Music Artists you discovered through Gaming

[moonbits]

Licensed music is often a rare sight in some genres, while being common in others like sports or racing. Share what artist you've discovered through videogames.

I'll go first with the Queen of JPOP:

 

[LiberoVulpes]

Mili with Library of Ruina.

Sum 41 with Obscure

Disturbed with Need For Speed.

Breaking Benjamin with Halo 2.

And a bunch more cause of the Tony Hawk games, the other Need For Speed games, and both Rockband and Guitar hero games.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Kidney Thieves through Deus Ex: Invisible War.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Rika Muranaka, discovered her from one of the best Castlevania games

 

[OmegaPunch's iconOmegaPunch]

Drumattic Twins with Wipeout Pure.

Calyx with Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition.

Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre with GTA: San Andreas.

Kino with GTA 4

SpiderBait with NFS: Underground 2.

 

[iamthemilkman]

The Amped soundtrack shaped my taste in music in my early teens.

 

[NotReallyHereEither]

Hammerbox, through Road Rash ?

Honorable mention goes to Hybrid, by way of SSX:

Honorable honorable mention goes to Collective Soul, by way of the intro to NHL 2001:

Yeah, EA pretty much owned my soul in the late 90s / early 2000s ?

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Licensed music is often a rare sight in some genres, while being common in others like sports or racing. Share what artist you've discovered through videogames.

I'll go first with the Queen of JPOP:

Funnily enough, this case doesn't even count as licensed music because the music was legitimately made for the game in each case.

MadWorld/Anarchy Reigns:

-Ox aka STEELNDRUMS (a lot of the music for Madworld and a few for Anarchy Reigns)
-Soul Purpose (Survival)
-Theory Hazit (Here We Go, Merciless)
-Wordsmith (Death and Honour)
-Bandy Leggz (You Don't Know Me, It's All About Me, I Know U Want Me)

Stella Glow:

-Yui Horie (Yami no Mukou aka Song of the Moon)


that's it, I never find anything new from games

 

[moonbits]

Funnily enough, this case doesn't even count as licensed music because the music was legitimately made for the game in each case.

MadWorld/Anarchy Reigns:

-Ox aka STEELNDRUMS (a lot of the music for Madworld and a few for Anarchy Reigns)
-Soul Purpose (Survival)
-Theory Hazit (Here We Go, Merciless)
-Wordsmith (Death and Honour)
-Bandy Leggz (You Don't Know Me, It's All About Me, I Know U Want Me)

Stella Glow:

-Yui Horie (Yami no Mukou aka Song of the Moon)


that's it, I never find anything new from games

not really, Hikari came first and then she recorded an english version for KH.

 

[Megalodonix]

Metal Gear Solid V introduced me to half the artists I currently know lmao

 

[DunkeyKong]

GTA 5 radio introduced me to so many great songs and artist

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

not really, Hikari came first and then she recorded an english version for KH.

I never listed Simple and Clean

 

[DanCalibur]

Rika Muranaka, discovered her from one of the best Castlevania games

That's a familiar song I haven't heard in a while

 

[Dawg19]

Not sure if this counts, but Anamanguchi was THE one I found through Scott Pilgrim. So much of the OST was such a banger that I can only use 1 hand to count the ones that are duds for me!

 

[DanCalibur]

Christopher Tin

 

[NeonKnights]

B'z. This used to be the Dragon's Dogma menu theme, Too bad they patched it out.

 

[Stookymalarkey]

I only learned about Paramore thanks to Saints Row 2. Whenever I hear Misery Business I associate that song with Superman punching Yakuza in the face.

 

[DanCalibur]

Not sure if this counts, but Anamanguchi was THE one I found through Scott Pilgrim. So much of the OST was such a banger that I can only use 1 hand to count the ones that are duds for me!

O anúncio de um cemitééério!

 

[SpikeSlania]

I actually found out about SiM from Gundam EXTREME vs Maxi Boost On's trailer, never played the game but the trailer is how I discovered SiM :P

 

[miguk]

Bad Religion: I'm too young to have heard them during the Suffer era, so I didn't hear them until I played Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. I eventually got around to picking up copies of The Process of Belief and The Empire Strikes First and became a fan.

Faye Wong: I was not even a fan of pop, let alone Canto-pop, so I didn't get around to hearing her until Final Fantasy VIII was released. It influenced me to watch Chungking Express, which is what really made me a fan of her (though moreso for her acting than her music).

Yes, I get that this is a very weird contrast of artists and genres.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Pretty much 90% of my taste in music is harvested from ps1 and ps2 skateboard games like the Tony hawk series, grind session and thrasher skate and destroy.
In hindsight the Tony Hawk games often had a really idiosyncratic song selection that still somehow always fit the vibe. You had the usual suspects in hip hop and punk rock but then you‘d get some Primus, the doors, frank sinatra, Johnny cash and even some Norwegian black metal in there. Iirc Tony himself had a lot of involvement in the track lists. Dude’s a genuine music geek and he seems to be personal friends with like half of the bands on his games. What a legend.

Couple of honorable mentions:
I learned a lot great electronica acts through wipeout and especially REZ. Ken Ishii for the win:

I have no clue how this obscure remix that the abstract-pop giant Cornelius did for an even more obscure Japanese krautrock band, ended up on the grind session ost but I’m glad it did:

Yeah that game had so many bangers:

The soundtracks of the jet set radio games deserve their own thread imho. I love the bubbly turn of the millennium Sega vibes:

Also it’s kinda funny these two tracks that are very obviously about Nintendo characters were even used in a Sega game.

 

[Antilocal123]

HI-C!!!!!!!!!!

Discovered him through No More Heroes, helped introduce me to a ton of other shit as-well.

 

[Bonkers225]

Ayumi Hamasaki from Thousand Arms
Utada Hikaru from Kingdom Hearts
Starsailor from MGS3

 

[bjork]

I'll go first with the Queen of JPOP:

This isn't Ayumi Hamasaki ;)

Anyway, for me it wasn't technically a game I was playing, but while watching Saltybet:

 

[spoorloos]

Without doubt the most important experience in my life was discovering Aphex Twin while playing Wipeout Pulse:

I also should mention classic GTA games, it was my gateway into 80s and 90s music. While most of the stuff was pretty popular I don't think I'd discover Omni Trio and Moving Shadow label without GTA