Well besides the regular techno I listen too.
I also listen to Kenny Loggins- Danger Zone , when I know “the zone will be one of danger”.
Here’s an admittedly very camp music video about the apocalypse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2GCa-_nyU
Mostly listening to Crysis 3 soundtrack right now. Sounds fairly cataclysmic in a lot of the pieces, actually.
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
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.
A few of my personal favorites that I’ve copypasted from a previous music discussion thread:
Unter Null - Destroy Me
Funker Vogt - Arising Hero (Faderhead Remix ~ Burnt Extended)
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.
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
Mogwai - I Know You Are But What Am I?
Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous
GY!BE - The Sad Mafioso (Part of “East Hastings”, probably well known for the “abandoned London” scene in 28 Days Later)
Anything that’s playing on my Pandora radio stations ( Which is to say, Hard rock-electronica/ Two Steps From Hell, etc etc)
Hey! We already had a thread like that!
Whatever, I just quote myself from this post:
[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.
[ul][li]Horror and Suspense: atmospheric tracks that serve well as a background ambience, but they are brighter (“less dark”) than “Arbeitstag”[/li][/ul]
[ul][li]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.
[ul][li]Zombies > Vampires: 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
[ul][li]Blinder Passagier[/li]
[li]Deine Seele[/li][/ul]
This is electro. And dark.
[ul][li]Gesenkte Augen//Geschlossenes Haupt[/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.
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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). 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]>, an extension that adds Gopher support to Firefox. The track “Arbeitstag” by “n-to-infty” is only accessible via Gopher AFAIK.
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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
I’ve been listening to Lordvessel by Tanooki Suit.
[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.
Zombies Ate My Neighbours - Schoolboy
Or at least that’s what I’m listening to at the moment. XD
Rise from your grave, thread.
http://somafm.com/illstreet/
It’s a fine day to be surviving the end of civilization.
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 , very cool if you’re into old electronic music or classical or both.
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.
lately i listen to the Matrix soundtrack. nice mix of songs and quite fitting.
Anything by this band usually fits perfectly. Especially this song.