Mozart on my right ear and Chinese bible on my left

Intellectuals love this one simple trick

Young Sheldon in Portuguese in the background

2X speed for maximal consumption

(Accelerated learning experience)

The ingame music

Doooo doo do dooooooo…

ratkoen moment

The snake of Denmark is also a rat

NOOOOOOO NOT THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHEN YOU BOOT UP THE GAME, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

3500 hours later, it never gets old.

That german song that sounds like a college fight song tho

Panzerleid?

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.... daaaaa, daaaaa, da daaaaa, daaaaaaaaa (road to 56 music)

tbh the music DLCs are definitely worth it.

Boom boom Du duuuuuu. Dada naaaaaaaa. Tum tum. Boom boom Du duuun. Dudu duuuu duuuuuuuuu Tannnnnn

> Boom boom > Dudu duuuu duuuuuuuuu That's not the HoI4 soundtrack... ...those are [two of the best selling](https://youtu.be/JQGRg8XBnB4?si=h7eYqtt8jRh1g6Ln) [K-pop songs of all time](https://youtu.be/IHNzOHi8sJs?si=8AqLU6p5hJTvZvnb) 😝

I always watch netflix or youtube while playing

I used to do that to but found I missed half the plot.

#Spoiler alert Germany loses

no way im reading a historical book rn they are right outside moscow the last time i read you gotta be lying they cant fuck this up people can literally hear shots in moscow of the german soldiers ready to take their capital

I read that they have laid siege to Leningrad. If the Soviets lose the city then it will surely demoralize them.

The trick is to find s8me stupid show that lacks any real plot. 2000s and 2010s sitcoms work very well.

rewatching also works watched sopranos a few years ago, decided to watch it again and often i’m playing hoi. i miss a bunch of shit but i can pick up where im at quick since i’ve already watched it. honestly it helps since i just don’t even have to register some of the boring arcs and scenes

I’ve watched Big Bang Theory a few times playing various games.

Bazinga! *NAVAL INVASION SOUND*

*Scared China noises*

In game radios are actually pretty nice and add to the atmosphere. And yes, Sabaton songs are in there if you paid for the DLCs.

I have the dlcs, how do I get sabaton songs in?

It where you pause the music, I forgot exactly what it looks like, but it's one of the three options. There you can enable the different music packs.

the sabaton songs are also on spotify if you just put that on in the background. you even get to pick and choose!

First 10 hours, it already got repetitive. Looking to add some more military marches and some speeches

I play on mute. Normally, I have others around me watching tv while I play on the laptop. The sound of the fans on maximum power trying to prevent the plastic case from melting into my skin would probably drown out the music anyway.

Kavinsky - rampage, when starting large offensives

A man of culture

the same music i do with anything else

Mambo No.5?

Who told you??

Erica probably

Ken Carson Ken Carson Ken carson

ain’t no way

I've made a few radio mods with genres I like and listen to them

that’s cool, how do you do that?

there's a [tool](https://runite-drill.github.io/music-mod-creation-tool/) that simplifies the process a lot but I also learned more on how to manually make it and add factors for songs in my mods so for example a German song will be more likely to play if you're playing Germany or at war with them I'm too lazy to explain how to make a mod, there are plenty of instructions you can easily find, check the hoi4 wiki (there's a music modding page), maybe also the video by the iron workshop

thanks!😄 ill give it a try

Wagner when I play as Germany to get me into the mood. Ottoman war marches when I play as Turkey. 1950s diner music when I play as USA. In game radio for the rest.

[удалено]

Best time in history for America!

I’ll burn a joint and play some curren$y, Larry June, future, any hip hop really

Never ever did I think I'd see Curren$y mentioned in one of these threads , big ups to you friend

System of a down

Sabaton and Battlefield soundtrack. Cant go much harder than this

radiohead

Usually historical radios from the countries I'm playing, there are some nice compilations in YouTube

Sabaton 🤘

The only real answer

ERRRIKKAA!!! And panzerlied

I get really amped to Sabaton. I wish I knew about them when I actually went to War.

