# Apocalyptic Music for a Dying World

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [April 26, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959 "2014-04-26T22:24:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/1 "2014-04-26T22:24:42Z")

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Have any of you found any especially good music to put you in the proper grim, dark mood of nihilist despair while you frantically hack at the shambling remains of your fellow humans with an axe caked with hair and brain matter, choking back tears of outrage and horror at the bloody abattoir of the tiny corpses of cold, vacantly-staring, dead-eyed children piling up around you like bricks in a wall of damnation?

My choices:

- Pink Floyd, The Wall

- Jeff Wayne, War of the Worlds

- Wumpscut, Wreath of Barbs

- KMFDM, WW III

- cEvin Key, Involution

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**Author:** ![Fniff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Fniff](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Fniff)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/2 "2014-04-26T23:53:17Z")

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I used to listen to the Silent Hill Downpour soundtrack, but then I found [this really good ambient album](http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/2146) that does a great job of replicating the Cataclysm atmosphere. There’s a few other albums on it that do it for me as well.

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**Author:** ![Hibou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hibou/32/1330_2.png) [@Hibou](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hibou)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/3 "2014-04-27T01:49:20Z")

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[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jljCWEzuOTU) is a pretty nice one to listen to when you’re walking along roads or what-have-you.

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**Author:** ![Fox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Fox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Fox)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/4 "2014-05-02T05:10:52Z")

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IMHO, “This Isn’t What We Meant” by Savatage is a pretty good fit for the game.

Edit: Once I become a radiogenic\radioactive mutant-cyborg I end up listening to “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons. 😛

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**Author:** ![FusedIsland](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/fusedisland/32/308_2.png) [@FusedIsland](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FusedIsland)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/5 "2014-05-02T07:06:47Z")

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Dark Souls II OST.

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**Author:** ![Mrnocamera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mrnocamera/32/61_2.png) [@Mrnocamera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mrnocamera)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/6 "2014-05-02T15:28:39Z")

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I listen to Alestorm.

Because who needs atmospheric music when you have Scottish Pirate Metal?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/7 "2014-05-02T21:31:56Z")

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Personally, I activate a radio in game, and then in my browser, go to Pandora and listen to whatever comes on until the radio dies. Put in batteries, repeat.

Which typically includes electronica, Classical, Hard Rock, and Ambient music

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**Author:** ![Dalkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dalkar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dalkar)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/8 "2014-05-04T15:54:10Z")

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Anything by Todd Smith for that craziness factor.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/9 "2014-05-04T16:40:26Z")

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[A droning dead world.](http://somafm.com/popup/?dronezone)

[Spy satellite.](http://somafm.com/popup/?deepspaceone)

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**Author:** ![creepysalad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/creepysalad/32/302_2.png) [@creepysalad](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/creepysalad)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/10 "2014-05-05T22:46:22Z")

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Acoustic Tales - Field Rotation  
 ’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor  
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor  
Yanqui U.X.O - Godspeed You! Black Emperor  
Hurtbreak Wonderland - World’s End Girlfriend  
Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain - Mono & World’s End Girlfriend  
Paraphrases - Christopher Berg  
Stoic - WIFE  
Through The Glass Wall - The Invisible Fish  
Giles Corey - Giles Corey

Some of these may not fit, as I haven’t listened to these all in a long time. All of the ones in BOLD are for sure the kind of music you’re looking for.

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**Author:** ![borrisb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borrisb/32/1111_2.png) [@borrisb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/borrisb)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/11 "2014-05-09T04:24:46Z")

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[quote=“Slax, post:9, topic:5959”][A droning dead world.](http://somafm.com/popup/?dronezone)

[Spy satellite.](http://somafm.com/popup/?deepspaceone)[/quote]

These are great.

Two favs right for my frequent Moose and zolf love fests:

[Ghosts by NiN](http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home)

[Fabulas Ater by Lzn02](http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a9816/fabulas-ater)

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**Author:** ![Khrysanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@Khrysanth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Khrysanth)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/12 "2014-05-09T11:49:27Z")

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Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult  
Wherever I May Roam - Metallica  
Sad But True - Metallica

Also, the music from DEFCON by Introversion.

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**Author:** ![Medicine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/medicine/32/211_2.png) [@Medicine](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Medicine)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/13 "2014-05-09T12:05:08Z")

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The Sprawl, by Sonic Youth. It’s inspired by a (seminal) cyberpunk trilogy by William Gibson.

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**Author:** ![Kyriolexical\_Dino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kyriolexical_dino/32/276_2.png) [@Kyriolexical\_Dino](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Kyriolexical_Dino)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/14 "2014-05-15T04:33:31Z")

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I just listen to some random thing done by cryochamber. You guys also have some amazing sugestions too, thanks for the shared music.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/15 "2014-10-27T11:54:29Z")

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It’s necrotime. So spooky!

[Technophobia.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_O2mscWDBo)

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**Author:** ![jokermatt999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jokermatt999](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jokermatt999)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/16 "2014-10-27T13:56:07Z")

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[quote=“creepysalad, post:10, topic:5959”]Acoustic Tales - Field Rotation  
 ’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor  
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor  
Yanqui U.X.O - Godspeed You! Black Emperor  
Hurtbreak Wonderland - World’s End Girlfriend  
Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain - Mono & World’s End Girlfriend  
Paraphrases - Christopher Berg  
Stoic - WIFE  
Through The Glass Wall - The Invisible Fish  
Giles Corey - Giles Corey

Some of these may not fit, as I haven’t listened to these all in a long time. All of the ones in BOLD are for sure the kind of music you’re looking for.[/quote]

Hello new best forum friend with awesome music taste. Godspeed You! Black Emperor and world’s end girlfriend are perfect for the post apocalypse, and the latter never seems to get the recognition he deserves. I’d also highly recommend Magyar Posse - Kings of Time. It’s one of the only other albums that has that epic apocalyptic feel of GsY!BE. Daturah also has a few good tracks that fit imo, like Ghost Track an Hybrisma. Now, off to check out those other albums you mention that I haven’t heard of!

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**Author:** ![TheWumpus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/thewumpus/32/263_2.png) [@TheWumpus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheWumpus)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/17 "2014-10-28T01:33:32Z")

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Infamis: [http://www.infamis.de/](http://www.infamis.de/)

Look him up on Spotify.

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**Author:** ![BigLie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@BigLie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BigLie)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/18 "2014-10-28T18:10:10Z")

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Crimsonland soundtrack and one of those scenarios that shove you deep into town.

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/19 "2014-10-28T21:09:37Z")

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/apocalyptic-music-for-a-dying-world/5959/20 "2014-10-29T05:10:50Z")

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This popped up just as I was getting ready to travel into the unknown, leaving a looted town behind.

  
Feels good, man.

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