Which games introduced you to real-world musical artists?

[Jayonnaise6105]

A few years ago, I played Final Fantasy XIII for the first time and really enjoyed it.
As the game ended, I was surprised to hear a pop song playing. In my later research, I had found that it was the song "My Hands" by Leona Lewis and was licensed for use in the game.
I have since become a bit of a fan and had even bought the album the song was initially featured on from a thrift store:

Are there any bands/musicians/artists that you didn't really get into until you heard their music in a game?
I was thinking specifically those who don't normally work in video game music, but feel free to include video game musicians too if you like!

 

[Clippy]

Early-to-mid 2000s EA games and GTA had a ton of cool licensed tracks.

 

[Jayonnaise6105]

Early-to-mid 2000s EA games and GTA had a ton of cool licensed tracks.

Could almost apply to any early-to-mid-2000s game! hehe

 

[Bonkers225]

MGS3 - Starsailor
Thousand Arms - Ayumi Hamasaki
Twisted Metal Black - Rolling Stones
GTA Vice City - Flock of Seagulls

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Del the Funky Homosapien came my vía Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. Also, at the end of Mass Effect, a song from a band called Faunts plays. I checked those guys out and they were pretty sick.

 

[Jayonnaise6105]

I should also point out the only reason I went through a metal head phase in my teens was because I was obsessed with Guitar Hero Metallica!

 

[Bonkers225]

More Bengus, his constant change of his drawing style in a short time period never ceased to amaze me. You would've believed it was from different artists.

Also Bengus

Look at that change

 

[dropsmegamega]

Tony Hawk introduced me to Primus

 

[Michael Frank]

Open your heart by Crush 40 introduced me to the rock genre when i was 6 years old.

But it was Ozzie, Slash and Flea that introduced me to heavy metal and one of the best singers/musicians that ever lived.

 

[NeonKnights]

Death Stranding introduced me to Hoshino Gen, even though I had already seen him in akihabara@deep many years back I had not heard anything by him up to that point.

 

[Jayonnaise6105]

Tony Hawk introduced me to Primus

I forget how I learned about Primus exactly, but I always used to have them playing when I would play Borderlands on the 360 back in the day

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Open your heart by Crush 40 introduced me to the rock genre when i was 6 years old.

But it was Ozzie, Slash and Flea that introduced me to heavy metal and one of the best singers/musicians that ever lived.

Love me some Crush 40!
Pretty sure Guitar Hero introduced me to Ozzy & Slash

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

One Ok Rock

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Robo with Rick Astley well before the meme

 

[Ppapeno7135]

The FIFA 3D games
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1
The Guitar Hero series
NFS Underground 1 & 2, Most Wanted 2005

 

[Battleplayer83]

Almost any 2000s game with licensed music had some music that i liked but the one i vividly remember is GTA Vice City Stories with the V-Rock station.
Introduced me to RATT, Dokken, Queensryche, Dio, Autograph, Scorpions, Ted Nugent, Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe...
And you can expand that to almost every GTA game ^^
ahhhh the good old days of gaming...
where did it go :'''(

 

[Mahan_Native]

Brutal Legends - a lot of artist such as Ozzy Osbourne
Yakuza series - a lot of Japanese artists such as Eikichi Yazawa and Tatsuro Yamashita
Tony Hawk games

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Twisted Metal III - Pitchshifter
Gekido: Urban Fighters - Apartment 26
S.L.A.I.: Steel Lancer Arena International - Zebrahead
Twisted Metal: Head-On - Level

And various artists from Road Rash (1994), Quarantine, Frequency, Amplitude, Vs. (Polygon Magic/THQ), Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012, Heavy Metal: Geomatrix, N2O: Nitrous Oxide, Jet Grind Radio, Street Sk8er 1 & 2.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Amped 1 and 2 basically shaped my taste in music.

 

[emotion_engine]

The Japanese vers. of the Tales of Abyss OP got me to check out Bump of Chicken. They're a pretty popular AniSong Band but I bought the album Orbital Period (which has Karma as a track) while in Tokyo and it's become one of my all-time favorite albums.

 

[Burzuru]

tony hawk definitely

 

[Mechablade-X]

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance- Adema
Jet Set Radio Future- Bis
Brutal Legend- Motorhead
Duke Nukem Land of the Babes- Static-X

 

[snes9x]

Rock Band/Guitar Hero and teen angst and a cool older brother are what sent me down the path of insufferable music nerd. When You Were Young in GH3 turned me on to the Killers and I remember picking up the album Sam's Town at FYE. Still one of my personal favorite albums all these years later.

I think playing so many JRPGs as a kid a led to my fondness for ambient and new age music. Also the composer of Panzer Dragoon made a really great album in the 80s.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

The only good thing out of FFVII Dirge of Cerberus. Really widened my view of Visual Kei before anime did.