Why hard rock and hardcore metal is considered "cyberpunk" music by Devs?

[Nonomori]

I mean, this genres of music sound super fitting in games like Doom Eternal where you play as a badass hero who wades through hordes of monsters, hellspawns, bosses. It's a fast paced game and metal music really helps to bring right immersion. But here in Cyberpunk it sounds so off when you ride across that futuristic city and listen to Samurai or some other no-name metal band.

Why majority of music ingame is this and not something like techno/electro music which would be way more fitting?

[echoes222]

i would suggest to read about Cyberpunk lore, the way Mike Pondsmith envisioned it. There is a mixture of all genres in game and background music is not rock/metal. Matter of taste, I'm fine with balance of genres in this game. if all would be techno, I would mute it at some point.

[speedingdeath]

Cyberpunk is a kind of 'retro-futurism', in that the popularised aesthetic of cyberpunk emerged out of the 80s, which explains why the music and imagery references metal, punk, hardcore etc.

Techno and electro came out of the 90s, and have no spiritual connection to cyberpunk at all. That said, electonica and the various 'wave' genres *are* spiritually connected to cyberpunk, and there is a lot of this kind of music in the game as well.

In my opinion, I felt about 90% of the music seemed appropriate for the game, with a few tracks feeling a little too like contemporary pop music.

[Nonomori]

Originally posted by echoes222:

i would suggest to read about Cyberpunk lore, the way Mike Pondsmith envisioned it. There is a mixture of all genres in game and background music is not rock/metal. Matter of taste, I'm fine with balance of genres in this game. if all would be techno, I would mute it at some point.

Yeah but almost 80-85% of stations that you can hear to in your car are rock or metal lol. Rest of them are some kind of pop, punk etc.

Originally posted by speedingdeath:

Techno and electro came out of the 90s, and have no spiritual connection to cyberpunk at all. That said, electonica and the various 'wave' genres *are* spiritually connected to cyberpunk, and there is a lot of this kind of music in the game as well.

Guess dif people see cyberpunk atmosphere differently haha.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Nonomori:

Yeah but almost 80-85% of stations that you can hear to in your car are rock or metal

Except they're not...

Samizdat Radio: Club beats
88.3 Pacific Dreams: Laid back instrumental
89.3 Radio Vexelstrom: Electronic Dance and Industrial rock
91.9 Royal Blue Radio: Jazz
92.9 Night FM: Electronic instrumental
96.1 Ritual FM: Metal
98.7 Body Heat Radio: Pop
101.0 The Dirge: Hip-Hop
103.5 Radio Pebkac: Techno
106.9 30 Principales: Latin Raggae and Hip-Hop
107.3 Morro Rock Radio: Rock

[Nonomori]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Originally posted by Nonomori:

Yeah but almost 80-85% of stations that you can hear to in your car are rock or metal

Except they're not...

Samizdat Radio: Club beats
88.3 Pacific Dreams: Laid back instrumental
89.3 Radio Vexelstrom: Electronic Dance and Industrial rock
91.9 Royal Blue Radio: Jazz
92.9 Night FM: Electronic instrumental
96.1 Ritual FM: Metal
98.7 Body Heat Radio: Pop
101.0 The Dirge: Hip-Hop
103.5 Radio Pebkac: Techno
106.9 30 Principales: Latin Raggae and Hip-Hop
107.3 Morro Rock Radio: Rock

Oh, might've misjudged a bit then. But it really felt like majority of music in car were rock or metal haha. Thanks for this clarification!

[Zoid13]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Originally posted by Nonomori:

Yeah but almost 80-85% of stations that you can hear to in your car are rock or metal

Except they're not...

