Doom actually got me into Metalcore. From listening to the Doom soundtrack, I found Nik Nocturnal and your channel and discovered bands like ERRA, Northlane, Thornhill, Bleed From Within, The Devil Wears Prada, Aviana, Bury Tomorrow, Void of Vision, Electric Callboy, Stray From The Path, Landmvrks, and a ton more. Now I listen to Metalcore non stop.
Most wanted was fucking goated, I will never forget playing these games as a kid. The feeling you get when you’re hauling ass down the road hitting the nos button with skinny man playing in the background was just unreal. You weren’t old enough to drive but you got the same feeling in game what it feels like driving with music blasted. 👌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
For me... -Breaking Benjamin and Steve Vai in Halo 2 -All of the Burnout 3 and Revenge soundtrack -The intro of Prince of persia: warrior within by Godsmack -Guitar Hero 3 soundtrack -The intro of Doom 3 -Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 (and recently, Frontiers).
What a walk down memory lane. The first time I noticed a heavy Soundtrack was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. Doom 2018 was a blessing. The soundtrack is fire. But I was peasantly surprised by a game called Metal: Hellsinger. It has a fantastic soundtrack with many of today’s legends.
For me the game that brought me into rock/metal was definitely Burnout Revenge; Billy Talent, Yellowcard, All-American Rejects, BFMV, Funeral For A Friend, Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, Thrice.... just so many great bands and so many great memories 😭❤🔥
Great memory trip bog! Shout out to WWE Smackdown vs. RAW series. I remember heard Unretrofied by The Dillinger Escape Plan for the first time and was completely blown away when I heard the rest of their discography years later. Talk about a comercialized radio single.
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within had brutal instrumentals ;D Also the song for the credits, I Stand Alone by Godsmack fits the game perfectly and was such a blast to hear after that last boss fight :D
Dude this was an awesome video also the Alan Wake 2 soundtrack is sooooo good and the guardians soundtrack was great hope you make more videos like this
Tony Hawk: American Wasteland was a game I played when I was like 5 and it totally shaped my love of hardcore/punk/metal. THUG 2 also had a fantastic soundtrack.
I really like original Mirror's Edge a lot and i think that the soundtrack of this game is the type of electronic music that i want to be implemented by bands into modern metal. The Omission by Loathe is a perfect example of something really similar but still kinda different... I need more of that! This is why i was disappointed by the last EP of Northlane, because i expected it from them and it didn't happen :( Also overall Mirror's Edge is still one of the most original games ever and the way it ages is amazing too, the visual part and the atmosphere... Definitely my favorite game, i like it so much that i don't mind the bad sides of it. But also if you're a parkour fan and if you were there in 2008, this game would've feel like some otherworldly experience, this is one of those games i can describe like - "the dream came true".
@@Brancr Maybe it was a nod but it has nothing from Solar Fields sound, it has a very Mirror's Edge looking cover(which is AI generated and lazy) and color palette, but it has nothing in common with Mirror's Edge OST (in that sense). Maybe it's all were just my expectations, but anyways i still disliked this EP because of the mix
Doom Eternal and Metal Hellsinger also deserve a massive shoutout for any Metal lovers. Especially the latter, it's just a metal album with a game attached to it
This is an amazing idea for a video. My music taste was absolutelly shaped by video games (all of the ones you mentioned ha). I want to mention also Flatout 1 and 2. They were full of bangers.
Its the same for me, i started listening to metal because of the black ops zombie easter eggs song "115" from Elena Siegman, and the Origin map trailer.
Great topic for a video! GTA and NFS:U2 played a huge part in my musical development as well. However, from the Burnout series it must have been Burnout 3, as I've never played Paradise. I remember listening to Silent Drive - 4/16 for the first time and being blown away. Midnight Club 3 also had some bangers for their soundtrack, introducing me to bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson and Jimmy Eat World. Last but not least one game that resulted in one particular song being stuck in my head for months back then was Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, the song was Swamped by Lacuna Coil. Listening to any of these soundtracks still evokes good memories.
