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Let's break in this new sub-forum with some appropriately grisly, dark themes, eh?

 

Background noise whilst painting Mortarion's Legion or epic pieces that capture the heat of battle, whatever might feel appropriate to them.

 

 

Obviously the Souls series are great for grim, haunting, epic soundtracks but I think this one ties in well to the Death Guard, not only in the name of Neat-o, but in that slow, marching theme.

 

 

Anything to do with the Scourge fits the Death Guard well (diseases, green sludge, zombies, death) but the title of this track in particular made it the most appropriate to use here.

 

Edit: I also claim the first post/thread on this sub-forum. Glory to Nurgle!

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For the classical side of things, there are a few appropriate ones I believe:

 

Mussorgsky's Night on bald mountain (an arrangement of which became popularised by Fantasia) :

 

 

Bartók, a fellow Hungarian who was probably more than by himself in his mind, also wrote some disturbingly precise yet almost dissonant pieces :

 

https://youtu.be/m129k5YcQnU

 

And naturally another compatriot of mine, Franz (or rather Ferenc) Liszt's Totentantz, or Dance of the dead, interpreted by THE master of Liszt's piano music, György Cziffra:

 

 

 

There are many more but these are the most commonly known macabre pieces.

 

(edit: I'm on mobile and don't know the code for video embedding so if an admin can fix it or someone tell me the bracket code I'll add it. Thanks)

Edited by Isolia

I've found that this one song tends to fit quite often with anything 40k. It just sounds appropriate.

 

 

And for a glorious union of classical music, distorted guitars and some synthy goodness, the soundtrack for The End is Nigh. What is it with the Soundtracks for Edmund McMillen's games fitting 40k? I guess it's all the death and despair. And the tumors.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZ3x317jvE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG3yYK3lR8U

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444wCr62Byw

Edited by DeadFingers
When I think Nurgle, I think despair... there's countless symphonic music that is quite foreboding and dark that fits quite well. On a less classical scale, I've found blackgaze bands like Deafheaven or Alcest (or the aptly named Altar of Plagues) fit the bill too. I've also been finding myself listening to a lot of Dimmu Borgir while painting my Nurgle models, in particular the album Death Cult Armageddon. Symphonic black metal works. Edited by DuskRaider

Thanks to this thread, I'm now re-aquainting myself with Cannibal Corpse.

 

EDIT: This one certainly belongs, what with our tocsins of misery and all.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTIe6piDOI

Edited by Interrogator-Chaplain Ezra

My favourite is Earthless by Doom:VS

 

This is a very good album imho.

 

Anyway, I don't think it's right to discuss metal and not bring this up:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZYcc5Ra2g

Personally, I favour stuff like death metal and drone doom when I paint my pestilential lads.

 

And of course, there's always the classics.

 

*Starts to bang head, remembers I shaved my head ten years ago*  *cries*

 

I usually slap on a bit o Bolt Thrower myself (always gets me pumped the day ETL starts), though I do like a bit of Skepticism, the old Thorns demo stuff and A Funeral for Crippled Children.. 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6kH8DY7JR0

 

 

 

Oh and who can forget the best Black Metal band from Southport/Liverpool called Mortirion :wink:*I jest, thats my old band lol*

Edited by Slave to Darkness

 

My favourite is Earthless by Doom:VS

 

This is a very good album imho.

 

Anyway, I don't think it's right to discuss metal and not bring this up:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZYcc5Ra2g

 

One of the best bands I have seen live, really nice guys as well. 

 

 

When I think Nurgle, I think despair... there's countless symphonic music that is quite foreboding and dark that fits quite well. On a less classical scale, I've found blackgaze bands like Deafheaven or Alcest (or the aptly named Altar of Plagues) fit the bill too. I've also been finding myself listening to a lot of Dimmu Borgir while painting my Nurgle models, in particular the album Death Cult Armageddon. Symphonic black metal works.

Omg your an Alcest fan!!! I assume you like Amesoeurs as well?

 

 

 

 

 

I also get a sweet vibe from Aghast as well. 

 

 

Sunn 0))) is another of my faves to paint to. 

Edited by Slave to Darkness

For me, this epitomizes the Death Guard:

 

Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
 
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
 
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see
 
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg92QpjRcJk

I don't think there's no band which embodies Nurgle and the Death Guard better than Obituary:

 

 

 

They are slow, rotten, dirty, evil, heavy and all their lyrics are about putrefaction, rotting, dying, infection. Even the band members themselves look dirty, unkempt and kind of oozy.

 

Since they were among the founders of death metal and extremely popular in the 80s and early 90s I wouldn't be surprised if GW took inspiration by them for many of the elements in Nurgle. After all the chaos gods are heavily inspired by metal.

Edited by Bluebeard

Only semi-related, but thanks to the various tools on the internet that allows you to combine or just play several youtube videos together, you can make your own little Death Guard experience. Some gothic church bells tolling, some war ambience, maybe some rain, and the buzzing of uncounted flies. Throw in some dirge chanting. Voila. Welcome to the warzone.

Only semi-related, but thanks to the various tools on the internet that allows you to combine or just play several youtube videos together, you can make your own little Death Guard experience. Some gothic church bells tolling, some war ambience, maybe some rain, and the buzzing of uncounted flies. Throw in some dirge chanting. Voila. Welcome to the warzone.

I am right there with you. Listening to dark ambient compilations on Youtube can be a real inspiration. Chanting, wind, distorted electromagnetic space noise, rain, the distant cackling of crows... that stuff really sets the tone without interfering with my concentration.

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