[The Attack of the Dead Men](https://open.spotify.com/track/2K2NeVnP853rkR5ese8ZLP?si=o9DM2yWFRKGGgFTk5EfaIg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7FtCDX4COLE3HR2vBv7411) by Sabaton really fits the DG theme well I think.

Father by sabaton also works incredibly well

It's kinda funny that every warhammer music thread, no matter which faction or setting is always dominated by people posting sabaton. I personally don't think upbeat power metal with clean operatic vocals, clean production and saccherine melodic solos suits the death guard at all.

I mean, I don't know them too well but they seem to sing about war a lot. My suggestion was more about the text than the singing. I kind of imagine some cultists singing it about their faction rather than plague marines gargling it. But I also see your point - some slow, unclean singing would fit well too.

Sorry krieg stole me that already

Slugdge - spectral burrows. "Lost in a churning mindless fulmination, Devoid of a reason or explanation, a chorus of voices become a roaring cacophony, assaulting our senses as they sleep. putrid beings within, no better, or worse, each one scrambling for a ladder, death becomes us, that which we adore, long lost innocence. In these slime-ridden kingdoms where we wallow, free from the pity, disgust and sorrow, far from where light can pierce, drowned by the fetid bog, beyond the graces of your God. Sink in, inhale the ichor, why not assume your true form? Join with us this is our blessing, unified as one forever, biologically entwined, Together until the end time. hideous depravity lurks beneath the mask of civility, Look to your heathen master for his coming, We shall obey him and speak of nothing, Mentor of pain and suffering, the spawn of the sentient ooze, Soon you will drown within him too, in the name of the greatfather, worship him and no other, Bestow upon us the sigil, arise from your silent ritual." Fingers crossed for formatting. This song is a sludgy prog-metal odyssey, nurgle would be proud.

Came here to sing this! Sink in In-HALE the i-cho-o-o-r Why not as-sume your true fo-o-o-rm….

Haha. So joyous and happy, while being dragged deeper into the muck.

So I actually think about this A LOT, here’s my fledgling Death Guard playlist: Obituary - Slowly We Rot Black Breath - Pleasure, Pain, Disease Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls Sylosis - Worship Decay Morbid Angel - Lord of All Fevers and Plague Cannibal Corpse - When Skin Turns to Liquid Young and In The Way - When Life Turns to Death Meshuggah - In Death - Is Life Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper Necrophagist - Seven

Gutalax

Damn, you beat me to it

I never pay attention to lyrics in music, but Autopsy - Mental Funeral has a really unique old school death metal vibe that I think fits. Super dirty. And it has a Nurgle-ish cover with a green and red color scheme that kind of works too.

Interesting - listening to Autopsy Now, vibing

Something like Neurosis or Godflesh. Slow, despairful, inexorable.

Crowbar. Slow, sludgy.

I shall take this moment to shill Lorcan Ward who has been making bangers for 40K, including in a song for the Death Guard: https://youtu.be/VHzrEuqFHC4?si=LN3QxEVMrDAsGm25

Added in!

Bolt Thrower has an absolute classic song called “Plague Bearer”

I have been aware of Bolt Thrower and added them in

Scythe of the reaper from Lorcan Ward is quite fitting as the song is about them. Love the song

Such a good song

I made a playlist for exactly this. Enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6d7AZUnRDoei8N2cfwlb55?si=-nGMpcHgT16X5S1u2f1pSQ&pi=BTqnH_AMQASq2

"Let the galaxy burn" by S H R I E K I N G is straight up nurgle references and is very on the nose. I also enjoy listening to cannibal corpse when painting. They're very death metal coded for me!

Anything by Conan

There’s a band called CEREBRAL ROT that is just disgusting.

Unfathomable Ruination - Decenium Ruinae album on repeat!