My dad always listened to metal (and he was staying somewhat up to date with bands such as BFMV or Funeral for a Friend), but my favorite songs from the time came from videogames. The absolute standout imo is Red Flag by Billy Talent which was featured in Burnout Revenge. This song and Hand of Bloob by BFMV I would just put on repeat and play for hours. So so good! Loved the video!
Completely overlooked Cyberpunk 2077. One of the games biggest songs is by HEALTH and the rock station had the best original music by a fictional band called Samurai I've heard in a game and their metal station is amazing too super brutal and heavy.
need for speed underground 2 introduced me to rise against, burnout revenge introduced me to comeback kid and funeral for a friend, burnout paradise introduced me to saosin (which LARGELY changed my taste for music in the post hardcore realm). EA games in general had the most insanely diverse choices for music and i have to give it a lot of credit for my introduction to heavier genres. atv off road for the PSP also had some great song choices, and i think one of the NBA 2k games i used to rent from blockbuster back in the day had some bangers as well. so stoked you covered this, i think it's such a unique way a lot of us in the mid 2000's became exposed to rock and metal - you basically covered my entire childhood of music and video games in a single video, i feel so validated hahaha
Back as a child I used to play The Sims 2 on PlayStation 2 where you could choose between different genres on the radio. There was also metal, which included "Like Light to the Flies" by Trivium. Literally the first contact I made with Metalcore lmao
The one game that got me hooked on how great music is in games is Halo. Specifically the third mission, The Silent Cartographer, where you have to traverse out and it's playing the combat music but this time with a guitar solo accompanying it. When you get to that part for the first, it literally makes you feel like you were unstoppable. And Halo 2 they pretty much incorporated a good amount of tracks with some metal/rock riffs. Like, Bungie knew that metal/rock just meshes well when you are mowing down aliens, doing a warthog run, whatever. How they got Steve Vai to help them with soundtrack is beyond me but I am glad that it happened.
literally so true Need for speed most wanted , you jump in BFMV disturbed kicks in that got me into that , along with Prince of Persia Warrior Within soundtrack , Godsmack Insane .
My metal progression was listening in closely to Shapeshifter on NFSMW while in the main menu and going like "wow, drums are actually a pretty cool thing!". Then became a Celldweller fanboy, saw he remixed I See Stars, listened to them and "hey, this sounds great! anything else that sounds like this?", he also remixed Asking Alexandria and MIW so I checked them out too and got into 2010s metalcore (MMF, OM&M, BMTH, Attack Attack, etc). Then Suicide Silence pops in my recommended and thought "wtf is it with all the screaming?", took a month to like them, then came Chelsea Grin, Whitechapel, Attila... then Within Destruction, SOTS, Shadow of Intent, STP, Lorna... Thanks Need for Speed lmao
Burnout, for me what stood out was hearing lights and sounds by yellowcard.Just the way it starts out and how intense the drums were always got me hyped up! Along with the great escape by we are scientist and Billy talent. Also idk which one it was but the donots we got the noise was a banger!
Crashday was my intro to The Offspring which kickstarted my love for punk and rock music in general. NFS series introduced me to Rise Against and Skindred (U2), as well as Celldweller, A7X and Bullet For My Valentine (Most Wanted). Hell, even the 2010s Hot Pursuit reminded me of how great early 30 Seconds To Mars and Bad Religion were. Still my all-time favorite video game franchise to this day. And of course, the Flatout tracklist was absolutely nuts too.
I got friends into metal thanks to Killing Floor 2 and DOOM 2016. I love when they do these things with the OST cuz it's such a natural gateway into it from people who wouldn't engage with the scene otherwise ;; Really nice video, nice lil' idea.
Whenever I find metal music in video games it makes me smile. My very first one was "Mechanical Rhythm" from Xenoblade Chronicles back in 2010. There is also something I don't want to spoil to you, but you should listen to the "Undefeatable", "Break through it all", "Find your Flame" and "I'm here" from the Sonic Frontiers Soundtrack. Never in my life did I expect music like this used in a Sonic game.
Didn’t even know about Nobody, Skindred being on that soundtrack , but such a good and interesting song ! Don’t see many people still even talking about it that song.
