Artists you've discovered from playing video games.

[Leggacy]

One I forgot about until I started watching a playthrough of it:



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Cool. I like a bit of Dj shadow!

 

[Leggacy]

I notice that no one has picked Bonnie Tyler: total eclipse from battlefield 4
But seriously I kinda liked how that fitted into the beginning of the game.

 

[W3H5]

One I forgot about until I started watching a playthrough of it:



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Cool. I like a bit of Dj shadow!

I discovered DJ Shadow watching the opening of Tokyo Drift.

 

[zzz_pt]

Not playing yet, but discovered this artist yesterday after watching the new Dead Stranding trailer. Magnificent music.

Asylums for the feeling feat. Leila Adu - Silent Poets / Album: Dawn

 

[MoLiEG]

Hollywood Undead.

All thanks to Madden NFL. To this day they are one of my all time favourite bands.

 

[GTV0819]

Bump.

Because I first played GTA V way back from 2013 or 6 years ago, I started to know about Kendrick Lamar because of his song in the game.

 

[cirno2duo]

Fatboy Slim and Feeder

 

[GTV0819]

Drake with this song from NBA 2K11.

 

[the_greeze]

 

[Omnis]

Not an artist in the same sense as the others, but Jeremy Soule:

Jeremy Soule's early work for Guild Wars was his greatest achievement.
Everything after that including Skyrim was just ideas and motifs first created for GW's rich, diverse setting

 

[GTV0819]

 

[gtfrick]

Rom di Prisco from Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. I remember that the soundtrack blew me away when I first played it.
And now he's making music for Fortnite...

The opposite would be that Zombie Nation made me discover Lazy Jones on the C64. I haven't played it, but if you don't get it, "Star Dust" from that game is practically the same as Kernkraft 400. Maybe they're trying to say that the C64 is like a microwave.

 

[Murcie_LP640]

Rob Zombie - NFS Underground (though incidentally Two Lane Blacktop would very quickly become my least favourite song)
Jane's Addiction - Burnout Paradise
Yellowcard - Burnout 3: Takedown
Franz Ferdinand - Burnout 3: Takedown
Bullet for My Valentine - NFS Most Wanted (2005)
Pendulum - MotorStorm
The Chemical Brothers - Burnout Revenge
Avenged Sevenfold - Need for Speed ProStreet
Finch - Burnout Revenge
Eagles of Death Metal - NFS Carbon
Hot Action Cop - NFS Hot Pursuit 2

And probably the first instance of this phenomenon:

Metallica - Hot Wheels Turbo Racing

Far too many to mention from the Rock Band series but I don't really think that counts...

 

[Racerx_34]

Clint Mansell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHA9oO1Ybg

Giles Lamb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms

 

[GTV0819]

Snoop Dogg, Fat Joe and Busta Rhymes from playing Def Jam games.