reading berserk with your favourite playlist

Post by **yupachups** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:45 pm

It's a ritual for me. I can't read any bersek chapter without listening music.

My favourite playlist : Forces (for the action scenes), Guts, Earth (from berserk OST)
and ... junkie XL-beauty never fades away (animatrix OST)

What's yours ?

Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:14 pm

The french national anthem.

Post by **Fuji Nagase** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:59 am

MSI, Brain failure, distillers, and pirate sygnl havent let me down yet. all very different, but it works for me

Post by **DarkenRahlX** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:40 am

The OST from the anime and PS2 video game, Opeth, Dark Tranquility, Killswitch Engage, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian.

Post by **Skullomania** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:17 pm

Anyone herd of Rick Wakeman's music.If you don't get it as any way you could,i'm sure you wont be disappointed.Maybe this is the most compatible
music for the manga.

Post by **paulino** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:41 pm

i dont have many music, and dont listen much to it, so the overwhelming sound is car passing by on the road in front of my house.

Post by **Sortep** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:15 pm

throw on some david axelrod, or some susumu hirasawa, alot of pink floydd, and believe it or not but wu-tang clan goes very well

Post by **Femto** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:27 pm

Post by **Sortep** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:43 pm

Noooooo you can't be serious...

Post by **Devil_Dante** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:45 pm

I mostly listen trance music while reading: DJ Tiesto's ISOS4, and Armin Van Buuren's ASOT Light

Post by **Femto** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:47 pm

Sortep wrote:Noooooo you can't be serious...

The seriousness of my previous post is of the kind that'll make you forget what serious means if I were to tell you how serious I am, which I seriously am.

Post by **Libaax** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:28 pm

Vintage femto,no idea what you meant at the end

I dont listen to music when i read manga,comics,book. Cause i wanna focus on the world im reading. Normally im sure immersed in what im reading that i dont even care about the real world.

Post by **Quest** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:10 pm

Libaax wrote:I dont listen to music when i read manga,comics,book. Cause i wanna focus on the world im reading. Normally im sure immersed in what im reading that i dont even care about the real world.

same here.
if i had to, then i will probably listen to that eerie song from the berzerk game. only when guts is fighting and killing something.
=)

Post by **MournfulWoods** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:00 pm

I usually put some music that represent the mood I associate with Berserk. It usually end up being some dark folk band, something tragic and/or melancholic.

It's usually Narsilion, Ordo Funebris and trobar de Morte

ISIS can be good too. It's ambient music sometime mellow but it can be really powerfull too.

Post by **Zerglinster** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:11 pm

I prefer to listen to either Blind Guardian, Orgy, Dream Theater, or Sonata Arctica...yeah.

Post by **Tempest** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:22 pm

I tend to not listen to anything if I am reading a chapter for the first time, I don't know why, usually it's cause I just finished getting it and I can't be bothered with the timely actions of taking a few seconds to pick a playlist. I mean, I have Berserk right there in front of me. It just calls to me.

However, when I am re-reading Berserk, I do take time out to listen to music. Mostly I would put on the OST from the anime, however as of late I am choosing to put on Power Metal, especially during fight chapters. My favorite song to play is "Fury of the Storm" by DragonForce. Another favorite of mine is to put The Black Mages. For anyone who doesn't know/is curious, it is the band of Nobuo Uematsu (Composer of the Final Fantasy music). They play rock versions of fight themes/boss music in the series. From there I usualy listen to "Dancing Mad" (from FF6) and "Battle Scene" (from FF1).

Post by **MournfulWoods** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:44 pm

Don't you think Power Metal is like...too happy for a book that is so dark ? I like Power metal, I'm into many different genres of music, but I don't make any associations between Power metal and Berserk.

Same thing for punk rock (the distillers were named in a earlier post)

Post by **Ash J. Williams** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:50 pm

Normally if I know Guts is going to do some major A*s kicking, then I put on A Perfect Circle's - "Counting Bodies Like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums."

If fits so perfectly it's scary.

Post by **Tempest** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:11 am

MournfulWoods wrote:Don't you think Power Metal is like...too happy for a book that is so dark ? I like Power metal, I'm into many different genres of music, but I don't make any associations between Power metal and Berserk.

Well yeah, most Power Metal might be, but DragonForce considers themselves "Extreme Power Metal" (I don't know exactly what that means)
Plus the content of a lot of their songs is kinda Berserk-ish. It's fantasy like, describing epic battles for glory and such. That and I'm not a big fan of Death Metal or much of the really hard stuff.

Excerpts from "Fury of the Storm":

"We are riding for the battle field in force tonight
Fury of the darkest evil cry for war
Far beyond the boundaries of hell and starlight
On the road to lands unknown forever more"

"Here we are the chosen one we can not fail now
Spilling all the blood on the fires below
Smashing through the boundaries with the fire and fury
Killing all the mortals down the winding road"

"Into the fires of forever we will fly through the heavens
With the power of the universe we stand strong together
Through the forcing of power, it will soon reach the hour
For victory we ride, Fury of the Storm!"

Post by **roostmeyer** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:41 am

I've actually been thinking of making a thread like this... but then i wouldn't be lurking...

I've been a huge fan of Opeth for the last 4 years, and they have a large range of heavy to soft songs. I don't have any problems finding a song to fit the mood. Also most songs are around 10 minutes long so it fits a slow first time chapter read about right.

3 inches of blood is pretty good as well and lyrically fits the fantasy genre well.

Recently I've found myself reading to Mercyful Fate and King Diamond for some reason.

Post by **Sortep** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:10 pm

Amazingly this morning... I actually put together a great rap playlist for berserk... scary.

1. Bushwick Bill - Whatcha Gonna Do?
2. Luminati - Drama A T
3. Canibus - Lost @ C
4. Geto Boys - Still
5. Tech N9ne - Absolute Power
6. Kurupt - Trylogy
7. Tru Life - Day I Die
8. Redman - Smash Something
9. Canibus - Curriculum 101
10. MC Ren - Ruthless Foe Life

Post by **Deathbringer** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:06 pm

Does the Berserk OST adds to the mood of the manga? I don´t remember the musics from the series and i´m wondering if it would be cool to hear it when i´m reading it.

Post by **Libaax** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:14 pm

I tried once when i was reading Hajime No Ippo to listen to OST for the anime but the music distracted me too much.

Post by **yupachups** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:55 am

Deathbringer wrote:Does the Berserk OST adds to the mood of the manga? I don´t remember the musics from the series and i´m wondering if it would be cool to hear it when i´m reading it.

You 'll' get used to it at least if you find your favourite song.

Post by **Deathbringer** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:34 am

I remember reading the chapter when Slan is reapearing from the Troll´s guts when listening to "Murder" of the original OST, it really added to the mood, it was worth getting it.