Man this video hit the right notes . NFS MW along with prince of persia warrior within definitely did shape my personality and taste in music. And i'd highly recommend you to try out POP WW coz that ost is the most metal soundtrack for a game from the 2000's. The riffage still slaps to this day.
NFSMW is a good game but the soundtrack just elevates it One of my favourite musical moments in videogames is the actual live concert you do in Cyberpunk, that shit was incredible to do without knowing it was going to happen
Have you played Metal: Hellsinger? It's a first person shooter where every level is based on a custom written metal song, and you have to follow the rhythm of the song to get the best score. Killing monsters to the beat of a metal song is incredibly satisfying. Also, I'm a bit sad you never mentioned NFS Underground 1. Static-X - The Only, Story of the Year - And the Hero Will Drown, and of course Broken Promises by Element Eighty - my first introduction to screaming. I absolutely LOVED Broken Promises as a teenager.
Mtx mototrax on ps2 was the game that shaped my music taste, I would spent whole afternoons playing it and being amazed with that soundtrack with bands like slipknot, black label society and ill nino
An old old game from PS1 that had a badass metal soundtrack was Destruction Derby 2. A band called Jug made a whole metal album specifically for that game and it was really good. What was cool is you could put the PS1 disc in a CD player and you could play the whole album and I did that a lot as youngin
Two things I would add to this list would definitely be cyberpunk 2077 and the mx vs atv series. The original music is cyberpunk is really sick and the way they even mapped the guitar playing to look realistic in the game is some next level stuff
For me the first games that introduced me to metal were Burnout Paradise and also Motorstorm Arctic Edge!! Bullet for my valentine, Pendulum, The Prodigy, The Qemists.... Amazing blend of electronic/punk/metal
I'm 32 years old and NFSU1 and Burnout 3 introduced me to so many bands and kicked off my rock and, later down the line, metal journey. So I'm a bit older than you, but pretty much lived through the same journey. I hate to admit but for many years Lostprophets were my favorite band, closely followed by Rise Against. But we're not gonna talk about the former anymore, yikes. Shoutout to Story of the Year, Static-X and Element Eighty because of NFSU1, btw. I'm also soooo much into Unwritten Law (their latest stuff is pretty dope btw), at some point I literally disabled all songs but this one in the game. I think Burnout 3 OST is still the GOAT when it comes to rock and metal OSTs. Amber Pacific, Funeral for a Friend, The Ramones, Autopilot Off, Yellowcard, Pennywise, Fall Out Boy, Rise Against, The F-Ups, Donots, From First to Last, Sugarcult, New Found Glory, My Chem, Motion City Soundtrack, The Explosion, Atreyu, Jimmy Eat World and many more!
The soundtrack of the Guilty Gear series is absolutely amazing. Guilty Gear is a fighting game basically built on a heavy metal aesthetic and of course it has the original soundtrack to match that. The soundtrack is so good that it has become a meme to say "you get a game for free when buying the album" My most important childhood metal OST is the inbtro to Dragonball Z budokai tenkaichi 3. That song goes HARD. Speaking about Dragon Ball, the Dragon Ball FighterZ OST goes absolutely nuts. Fighitng games in general tend to have pretty metal soundtracks which is extra cool for me since theyre my favourite genre of video game.
I found Celldweller from Extreme G3 where there's 2 soundtracks, one that's EDM and one that's metal, and he has tracks on both and its sick. But what about SSX On Tour!? A7X, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Queens of the Stone Age - I think that was the first time I heard Run To The Hills when I was just starting to learn guitar haha
A recent-ish game title with an absolutely KILLER djent style metal OST is the game Trepang2 and I cannot recommend both the OST and the game itself enough
I was pretty ok with rock/metal but what really got me - Killing Floor 2. I heard Demon Hunter's Infected somewhere but couldn't remember where, couldn't remember the song, tried to find it, failed and when it played in the game.. well, DH among top5 metal bands for me to this day still. Oh, how could I forget - Prince with Godsmack in it was damn good
I’m gonna say the Guitar Hero games, Brutal Legend, Saints Rows 1 2 & 3, Splatterhouse (fucking gem of a game), Devil May Cry 3, and most of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games.
