Michiel van den Bos - Battle Macabre (Age of Wonders III OST)

Battle Macabre (Age of Wonders III OST)
Composed by Michiel van den Bos

[Gaalification]

I heard a LOT of soundtracks, and played a lot of games. For some reason one of my most important personal rating of games is the music, I need a good music to really get into a game. And this, this is one of the BEST soundtracks I've ever heard. Really. Great job, thank for this awesome work. I am ashamed I decided to try this game only now

[rizzovg]

Big smile when this track started playing during one of the first combat sequences. Awesome job man !

[BTMProjectMusic]

Awesomness! Childhood flashing in front of my eyes! With better sounds!

[Amberleen_the_Light_Eevee]

The theme when you have few units in town defending against a horde of enemies.

[poputonx]

I never get tired of listening to this song. Epic!

[Sarril]

This OST... it's so freakin good! I don't know what words to use. I loved the original, very much so, and this one... is a worthy successor of it.
Not to discredit others, but this one for sure is and always will be one of my favorites. Awesome work Michiel.

[Lizzardtong]

Please let this music return for AoW4. It's always so awesome to hear the track during a battle!

[RaptorFalcon]

Hardy Dwarves with Stone Axes marching forward to meet the Grizzly Orcs in battlefield to protect the beautiful elf maidens and halfling children !

[celsuprem]

Michiel, Michiel, Michiel, I rose up to the man I am with your songs. I am a gamer by heart. Always have been and always will be. Thank you for all my teenage years in Age of Wonders I. You're the Pavarotti of gaming music.

[wolfslipper]

Tip of the hat to you, Sir. I've loved your work since the Original AOW. I'm so glad you dediced to go with the "same but different" approach for AOW III and reimagine the themes of old. The entire soundtrack sounds amazing to me and it is a regular feature of most of my plalists (along with its predecessor).

[shaynelovig]

This will forever be the song that reminds me of the glory of successfully defending my capital from a surprise naga attack with a few halfling farmers and Jesters while being hilariously outnumbered. First Mission of the DLC :P

[myzimensi]

I was really inordinately pleased to hear this, I had a friend shouting at me to check what track 13 on the OST was when we got the game. Loved a lot of the old tunes from the first game so was really happy to hear them revisited. Awesome.

[Ctrekoz]

I have no words, just pure amazement.

[Mossy.Vagabond]

Age of Wonders has been with me since it originally came out in 1999. One of the things that made the game feel so much more deep and real, back when all we had was story blurps between missions, was the music. It really made you buy into the world of Athla. These are still some of my go-to songs for just chilling out or as a background for writing.

Now it's 24 years later and we have the fourth main fantasy title coming out in a week. I couldn't be more excited to listen to new renditions of these songs, and new ones!

Thank you so much, Michiel, for bringing us this incredible music!
(I'm also going to be incredibly sad if there is no new version of 'Content Workforce' in Age 4, since we didn't get one in the 3rd game and that's A CRIME! :D)

[darkdanu]

Superb. Love the remade songs. Would have been nice to have seen Truth and Mountain Song remade also.

[reidevjord]

Very nice.  I'm not familiar with the Age of Wonders series, but I'm a huge fan of your Unreal series work. ;)

[martink]

Nice remake of an AoW1 song. I would like also more AoW 2 songs remakes since they are my favoutites. Thank you for considering it!

[HansCent]

To Arms ! To Arms !! ring the bells & man the ramparts !!! An ARCHON TITAN approaches !!!

[josh]

I would have loved to hear a remake of Defenders (tactical combat theme)

[Calanefication]

Michiel! This is like AOW's 'hellmarch'. It's supurb, iconic and awesome! It was a mayor part of many people childhood's, including mine. It's instantly recognizable and inspiring.
Please make us a Battle Macabre 3! It should've had it's rightfull place at AOW4's OST!

When i heard AOW4's music, i knew it sounded like AOW, It sounded nostalgic. I hadn't even looked at who composed it, but immediatly recognized your style.
It sounded like AOW, it sounded like the 'good old days'. It sounded like Michiel, with that extra van den Bos flair, added to it.

Please remix and update a Battle Macabre 3? Many of our finest moments were graciously backed by this anthem.

Pretty please. Michiel? (Also an extended or 1 hour version would be awesome too!)

Cheers!
A fan since AOW1