For me as a programmer and human being, music and coding go hand in hand. Even if we often times need to have conversations and talk to co-workers I can put my best game on with my headphones and some great tracks to listen to. Sometimes I need slow, atmospheric music to calm down, sometimes fast music to cheer me up. In this post I will show you my top 10 Metal tracks that always help me to get into flow and write high quality code. Maybe this will turn out into a series of posts for others genres as well.
Sidenote: These tracks are not necessarily what one would call mainstream but some gems I found one after another.
Cyhra - Karma
Orden Ogen - Fields Of Sorrow
Sabaton - 82nd all the way
Ghost - Dance Macabre
Brothers of Metal - Prophecy of Ragnarök
Dragonforce - The Last Journey Home
Gloryhammer - Universe On Fire
Dynazty - Breathe with Me
Beast in Black - Blind and Frozen
Battle Beast - Beyond the Burning Skies
I would love to hear what you are listening to while coding, so please leave a comment and also follow me for more upcoming posts.
Top comments (10)
no Iron Maiden, Megadeth ?! :/
Oh I like them as well :)
Personal favorites here for coding include:
Rhapsody of Fire - The Wizard's Last Rhymes
Sabaton - The Red Baron
Falconer - Mindtraveller
Turisas - Rasputin
Twilight Force - Battle of Arcane Might
My full mix is currently just short of 55 hours though, mostly European power metal similar to the above, with a bit of chiptune, techno, and recently some jpop mixed in as well.
For me it’s classics: Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Sepultura, ... 🤪
InFlames, melodic death
Metal keeps me energized
Awesome post and great songs! These days for me are a full immersion with the new Tool album "Fear Inoculum". Nice to see I'm not the only metalhead in coding 😉 Always Up The Irons!
Well, Tool is good for any occasion.
I can’t listen to anything with lyrics while coding it gets too distracting. I also tend to gravitate towards EDM as a result.
Try Shylmagoghnar mainly from the album Emergence, Be'lakor, Theatre of Tragedy and Eluveitie (I don't understand the lyrics of them anyway). And Dream Theater, I don't particularly enjoy them but maybe you do.
There is a few "metal-ish" tracks in here. Sans lyrics.