Shoutout DMC5 the soundtrack is metal as fuck. Bury The Light and Devil Trigger are some of the best tracks in the game, and also songs like Subhman and Crimson Cloud which are incredible. Bury The Light is probably my favourite song of all time a masterpiece in songwriting
Need For Speed, FlatOut, Burnout. Early 2000's racing games were the best when it comes to metal in soundtracks. I will always remember how much better it made the races feel.
Metal Hellsinger & Trepang2 are 2 soundtracks from newer games id recommend. Also if we are talking about goated soundtracks we got to talk about the old Tony Hawk games. Specifically 2. & Guitar Hero 1 & 2
Cyberpunk man, they also created a virtual band called Samurai (by Refused) and songs are pretty cool. And some music in GTA like radio was too heavy even for me though I'm metalhead myself
First game that comes to mind as "metal", is Battletech, both the original and the new one. Music wise can't think of many that would've been metal per se, apart from DOOM. Maybe Remedy games that all have had Poets of the Fall in there somewhere, been a fan of them for ages, especially their keyboard player, whom I've followed since '91 Amiga MOD music days :D
Which game made you fall in love with metal?
It was actually another nfs game with a banger soundtrack: ProStreet 🤟
Cod zombies and guitar hero III!
NFS most wanted and NFS underground 2
thanks for NFSMW i know that my most favorite song with a solo is Hand of Blood
it was Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 for me which featured songs by like iron maiden and such !
We are listening…
You goys should make a song about Read Dead 2
Yoooo you guys are nuts keep up the fantastic work!!!
Doom actually got me into Metalcore. From listening to the Doom soundtrack, I found Nik Nocturnal and your channel and discovered bands like ERRA, Northlane, Thornhill, Bleed From Within, The Devil Wears Prada, Aviana, Bury Tomorrow, Void of Vision, Electric Callboy, Stray From The Path, Landmvrks, and a ton more. Now I listen to Metalcore non stop.
I feel you man I kinda went the same way u did
Incredible Video Bog! Please do more of those "variety" videos if you have an idea, they always absolutely rule!
Thank you! I'd love to do more
Not only Alan Wake and Control in here, but also learning you're a fellow Rise Against enjoyer? Knew this was one of my favorite channels for a reason
FlatOut 2 is what made me switch from rap\hip-hop to rock, metal, pop-punk, post-hardcore. It formed my music taste back then. So many great songs.
Most wanted was fucking goated, I will never forget playing these games as a kid. The feeling you get when you’re hauling ass down the road hitting the nos button with skinny man playing in the background was just unreal. You weren’t old enough to drive but you got the same feeling in game what it feels like driving with music blasted. 👌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
There was just something different about it, not the same anymore, no matter how good the graphics or physics are in modern games
For me...
-Breaking Benjamin and Steve Vai in Halo 2
-All of the Burnout 3 and Revenge soundtrack
-The intro of Prince of persia: warrior within by Godsmack
-Guitar Hero 3 soundtrack
-The intro of Doom 3
-Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 (and recently, Frontiers).
Hell yeah burnout 3
BURNOUT PARADISE SAVED MY LIFE
Flatout 2 & Ultimate Carnage playlists are nuts
Sleeping Dogs is also a game with great Metal(core) Songs playing in the radio - most prominently As I Lay Dying, Trivium and Killswitch Engage
I see Alan Wake, I click
holy shit joe hendry
Alan Wake 2 is great.
What a walk down memory lane. The first time I noticed a heavy Soundtrack was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. Doom 2018 was a blessing. The soundtrack is fire. But I was peasantly surprised by a game called Metal: Hellsinger. It has a fantastic soundtrack with many of today’s legends.
A classic game with great metal music is Brutal Legend
For me the game that brought me into rock/metal was definitely Burnout Revenge; Billy Talent, Yellowcard, All-American Rejects, BFMV, Funeral For A Friend, Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, Thrice.... just so many great bands and so many great memories 😭❤🔥
Brutal legends! Literally an open world jack Black game about metal
Call of Duty Black ops games, with Avenged Sevenfold songs, they were my favorites
From Spain i tell you that i want more of this kind of videos, great video as always 💪🏻
Thank you!
