneven track record, with classic retaining quite a few quality pieces, slipping off during Burning Crusade and Wrath, and Cataclysm...

Title: "73"
Source: Guild Wars 2 (beta?) - Gamerip
Artist: Jeremy Soule
Type: Orchestral

Soule's a bit of a wild card. With hits and misses, with hits being the likes of Oblivion and misses behind the likes of Supreme Commander, it seemed that for the longest time he was stuck in a...

Title: Via Combusta
Source: Senmuth - Neocortex Album
Artist: Senmuth
Type: Various

Senmuth, a Russian artist whose works span over 100 albums, freely distributes his music, which ranges from ethnic Egyptian to techno to metal and many combinations inbetween. An excellent source for background...

Title: Killbane and the Syndicate
Source: Saint's Row: The Third OST
Artist: Malcolm Kirby Jr.
Type: Metal/Rock/Electronic

Not my usual fair, with links to what I would presume to be rap-styled instrumentation and window-shattering bass (at least on my setup), this track is a variant of the main...

Title: Now Night Her Course Began
Source: Draconian Poetry - Album
Artist: Sephiroth
Type: Ambient

Discovering this artist (and his other artist/name/band/whatever) through a collection on demonoid a time back, I later decided to pursue this style of music for Black Sun: Salvation. Ultimately,...

Title: Moksha
Source: Feast of Silence - Album
Artist: Vas
Type: Folk/Ethnic

Heard of Dead Can Dance, right? Of course. Well, I hadn't for the longest time. So, when I first discovered them (from a track in the movie The Mist, oddly enough), I kept that kind of sound in my head when I went...

Title: Trandition
Source: Brandish - The Dark Revenant - OST
Artist: Falcom Sound Team jdk
Type: Orchestral

Choosing the mp3 of the week for this week was tough because I had so many good choices. I settled upon this one because I planned to use it as the main theme for Valiance , my latest...

Title: Vergil Battle 2
Source: Devil May Cry 3 - OST
Artist: Tetsuya Shibata
Type: Metal/Orchestral
Suggested by Mucky

There are many games and movies that attempt to blend metal and orchestral elements together. Typically, one can make safe assumptions about them;

If they're Western, they are...

Title: Fortress
Source: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - gamerip
Artist: Various Artists (Paul Romero, Rob King, Steve Baca)
Type: Orchestral
Suggested by Mucky

Few games have ever come even close to the feeling I felt when I first began playing HoMM3. One of the few, rare titles that actually...

Title: Boss 02
Source: Skyrim Gamerip
Artist: Jeremy Soule
Type: Orchestral

Everyone's heard the poorly-mangled main theme by now. But have you heard this one, straight from the game's files? Not likely.

Jeremy Soule has had this nasty habit of making music that, while decent on its own, sounds...

I have decided to share this mp3 with CC. A very long time ago (the file is dated 2005), right before DarkOMEN vanished from the face of the Earth, he sent me a file I believe was largely incomplete. As I remember it, this was a piece of music composed regarding Firebat Friday. I believe it was...

Title: Mirage of Faraway
Source: Album - Unaga turuv
Artist: Altan Urag
Type: Folk Rock

In my search for music suitable for the Gorian music I stretched into eastern-influenced music, specifically searching for Egyptian and Arabic. Early into my search I came across a band known as Altan Urag, a...