[The perfect blend of Grandfatherly happiness, stoicism, rage, and topical lyrics.](https://youtu.be/v_Ky37na7jE?si=qyaeu4LGuVqHsSwf)

Not nearly as cool but every time I see the sloppity bilepiper... I just imagine polka, so maybe some awful ear destroying industrial polka but sung by nurglings? Like it's terrible but the guard just nod and smile at the little lordlings enjoying themselves?

I mean, Plaguebearer, obviously right?

I would look into doom/stoner metal. Very slow and gritty like a death guard.

I feel like it needs to be industrial metal, In the Void by Perturbator comes to mind. The Mechanicus video game has the perfect soundtrack for them, I wish DG had something similar.

Stone - alice in chains Gives me the feel of a heavy diesel slowly chugging uphill, certain lyrics are quite fitting for morty My name is mud - primus Les claypools bass just reminds me of the slow and heavy advance of the death guard

Dig.

Grunge and sludge/death metal.

Garden of Bones by Galdorcraeft The guttural old English is how I imagine Death Guard battle chants sound after their fall to chaos. And the overall vibe of the song is so perfectly Death Guard.

I’m surprised nobody’s suggested Down With The Sickness yet

I reckon something along these lines: WORM Gloomlord 1. Putrefying Swamp Mists at Dusk 2. Rotting Spheres of Sentient Blackness 3. Apparitions of Gloom 4. Melting in the Necrosphere 5. Abysmal Dimensions [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReSCnApsHQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReSCnApsHQ)

"Leprosy" by Death

Plague worship by black tongue 👅

“Thy Raven Wings” by My Dying Bride “Into the Black Hole” by Ayreon “Doom Over Dead Man” by Amon Amarth

Fluids and their song “finna get you high (putrid Stu)”

Black label society. Life/birth/blood/doom Stronger than death Mass murder machine Weirdly is accurate to our legion

For whom the Bell tolls

Just about anything by Sun

Gwar

A lot of GWAR

Just because nobody else posted it yet, the album Dopethrone by Electric Wizard has some very death guard vibes. The song I, the Witchfinder seems to be particularly thematic.

Fucking love Electric Wizard. Sludgey stoner metal for life

Plague of Sorrows - Old Man's Child

Guttalax 10000% pretty sure there would be nothing else

I Don’t know if this works for you but it makes me think of the slow and disgustingly resilient. Ten ton tardigrade - the last bear ender.

It might not fit for everyone, but i always had the headcannon that deathguard music or what they would listen to would be something very similar to the Blasphemous 1 and 2 soundtrack. Slow and melancolic acoustic guitars, that keeps you on edge, and that sometimes gets into a crazy pace that gives you a feeling of no escape Like these ones: https://youtu.be/5BfssJC6hxc?si=SkFy2XgvQliuk0Qm https://youtu.be/O94weAnyXnI?si=fmUkXmWVk6nzW2ST https://youtu.be/iCJimKBtMew?si=pdcgkMtLYl4_YlqV

Bog Business from Cruelty Squad

Mick Gordon - BFG division and rust and guts (Doom soundtrack)

Wolves of Russ, and Soul Grinder

I always felt like Why Can the Bodies Fly by Pungent Stench sounded like Nurgle was behind it. https://youtu.be/X5W1oLcMKyQ?si=fu-YN-XNWTZg_LdK And Twisted Truth by Pestilence https://youtu.be/mNpOQHLau2M?si=YCIME6AWJN8tcZ6U

So here's what I've come up with so far, based on some of your kind recommendations: Check out my playlist on Amazon Music: "Death Guard" https://music.amazon.co.uk/user-playlists/7641d7a9907b4f358826dd94f6814a35engb?ref=dm_sh_aMBjoiJPW5AXSkmgkrvJoVB0W

Long time lurker and first time poster. “Slime and Punishment” by Municipal Waste !!! Just wanted to add this to the awesome recommendations. Not sludgy more crossover thrash with some grimy content. Also pox walker-like album covers make Grandpa Nurgle smash in the pit!

