Most people hate Silithus, me - my FAVORITE zone to this date. So remote, alien, mysterious with egyptian theme with Lovecraftian old god and the best part was this music. THIS one, not the new crap they put in Cata. Can't wait for Classic to experience again the true might of Silithus
Thats why i love vanilla, im tired of this zones crumpled with mobs and terrain, IMO i pref a plain mysterious zone. Thats why Tanaris and Silithus are one of my favorite zones
I honestly liked Silithus most before patch 1.8, which added Cenarion Hold, Twilight Hammer camps and a bunch of quests, among other things. Before 1.8, the zone was mostly unfinished and uninhabited, had no quests, and the Gates of Ahn- Qiraj had never been opened. Most mobs in the zone didn't even drop loot! Back then, Silithus was more desolate and mysterious than it's ever been, which I found extremely intruiging.
I started playing in BC. I remember finding Silithus so mysterious and doing a bunch of quests there even though there were better places to grind just because I wanted to know more about it. I was always obsessed with weird zones that didn't seem to have much purpose.
Such a pity you weren't there from Vanilla times. I heard that in the beginning Silithus wasnt even itemized, creatures dropped nothing. By the time I reached 60 it was itemized cause quite a few professions at high level needed reagents from elementals and such. That place was the futhermost far away place from any capital in the game and people rarely wondered there. The entrance to the zone was quite unique. You could spend hours wondering around and see noone else and combined with the perfect music? Amazing experience!
For me, that zone was vanilla Azshara, in WOTLK. Azshara fell aside in pretty much every leveling path, had no end-game content, and just had an overall creepy vibe to it with the random naga and ghosts. It's almost like you weren't supposed to be there.
Silithus is in my top 3 favorite WoW zones for the atmosphere and the top of my list for mystery. The floating obelisks, the creepy incessant bugs, hive towers with swarms of insects orbiting them, and a giant impregnable wall housing a hexagonal door that hadn't been opened in thousands of years; all helped to give that sense of 1) I'm FAR away from any hospitable place, 2) There's danger around every corner, 3) Raw Mystery. Why was this city sealed behind a wall? Was it to keep something in, or out? Is anything alive behind it? Can I go there? In some ways I'm sad they answered some of the mysteries. That's what I love about Vanilla WoW, so many mysteries that would pull at the imagination, conjuring scenarios and theories. And this music accompanies all of that PERFECTLY. You FEEL the blistering heat of the sun upon your face, and you feel the heat waves radiating from the desert floor. The oppressive weight of heat and lack of water and danger and mystery all summed up into a haunting track that has the chittering of insects within. For me, Vanilla has no greater combination of music, environment, mystery, and adventure than Silithus.
I love the instruments used in this soundtrack, brings back so many memories... sounds very Middle Eastern, I think the instruments that are being used are an Armenian flute known as Duduk, a Persian flute known as Ney, a horn instrument named Zurna (very common throughout the Middle East, especially in Assyrian and Anatolian folk music) and a set of Tabla, a pair of drums that originated in the Indian Subcontinent.
I slept to this last night and now I'm here to sleep to it again. Oddly, if I don't feel good and just think about WoW maps, creatures per region, number of flight paths, or how many elekks Draenei took with them from their home planet, it helps me sleep. This kind of music helps those thoughts. Thank you.
Nice. Thank you :) Unfortunately I can sleep with mostly WoW ambience. There are few music tracks that I can really sleep with: Magic Forest (aka Teldrassil tracks), Mountain (aka Dun Morogh) and Day Forest (aka Elwynn Forest). But I am glad it works out for you! :) P.S.: I'll make at some point all Outland / Draenor videos as well. Just a bit delayed with the other plans! :) Sleep well ❤️ Meisio
Meisio okay so I couldn't fall asleep as quickly as before, but that's probably because I was thinking about how this "desert music" sounds like zangarmarsh, dustwallow or swamp of sorrows, and a cemetery all in one. Very desert.
