I've been playing Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines all day long yesterday, ever since I fished it out of the mail. It's a darn good game, and it has great music to boot! As you can imagine what with it being a vampire game, the music is mostly gothic/electro/industrial. I went to this one club in the game and I thought that the music sounded familiar somehow. After my character had danced to the music for some time, I realized it could only be Genitorturers. I checked the list on the web and indeed. So I've been listening to the two albums of theirs I have (Machine Love and Sin City). The rest of the soundtrack is pretty good too. Here's the list:

Bloodlines - Ministry
Come Alive - Daniel Ash
Cain - Tiamat
Swamped - Lacuna Coil
Isolated - Chiasm
Needle's Eye - Die My Darling
Pound - Aerial2012
Lecher umbrella seller - Genitorturers
Smaller God - Darling Violetta
Swamped (Video) - Lacuna Coil

What's really funny is that you can pretty much find out who's done the soundtrack in-game. For instance in your own appartment in the game there's a Lacuna Coil poster, and there are ads for performances of some of these other bands in the club I mentioned. This game really has it all: the music, the hot gothic chicks (or hunks, if you're into those) with proper hairdo and atire, and you can suck their blooooood!

I really love games with great music!

Undead Metal! Rightoeus!

My favorite game like that is Knights Kingdom under fire, some sweet metal riffs by unknown metal japanese bands!

i liked the KUF games pretty well. the music got on my nerves a bit. tad repetitive, but then again, im no metalhead.

chillin with some pink floyd, atom heart mother, right now.

been listening to the psychedellic station on AOL radio. is it bad that i can recognize most of the bands without looking?

Starge, I don't remember any Umbrella Sellers in that game...

Anyhow, there *are* few posters of groups, just check out the places with loud music - Ministry poster, for example, is all over Club Confession.

Saturday's music listening is as follows:

Fiction by Dark Tranquility
Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Ghost Reveries by Opeth
Damnation by Opeth
My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth
Sin After Sin by Judas Priest
Alone by Solitude Aeturnus
Beyond the Crimson Horizon by Solitude Aeturnus

And now, I talk about some of my recent purchases:

Fiction by Dark Tranquility

Dark Tranquility is often associated with being one of the pioneers of the Melodic Death Metal genre. Well, this is my first experience with the band and I'm very impressed. This is their newest CD and the band certainly sounds motivated and energetic. For the most part, a lot of the melody is expressed through the keyboard/synth work. I'm actually very impressed with how Dark Tranquility use their keys, as they don't sound cheesy at all. A lot of the time the keys sound like a normal piano, but there's also some interesting, also trance-like synths tossed into some songs. Each song is very strong but my personal highlights are "Inside the Particle Storm" due to its quiet beginning before bursting into the vocals that sound absolutely scatching. "Empty Me" features an extended solo work between the keys and guitars that I find awesome and "Misery Crown" actually features some gothic clean vocals during the verses while the chorus is growled. This is definitely one of my favourites of 07.

My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth

This was Opeth's third album and it's definitely a solid one. This album itself is a concept album, though I haven't read the lyrics yet so I'm sure what it's exactly about yet. Musically, it's very solid with lots of heavy guitars and enough melody to please fans looking for those moments. My current favourite song is "Demon of the Fall" which begins hellishly but progresses into some beautiful melodic work later on. Also the ending to "Karma" is absolutely insane. Easily my favourite Opeth album (then again, I don't have many of their records).

Sin After Sin by Judas Priest

I've been waiting to get my hands on this CD for awile. This is actually the only CD in my extensive Judas Priest collection that I didn't have that I wanted, so I'm very glad to have my hands on it. This was their 3rd album (including Rocka Rolla) and features classics like Dissident Aggressor, Diamonds and Rust, and Sinner. There's also a few other gems too like the ballad "Last Rose of Summer". Solid album.

Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails

This is actually my first NIN CD and I'm happy with the results. According to what I've read, the industrial edge has been brought back extensively into the mix when compared to "With Teeth". I would have to agree with that because there's definitely a lot of noisy programming going on in the lot of these tracks. It makes for some interesting listening. I'm liking this CD so far, but it probably won't crack the 2007 Top Ten.

i just got the Magical Mystery Tour album yesterday, by The Beatles. some of it is a bit off from the beatles' songs that it make to the cultural surface, but over all i like it.

my favorite song is I Am the Walrus

coo-coo-ka-choo.

I bought the Black Keys' Magic Potion a little while back, along with Emily Haines' Knives Don't Have Your Back. Good albums, both.

I got more musicaks for ya'lls to listen to. Here's my weekend list:

Isis - Celestial
Isis - Oceanic
Isis - Panopticon
Isis - In the Abscence of Truth
The Gates of Slumber - Suffer No Guilt
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
I - Between Two Worlds

As you can tell, I wanted to listen to my complete Isis collection that I own. I'm pretty sure those four are all their major releases, but whatever.

As of this moment, I'm patiently awaiting the arrival of my order from the states which will get me two more Insomnium CDs, a Carnal Forge CD, and a Transmission0 CD. Plus, I gotta keep an eye out for the new Neurosis album and the new Dream Theater (which is out next week I'm pretty sure).

I don't really listen to normal songs preformed by singers or bands or stuff like that. But I just downloaded the soundtrack for CAC 3: Tiberium Wars; I'm hooked.

jefferson airplane: white rabbit.

i just found out i love jefferson airplane. who knew?

Woah! yeah! White rabbit, so many memories, I used to listen a lot to Jefferson Airplane when I was a student!..Wait....that was loooooooooong ago!!!!

Anyway they are still awesome!

I´m mostly listening to Crüxshadows, due to the concert I visited when I was in Berlin. Their new cd Dream Cypher is just so good!

Also I found some very good music in my daughter´s comp: Welle Erdball: Tanzpalast.....great music!

If my history is correct, I'm pretty sure that was one of the first singles that made the radio with a very clear drug reference in it. There's a line about mushrooms in it if I remember correctly.

I actually don't mind that song either.

heh. "one pill makes larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives dont do anything at all. go ask alice when she's ten feet tall."

some pretty blatant drug reference if you ask me.

I'm currently listening to Dalai Lama - Rammstein.

Music! I listen to that stuff ya know? Here's this weekend's music list:

Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Iced Earth - Overature of the Wicked (EP)
Ion Dissonance - Minus the Herd
Pelican - City of Echoes
Hurt - Vol.1
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Machine Head - The Blackening


Well I was planning to talk about my new CDs I purchased (Given to the Rising, Systematic Chaos, Overature of the Wicked, Minus the Herd, and City of Echoes) but I need to give them some more listens before I give a clear cut impression on what I think of them. So far, a lot of the Neurosis tracks have amazed me and I found that I didn't lose interest in the Dream Theater songs. "Constant Motion" so far has been my favourite track off of Systematic Chaos.

As THIH comes to the conclusion of many (but not all) comflicts I find myself looping the second-to-last track of POTC 3: AWE (One Day) which is an excellent masterpiece by Hans Zimmer.

lol i just listened to it. i think i see it in your post.

i know for me, the music i listen to while i write greatly influences my writing style. i can usually go back and read a passage and tell you what song i was listening to while it was written.

LOL, (almost) same here. Viva la musica!

even though dream theater is the equivalent of cocaine for me, I still haven't bought the new album...