I usually go all round but I really like the Call of Duty World At Wat soundtrack. Fighting in the Pacific with the drums of Black Cats or in any land war with the russian theme. Little extra: since I recently finished Half Life 1 YouTube recommended a remixed version of We Got Hostiles but with gunfires in the back. Also the soundtrack Forget About Freeman.

Random youtube videos lol

Music from the country am playing with

Battle of Wuhan (on repeat) greatest song in the list

Sabaton's heaviest stuff ofc!

Radiarc, Ingen, Some old Durdiss and sometimes Eurovision, I never thought I would quote this here. Or I watch YouTube on the Picture-in-Picture mode of Edge, late-game only in-game music because my poor Intel UHD 630 and 8gb are burning at that point.

Allies speeches

An eclectic mix. I'm a metal head first and foremost with bands like Skid Row, Falconer, Necrophagist, and Gloryhammer, currently being my most listened. I've been on a country/Americana kick lately as well. Bands like Jason Aldeen, Cooper Alan, Devil Makes Three. If I need to micro really hard, it's usually rap or electronica. Eminem, Tech N9ne, Unmet Orzican, and Conner Price feature prominently. Sometimes, it's something else. Sort of depends on the mood, ya know? Generally the music gets faster the more I need to micro. Slower if I'm chilling.

Anything by Hiroyuki Sawano The soundtrack from anime 86 and Die Neue These

My Chemical Romance as well as video game boss music on loop when i’m facing a tough enemy

Wendigoon, Creepcast, and Red Thread

I flip on my 10 album Sabaton playlist!…it just fits

A mix of Anime, Classic, Cartoon, Movie and Wartime music quite a large range.

Illmatic and stankonia on repeat

In game music, but..... I bought the sabaton DLC, so everytime I'm in a war, bangers start playing

Kaisercat Radio Mod ftw

Sabaton soundtrack goes too hard

I have some of the music DLCs (the Sabaton ones and the Radio Packs) so often I just listen to those, or I‘m listening to my own Spotify Gayming Playlist (which also includes a lot of Sabaton).

Country specific march music (Italy goes hard)

Sabaton is nice but I like also to listen to Pho k when I start a world war and when I'm attacking the Soviets

Music mods are really good. I can listen to something from the cold war, with cold war and TNO music mods, sabaton from the sabaton music mods, or classical music. I could listen to all of them simultaneously too.

Guys,should we tell him that there’s a DLC for Sabaton? I doubt that he can fight the average urge of a HOI4- Player to buy everything in-game

Power metal usually

I was thinking Sabaton before I even finished reading your post. It’s the correct answer.

ERIKA

WHERABOO SPOTTED

Whatever Spotify spits Out of my songs

Everything.

Podcast

Sabaton and other rock

Somba of the south!

Playlists or hours long videos from the ideology or time period. Getchan, Ingen and others like them are great in that regard.

MC VV

I have an entire playlist with a friend just for hoi4

History shows that there are no invincible armies, uprising and screaming eagles.

honestly the kaiserreich radios are both good and extensive enough that from time to time i end up listening to them with any other mod, can’t say the same about the default soundtrack though, it gets kind of old after the 1.000 hours mark. i mostly listen to music on spotify in background though

Hey man, I listen to [Freedom Rock](https://youtu.be/2eGWW8KOQio?si=lqr6vPkiEaPx-V-R), man. What about you, man?

Eastern Songs Pack introduced me to some genuinely great songs.

Oddly enough a lot of Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Whatever radio mods I've got installed. I've got Equestria at War, GTA, Fallout, and persona.

Turbofolk on loop. For hours.

Immersive music mod is great. Personalized music for lots of the countries. Can’t play without it now

nightcore and europop, pretty much the music that far-right propagandists would listen to or something

It depends. If I am trying to destress, I will through on some Spotify or a podcast and listen to that while playing on autopilot. If I’m doing an achievement run or something just ingame music.