It is because the composers are common. For example the composer for some of the Ahn Quiraj tracks is Matt Uelmen, same composer for the Zangarmarsh music :)
I absolutely love this zone, the music and the array of instruments used yet still maintaining the same feeling, the dull and deadly desert visuals and the huge bug hives scattered around. It all adds too a feeling like none other in wow, I love it. Also coz I just love deserts (Tanaris is also one of my fav zones)
Silithus really fits as an end game zone. When I was soloing Ahn'Qiraj a couple years back, I had this really uneasy feeling the closer I got to C'Thun's room, and hearing him whisper to me in that icy cold, monotone voice, "You will die" nearly made me jump out of my skin. Aside from Ulduar, very few raids ever interested me as much as Ahn'Qiraj. I never got a chance to experience Ahn'Qiraj or explore much of Silithus when I first started playing or do the questline or gate opening event before it got removed. I actually researched the whole questline for the Scepter of the Shifting Sands and damn it is long. I may never get the Scarab Lord title but I have to at least do the questline, it truly seems to scream "epic." I can't wait to fully experiene Silithus once the classic server comes out.
I was lucky enough to experience this on live servers back in the day. My guild cleared first on the realm all end-game raids. I was indeed fascinated by AQ40. There was something exotic about the sand and the bugs, especially because I was also reading SF novels such as Dune. But I'll probably not do it this time, I don't have the time to raid at that level :-(
That is why classic, Burning crusade and WOTLK were so beautiful to my eyes and ears. Their musics were more ambiant. It participate to the identity of a zone. Music from WoW today don't have that ambiant vibe.
This is where my tauren warrior turned 60. I used to come here after work and grind the twilight mobs and the wind elementals. It's not my favorite zone, but definitely relevant.
Finding this place after Ungoro Crater & Tanaris was sooo damn good. Vanilla hands down has the best mmo music of any game, Matt Uelmen is a legend. These tunes give off huge Act 2 & 3 of Diablo2 vibes... even WC3 had massive soundtrack too but both were all staging for this 👽 absolutely epic...
+John I am glad you like it John. One of my favorites as well since I have a lot of memories here. At some point I will try to share with you guys screenshots from 13-10 years ago. I still have to figure out what is the best way to do it. :-) Thank you for visit, Meisio
At 48m and later, is the music later used in zangermarsh the same here? (or more correctly, did zangermarshre-use the theme from here? Can definitely recognize Matt Uelman in it. re-using raid music later as zone music isn't unprecedented, Some of the Ulduar music was slightly modified as Dark Ironforge.
It's the music from Ahn'Qiraj (patch 1.9.0), most of it composed by Matt Uelman. But from my knowledge, the music is different, can be recognized Matt Uelmen's style in both of them :) By the way, more details in the description of the video. I am putting all the time timestamps with music & zones. Salutations! Meisio
i hate silithus, but it is attached to some really cool visual storytelling with how the mounds and colonies exist in earlier zones, southern barrens, thousand needles, tanaris, ungoro. adding intrigue to these alien bugs and their hideous dripping ribbed tunnel structures that exist nowhere else, then if u have good enough draw distance as u enter silithus, a long dusty path is ended with an equally dusty and scarred night elf structure sat on a plateau, then piercing the skyline further is it's watchtower swarmed by streams of more insects, even the outpost is barely holding on through the hostility of these bugs. hate silithus, feels like you spent all this time getting there with a 20 minute flightpath and a 10 minute walk just for there to be 6 quests that dont need a raid and you go onto the next bit.
Finding wow was the most destructive happenstance of my life. I started out telling myself I'd just play for a year so i wouldnt be out wasting money. I finally quit 16 years later. Im middle aged now and almost every memory i have is wow related. The worst part is its the only thing i ever really enjoyed. And i know i can never set foot in Azeroth again or i will not able to get back out. And no one irl can understand what the hell im talking about.
Hey anyone wanna farm some runecloth with me for rep? We just have to kill a few of these twilight cultists. just A FEW. hehe. Funny enough my guild was actually the one that built the scepter that rang the gong that opened AQ for everyone..on Draka server. Memories :) Oh man you can hear it rising at 5:08. Whoa the feels.
