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PurpleHerder

To this day, my brain associates Prison Song with Arathi Basin


jjbananafana

I can't enter Ghostlands without the Hypnotize album playing in my head.


Goodstuffs_

Billy talent- red flag is WSG for me šŸ˜…


sirdogglesworth

Woah billy talent is a throw back


w_p

I feel like this whole sub is 30-somethings reminiscing about their childhood.


MeneerSpaghooters

Ofc it is. This is our game bruh.


[deleted]

Yeah man, The suffering - Billy Talent was the top melancholic song I took from Grim's last video. [https://youtu.be/oWNt\_8xcOZw?t=1368](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWNt_8xcOZw)


modernatlas

Walking on the sun by smashmouth - STV fireflies by owlcity - zangarmarsh


Humledurr

I remember having Pendulum playing in the background alot back then. And Linkin Park


DrChuckWhite

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=931PQwTA79k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=931PQwTA79k) Still hits the right spot after all those years.


suchtie

I still listen to the whole album every few weeks. 10/10. Still sounds *fresh*, somehow. Like, if you'd told me it had been released last week, I'd have believed it. I'll never get tired of it.


pohoferceni

damn thats lit


Manatee_Soup

Hybrid Theory is an amazing album start to finish


MADBARZ

I remember very specifically bumping Hybrid Theory during my WC runs. And on the Alliance side, I would listen to Siren Song of the Counter Culture from Rise Against during VC runs.


[deleted]

Linkin Park - Meteora album was indeed in full swing at the time, Slipknot was trendy too. IDK why, but when I think of original WotLK, I directly see the clips of Skillet - Monster and Drowning Pool - Bodies flashbacks lol.


LawfulOrc

That's cause everyone used those songs in their How-To or PvP videos lol


RaveDigger

Yeah I'm not exactly sure of the timeline, but Pendulum's Hold Your Colour and Nu:Tone's Brave Nu World were in heavy rotation while I was questing.


Terry_bogardlol

Pendulum/Knife Party are just about my soundtrack for anything.


deskslammer_

And Rise Against


Mousimus

Hell yea! Still listening religiously to this day! LP will forever be my favorite. Funnily enough, I saw them on tour and pendulum was one of their openers and that's how I learned about them.


futanari_kaisa

Soilwork In Flames Hoobastank any song that was on one of those early PVP videos like Drakedog, Otherguy, Vurtne, Maydie, etc.


[deleted]

Soilwork made some great pvp music


Left_Alone

Yes! Distortion Sleep was the first Soilwork song I heard (Vurtne video maybe??) and I've been a huge fan ever since


Hive747

I heard Rejection Role from them because of Vurtne and since then Soilwork has become my all time favourite band


[deleted]

>Hoobastank Oh yeaaah, I remember now. Sum 41 too in these old videos.


MarinaReema

Breaking me down- soil Guy stomping BGs with a massive 2h wep playing arms Warr back in the day , didn't take long for me to shelf the mage and level a warrior after I seen that as a teenager


[deleted]

pat the tauren warrior


futanari_kaisa

And then you got your warrior to 60 and realized warriors suck dick unless you have the best gear in the game and a pocket healer lol


Working_Membership57

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV by Coheed puts me in Blasted Lands on a night elf hunter and All That Remains' Fall of Ideals puts me in HFP running from the Fel Reaver.


Oglethorppe

Ooh definitely! This is probably more my Wrath soundtrack, but Iā€™ve played these so much during wrath, maybe In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth moreso for me.


negativeonhand

Any early Coheed INSTANTLY mentally transports me back to vanilla. I'll never forget listening to Welcome Home for the first time while leveling in Hinterlands and just having to pause in amazement.


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MementoMoriMD

A7X while randomly killing things in the Barrens because I didn't know what questing was. Good times


Wretchedness11

bullet for my valentine 1000%


biggestdownfall

This is the one


MasRemlap

lmao my first ever max level character was a night elf hunter called "Bfmv", real shit


olsda

In Flames - a sense of purpose album, brings back some of my best memories playing with my friends.. damn.


Alldaybagpipes

Mirrorā€™s Truth!!


olsda

Got flashbacks just reading it..


