Favorite music from old Counter-Strike fragments – from Nightwish to Hans Zimmer

The games of the Counter-Strike series have at all times been famous for their entertainment, which was especially emphasized by home-made movies with highlights. In the early 2000s, such videos were almost the only visual aid on how to shoot at all, and at the same time the main motivator for players who wanted to get into esports. Fragmovies were carefully transferred on disks and hard drives, thrown over the local network to friends, literally peered to the holes and, of course, just listened in the background. Now it’s hard to believe in it, but it was the highlighter movies that became the first navigator in the world of music for many olds. Do not be surprised, because we are talking about that dense time, when there was no YouTube, Spotify, Facebook or VKontakte.

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I remember how almost every movie made me and my friends ecstatic like “Wow! What is this track? ” Sometimes the music sounded so much that we cut out the audio track from the video, saved it in MP3 with all the sounds of the shots and other design, and then listened in turn at breaks through the player. I didn’t understand it then, but this is partly how the musical tastes of my generation (or, at least, the environment) were formed. Analyzing this experience a little, I wanted to remember which musical groups or individual tracks were in the greatest demand among the creators of old Counter-Strike movies. To my surprise, the genre spectrum turned out to be quite diverse, but some obvious tendencies can still be traced. In this article, I have identified five bands whose music I have most often met in the highlight selections.

Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finnish band, a brilliant representative of symphonic and power metal, whose distinctive feature is female vocals. It is her tracks that we heard in almost every third movie with highlights. Epic intros are great for intros and warming up the audience, and losses miraculously fall on gunfights. The operatic singing of Tarja Turunen added to what is happening on the screen a special epic and a certain sublimity. In a word, Nightwish’s music seemed to have been created from the very beginning to decorate the highlights in Counter-Strike. In the videos, I met about a dozen of the band’s compositions like The Kinslayer, Once, Over The Hills And Far Away, Stargazer, 10th Man Down, Nightquest, Wishmaster, She is my sin and others. It was especially epic when movie creators took music from concerts. Then the frags were accompanied by shouts of the crowd and applause, which immediately gave +100 to the atmosphere.

aAa’s Frag Collection (2002)

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SK Believe

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The Art To Frag

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Linkin park

The era of Counter-Strike movies simply could not miss Linkin Park, one of the most popular American rock bands of this millennium. In 2000, the album Hybrid Theory was released with the cult composition In the End, and in 2003 the group released the compilation Meteora, which included hits such as Faint and Numb. These Linkin Park songs are especially loved by the highlight video creators. The bouncy instrumental performance along with the slightly hysterical vocals of Chester Bennington is almost the perfect combination for Counter-Strike. They are suitable both for an epic spray into a crowd of enemies, and for an unrealistic comeback.

Die Hard (2003)

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eoLithic – The Movie

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Track No Reason starts at 8:20!

MIBR Extreme frags

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The Own Age 3

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Hyper – The Movie

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Funky Shit at 5:20 am!


The underground 3

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Ethereal 2004

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Hans Zimmer and movie soundtracks

You might be surprised, but German composer Hans Zimmer also greatly influenced the design of old Counter-Strike movies. It is quite difficult to imagine a high-quality shootout under the master’s compositions, but it was his music that was often used as a background for commentators’ speech, as well as for introductions, interruptions or end credits. His most popular tune is the OST for the film Mission: Impossible, but there were others, such as the soundtracks for the films The Peacemaker, Spirit: Stallion of the Prairie and Black Hawk Down. At that time, no one hesitated to take official soundtracks from famous films for their videos, so enthusiasts generously stuffed their movies with them. At one time, the opening theme from the James Bond films was very popular, as well as various remixes of “Fight Club” and “Mortal Kombat”.

CompLexity – Armageddon

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Bonus: solo tracks that have sunk into the soul

In this category, I would like to recall a few more compositions that can be found in truly iconic videos. Their authors were not so in demand among movie makers – often only one or two tracks were taken from these groups for demos. But I am sure that old Counter-Strike fans, having heard these familiar tunes, still say to themselves: “Oh, this is the same song from the movie!”. Personally, I still have such associations.

The Fellowship of NoA (track: Hoobastank – Out Of Control)

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Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes sounds from 0:25

Adrenaline 3 (track: Rise Against – Under The Knife)

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Dover – My Secret People bursts in at 5:07 am

400kg (track: System Of A Down – Aerials)

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