I’m planning a Mörk Borg game with my friends. For the uninitiated, it’s a table top RPG game that describes itself as

A DOOM METAL album of a game. A spiked FLAIL to the Face. Light on RULES, Heavy Every-thing Else.

The art and setting are very German/Euro metal inspired.

I myself enjoy listening to metal periodically, but I’m a casual fan. I want to build a background playlist to help ground the players in it’s art and style.

I’m thinking light/low vocal Black / Doom / Death / Prog metal. Looking for music that drives the listeners to action while avoiding taking over center stage.

So far I have grabbed some Igorr, some DOOM 2016 Soundtrack, some Rigor Mortis, Inferi, Cannibal Corpse, and a bunch of random stuff from Spotify suggestions, though I’m struggling to really make it a cohesive vibe.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the help! This is awesome! What a great community.

  • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Since they describe it as a doom metal album of a game I’d suggest you go with doom and adjacent stuff such as sludge/post metal and such. These genres are also lower on vocals and better as background music than some others, imo.

    Post metal-ish stuff: the ocean, isis, neurosis, cult of luna, russian circles, intronaut, pelican, dvne

    Clear vocals doom either classic/epic stuff like black Sabbath (duh), candlemass, saint Vitus, reverend bizzare Or more “serious” stuff like isole, while heaven wept, warning - watching from a distance, thy listless heart, pallbearer, solitude aeturnus

    And then there’s funeral doom which is heavier and fewer vocals but there’s growls. You’ve got Ahab, Bell witch, shape of despair, evoken, thergothon, doom:vs, funeral

    There’s also the more “stoner” side of doom like sleep, electric wizard, yob (amazing stuff), bongripper (amazing instrumental stuff despite the silly name), acid king, monolord

    And other stuff that’s good but just didn’t fit there cause there’s too many different styles: my dying bride, swallow the sun

    Some of them have big enough catalogues that if you like their vibe, you can just stick to that and be fine. Like a playlist that’s just Ahab or just bongripper and you’re done. Ez pz.