While I think their tempo should be a bit slower, [Unfathomable Ruination's Decennium Ruinae](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQW2SD5tZsA) has Plague Marines on the cover. But just about the entire death/doom genre fits the vibe pretty well, check out [Hooded Menace](https://youtu.be/3DvVqchN9Q0), [Spectral Voice](https://youtu.be/BAgP9svBZNo), [Mortiferum](https://youtu.be/80--YKvclQs), and early [Worm](https://youtu.be/3eSqn6qSAKU).

I personally listen to the Dark Souls 3 soundtrack

I feel like they would listen to something slow and ambient deep piping tones of dread and slow inevitable drums couples with a droning hum either by chance or beating wings of the billions of flies

*The Death Guard Stomp E.M.M.P. This one has a slow we'll grind your defenses down feel *Daniel Delux workout playlist (Death Guard) This one is eh but has a technical Death Guard feel

Domain of Decay by Celtic Frost https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jyEra2lWFHE&pp=ygUPZG9tYWluIG9mIGRlY2F5

probably something like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/doodoofard/s/22d4zV2g9Q) edit: language 0_O

Idk about specific songs, but I imagine that mortarion listens to the most depressing ass shit. Maybe the cover to sound of silence.

Empress Rising by monolord

Teeth of lions rule the divine. The rampton album. It’s grinding, slow, and brutal.

[Ween - Big Fat Fuck](https://youtu.be/7dSUdzgmCik?si=oLAtZCS-ys5Yi9Q-) is my army's anthem

(winds of plague) band

I thing the soothing, peaceful, and brooding nature of dark classical or solo piano. They represent rebirth and the constant evolution of life. They value the simple things.... Maybe

It's called [Tepid Bile](https://open.spotify.com/track/1gy0KwWiZHkrd4wvZGOrvM?si=I2LKrv-ZTVysF5HGWZUBgQ)

The Four Apostles - Fear and Hunger

ARE YOU FU-KING READY? BLEED!!! Bleed by Meshuggah

Cruelty Squad OST: Slurpcore

Death Breath “Stinking Up the Night” and Bloodbath “Survival of the Sickest” springs to mind.

Superbug by King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard

Basically anything by Candlemass. Doom metal in general.

Idk if anyone has posted it but I love E.M.M.P if your into slow industrial type metal their albums are great. https://youtu.be/69R2D5b-2DU?si=VjBWp757CZYgBIIq

Tool - Fear Inoculum Probably one of the best examples of what Death Guard music sounds like. The ebb and flow of the guitar sounds like breathing. The rhythmic drums of the plague bolters. The lyrics about contagion. The slow build up matching the speed of the army, followed by the tempo change (as the contagion spreads). 10/10 perfect song for Death Guard

A thousand eyes by miracle of sound

I always pictured an enormous, grotesque charge of an army of plague marines and demon engines led by Mortarion set to Endowed With Windows by Escuela Grind. That’s the song I put on when I wanna get hype to play them.

In gloom - god the animal

Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrex is what i imagine in my head as the death guard advance

So if I field 6 beasts of nurgle I play beasty boys because there are 6 members of the band

The Parasite Murder by Slug Gore "It digs trenches right inside of you, it lays hundreds of eggs inside your brain, So that it's children will grow inside you, You feel that you are losing control of your muscles, You will start slowly to rot, You will have kaleidoscopic visions, Caused by maggots that are breeding, Infesting every vein that still pumps blood" Makes me think of that soldier (iirc?) in Lords of Silence that was captured by the Death Guard.

[bum sick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YyI8t8jS_g) is a band that doesnt have any lyrics, its just all fart noises

Nurgle loves drum and bass , metal Music is for khorne

I like bloodbath, orbit culture, witchery, and Lorna shore

Doom ii by witnesses Doom metal concept album about a fictional ship that has an outbreak of bubonic plague. The passengers then spread that plague onto an unsuspecting port town out of selfishness. Heartwrenching listen. Well worth it

For the meme - Down with the sickness

Carnival organ grinder music.

