playing with loud music, unless it's deathmatch.. when I played bots in q2/q1 I'd play assortment of Coal Chamber, Deadlights, Mudvayne.. 

Loud music doesn't mean use of maximum volume... I'd prefer to have music in background, in order to be able to hear what happens in the game... it's usefull sometimes..;).... The music is just here to create an ambiance, not to cover the game sound effects...
Anyway, just don't believe I'm just able to listen Death Metal... sometimes I also listen some cool music (Cold Play, The Police, Texas, U2, Goldfrapp, etc.. etc.. ) and techno as well (Prodigy, Carl Cox, etc.. etc..)... I just say that Satanic Black Death Metal is the better music to find "killing inspiration" during the game.. and it works with any FPS game !!! 

I can't stand growling incoherent vocals or speed guitar 

So try Disney Music store... it will be more coherent, less growling, and with slowest guitars... (joke)..
Yes, I admit it's "sometimes" (not to say all the time) hard to understand (without explicit lyrics support) what is "song"... eerrrr... your likes are certainly more.. "aggressive" regarding your cool web site ;) 

your likes are certainly more.. "aggressive" regarding your cool web site ;)

I would like to say LESS aggressive... I apologize for this big mistake... 

Actually I don't listen to music when playing games lately. Especially with tactical shooters. 

.. is a nice sport I practiced a lot when I used to play Unreal Tournament in 2001... With the precision rifle, it was really cool to hide, and kill other players with head-shots... 

Can someone recommend some really good hard tech/trance (not Hard House) - i've been out of the music scene for so long, I don't really know where to start looking... 

hell is the difference between house/trance/techno anyway?

If I had a few good examples, but I always lump all that repetetive stuff into one ball. 

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is rather intelligible from one another.

Cure = Korn? Nope.
Radiohead = Stone Temple Pilots? Nope.
Matchbox 20 = Blink 182? Nope. 

I could write out some long explanation, but it wouldn't be nearly as good as what this guy wrote: http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/# 

thanks 

And educational! 

It's all pop music to me. 

If it's too loud, YOU'RE TOO OLD!!11!! 

If anyone is interested, I need some honest crits on the demos I've done. If you see potential or think they straight out suck, let me know. They took about 6 months and I wrapped them up months ago. The "ante" stuff in the folder was for that Q1 mod I'd uh.. started, and the rest were just demos that I could've always spent alot more time on, but if I was gonna do that I'd of started my CD at that time. They were moreso ideas of where I might've wanted to go.

- http://www.thecarbonflaw.com/music/ (for some MP3's not at the next URL)
- http://www.soundclick.com/thecarbonflaw/

Thanks. 

It's not too loud, it's just too lame =D 

But here it is again, if so:
http://www.epitonic.com/
Free mp3s in all kinds of genres -- not much of that vapid pop faggotry, tho. 

thanks biff! there's some really good stuff there! 

[nt] 

http://www.jesselawrence.com/images/challenge.jpg 

It's pointless, boring, annoying, and basically the equivalent of watching paint dry. It does nothing, says nothing, creates nothing -- it's worse than a campaigning politician who is facing a landslide -- it smacks of desperation, futility and ultimate forgetability. It is shit. 

yes you fric & blitz

I'm sure you're aware that most pop music has compressed waveforms in order to make them sound "better" over as many forms of media as possible (especially shitty radio & tv speakers) ... the interesting part comes into play where this type of compressed sound actually slows the listeners brain down and makes it more susceptible to opinions/advertising/messages etc...

thus making pop music and even more effective advertising tool than originally planned. 

Thank you, Special Agent Mulder.