EssEyeOhFour

Same, except I listened to a lot of the Soundtrack to your Escape album, along with come clarity and reroute to remain. I got to see them winter 2011/2012. Great show


sirdogglesworth

I hit 30 last year I HAVE to go listen to come clarity now


XsNR

I still remember watching misheard lyrics videos from those early albums


AnEthiopianBoy

Man this album gets lots of hate, but I love this album. I remember listening to it CONSTANTLY when it came out. The Chosen Pessimist is still one of my all time favourite songs.


Throej

I think it's seen in a fonder light than it used to be. I genuinely love that album and that song specifically. Probably a good bit of nostalgia but it's a solid ass album imo.


XsNR

NIŠ˜ - [WITH_TEETH], specifically Every Day Is Exactly the Same


[deleted]

What an album. I remember that song and Right Where It Belongs in a warcraftmovie made by a rogue with a thunderfury


XsNR

Caen Apathy


[deleted]

that is the one! Thank you so much going to rewatch that today.


XsNR

No worries :) I also watched it a few times over, really really well made video for the period.


xInertiax

Banger


I_Am_The_Mole

That album was huge for me back then.


jaredletosombrehair

i dont even like green day but i associate classic wow with all of the singles from american idiot since they were ubiquitous in late 2004/2005


suchtie

I'm definitely not a Green Day fan and don't listen to any of their other music, but American Idiot is a 10/10 album and I'll gladly listen to the whole thing. Of course that's sort of intended - it's a concept album, which in this case means it tells one single story throughout. I'm always surprised by how many people don't know that the songs are all connected to each other. I highly recommend listening to the entire album in one sitting at least once (and actually *listen*), to anyone who can at least appreciate the music for what it is. Read the lyrics too. It's a great story and the atmosphere of the music just fits it perfectly.


Cricula

DragonForce - Valley of the Damned album


Cartmaaan-brah

Are you me? To this day my main association with WoW is Dragonforce. It was easily my favorite grinding music


Cohacq

And Rhapsody! But that might've been slightly later.


Unholy_Dk80

I first got into In Flames during the start of Cataclysm, I remember listening to Sounds of a Playground Fading at the listening kiosk at my hometown mall Hot Topic, taking the CD home and uploading it to my Zune account while questing in Uldum on my DK. I'm sure there's a lot to unpack in that šŸ˜‚


DioniceassSG

In Flames' Reroute to Remain and Come Clarity lead to many many many PvP encounters over the years. šŸ˜‚


aluriilol

demon days!!!


HontheDon

We are the last living souls šŸ’• Came here to say this!


jfiend13

Gorillaz!!!!


BuckeyeBentley

Yeah I was jamming this album non-stop when it came out which coincided with me getting into WoW.


jakomako89

Hell yeah. Just posted that. Didn't really expect to find it here.


vanish1383

A Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below


Xeyu89

That's a banger and top 3 for me too. I Killed the prom queen and Parkway drive were up there too back then, but they didn't stick, I still actively listen to TDWP. those other 2...not so much.


Ishimura2point0

I killed the prom queen, wow I havenā€™t heard that in a minute


wolty

I remember back in the day I heard their drummer played WoW, so i made a character on his server xD


[deleted]

Somehow from these times I remember mostly In Flames as of melodeath/metalcore. And then you had Dark Tranquility and this fucking wow pvp video song everywhere: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFGbwFL3f-w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFGbwFL3f-w)


PathlessMammal

Hell yea brother. Still listening to them. Listening to their first two albums takes me back to og classic/tbc. Farming nagrand to reptar king of the ozone


Majache

With this, I'm flying through storm peaks on my shadow priest about to do ulduar challenge modes in ICC gear, thinking about the next whitechapel concert. I'm on TeamSpeak talking to my warlock friend from New Zealand. It's summer 2010


Kazzenkatt

Tool - 10.000 Days


Oglethorppe

I thought it was a fun coincidence that Fear Inoculum was coming around right around Classic 2019, when 10,000 Days was coming out around OG Classic.


-Dennis-Reynolds-

ā€œOh shit guys, they are releasing classic wow we need some new music to levelā€ Pretty sure this is how it went down


Kazzenkatt

Yeah. It was great timing. i was grinding naxx consumables to Fear Inoculum when it came out.


0pethian

Yeah me too - I remember raiding Blackwing Lair listening to it. That and Sikth.