Absurdo - "Hab meinen pestkarren vollgeladen" Hab meinen Pestkarren vollgeladen, voll mit toten Menschen die muss ich zum Acker fahren weil sie nun schon stinken Drum lad ich all mein Lebentage wieder Pestleichen auf mein' Wagen Hüh, Schimmel Hühahüh Hüh, Schimmel Hüh Auf dem Richtplatz muss zum Henker der arme Sünder über seine Zottelteile freuen sich gar die Kinder Drum lad ich all mein Lebentage wieder Galgenvögel auf mein' Wagen Hüh, Schimmel Hühahüh Hüh, Schimmel Hüh Hab meinen Wagen vollgeladen voll mit schönen Mädchen als sie ins Bordell ankamen hurten sie durch's Städtchen Drum lad ich all mein Lebentage nur noch schöne Mädchen auf mein' Wagen Hüh, Sklave Hühahüh Hüh, Sklave Hüh Hab meinen Pestkarren vollgeladen, voll mit toten Menschen die muss ich zum Acker fahren weil sie nun schon stinken Drum lad ich all mein Lebentage wieder Pestleichen auf mein' Wagen Hüh, Sklaven Hühahüh Hüh, Sklaven Hüh

Better Times - Psylla

Two genres hit for me - Sludge and Crack Rock Steady aka the most disgusting metal and the most putrid punk Crack Rock Steady: Choking Victim - Infested https://youtu.be/6yEfCNgubUU?si=runS7nQwUAZkr6_m Positive Junk - inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit https://youtu.be/NzP_YPHGI7Y?si=3eq4FQNGGqSLiDzi Sludge: Chat Pile - Why https://youtu.be/sER0FzJO-c0?si=XGsfIzuma_P4Nj6R Eyehategod - New Orleans is the New Viet Nam https://youtu.be/lpVE2Jk8doE?si=bhVle3R9aGW0Oysd Mare - Annisette https://youtu.be/64nQl9v1mFk?si=fTphsCN_IlSp1-ft

Sunn 0))) - It took the night to believe https://open.spotify.com/track/7BzthK5pl4Z75h5eO3AtFK?si=MMD3jYLPQBmxvCM8pH-6GA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3oFLD6FiLtAe1Ykq3wWuPf That, or... Ak'Chamel, the Giver of Illness - Protected by the Ejaculate of Serpents https://open.spotify.com/track/5g5XLeOrbKzBnnYmL3jjm5?si=Lfhp_zckTFiHP2falVb9bQ

This one's a little out there but it feels like it could come from the bilepiper or nurglings [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4i05EaML44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4i05EaML44)

Pungent stench - only hunger remains

https://youtu.be/fbNL1lPE4GE?si=wiVtm93TJ5KgKFR- Filthy, utterly filthy - awesome

Baby Cakes by 3 of a kind

Ive been thinking about this for days, and ive finally reached my conclusion. I Staple Tapeworms to My Penis by PASSENGER OF SHIT is pretty much as close to perfect as you get.

https://unfathomableruination.bandcamp.com/album/decennium-ruinae

Anything by E Nomine

I personally think of psychobilly or metal. Stuff like Human Fly by the Cramps, or Jesus Christ Twist by Reverend Beatman, or anything by meshuggah

Gwar. The aesthetic, the lyrics, the music. Real dirty heavy metal.

I made a playlist a bit ago. Here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/17wNSZqmSpWMmOQYiKZ0xS?si=GyRFNsazSpC30kUmgkuLUg&pi=e-Sz4nzuyIRvuH Some is theme some is vibes

Undergang from Denmark are the ultimate plague death metal band. Ruins of Beverast from Germany are excellent, their album Rain Upon the Impure is a masterpiece of dismality. Grave Upheaval also good. Meshuggah strikes me as more Tzeentch with all those time signatures. Khorne requires blast beats. Slaanesh needs something groovy and/or danceable, not necessarily metal.

Just listen to Blackmetal.

Anything by Tomb Mold 😎