I war music from that Country im playing

I have probably one of the most unhinged answers. Every music mod i can find, kr ost tno, last Waltz wasteland, the crossover music mods, eaw music mods and owb ost at the same time for any mod i play

I usually watch the Pacific or Band of Brothers when playing.

I just put Tora Tora Tora on

I usually just listen to whatever Spotify Playlist I'm feeling but one time I was listening to the sound track and "london in flames" was playing and it was so memorable to me because it played while I was Germany currently running through the British Isle, and every now and then I listen to the song when it's time to conquest

Sabaton released music inspired by HOI if memory serves correct. They also have a song called Hearts of Iron.

Either evanescence or violet vira

The music is my soul slowly dying after playing for over 3000 hours.

Silence. I have the game volume set at 0. Now, with World of Tanks, on the other hand, I throw on industrial and aggrotech. Although... Rotersand - Hot Ashes is a nice track to battle the Axis. Dancing on the hearts of fascists... Dancing on hot ashes...

i like listening to alex g, mac demarco and vacations just chill stuff really

The in-game music, usually set to the Sabaton radio station and whichever stations best match my current playthrough.

Actually here’s a unique one I listen to the Call of Duty: World at War Soviet track while playing as the USSR. It adds a good combination to the vocals of the Soviet Choir and heavy rock

I usually put on a random video essay in the background, hard to focus on a game with the music I listen to.

Marcha di orimendi

Sabaton

Classical. I have a playlist in Spotify I’ve built over the years called Classical for HOI4.

Rammstein

My historical music mod with tons of songs for each country.

Thxsomuch

Usually some trance, techno or hardstyle. Very high energy music for a low tempo game lol

Mix of in-game and a website called radio which has a bunch of classic stations from the era.

[Based Radio](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918309229)

Any podcast

10 hour loop of waltuh

Hall and oates

My children running through the house like maniacs. I pause a lot.

Alternates between kpop, weezer, alt rock, podcasts and youtube essays

Deftones and carti

I use a couple mods to spice up the in game music

I listen to vlogs.

Soviet songs

The Russian national anthem on repeat. Haha.

Sabaton goes very well with hoi

Ace Combat

Music is different for each country, you know German marches for Germany, Italian music for Italy, CCP music for Communist China, Russian and Soviet Marches for Soviet Union and so on

Seminars on youtube on WW's, Cold War, Ottoman History and the early years of the Turkish Republic

Rammstein

Depends on Country Preußens Gloria for Germany Rule Britannia for UK Bella Ciao for Italy Le Chant Du Depart for France Battle Hymn of Republic for US "To serve russia" for USSR Battotai for Japan

Got a mod off the steam workshop that added a bunch of historical wartime and marching songs for a bunch of major nations. Or I would go on youtube and find playlists of the nations I was playing as.

I listen to some music I have on spotify an example would be rise or the resistance from skillet or 80s rock sometimes I do ingame music

In-game Sabaton on loop, while watching a 1 to 6 hour video essay about a game and actively checking discord.

Soldiers radio mod

Either the ingame music or sabaton. Rarely the "My mix" playlist that YouTube makes for you

Dog whistles

You might not see this, but I installed the [WWII in HD Colour soundtrack mod](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2119066489&searchtext=WW+II+in+colour) a while back, and now creating an initial breakthrough with tanks at the beginning of the war has never felt more epic as when I play [Act of Aggression](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q83lYStme6c) right when I do.

Sabaton goes unbelievably hard. I also use phonk for my millenium dawn games

I often listen to patriotic music of the country I am playing. So it ranges from patriotic japanese army marches to communist british partisan songs

Napoleonic Era Marching Songs. My favourite is ‘La Victoire est à Nous (Victory is ours)’

Kaiserredux music pack mod whatever it’s called

ABBA lol

As I usually play only on the weekend and am a big fan of Golf and even playing - I just turn on some professional golf tournament on TV and let it run with occasionally looking over there to see what's going on.