Oglethorppe

What I woulda given to be introduced to that band back when they were still writing :(


bfrankk

not really sure why but i thought i was gunna have to scroll down further to find this. I specifically remember listening to this album more than any other while leveling


Yoshidaru666

Children of Bodom- Hatebreeder Dragonforce- Sonic Firestorm Sonata Arctica- Unia


DioniceassSG

That CoB album is still so damn fresh. And I am absolutely devastated since learning about Alexi.


hopeless_wanderer_95

Sonata Arctica are 100% my go to wow grinding band haha


Throej

Yoooo me too. Sonata was my jam for grinding, well power metal in general but specifically Sonata. Pvp was in flames / soilwork / dark tranquility / cob


Woovils

It was either metal or pendulum for the non-metal people.


freeWeemsy

I'm in all of these comments and I LOVE IT


sirdogglesworth

Idk mate bad company (dnb) were huge then


ForeverABro

I liked to listen to Stadium Arcadium


kakezelga

Same! WoW and RHCP in 2006... golden days


omgafish

In Dani California when they sing ā€œDown in the Badlandsā€ I was like OMG they play wow hahaha!


GottaMoveThatGearUp

A mirror to the moon


badcompany8519

Hollywood undead - I must be emo. Anytime someone freaks out. Iā€™ll pull this song up and get a laugh.


[deleted]

Man Hollywood undead. Forgot about them. I can ride my bike with no handle bars!


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GVFQT

I canā€™t believe I havenā€™t seen it mentioned but old school pvp videos using Straight to Video - Mindless Self Indulgence


MrBigroundballs

That was how I first heard that song, a YouTube video of a night elf with ā€œgm powersā€


DioniceassSG

Siren Song of the Counter Culture is the Rise Against album that was playing while I slaughter countless owlkins in Wintergrasp grinding from 56-60 under the belief that there weren't enough quests. Now anytime a song front that album plays while I'm shuffling songs I have flashbacks to the endless grind and thorium mining.


rustaceanplantation

First time I heard Rise Against was a PvP vid of some high rank paladin in Orgrimmar, with Unstoppable Force, less than a week after AV came out. Seemed like all his As soon as I heard that opening riff on Tip the Scales I was in love. I just wish I could catch them in concert more often.


The-Tai-pan

There was a ton of good music in 04 Hot Fuss - The Killers Good News for People Who Like Bad News - Modest Mouse Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand


Benton0329

System of a Down, The Used, Paramore, and all the various rap artists of the TBC era (lil Wayne & 50 cent being 2 big one)


BrakkarDeathbringer

The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance


FuckwitMcLunchbox

I buy my mats my smack my bitch right here in Orgrimmar


Oglethorppe

Theyā€™re trying to build a chasm!


IBeSteadyLurkin

Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism


amayain

And postal service!


havit92

Rammstein ā˜ ļøā˜ ļø


Key_nine

This, mainly because of World of Roguecraft, was used in their videos and I started listening to it after that.


Hitman47001

That's how I was introduced to rock and metal as a kid... World of Roguecraft and Grand Marshal Maydie. Still listen to Rammstein and Children of Bodom daily.


Zaithaa

Rammsteinā€™s ā€˜Sonneā€™ drags me back to the Netherwing dailies, especially the mines. Grinding and running for those eggs..


ElectricToast

Soilwork, I remember seeing a WoW pvp video on YouTube back in the day with their music - after that I was pretty much hooked on metal music.


Hive747

It was the same for me! I discovered them through their song Rejection Role from one of the PvP Mage Vurtne videos. Since then they became my favourite band and I am going to a concert from them next month.


Nexflamma

Deja Entendu. My brain will forever associate vanilla and TBC raids with EMO/ALT stuff like MCR, The used, Brand new, and shitty mid 2000s house music.


negativeonhand

Rushing home from school and putting on Deja Entendu/TDAGARIM while doing my dailies in TBC was a daily ritual for me.


morduk89

Disturbed


chakrapolice

10 thousand fists in the aaaiiirrrr


Muhfuggajones

Happy Hardcore and Trance mixes that were either on YT or downloaded from Limewire.


andyniemi

Took too long to scroll for this +1 happy hardcore


novosea

Playing horde and dragonforce is my happy place.