Samizdat Radio: Club beats
88.3 Pacific Dreams: Laid back instrumental
89.3 Radio Vexelstrom: Electronic Dance and Industrial rock
91.9 Royal Blue Radio: Jazz
92.9 Night FM: Electronic instrumental
96.1 Ritual FM: Metal
98.7 Body Heat Radio: Pop
101.0 The Dirge: Hip-Hop
103.5 Radio Pebkac: Techno
106.9 30 Principales: Latin Raggae and Hip-Hop
107.3 Morro Rock Radio: Rock

agreed. some people aren't good at identifying music genres :) it can be confusing for non music people there's allot fo genres. allot of people just throw anything with a electric guitar into rock and metal.

[echoes222]

literally all battle themes and background music is electronic as well :P

[Husker_85]

How awesome would it have been though if the game's soundtrack/radio stations were NiN, KMFDM, Sister Machine Guns, Rage Against the Machine, White Zombie, etc? Probably would have been way too expensive, but *shrugs*

[Mansen]

Originally posted by echoes222:

literally all battle themes and background music is electronic as well :P

Hard hitting drum and base is traditionally very appropriate for high intensity situations like combat. So it makes sense there's a focus on this sound.

Originally posted by Isaac Clark:

How awesome would it have been though if the game's soundtrack/radio stations were NiN, KMFDM, Sister Machine Guns, Rage Against the Machine, White Zombie, etc? Probably would have been way too expensive, but *shrugs*

In two words : Licensing hell.
Not only did they need to pad out the soundtrack with non-DMCA triggering music for streamers and content creators in general, but they might have to remove certain tracks later, because licenses ran out. Just look at how much of GTA San Andreas and IV's soundtracks were butchered with "patches" because the licensing lapsed.

[I-NOCHT]

I love it when the synth starts up when Im creeping in stealth.

[Nonomori]

Originally posted by OMGNocht:

I love it when the synth starts up when Im creeping in stealth.

Oh yeah, now I know why I enjoy stealth mode that much x)

[XCROSS]

Originally posted by Nonomori:

Originally posted by Mansen:

Except they're not...

Samizdat Radio: Club beats
88.3 Pacific Dreams: Laid back instrumental
89.3 Radio Vexelstrom: Electronic Dance and Industrial rock
91.9 Royal Blue Radio: Jazz
92.9 Night FM: Electronic instrumental
96.1 Ritual FM: Metal
98.7 Body Heat Radio: Pop
101.0 The Dirge: Hip-Hop
103.5 Radio Pebkac: Techno
106.9 30 Principales: Latin Raggae and Hip-Hop
107.3 Morro Rock Radio: Rock

Oh, might've misjudged a bit then. But it really felt like majority of music in car were rock or metal haha. Thanks for this clarification!

Pure rock used to be dominant in it's early days but started dying somewhere in the 90's. It . One the reasons why rock didn't survive because it was a genre that didn't evolve. As Pop Music begin to enter the scene, and hip hop becoming more and more commercial, rock on the other hand stayed somewhat stagnant.

There are so many reasons why the scene faded out and it's too many too list. Rock lost it's identity, it's appeal faded away, streaming became a thing. You can point out all kinds things. Rock just couldn't survive in the new era.

[Conan the Brobarian]

Because deleting people with miniature weapons of mass destruction is metal as hell.

[Iso Koala]

I felt that majority of the radio music was some hiphop or other "black" music. I wish there was much more synthwave in radio.

[Nonomori]

Originally posted by XCROSS:

Originally posted by Nonomori:

Oh, might've misjudged a bit then. But it really felt like majority of music in car were rock or metal haha. Thanks for this clarification!

Pure rock used to be dominant in it's early days but started dying somewhere in the 90's. It . One the reasons why rock didn't survive because it was a genre that didn't evolve. As Pop Music begin to enter the scene, and hip hop becoming more and more commercial, rock on the other hand stayed somewhat stagnant.

There are so many reasons why the scene faded out and it's too many too list. Rock lost it's identity, it's appeal faded away, streaming became a thing. You can point out all kinds things. Rock just couldn't survive in the new era.

What exactly do you want to point out here? That because rock is dead its fitting for dying world of CP?