Warbeast – The Sound of Music
Here you can find details of the music playlist I used to write Warbeast.
Like all of my Black Library writing, Warbeast is action-focussed and you’ll see the core of most of my Black Library-related playlists here – heavy percussion, strident orchestral themes. I also wanted something that put me in mind more of individual heroes than clashing armies – the Stormhosts of the Celestial Vindicators and Knights Excelsior feature en masse, but the real story is with their Lords-Celestant Arkas Warbeast and Theuderis Silverblade. For that I went with the likes of the 300 and Pacific Rim soundtracks, some thumping instrumental Wagner and downloaded a couple of outright theme and mood albums such as the Cataclysm collections. To stir more of a cosmic vibe on occasion you can’t beat Holst’s Planets suite, ably supplemented by Vangelis and some Audiomachine compilations.
300 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Tyler Bates
Aliens: The Deluxe Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), James Horner
Army of Two: The 40th Day, Tyler Bates
Battlecry, Thomas Bergersen
Best of Epic Music 2, Erik Ekholm
Best of Epic Music, Erik Ekholm
Cataclysm Vol. 1 – Heroes, Erik Ekholm
Chronicles, Audiomachine
Dune, Toto
Epic Action & Adventure Vol. 10 – ESO23, Epic Score
Gears of War: Judgment (The Soundtrack), Steve Jablonsky & Jacob Shea
God of War: Ascension (Original Soundtrack), Tyler Bates
Grandes Clásicos de la Tele, Vol. 2, Giorgio Moroder
Helios, Audiomachine
Holst: The Planets, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis
Iron Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Ramin Djawadi
Legion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), John Frizzell
Pacific Rim Soundtrack from Warner Bros. Pictures, Ramin Djawadi, Nick Glennie-Smith & Jasper Randall
Pandorum (Original Soundtrack), Michl Britsch
Percussion Power: Intense, Cinematic & Explosive, Tyler Bates
Phenomena, Audiomachine
Reprise 1990-1999, Vangelis
Sibelius: Finlandia – Karelia Suite – Lemminkäinen Suite, Jean Sibelius
Sun, Thomas Bergersen
Various, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Giuseppe Verdi
Wagner: The “Ring” Without Words, Richard Wagner
You can also see this playlist on the iTunes store. As always I’d love to know if you’ve listened to this playlist while reading the book, and whether it’s added to your enjoyment of it. Let me know in the comments.
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