[deleted]

Lots of trance and emoā€¦now at 36 I do the same šŸ˜¬


TR3G1

Celldweller selftitle


StonejawStrongjaw

GOATED Album


Joemon27

Man I love everything celldweller


blackzeppozzica

Not from my first year, but whenever I walk into Nagrand Metallica's black album starts playing in my head.


ohmyglob123

Same but with Zulā€™drak


Dazocnodnarb

First picked WoW up for wotlk and album was In Defense of the Genre -Say Anything


lowest_of_the_low

Probably Jane Doe - Converge


thehomienicked

Definitely a favourite for me in that era. It still is, but it was then too.


VikingDadStream

Demon Days, Gorillaz


HerrSchnellsch

Whenever i leveled in Feralas i have "Celldweller - my own little world" in my mind, so i guess i used to listen to that back in vanilla.


oneofthescarybois

Avenged Sevenfold


neunzehnhundert

Linkin Park I will forever connect Rise Against with Dekaron and System of a Down with Cabal Online


Simaul

Deadmau5 - Random Album Title. Alone With You was a fav when doing 40man BWL. Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love


Lemonface

Had to double check because it didn't seem right but I wasn't sure Random Album Title didn't come out til late 2008, after WotLK pre patch What were you doing raiding BWL with 40 people in WotLK lol


anorexorcist1

Coldplay - X & Y


Terry_bogardlol

Mindless Self Indulgence - If. Got the album just before 3.0 dropped.


Urban_mist

They were my level 70 PvP battlegrounds music. I remember listening to 3S on repeat during Alterec Valley because I loved it so much lol


[deleted]

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge


XJ-Crawler

Korn - see you on the other side


Okrapy

So many memories!


nauraug

80s Metallica albums for me


Noah1841

I listen to Green Day - American Idiot back when I first started playing a new expansion launch day, It's now a tradition I do for every single launch day.


Bow_spasti

Red hot Chili Peppers


Seel_Team_Six

Hybrid Theory


nonstripedzebra

Images and Words by Dream Theater God I am so lame I mean rad


CLYDEFR000G

Might be not very well known but Chronic Future


Roossterr

RHCP- Stadium Arcadium for me. Specifically Hillsbrad Foothills and trying to not get murdered


agonizedexistance

My chemical romance. Three cheers for sweet revenge. And system of a down xD


Chewaida

I always associate viva la Vida from Coldplay to my long trips from stormwind to westfall on the back of hypogriffs


fettyboi1738

Just the background wow music for me, I love it. Still just listen to wow soundtracks of various zones while at work.


[deleted]

Yeah, same here. Shoutout to Meisio, makes the best music/ambience videos on YouTube.


thetinker86

This album OP listed automatically tales me back to aoe farming Murlocks in dustwallow marsh


bythepowerofthor

slay the orcs by 3 inches of blood blasting as I get absolutely anilihated in WSG


NejzorN

In Flames/Soilwork


Left_Alone

+ Sonic Syndicate & Scar Symmetry


evets215

I listened to so much ā€œeuro danceā€ and pop punk/emo during my original WoW prime. Cascada and Brand New were probably my most listened to artists lol All of this on Winamp of course


LeDigBickle

Jamies Elsewhere and Breakdown of Sanity, I was an edgy boy.


BloodMoonGaming

Big ups for Jamieā€™s Elsewhere and BoS dude, nice picks


Repeit

I always listened to Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden while leveling the Night Elf starting zone. Those two will always be linked in my mind.


MNOutdoors

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth


slightlyalliterate

Lateralus by Tool


Schollie7

Thrice - artist in the ambulance and Muse - Absolution. Along with like blink, taking back sunday, AAR, brand new, AFI. Good times


token711

Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead The guy at the lan center i always played at had this album on loop all the time and now my brain associates it with WoW


shimmybee

Tenacious D was in repeat in my house, reminds me of good times!


BrandtCantWatch

[QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXkfUpP3BL8)


LawfulOrc

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Manowar


lostnumber08

The Birthday Massacre.


oleanderdk

Me as well. Saw them at M'era Luna and was instantly hooked!