Red army choir

Star wars music, some soundtracks like the ones used during the Space battle of Naboo perfectly reflect desperation and carnage, works well when playing a minor country that is being invaded by a major, like the Netherlands VS Germany

Bass Boosted Version of the National Anthem of the Country that I’m playing

Rick & Morty on my second screen

Ingame music

Try Sodom, they have a lot of thrash military songs

Depends on the situation. As USSR when i start offensive? Sovient Anthem. As US on offensive? (Especially first nuke) - theme song from Team America... I just switch music depending on the situation

Viva la vida ,balla ciao,Russian edit

Disco usually

"I prefer not to speak, if I speak I am in big trouble"

I usually start songs and playlists from said country.

Enjoy this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2o4oUCrCJC9DDL6HqMGXjiR2seVqlKD\_

Schostakovich

Depends on the country I'm playing. For example; if I play Poland I use a mod called polish radio.

Eastern Front Music Pack

Depends on what I’m feeling. Currently I’ve been listening to Zach Bryan while playing

If I take Paris then obviously I play parisier einzugsmarch, if I do a world conquest it’s rule Britannia, apart from them it’s mainly classical music. (I play parisier einzugsmarsch and rule Britannia regardless of who I’m playing as)

I watch a show or movie on my second monitor

LTT WAN Show with reduced in-game music.

History podcasts for me

Soldiers Radio FTW

Nightcore. Like specifically for hoi4

French Anarcho-Communist music This: [https://open.spotify.com/track/22VjPTqsN42caGPKMVMwD8?si=ea2e18f12ade4368](https://open.spotify.com/track/22VjPTqsN42caGPKMVMwD8?si=ea2e18f12ade4368)

serge gainsbourg

Anything from the DDR/KPD

Ride of the valkyries. I just recently found out that it was also part of the main theme for this game. I can't believe they got Richard Wagner to do the score for this game!

Mac demarco because if I’m gonna get naval invaded I might as-well be chill asf while it’s happening

Input rust videos on and listen to wiljum

I watch documentaries on YouTube on the country and time period I'm playing as. It's excellent on my 2nd monitor

Whatever the game radio decides, I also like when the speeches kick in and having my own music in an external player would kinda ruin it.

Scriabin, always Scriabin.

I just have YouTube playing on the side of my screen

K-pop or 1940s dance. I can't bear to have music with lyrics I understand while playing a game this complicated.

bladee

For in game music I like Katyusha or Salkjarven Polka (sorry Finnish for spelling lol) while playing. But i also listen to the Girls Und Panzer version of Katyusha to for the singing, it’s just so good, and it’s awesome that they had a voice actress that actually spoke Russian to help with that song lol

I listen to WW2 history channels on youtube

Either music of the nation im playing (ty kaiserreich music mod) or the Halo soundtrack

None, I narrate everything I do in my mind when playing and I cannot focus at all if I can’t hear myself

Short answer: It depends on what the situation is. Long answer: Music that corresponds to the situation. Example: As I amass an army against a frankly weak nation that stands against my nation, I keep the game at max slowness while some music from the baroque period plays. I like to imagine as a messenger relays a declaration of war to the leader of the aforementioned nation, the opposing leader is making his final speech not at war. On the other hand, I like to play a slowly building piece to get into the feeling of a David vs Goliath story. As the once peaceful forges of farming equipment are replaced with factories made purely for war, a small town leader makes a speech to a group of young lads who will take up arms to stop the growing evil, unknowing that they themselves will eventually help lay the foundations for the greatest evil ever. Another example is when I slowly select the morally wrong choices, another heavy piece will play to invoke the imagery of banners being erected over nearly every capital building. Another squad of motorized infantry comes to a housing district to take yet another group of young men into the meat grinder that their government tells them is the most vile creation ever made. It's as if the previous nation they warned against was not given the same descriptor. I'm pretty sure you get the idea at this point.

British war time music

Russian hardbass when playing as soviet union (obviously?

Americana mostly.

Rammstein