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  2. I agree with the others about Rogue One, Wonder Woman, Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, and Gladiator if you want full movie soundtracks.

    I have a few others: All three Lord of the Rings, especially in Fellowship of the Rings when getting to the Bridge of Kasa doom in Moria. King Arthur had some really good music (which Ilona already had listed).

    This isn’t a soundtrack, but one song that I think could apply to anyone in Magic Talents: Undefeated by Def Leppard. I’ve been listening to that song a lot lately.

  3. Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil. I like the Robert Shaw version but I have heard an all male Russian choir version that is completely different but equally compelling.
    Of course if we knew the plot we would be able to come up with even better suggestions…

    • Yes! Especially the Promontory track. I always play that on repeat. Also, I sometimes read the Magic series while listening to Zero-Project’s albums Fairytales and Untold Stories from a Dying Moon.

  5. Spotify has a list of “epic battle scenes” music

    The soundtrack to 300 is also pretty good.

  6. I can’t believe no-one has recommended Heather Alexander’s “March of Cambreadth” yet. You can’t really go wrong with a song about hacking into your enemies with swords and axes, and a cheery refrain of “How many of them can we make die?”
    https://youtu.be/jFi7bWkyRpA

    And, given the book title, there should be at least one song actually from Triumph. Maybe “Magic Power”?
    https://youtu.be/nEAgwrInZL8

    • March of Cambreath is fantastic!! Also, so Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire! I am having the best gime going thru your all’s suggestions! Great music pick! Found lots of new stuff to listen to!!

    • Love March of Cambreadth, I would also add that Blood by Gaia’s Consort would be awesome…Or Something by KORN

  13. “Roar” by Katy Perry is fun as is that one by Florence in the Machine which buries that horse in the ground but I hope there is more than just battle scenes in the book.

  14. Just to be outside the box, try Eagles singing Heartache Tonight. “Someone’s gonna get hurt tonight, before the night is through….

  15. And of course Credence Clearwater singing Bad Moon Rising. I like upbeat music while she’s annihilating enemies.

  18. The Fountain soundtrack by Clint Mansell (esp tree of life & together we will live forever).
    Sledgehammer by Rihanna
    Apocalyptica-Amplified a decade of reinventing the cello
    Another Earth by Fall on Your Sword

  21. I am a huge fan on Bear McCreary and I keep returning to his excellent Battlestar Galactica soundtrack – he has done so much other excellent work (Outlander, Agents of Shield, Black Sails) but for some reason, nothing will ever come close in my heart. BSG actually features quite a few tracks that work well with the Kate setting and the battles:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gDizJHq2gc
    (one of my absolute favourite tracks)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAjfL2KFFBM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcUwUwjLrs

  24. How about some older Rock? 🙂

    Deep Purple – Burn – https://youtu.be/LCnebZnysmI
    Deep Purple – Stormbringer – https://youtu.be/4C2K889u_90

    Or some amazing Guitar? – DragonForce – Through the Fire and Flames – https://youtu.be/dG7Rl3qxUqY

    For the nostalgic – Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party – https://youtu.be/iypUpv9xelg

    Or the Heavy Metal Inclined:
    Drowning Pool – Let The Bodies Hit The Floor – https://youtu.be/04F4xlWSFh0
    Disturbed – Indestructible – https://youtu.be/aWxBrI0g1kE
    Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven – https://youtu.be/o_l4Ab5FRwM

    Hopefully something here will be helpful! 🙂

  25. Steve Jablonsky’s soundtrack to Transformers: The Last Knight is actually *amazing.* (I haven’t watched the movie, but a friend recommended one of the tracks, Merlin’s Staff, to me, and it’s so beautiful that I bought it as a single; and then she recommended “Seglass Ni Tonday” to me and it’s gorgeous and epic and I think I need the whole album now!)

  26. Maybe Dragonheart sound track, or Armageddon sound track or just Amazing Grace done by bagpipes

  31. This is not a movie soundtrack, but on the last Nightwish album that is named “Endless Forms Most Beautiful”, the piece “Greatest Show On Earth”. It talks about how we, the Humankind, destroy the earth. Same can be said about pushing Magic or Technology too far.

  32. My fave kick-butt music that really rocks is by Skillet. Songs I recommend are: Feel Invincible / Rise / Monster / Hero / Awake and Alive. Straight forward anthems without the teenage angst. I’ll put them all on my playlist for my Big-0 B-dy this Saturday. If you want songs from movie soundtracks, try Vangelis Themes (Chariots of Fire, Bladerunner, Bounty). For moody movie soundtracks, you want Danny Elfman. For suspense, a lot of the Nicolas Cage movie soundtracks will do. **Give us the mood you’re looking to create and I bet you’ll be surprised at the recommendations you receive **????

    • Add Never Gonna Die by Skillet /// For epic classical music, try Carmina Burana: O Fortuna *or* Richard Wagner’s Siegfried’s Funeral March (from Twilight of the Gods aka Gotterdaemmerung)

  34. Wow, I’d say majority of what I’d recommend has already been mentioned!

    You already know of Two Steps from Hell and Ivan Torren was mentioned. Of the same kind awesome music is also Thomas Bergessen, X Ray Dog & Audiomachine, just to name a few.
    Also Zack Hemsey “See what I´ve become”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UeA9Nus9Eg
    Two Steps from Hell “Victory” has recently become my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRUPYrAQoE

    From movie soundtracks you know of King Arthur Legend of the Sword, it really is amazing and LOTR, Gladiator, Braveheart & such were mentioned. Game of Thrones also got mentioned and even Goblin. Goblin really had quite a lot beautiful instrumental pieces.