Great memory trip bog! Shout out to WWE Smackdown vs. RAW series. I remember heard Unretrofied by The Dillinger Escape Plan for the first time and was completely blown away when I heard the rest of their discography years later. Talk about a comercialized radio single.
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within had brutal instrumentals ;D
Also the song for the credits, I Stand Alone by Godsmack fits the game perfectly and was such a blast to hear after that last boss fight :D
Flat out 2 showed me underoaths reinventing your exit for the first time. It was 2006, I was 9 years and hooked.
THPS2 was my introduction to metal, punk, rap and pop punk back in 2001 when I was 7yo and haven't looked back since
I really liked this format man, very well made video
Mans completely overlooked the MX vs ATV games 😩
Came here to say this! Untamed was an incredible soundtrack.
Those along with the Tony Hawk games shaped my musical upbringing
Dude this was an awesome video also the Alan Wake 2 soundtrack is sooooo good and the guardians soundtrack was great hope you make more videos like this
I remember the first time Hand of Blood played in Most Wanted. It’s been almost 20 years and I listen to metalcore everyday.
Tony Hawk: American Wasteland was a game I played when I was like 5 and it totally shaped my love of hardcore/punk/metal. THUG 2 also had a fantastic soundtrack.
Yes, I was looking for this comment! For me Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 introduced me to Papa Roach and RATM!
100000%
@@xoxo9256 Right on! I just love all those old skateboarding games, for the gameplay and the incredible OST's.
I really like original Mirror's Edge a lot and i think that the soundtrack of this game is the type of electronic music that i want to be implemented by bands into modern metal. The Omission by Loathe is a perfect example of something really similar but still kinda different... I need more of that!
This is why i was disappointed by the last EP of Northlane, because i expected it from them and it didn't happen :(
Also overall Mirror's Edge is still one of the most original games ever and the way it ages is amazing too, the visual part and the atmosphere... Definitely my favorite game, i like it so much that i don't mind the bad sides of it. But also if you're a parkour fan and if you were there in 2008, this game would've feel like some otherworldly experience, this is one of those games i can describe like - "the dream came true".
Northlane are from the future and know this comment exists, their latest ep os the tastiest nod to mirrors edge
@@Brancr Maybe it was a nod but it has nothing from Solar Fields sound, it has a very Mirror's Edge looking cover(which is AI generated and lazy) and color palette, but it has nothing in common with Mirror's Edge OST (in that sense). Maybe it's all were just my expectations, but anyways i still disliked this EP because of the mix
Mirrors edge was another one of those games I 'played' by watching my cousin haha, nostalgia
@@bogdanhxc I really recommend to play this game if you haven't, there's still nothing like this, but more importantly with music enabled for sure 😊
Bro when I saw Alan wake 2 was on here I was HYPED. Great video bro!
Thanks man!
@@bogdanhxc ♥️♥️
Cool to see you branching out! Love the video!
Thank you, more to come!
No Metal Hellsinger 😢
Dave Mirra freestyle bmx had a great metal soundtrack❤
Metal Hellsinger anyone ? 🔥
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Doom Eternal and Metal Hellsinger also deserve a massive shoutout for any Metal lovers. Especially the latter, it's just a metal album with a game attached to it
Bogdan is back, let's gooo, i'm happy now!
Loved this video! You definitely should do more like this every now and then
Remedy understands the power of a good, well-placed song.
This is an amazing idea for a video. My music taste was absolutelly shaped by video games (all of the ones you mentioned ha). I want to mention also Flatout 1 and 2. They were full of bangers.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Its the same for me, i started listening to metal because of the black ops zombie easter eggs song "115" from Elena Siegman, and the Origin map trailer.
Great topic for a video! GTA and NFS:U2 played a huge part in my musical development as well. However, from the Burnout series it must have been Burnout 3, as I've never played Paradise. I remember listening to Silent Drive - 4/16 for the first time and being blown away. Midnight Club 3 also had some bangers for their soundtrack, introducing me to bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson and Jimmy Eat World. Last but not least one game that resulted in one particular song being stuck in my head for months back then was Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, the song was Swamped by Lacuna Coil. Listening to any of these soundtracks still evokes good memories.
