# Musically Cataclysmic: What do you listen to when playing Cataclysm?

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**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [October 24, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641 "2013-10-24T03:38:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/21 "2013-11-13T03:06:52Z")

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Well besides the regular techno I listen too.

I also listen to [Kenny Loggins- Danger Zone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0P1Bk8Cx4), when I know “the zone will be one of danger”.

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/22 "2013-11-13T04:27:56Z")

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Here’s an admittedly very camp music video about the apocalypse. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2GCa-\_nyU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2GCa-_nyU)

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/23 "2013-11-17T16:47:59Z")

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Mostly listening to Crysis 3 soundtrack right now. Sounds fairly cataclysmic in a lot of the pieces, actually.

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/24 "2013-11-17T17:42:57Z")

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is it wrong i listen to music that in no way connects to the game?

I just listen to a mixture of Danzig, the Hotline Miami soundtrack, and a mixture of punk rock in there somehow.

Now that i think of it, the Hotline Miami soundtrack fits waaaaaay too well

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**Author:** ![VampyreLord](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vampyrelord/32/197_2.png) [@VampyreLord](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/VampyreLord)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/25 "2013-11-21T12:39:47Z")

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[https://archive.org/details/ambcol\_dark](https://archive.org/details/ambcol_dark)

This is what I listen to, it gives a sombre eerie feeling when played with the curses version.

This site also have quite great ambient music beside this one.

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/26 "2013-11-21T20:19:43Z")

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A few of my personal favorites that I’ve copypasted from a previous music discussion thread:

[  
 Unter Null - Destroy Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO-HonoVSGs)  
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 Funker Vogt - Arising Hero (Faderhead Remix ~ Burnt Extended)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evS4lRuyOTQ)

[Nachtmahr - Mädchen in Uniform (Faderhead remix)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGVgOKPqch0)

[Dismantled - Insecthead](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuRWSOtngH0)

[Eisenfunk - Pentafunk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQoXm-JMZA)

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/27 "2013-11-21T20:23:31Z")

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Prepared myself to clean out a town, grabbed a machete and a heavily modified uzi.  
Drowning Pool-Let The Bodies Hit The Floor  
Having so much fun.

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**Author:** ![Chaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/chaz/32/3870_2.png) [@Chaz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Chaz)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/28 "2013-11-21T20:29:14Z")

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I typically listen to podcasts or Let’s Plays because I like having background voices rather than music when it comes to sandbox games that don’t have a lot of spoken dialogue. (Welcome To Night Vale would be a rather amusing accompanying podcast to a game like Cataclysm, I will say).

However when I do listen to music when playing this game, it’s generally either Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor (or other bands that have a similar sound!) For some tasters:

[Mogwai - We’re No Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeRsLPQannM)  
[Mogwai - I Know You Are But What Am I?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dORHW9Cg4)  
[Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gixKCoZFUK0)  
[GY!BE - The Sad Mafioso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSnABcDg4t8) (Part of “East Hastings”, probably well known for the “abandoned London” scene in 28 Days Later)

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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:** [November 23, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/29 "2013-11-23T06:29:16Z")

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Anything that’s playing on my Pandora radio stations ( Which is to say, Hard rock-electronica/ Two Steps From Hell, etc etc)

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**Author:** ![Wuzzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/wuzzy/32/41_2.png) [@Wuzzy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wuzzy)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/30 "2013-11-25T05:31:09Z")

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Hey! We already had a thread like that!  
Whatever, I just quote myself from [this post](http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=726.msg11470#msg11470):

[quote=“Wuzzy, post:25, topic:704”]I give you a list of tracks that are somehow related.  
I listen to:

tracks without lyrics  
gopher://uninformativ.de/1/music/Elektronische-Musik/ — n-to-infty (Gopher URL):

[ul][li]gopher://uninformativ.de/s/music/Elektronische-Musik/n-to-infty%20-%20Arbeitstag.ogg — Arbeitstag (Gopher URL) (Very dark atmosphere and somehow industrial, too (hence the name “Arbeitstag” (=German word for “work day”)))[/li][/ul]

The other tracks are nice, too but they clearly don’t fit into the “dark”/“horror” theme. And they aren’t ambient at all.

[Shawn Parkle](http://soundcloud.com/shawnnervousparke):

[ul][li][Horror and Suspense](http://soundcloud.com/shawnnervousparke/sets/horror/): atmospheric tracks that serve well as a background ambience, but they are brighter (“less dark”) than “Arbeitstag”[/li][/ul]

[Starpilot](http://starpilot.ca/):

[ul][li][Butcher Knife Syndrome](http://chipmusic.org/starpilot/music/butcher-knife-syndrome): crazy chiptune madness. You have been warned! [/li][/ul]

tracks with English Lyrics  
Viton & Stel:

[ul][li]Nightmare[/li][/ul]

Techno. This is the only track I know from them. On the Internet there are probably lots of copies of it. I bet you’ll find it yourself.