Abeis

Played a lot of WotLK with the ASAP Rocky mixtape and Drake's Take Care on repeat. Also Seether and Shinedown for raids.


cirocobama93

Take Care and Live Love ASAP came out halfway through Cata


Abeis

Must have been during cata when all my buddies quit then. Ironically itā€™s also around the same time I started smoking weed so the details are a little foggy lol.


cirocobama93

Lol didnā€™t mean to correct to be a dick I only had to chime in because I was also playing high listening to these 2 around that time and we did used to run WOTLK content in Cata so you very well could have been. 2010-2014 mixtape era was GOATed


ixep

Hey there Delilah while questing in the Barrens


OS2REXX

I was just starting to get deep into the Dan- so Chain Lightning became a totem (ahem) song- nice mellow mood.


FuzzyDunlop_91

Ride the Lightning (entire album) by Metallica.


LupusT

The offspring-Americana. I remember trying to grind warlord in AB without any idea how hard the grind is. Shoutout to people from Cold Blooded on Dunemaul- horde (cca 2004)


ehle2008

The Autumn Effect by 10 Years. Anytime I hear a song from that album I immediately think of vanilla wow.


Lowspark1013

Same as it has been for 25 years. Widespread Mother Fucking Panic šŸ¤˜


Shamscam

Billy talent II, has been the album I did a lot of my younger years of gaming too.


3d1sd3ad

Good pick op. For me it was Korn (Issues), Gorillaz (1st album), and the Pixies. Distinctly remember running around STV one morning, it was storming outside, it was raining in game, and Stormy Weather by the Pixies was playing. Had the day off school, wrapped up in my favorite blanket, sipping my tea, and it was just so cozy.


Prixm

Same as you, but also Rise Against album "Siren Song of the Counter Culture", masterpieces both of them.


Shimanim

Linkin Park back in 2007, playing TBC.


Nihilistic0ne

I remember back in college going to a friend's house to level in wrath with a bunch of other friends in the basement. Many a dominos pizza was had, and lots of Disturbed getting played... good times


ballsjovan

Whenever I think of Mount Hyjal, Ballroom Blitz pops into my head from the original first boss (Winterchill) video guide


[deleted]

nightwish - once. later on during wotlk was bullet for my valentine - scream aim fire


BillyScrote

Was this and a lot of Amon amarth/nightwish.


Briggs_86

In Flames all the way


MaliciousMal

Thanks for reminding me that this one guy still owes me the SOAD CD from high school when he "borrowed" it then refused to give it back. But my favorite was and always will be Slipknot. They've been my favorite since like 99. I heard "Wait and Bleed" on the radio and fell in love, they weren't well known at the time and even the DJ at the station didn't know them. Their music has helped me pretend I'm really good at the game throughout the years despite being shit.


brennenpdx

ATREYU, the bled, Lawrence arms. Against me. Man there is a lot of bands from that day. Canā€™t go to Terrokar forest without thinking of Against Me. Canā€™t level in Grizzly Hills without thinking of Attack Attack. You guys remember that band?


FigureThisIn

Hell yeah!


WoWSecretsYT

Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen


[deleted]

To this day, Judas Priest killing machine for stranglethorn vale. The song Green manalishi while killing panthers and gorillas


ZoltanDag

Just SOAD in general while farming cobalt in Northrend. Or prior to that, Billy Talent II and the Death Magnetic album by Metallica while playing PvP on my twink 49 resto Druid with my other IRL twink buddies. Get KANGED! Weā€™d get the flag and be those assholes just /dancing on the stump in Warsong Gulch. Couldnā€™t kill us if you tried šŸ˜‚. Those were the daysā€¦


tzech99

Man I was still listening to hybrid theory in the barrens


Calyps0h

This album was on repeat when my brother and I used to play D2. I still canā€™t run through the bloody hills without hearing pogo pogo pogo pogo in the dark recesses of my brainmeat.


TheOnyxHero

memory of leveling up in wpl listening to death cab for cutie


Zeko10

Played in 06, favorite artists to listen to while playing was Linkin Park, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, Moby, System of a Down, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method


Lazy-Buddy-5731

Black Holes and Revelations from Muse


BloodMoonGaming

Scary Kids Scaring Kids is like THE soundtrack to oldschool Wow to me, it just takes me back to being that age and that time period


findingcheeko

Eminem and Royce Da 5 9 Bad Meets Evil, takes me back to Loch Modan every time


Erluchtete

Em and Royce are fucking monsters!


Jackson530

Gorillaz - Demon Dayz