My dad always listened to metal (and he was staying somewhat up to date with bands such as BFMV or Funeral for a Friend), but my favorite songs from the time came from videogames. The absolute standout imo is Red Flag by Billy Talent which was featured in Burnout Revenge. This song and Hand of Bloob by BFMV I would just put on repeat and play for hours. So so good! Loved the video!
Completely overlooked Cyberpunk 2077. One of the games biggest songs is by HEALTH and the rock station had the best original music by a fictional band called Samurai I've heard in a game and their metal station is amazing too super brutal and heavy.
need for speed underground 2 introduced me to rise against, burnout revenge introduced me to comeback kid and funeral for a friend, burnout paradise introduced me to saosin (which LARGELY changed my taste for music in the post hardcore realm). EA games in general had the most insanely diverse choices for music and i have to give it a lot of credit for my introduction to heavier genres. atv off road for the PSP also had some great song choices, and i think one of the NBA 2k games i used to rent from blockbuster back in the day had some bangers as well. so stoked you covered this, i think it's such a unique way a lot of us in the mid 2000's became exposed to rock and metal - you basically covered my entire childhood of music and video games in a single video, i feel so validated hahaha
Back as a child I used to play The Sims 2 on PlayStation 2 where you could choose between different genres on the radio. There was also metal, which included "Like Light to the Flies" by Trivium. Literally the first contact I made with Metalcore lmao
The one game that got me hooked on how great music is in games is Halo. Specifically the third mission, The Silent Cartographer, where you have to traverse out and it's playing the combat music but this time with a guitar solo accompanying it. When you get to that part for the first, it literally makes you feel like you were unstoppable.
And Halo 2 they pretty much incorporated a good amount of tracks with some metal/rock riffs. Like, Bungie knew that metal/rock just meshes well when you are mowing down aliens, doing a warthog run, whatever. How they got Steve Vai to help them with soundtrack is beyond me but I am glad that it happened.
This will need a part 2 once you compiled everyone’s favorites 😂 you only scratched the tip of the iceberg my friend
literally so true Need for speed most wanted , you jump in BFMV disturbed kicks in that got me into that , along with Prince of Persia Warrior Within soundtrack , Godsmack Insane .
MX vs. ATV has the best soundtracks. I also remember Ford Racing games having strangely great soundtracks lol.
Soundtracks to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, MX vs ATV series, early Madden franchise, and Guitar Hero were top influences for me.
My metal progression was listening in closely to Shapeshifter on NFSMW while in the main menu and going like "wow, drums are actually a pretty cool thing!".
Then became a Celldweller fanboy, saw he remixed I See Stars, listened to them and "hey, this sounds great! anything else that sounds like this?", he also remixed Asking Alexandria and MIW so I checked them out too and got into 2010s metalcore (MMF, OM&M, BMTH, Attack Attack, etc).
Then Suicide Silence pops in my recommended and thought "wtf is it with all the screaming?", took a month to like them, then came Chelsea Grin, Whitechapel, Attila... then Within Destruction, SOTS, Shadow of Intent, STP, Lorna...
Thanks Need for Speed lmao
Oh god, I knew the first clip immediately, and I’m still laughing lol, oh I absolutely love that clip.
you used Black Ops menu theme, but didn't include cod zombies where every map has a metal song with some including scream vocals....
Painkiller is a great boomer shooter with an amazing metal soundtrack. Metal: Hellsinger as well.
Burnout, for me what stood out was hearing lights and sounds by yellowcard.Just the way it starts out and how intense the drums were always got me hyped up! Along with the great escape by we are scientist and Billy talent. Also idk which one it was but the donots we got the noise was a banger!
Crashday was my intro to The Offspring which kickstarted my love for punk and rock music in general.
NFS series introduced me to Rise Against and Skindred (U2), as well as Celldweller, A7X and Bullet For My Valentine (Most Wanted). Hell, even the 2010s Hot Pursuit reminded me of how great early 30 Seconds To Mars and Bad Religion were. Still my all-time favorite video game franchise to this day.