[Professor Shyguy](http://professorshyguy.com/):

[ul][li][Zombies \> Vampires](http://youtu.be/rGLM0lh90tk): This track is not atmospheric at all, I added it just for fun. As the title suggest, this track explains why zombies are greater than vampires ;-)[/li][/ul]

tracks with German Lyrics  
[Das Schwarze System](http://www.dasschwarzesystem.de/)

[ul][li]Blinder Passagier[/li]  
[li]Deine Seele[/li][/ul]

This is electro. And dark.

[all:my:faults](http://www.jamendo.com/de/artist/1428/all-my-faults):

[ul][li][Gesenkte Augen//Geschlossenes Haupt](http://www.jamendo.com/de/track/94543/gesenktes-haupt-geschlossene-augen)[/li][/ul]

Metal. all:my:faults have some lyrics in English, too. So check out their Jamendo page.

This list is non-exhaustive. 😉  
I just listed the most notable tracks. Especially I omitted a lot of tracks of several artists. So if you liked one track, you probably like the other tracks of the same artist, too.  
[hr]

Note: To access “gopher://” URLs, you need a software that knows the Gopher protocol. Gopher is something like the WWW, but much, much older. The main difference is probably that Gopher allows to sort the files in a hierachy, unlike in the WWW, where the website navigation/file hierarchy has to be part of the webpage itself. More infos on Gopher: [Wikipedia on Gopher (protocol)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)). If you use Firefox, I recommend OverbiteFF \<[iurl=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/][https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/[/iurl]](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/%5B/iurl%5D)\>, an extension that adds Gopher support to Firefox. The track “Arbeitstag” by “n-to-infty” is only accessible via Gopher AFAIK.

(…)[/quote]

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/31 "2013-11-25T05:55:27Z")

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I have a few pandora stations I use…but this song just came on my current one and I felt it fit extremely well. Pendulum - The Other Side

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/32 "2013-11-25T13:57:15Z")

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I’ve been listening to Lordvessel by Tanooki Suit.

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/33 "2013-11-25T19:00:40Z")

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[quote=“Protester, post:24, topic:3641”]is it wrong i listen to music that in no way connects to the game?

I just listen to a mixture of Danzig, the Hotline Miami soundtrack, and a mixture of punk rock in there somehow.

Now that i think of it, the Hotline Miami soundtrack fits waaaaaay too well[/quote]

Yeah, I can definitely vouch for the HM soundtrack. Smoke some meth, go charging into a pack of zombies with a flammenschwert and hack your way to victory to the thumping beats of the 80s.

I also enjoy listening to Megadeth, Pendulum and the idyllic sound of The Decemberists when doing day to day business in Cataclysm.  
Other times I listen to Ayreon, either the heavy metal stuff when driving or dungeon diving, or the atmospheric stuff when exploring.

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**Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/34 "2013-11-26T12:52:11Z")

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This [https://soundcloud.com/groups/slow-dark-etherial-ambient-witchy-heavy-bass-experimental-electronic-music](https://soundcloud.com/groups/slow-dark-etherial-ambient-witchy-heavy-bass-experimental-electronic-music)

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**Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/35 "2013-11-26T18:07:40Z")

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[Zombies Ate My Neighbours - Schoolboy](http://youtu.be/MylixkwKARU)

Or at least that’s what I’m listening to at the moment. XD

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**Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/36 "2013-12-08T21:34:55Z")

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Rise from your grave, thread.  
[http://somafm.com/illstreet/](http://somafm.com/illstreet/)

It’s a fine day to be surviving the end of civilization.

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/37 "2013-12-09T07:43:19Z")

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I’ve been digging through my musical archives lately, so tonight I was listening to switched on bach by wendy carlos circa 1968. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On\_Bach](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On_Bach) , very cool if you’re into old electronic music or classical or both.

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/38 "2013-12-09T12:48:41Z")

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Haha, I listen to what is playing on my computer at the moment.  
That ranges from Cat Stevens, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, and goes to Mettallica, Guns N Roses, to Bon Jovi, Eagles…  
Yeah, just any kinda music, most not related to the game, because I play Cataclysm, mostly to relax with the music.

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/39 "2013-12-09T14:15:22Z")

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lately i listen to the Matrix soundtrack. nice mix of songs and quite fitting.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/musically-cataclysmic-what-do-you-listen-to-when-playing-cataclysm/3641/40 "2013-12-11T12:20:58Z")

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Anything by this band usually fits perfectly. Especially this song.

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