Re: [HOE] Epic Battle Music

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

At 02:18 AM 12/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Ok, I'm Looking for some music to use for the final battle of an epic
>campaign I've been running.  I'm talking the type of music you'd hear in
>a movie that would be playing in the background of some epic sword fight
>between good and evil.  (Star Wars EP1, Lightsaber Battle between the
>Jedi and Darth Maul just popped into mind as a reference)
>
>Any Thoughts/Suggestions?

My old D&D group used to play a lot of Queen in the background. "One 
Vision" became known as our "Fight Music", but there are other selections 
from the Highlander soundtrack that work well, such as "Princes of the 
Universe" and "The Prize". We also occaisionally had the Flash Gordon 
soundtrack playing, but I think only two of us were actually enamoured with 
that particular musical masterpiece.

If you're looking for something non-queen, then you need to track down some 
CDs called "Heavy Classix" or "Heavy Classix 2", it's a collection of 
classical music that heavy metal fans should appreciate, all high-octane 
extremely heavy classical epic pieces. Ride of the Valkyries has been 
overdone as of late, but there's some really great works on here, like Mars 
from Holst's Planets, Firebird, 1812 Overture, lots of good stuff for epic 
battles. The second disc, if you can find it, starts out with that gothic 
Orph piece you always hear in action movies.

(I can only find the first one on Amazon)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002SO9/qid%3D977315823/107-6058126-9774964 


You can probably pick it up pretty cheap at an auction site, Amazon I think 
listed two at $6.99.