And of course, the Flatout tracklist was absolutely nuts too.
I got friends into metal thanks to Killing Floor 2 and DOOM 2016. I love when they do these things with the OST cuz it's such a natural gateway into it from people who wouldn't engage with the scene otherwise ;;
Really nice video, nice lil' idea.
Whenever I find metal music in video games it makes me smile. My very first one was "Mechanical Rhythm" from Xenoblade Chronicles back in 2010.
There is also something I don't want to spoil to you, but you should listen to the "Undefeatable", "Break through it all", "Find your Flame" and "I'm here" from the Sonic Frontiers Soundtrack. Never in my life did I expect music like this used in a Sonic game.
Didn’t even know about Nobody, Skindred being on that soundtrack , but such a good and interesting song ! Don’t see many people still even talking about it that song.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Metal: Hellsinger
Hold the Line by Toto unlocks some special childhood memories. Cruising on a stolen car and listening to K-DST used to be just lovely.
Man this video hit the right notes . NFS MW along with prince of persia warrior within definitely did shape my personality and taste in music. And i'd highly recommend you to try out POP WW coz that ost is the most metal soundtrack for a game from the 2000's. The riffage still slaps to this day.
NFSMW is a good game but the soundtrack just elevates it
One of my favourite musical moments in videogames is the actual live concert you do in Cyberpunk, that shit was incredible to do without knowing it was going to happen
ATV Offroad Fury 2 👌🏼 Such a banger of a soundtrack. Rocked out to Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja on repeat!
Have you played Metal: Hellsinger? It's a first person shooter where every level is based on a custom written metal song, and you have to follow the rhythm of the song to get the best score. Killing monsters to the beat of a metal song is incredibly satisfying.
Also, I'm a bit sad you never mentioned NFS Underground 1. Static-X - The Only, Story of the Year - And the Hero Will Drown, and of course Broken Promises by Element Eighty - my first introduction to screaming. I absolutely LOVED Broken Promises as a teenager.
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage is another racing game I was obsessed with the soundtrack. 😎
nobody makes games like Remedy, and nobody incorporates music in their games like them. so glad to see a shout out to Poets of the Fall too
Mtx mototrax on ps2 was the game that shaped my music taste, I would spent whole afternoons playing it and being amazed with that soundtrack with bands like slipknot, black label society and ill nino
An old old game from PS1 that had a badass metal soundtrack was Destruction Derby 2. A band called Jug made a whole metal album specifically for that game and it was really good. What was cool is you could put the PS1 disc in a CD player and you could play the whole album and I did that a lot as youngin
Two things I would add to this list would definitely be cyberpunk 2077 and the mx vs atv series. The original music is cyberpunk is really sick and the way they even mapped the guitar playing to look realistic in the game is some next level stuff
Hearing Ghost of Reveries in Saint's Row 2 blew my mind, but Prince of Persia The Warrior Within is badass when it comes to metal in music.
NFS Most Wanted 2005 is the best racing game of all time for me, music wise and gameplay wise, just amazing
The Killing Joke's Death and Resurrection Show is definitely the heaviest track on Underground 2
For me the first games that introduced me to metal were Burnout Paradise and also Motorstorm Arctic Edge!! Bullet for my valentine, Pendulum, The Prodigy, The Qemists.... Amazing blend of electronic/punk/metal
I'm 32 years old and NFSU1 and Burnout 3 introduced me to so many bands and kicked off my rock and, later down the line, metal journey. So I'm a bit older than you, but pretty much lived through the same journey.
I hate to admit but for many years Lostprophets were my favorite band, closely followed by Rise Against. But we're not gonna talk about the former anymore, yikes.
Shoutout to Story of the Year, Static-X and Element Eighty because of NFSU1, btw.
I'm also soooo much into Unwritten Law (their latest stuff is pretty dope btw), at some point I literally disabled all songs but this one in the game.
I think Burnout 3 OST is still the GOAT when it comes to rock and metal OSTs. Amber Pacific, Funeral for a Friend, The Ramones, Autopilot Off, Yellowcard, Pennywise, Fall Out Boy, Rise Against, The F-Ups, Donots, From First to Last, Sugarcult, New Found Glory, My Chem, Motion City Soundtrack, The Explosion, Atreyu, Jimmy Eat World and many more!
