Haha, the first thread not dedicated to the new civs or game balance in weeks 11.
Anyway, just curious to see what responses pop up here. As for me, there’s nothing that gives me more pleasure than playing Poles while listening to the “Winged Hussars” by Sabaton. What music y’all listen to while gaming, aside from the goated in game music ofc?
When the Winged Hussars arrived to help Habsburgs to partition Poland…
Cannonballs are coming down from the sky
Janissaries, are you ready to die?
We will seek our vengeance eye for an eye
You’ll be stopped upon the steps of our gate
On this field you’re only facing our hate
But back home the sultan’s sealing your fate
Spandau ballet’s journeys to glory (I wanted to make a trailer video for Julian with to cut a long story short or reformation as background music).
Joy division’s dead souls or walked in line.
Simple mind’s empires and dance “is this the age of empires and dance? Oh what a world”.
There’s some military pop music like this made in the late 70s/early 80s but not as much as I’d like to.
I’m working on writing a synopsis for an Age of Empires movie (very slow going), and “Winged Hussars” is the song that plays during the big climactic charge of the movie.
While playing aoe2 (although mostly when in the scenario editor) I like listening to soundtracks from those historical epic movies that came out in the 50s and 60s, like Ben Hur, Quo Vadis, El Cid and 300 Spartans. Some of the Music from BfG reminded me of that style which I thought was really cool.
I can wholeheartedly recommand Farya Faraji’s and The Skaldic Bard’s music, on youtube. Both making historically-themed music.
As for Sabaton, can’t wait to see what they’ll do in their next album. In their latest music video they teased the Romans, Vikings, the Black Prince, Joan of Arc, Vlad the Impaler and a samurai. A napoleonic soldier too but it’s outside of AOE2 (not that I’ll complain about a song about Napoleon hon hon hon 
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That was one full century later…
Their latest release, the “Hordes of Khan” and the “Templars” was lame imo so I’m kind of disappointed. Hoping for the best.
I indeed hope they make a proper song about the Mongols with throat singing, while Hordes of Khan is just the album opener in their old style.
They used to add new music with every expansion in HD. But that trend has ended now.
Only with the last HD DLC (well and Last Khans). But for Forgotten and African Kingdoms, it was only new main menu tracks.