RPG-sounding Metal songs -- Or Metal-sounding RPG songs

So it seems there are a lot of metallers on the GB forums. I'd like to hear your recommendations on what RPG songs should have a real studio quality metal recording and what metal songs would fit perfectly into RPGs.

Look up the "The Black Mages" From the music guy behind Final Fantasy, he goes hardcore and breaks out the electric guitars. No vocals if any, but still metal.

My recommendation for Metal-to-RPG would be Prog-Tech band Spastik Ink's medely Words for Nerds. I could picture each separate mini-tune in each tier pertaining to an individual situation.  (like first tier would be battle, second would be town/overworld, third would be dungeon, fourth would be boss)

I'm going by bands, not songs, here, but most of Rhapsody/Rhapsody of Fire's songs, Kamelot's stuff, and probably Therion could probably be put into this category. Some crazy fantasy/gothic-sounding stuff.
 
Edit: Mehmeh youtube sound quality, but regardless:
 

MrKlorox, ladies and gentleman, I give thee, the doujin metal collaboration that is: Shade

" @vidiot: Very nice. That is the first I've heard of this. It's got trancy black-metal texture to it with a tiny bit of thrash. I am definitely interested.  But claiming /thread is (hopefully) a little premature. We haven't gotten an entry for the groovier, funkish side of metal yet. And where's the baroque? "

METAL! 
YEAH! 
HARDCORE!  
 
VIDEO GAMES! 
YEAH! 
HARDCORE!

Honestly, I don't know. 
 
I DO know that when I play RPGs, I listen to Unearth.  Strictly Unearth.  You haven't kicked orc ass until you've kicked it to "Giles".

" Honestly, I don't know.  I DO know that when I play RPGs, I listen to Unearth.  Strictly Unearth.  You haven't kicked orc ass until you've kicked it to "Giles". "

"@jakob187 said:

" Honestly, I don't know.  I DO know that when I play RPGs, I listen to Unearth.  Strictly Unearth.  You haven't kicked orc ass until you've kicked it to "Giles". "

Got an embed? "

I don't know how great these would fit into an RPG but they're the only ones that came to mind.
 
 

Of course I've heard (of?) Unearth, but a band leaving an impression deep enough for me to actually pursue an album is a rare circumstance. So many bands blend between each other in such an underground genre.
 
But one of the things that stuck out about Arch Enemy was the melodicism in tracks like Demonic Science. That song reminded me a lot of the Soul Blazer town tune.

This thread is severely lacking in Blind Guardian discussion.  You guys dissapoint me.

" This thread is severely lacking in Blind Guardian discussion.  You guys dissapoint me."

This is the Mustaine Boss Theme from the classic Metallica RPG.
 
 

I'm surprised that nobody has posted this...for better or worse...
 
 

" @Bubahula: no one cares "

"This thread is severely lacking in Blind Guardian discussion.  You guys dissapoint me.

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" My recommendation for Metal-to-RPG would be Prog-Tech band Spastik Ink's medely Words for Nerds. I could picture each separate mini-tune in each tier pertaining to an individual situation.  (like first tier would be battle, second would be town/overworld, third would be dungeon, fourth would be boss)

Also this sounds like Person 4 kinda 
 
 

Therion exists for this subject. 
 
 

" @MrKlorox said:

" My recommendation for Metal-to-RPG would be Prog-Tech band Spastik Ink's medely Words for Nerds. I could picture each separate mini-tune in each tier pertaining to an individual situation.  (like first tier would be battle, second would be town/overworld, third would be dungeon, fourth would be boss)

Spastic Ink is really awesome, but I don't think the crazy feel/tempo/time changes really lend themselves to fitting in a video game music context.  I think Blotted Science are a better fit for the transition partly because the changes aren't quite as drastic usually, and partly because they're instrumental. "

This song is about Vikings fighting a huge battle.  That's kinda RPGish:
 
 

" This song is about Vikings fighting a huge battle.  That's kinda RPGish:
 
 

This song is, surprisingly enough, about a Warrior's Quest:
 
 

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The final boss theme in FFX is pretty metal. Not a very good song, but applies to this topic very well. 
 

 A lot of Summoning's Tolkien-themed atmospheric black metal wouldn't be entirely out of place in an RPG, I think:
 
 

Back in the day me and my cousins used to listen to old Yngwie Malmsteen cd's while playing D&D, seemed to fit pretty well together.

Most viking/folk metal bands (I saw mentions of Ensiferum, Summoning and Amon Amarth already) would fit pretty well in a fantasy RPG.
 
Also, this band should do more metal covers of video game music:
 
 

I Know Luca has already been posted but heres one that is a must play when you upgrade to Black Dragons in Heroes and the song is totally RPG  
 
  

   Symphony X is an obvious choice. For a fantasy RPG it would be quite delicious. 
  

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And of course, any type of "battle metal" also lends itself well to an RPG. My favorite band in this pseudo-genre is Amon Amarth: