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[wooks]

Ha! I listened to that misty mountains song, and this showed up in my suggestions from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bihm6g8EfW0

[SixOfSpades]

As far as my own dwarfing music, I usually listen to this:
https://soundcloud.com/simonswerwer/sets/dwarf-fortress-soundsense

If that's done by somebody other than the official DF musician, that's even more impressive. Captures the feeling perfectly.

And as far as stealing music from other games goes, the soundtrack from Fate also ties in rather well (depending on what z-level of the map you're working with at the moment):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb77ca68KEU&list=PLC877D435780D3BDD

[Urist Da Vinci]

Adventure mode travel music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDycUXzNs0#t=96

Forgotten beast / Titan attack music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbOnvj9wZKc

[Hardrade]

Manowar, you just can't go wrong with some good ol' butt-metal to accompany your dwarves. Where every song title sounds like just another day in DF. Violence and Bloodshed, Hail and Kill, This Is a Good Day to Die, Black Wind, Fire and Steel, Fighting the World...

[Zenny the Spoon]

I either listen to the great soundsense soundtrack or German Medieval/Folk Metal bands since nothing is more fitting for my drunken Dwarfs than bagpipes and "heavy metal thunder".

I highly recommend bands like Subway to Sally¹, In Extremo², Saltatio Mortis³, Corvis Corax⁴, Tanzwut⁵ and many more.

This song fits rather well for DF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omL_PdW94cE

Here is a (rough) translation of the song:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Concealed deep beneath the earth
I was guarding for aeons
In pebbles under the rock
In the chamber of the mountain
But now I hear vague voices
Steps and hammer blows
A tremor goes through the earth
And they are knocking on my grave

Out of smoke and out of slag
I rise up to the firmament
An eagle plunged in steel
In which the fires of hell burn
Niobium flows through my veins
And embraces my world
And I stretch my iron wings
After the black canopy

Cold Steel
Born of niobium
And with boiling blood
It will be harder than ever
The sword which reigns
Is alloyed with Niobium

Created (to be) your silent servant
To be your loyal servant
But an evil God put like poison
Niobium in it
Thousand forges blazes
Undiscovered in my heart
And thousand sparks have
Immolated your world

¹: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNwawrepA7I
²: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfebhTz_P4w
³: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClAk0D42cf8
⁴: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ploWDbpsmo
⁵: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmPZ7vKAfC8

[ImagoDeo]

http://www.rainymood.com/

This.

[Midas]

Durin's song. It's just awesome IMHO.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadows of his head.
The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin's Day.
A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
There shone for ever fair and bright.
There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
And shining spears were laid in hoard.
Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
Beneath the mountains music woke:
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
And at the gates the trumpets rang.
The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

[discohorse]

I enjoy listening to a bit of Godspeed or A Silver Mt Zion during the collaspe of a fortress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE4_7-X78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIPWfY4o3u4

[Echostatic]

Honestly, I have listened to the included music for more hours than I care to remember. It just fits so well with the day-to-day activities of the fort. I'm gonna click on some of these links, though.

I don't know how well it fits, but I listen to Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit for a lot of games. This one included, at times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvWul-f65kE

[Tarzanello]

Honestly, I have listened to the included music for more hours than I care to remember. It just fits so well with the day-to-day activities of the fort. I'm gonna click on some of these links, though.

I don't know how well it fits, but I listen to Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit for a lot of games. This one included, at times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvWul-f65kE

I like The Mantle most, but yes, Agalloch are pretty rad

[Echostatic]

Honestly, I have listened to the included music for more hours than I care to remember. It just fits so well with the day-to-day activities of the fort. I'm gonna click on some of these links, though.

I don't know how well it fits, but I listen to Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit for a lot of games. This one included, at times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvWul-f65kE

I like The Mantle most, but yes, Agalloch are pretty rad

The Mantle was the first album of theirs that I heard. It's fantastic, but all of their stuff is. I listen to it when doing everything from playing Dwarf fortress and Kerbal Space Program, to sorting boxes of coins. They go with everything.

[RailroadRider]

When fighting/discovering a certain animal man...
youtube.com/watch?v=_6frI0Xjufg

[Lielac]

Yakety Sax.

[fortydayweekend]

Yakety Sax.

+1 Especially when it's legendary dwarves fighting FB's or any other combination of units that move very quickly. Bonus points for them being on fire, trailing blood (or rot-induced miasma), and for dodging into magma.

[The Bastard of France]

Two Steps From Hell when i want generic fantasy music for sieges/ combat