The soundtrack of the Guilty Gear series is absolutely amazing. Guilty Gear is a fighting game basically built on a heavy metal aesthetic and of course it has the original soundtrack to match that. The soundtrack is so good that it has become a meme to say "you get a game for free when buying the album"
My most important childhood metal OST is the inbtro to Dragonball Z budokai tenkaichi 3. That song goes HARD. Speaking about Dragon Ball, the Dragon Ball FighterZ OST goes absolutely nuts.
Fighitng games in general tend to have pretty metal soundtracks which is extra cool for me since theyre my favourite genre of video game.
I found Celldweller from Extreme G3 where there's 2 soundtracks, one that's EDM and one that's metal, and he has tracks on both and its sick. But what about SSX On Tour!? A7X, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Queens of the Stone Age - I think that was the first time I heard Run To The Hills when I was just starting to learn guitar haha
For me it was FlatOut 2. Emo/pop-punk fan ever since.
Herald Of Darkness is incredible I love it
A recent-ish game title with an absolutely KILLER djent style metal OST is the game Trepang2 and I cannot recommend both the OST and the game itself enough
I was pretty ok with rock/metal but what really got me - Killing Floor 2. I heard Demon Hunter's Infected somewhere but couldn't remember where, couldn't remember the song, tried to find it, failed and when it played in the game.. well, DH among top5 metal bands for me to this day still.
Oh, how could I forget - Prince with Godsmack in it was damn good
A game called Motorstorm: Pacific Rift got me into Slipknot because Sulfur was one of the songs on the soundtrack
Hades ost is amazing, Quake 2 for some doom vibes, Devil may cry has some bangers like Bury the Light is 🔥
Underground 1 had a great soundtrack too 🙌
oh, my favorite from NFSU2 is Death and Resurrection Show, the rhythm is amazing!
Had the same fucking experience with My Curse and Burnout. Instantly stuck in my head.
I was very surprised when in the credits of two of my favorite games Kingdom Come Deliverance and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided played metal.
I’m gonna say the Guitar Hero games, Brutal Legend, Saints Rows 1 2 & 3, Splatterhouse (fucking gem of a game), Devil May Cry 3, and most of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games.
Jak X also had some great instrumental metal songs, still love that game so much and a big part of it is because of the music.
Devil May Cry
Disney Extreme Skate Adventure had Downfall by Trust Company and that was one of my first experiences with heavy music
Shoutout DMC5 the soundtrack is metal as fuck. Bury The Light and Devil Trigger are some of the best tracks in the game, and also songs like Subhman and Crimson Cloud which are incredible.
Bury The Light is probably my favourite song of all time a masterpiece in songwriting
Need For Speed, FlatOut, Burnout. Early 2000's racing games were the best when it comes to metal in soundtracks. I will always remember how much better it made the races feel.
Wow you get back my childhood :') Another great game has a good soundtrack is Dirt 2
Burnout Paradise is where I first heard Saosin
Looked into their discography and been listening to them ever since.
Metal Hellsinger & Trepang2 are 2 soundtracks from newer games id recommend. Also if we are talking about goated soundtracks we got to talk about the old Tony Hawk games. Specifically 2. & Guitar Hero 1 & 2
In slepping dogs was roadrunner records radio with slipknot, kse and trivium.
As a PC gamer it's so weird to see that not just Most Wanted, but Carbon was a PS2 game too! Carbon barely run on my PC back then!
nvm I checked a video, it looked like shit on PS2
Cyberpunk man, they also created a virtual band called Samurai (by Refused) and songs are pretty cool. And some music in GTA like radio was too heavy even for me though I'm metalhead myself
First game that comes to mind as "metal", is Battletech, both the original and the new one. Music wise can't think of many that would've been metal per se, apart from DOOM. Maybe Remedy games that all have had Poets of the Fall in there somewhere, been a fan of them for ages, especially their keyboard player, whom I've followed since '91 Amiga MOD music days :D
Remedy is such a special studio