    Hans Zimmer, Linkin Park, Nightwish, Loreena Mckennitt & such also were mentioned.

    From what hasn’t been mentioned I’ll probably go into what I like from Asia because they also have amazing music:
    The K2’s main theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enLILFJgVSE
    From Empress Ki’s main theme (it’s really emotional, even if one hasn’t seen the drama, it could totally bring tears to one’s eyes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3q-lj10fTQ
    and also The Greatest Day (it’s sooo inspiring, like no matter how down you might be, you’ll survive & rise up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArxgDHDcAVU

    Yuki Kajiura was mentioned and I agree, she’s an amazing composer, has endless pieces of her own, soundtracks for anime and quite a few musicians/bands whom she’s founded and written for, some of the best pieces are:
    A Song of Storm & Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHydGnMQONI
    Hear Our Prayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq854aWKrzs
    Vanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CLEIH7RPvc
    Kimi Ga Ita Monogatari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0WPQICEclg
    Mezame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COhdhAUqipE
    and those ^ are really just a few, she has tons of more great stuff

    Another great piece is from Scholar Who Walks the Night “Endless Run”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBa8vR5WFbA

    The Moon Embracing The Sun had beautiful instrumental OST
    Like Petal, Like Flame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6TtDMGvS6c
    Paean of the Monarch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i60PgQcecms

    King’s Daughter Soo Baek Hyang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXBfdaTaXE

    The Princess Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4L4QftkZE

    Eurielle “City of the Dead”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VInr-cSNNU

    Then I just recently discovered a band called Les Friction. They’re beyond amazing & great! Each song is a complete epic movie story! Like seriously, their songs are the PERFECT soundtrack!
    And it would fit both Kate & Dina’s worlds pretty perfectly too considering the idea behind their work is:
    “The year is 2048 AD. Humans are now able to leave their earthly home and travel to other dimensions. While traveling, a shell of their body remains on earth and functions at a reduced capacity.

    For most people, life is more interesting and entertaining in these alternate dimensions; however, having neglected their loved ones at home, society on earth begins to deteriorate. Anarchy ensues and the travelers begin to receive millions of S.O.S.’s from their families on earth. Now, they must fight and struggle their way back home to save earth from certain destruction. Our story begins…………”

    Louder Than Words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJd0RTOW1Y
    World On Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqj1hf-KQ2c
    Firewall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxQ2IKct2Bg
    Your World Will Fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2PEuSFvp4
    Who Will Save You Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI0FETSHAv4
    Save Your Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shCLy3DcPk0
    String Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jBdQk244ec
    Come Back to Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgTvwohkKx8
    Torture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2jmC8-bP5g
    Love Come’s Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG4xNLEzS-k
    Sunday (this one has more upbeat music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uqT-QCAsc

    I think I’ll stop now for there’s till tons of awesome music I could recommend because THIS kind of music is my favorite, you could even say it’s my kind of drug ;D

  38. Check out Apocalyptica. They’re a cello metal band from Finland. The majority of their music is instrumental and It’s amazing.

  44. Just about anything by Corvus Corax but especially Bretonischer Marsch

    Bagpipes and drums!

  45. Star Trek Into Darkness soundtrack has lots of good running music, it starts off with them running through the red wood and just keeps going. The other song I love to run to right now is Princess Poppy from Trolls “Get Back Up Again” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuFm0m2wj0 you know, if Kate was a perky cheerleader type? I sing it with a lot more sarcasm than she uses.

  46. Wow, I had no idea all of this was out there! I’m no help, I listen to 1920s, love Doo Wop, Perry Como, Dean Martin type, and old country. Love Toby Keith! Definitely not what you are looking for!

    You’ll have to let us know what you settle on.

  47. My son works on Halo and he says any of the sound tracks are good – but then he would I suppose ?. (I got a guided tour of the Halo Museum at 343 Industries in Redmond WA when I was visiting family in May, it’s awesome and well worth a visit if your’re in the area. My visit would’ve been even better if it’d coincided with your signing at Powells!)

  48. So weird, I had And had another post not show.

    I recommend Japanese Composer Yoko Kanno’s score to the Escaflowne TV Series (also there’s a movie too she composed for it, great music, but the TV series is awesomely scored). She actually uses the sound of people marching as an instrument in the opening song! (I love that). You can hear the marching incorporated around the 2:05 mark:
    https://youtu.be/4VfU4A0Qs6M

    This song has a great, plotting, sneaking sort of feel to it: https://youtu.be/kmmydWaL-H8

    It definitely has some great instrumental tracks for the fantasy / sci fi series, and some epic tracks that seem to me very inspired by Orf’s ‘Carmina Burana O Fortuna’ https://youtu.be/2Mmk5-BArIw This is battle music in the very best of the classical sense.

    The Vision Of Escaflowne Original Soundtrack (Motion Picture And Bonus Piano/Music Box Cover Songs Included): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsonvEG2DW3MFwLSXpsA-uB4gGCGN-2vr

    Also, Howard Shore’s incomparable work for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, this orchestral piece gets me every time in particular: https://youtu.be/sIhnYFRu4ao

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