Town Tunes

Dang. Our head's rather messed up at the moment. While we know that it's empty words said in good jest, and all that fooling around is just, fooling around, nothing meant. But because it's capable of putting a smile on our face, we're letting it mess with our head. Damn flirt.

We have always enjoyed the soundtrack for the Heroes of Might and Magic series (and we know we're not the only one, just check the forums in any of the fansite). Credits to Rob King and Paul Romero, for while the game is sink-deep in fantastical elements, the music takes the game flavour a step deeper.

Heroes II: Sorceress Town

While we enjoys music from Heroes II, we still wonder what in the world made them choose to put opera music for the town themes. The music is good, but we don't really know how they fit in with the town philosophy thematically *shrugs*. Our personal favourites from Heroes II would be the Sorceress Town Theme, the Knight Town Theme and Battle 3. Oh, we hears that some town themes were changed in the expansion pack. Not too sure which version we have now.

Heroes III: Rampart Town

We enjoyed the music from Heroes III immensely. Each town theme suited perfectly, although in a rather stereotyped way. Most fans didn't enjoy the music much, crying foul for the loss of operatic music, but we just loved the orchestrated pieces, especially for the Stronghold (majestic), Fortress (creepy dark swamp), Rampart (peaceful and meditative nature) and Combat 4 (the strings, man, the strings!).

One of the good things we found with the music of Heroes III is that all the files are already in mp3 format (yay!) and we could replace them with our own mp3s! Sometimes the Tower town theme would be playing Canon in D while the Castle town theme has Sarah MacLachlan singing 'Arms Of An Angel'.

Heroes IV: Preserve Town

When Heroes IV came out the music floored us. Vocals came back, although it didn't sound like anything as operatic as II in our opinion we were captivated. The overall music was a mix with more obvious synthesized scores for combat and Celtic overtones for the world map. We loves all the town themes here except Haven's, and we loves the Dirt Land theme and the End Of Turn Theme too.

Heroes V: Sylvan Town

With Heroes V, we'll say that the music doesn't stand out as much as Heroes IV did. There were some good ones, like the Main Menu Theme (for both base and expansion), Haven town theme and Sylvan town theme. Still good but not as memorable as Heroes IV.

Yes, all town pictures were those that follow the nature theme.

So while we recognize Heroes V's vocals to be Latin, what we really were looking for was the lyrics (if any) to the vocals in Heroes IV - particularly for the Asylum and Preserve town themes. It's been tough scrounging for any details, and only recently had the clue that the lyrics were taken from works of Friedrich Nietzsche.

A bit more searching turned lyrics! Oh, happiness...wait, these are lyrics for Heroes II, not Heroes IV. Wah German some more. Drat. The search continues...Credits anyways to the people at The Heroes Round Table Forums for finding them.

Barbarian Town Theme

Oder gehst du jetzt selber
auf den Wegen
auf den Wegen
Oder gehst du jetzt auf den Wegen der Diebe, du Freund der Bösen?

Necromancer Town Theme

Deine wilden
wilden Hunde wollen in die Freiheit; sie bellen vor Lust in ihrem Keller,
wenn dein Geist alle Gefängnisse zu lösen trachtet.
sie bellen vor Lust

Deine wilden
wilden Hunde wollen in die Freiheit; sie bellen vor Lust
vor Lust

Warlock

Willst du heute dein Feuer in die Täler tragen?
Fürchtest du nicht
Fürchtest du nicht
Fürchtest du nicht des Brandstifters Strafen?

One day we'll find out what they're singing if we're bothered, but we still want actual lyrics (if any!) to Asylum and Preserve first!