It was like that in the entire Vanilla by the way. I remember dying a lot at a quest even in Ashenvale. :-) Thank you for watching and I hope we talk again :-)
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Most people hate Silithus, me - my FAVORITE zone to this date. So remote, alien, mysterious with egyptian theme with Lovecraftian old god and the best part was this music. THIS one, not the new crap they put in Cata. Can't wait for Classic to experience again the true might of Silithus
Thats why i love vanilla, im tired of this zones crumpled with mobs and terrain, IMO i pref a plain mysterious zone. Thats why Tanaris and Silithus are one of my favorite zones
It's my favourite Vanilla zone for sure. Favorite overall zone is maybe Zangarmarsh
Wait, the Wailing Caverns and Zangarmarsh music comes from here too??
ditto
Youre very chatty for a sword
I honestly liked Silithus most before patch 1.8, which added Cenarion Hold, Twilight Hammer camps and a bunch of quests, among other things.
Before 1.8, the zone was mostly unfinished and uninhabited, had no quests, and the Gates of Ahn- Qiraj had never been opened. Most mobs in the zone didn't even drop loot!
Back then, Silithus was more desolate and mysterious than it's ever been, which I found extremely intruiging.
I started playing in BC. I remember finding Silithus so mysterious and doing a bunch of quests there even though there were better places to grind just because I wanted to know more about it. I was always obsessed with weird zones that didn't seem to have much purpose.
Such a pity you weren't there from Vanilla times. I heard that in the beginning Silithus wasnt even itemized, creatures dropped nothing. By the time I reached 60 it was itemized cause quite a few professions at high level needed reagents from elementals and such. That place was the futhermost far away place from any capital in the game and people rarely wondered there. The entrance to the zone was quite unique. You could spend hours wondering around and see noone else and combined with the perfect music? Amazing experience!
Omg same
This is exactly the case with me! I always found these kinds of places fascinating.
For me, that zone was vanilla Azshara, in WOTLK. Azshara fell aside in pretty much every leveling path, had no end-game content, and just had an overall creepy vibe to it with the random naga and ghosts. It's almost like you weren't supposed to be there.
This track(s) is perhaps the most haunting in all of Vanilla/Classic WoW
quite calm to be honest 🗿
ever been to Tanaris? ;-)
Silithus is in my top 3 favorite WoW zones for the atmosphere and the top of my list for mystery. The floating obelisks, the creepy incessant bugs, hive towers with swarms of insects orbiting them, and a giant impregnable wall housing a hexagonal door that hadn't been opened in thousands of years; all helped to give that sense of 1) I'm FAR away from any hospitable place, 2) There's danger around every corner, 3) Raw Mystery. Why was this city sealed behind a wall? Was it to keep something in, or out? Is anything alive behind it? Can I go there?
In some ways I'm sad they answered some of the mysteries. That's what I love about Vanilla WoW, so many mysteries that would pull at the imagination, conjuring scenarios and theories. And this music accompanies all of that PERFECTLY. You FEEL the blistering heat of the sun upon your face, and you feel the heat waves radiating from the desert floor. The oppressive weight of heat and lack of water and danger and mystery all summed up into a haunting track that has the chittering of insects within.
For me, Vanilla has no greater combination of music, environment, mystery, and adventure than Silithus.
I love the instruments used in this soundtrack, brings back so many memories... sounds very Middle Eastern, I think the instruments that are being used are an Armenian flute known as Duduk, a Persian flute known as Ney, a horn instrument named Zurna (very common throughout the Middle East, especially in Assyrian and Anatolian folk music) and a set of Tabla, a pair of drums that originated in the Indian Subcontinent.
Praise Silithus, best zone in the game 10/10 would worship Old Gods here again.
I slept to this last night and now I'm here to sleep to it again. Oddly, if I don't feel good and just think about WoW maps, creatures per region, number of flight paths, or how many elekks Draenei took with them from their home planet, it helps me sleep. This kind of music helps those thoughts. Thank you.
Nice. Thank you :)
Unfortunately I can sleep with mostly WoW ambience. There are few music tracks that I can really sleep with: Magic Forest (aka Teldrassil tracks), Mountain (aka Dun Morogh) and Day Forest (aka Elwynn Forest). But I am glad it works out for you! :)
P.S.: I'll make at some point all Outland / Draenor videos as well. Just a bit delayed with the other plans! :)
Sleep well ❤️
Meisio
Meisio okay so I couldn't fall asleep as quickly as before, but that's probably because I was thinking about how this "desert music" sounds like zangarmarsh, dustwallow or swamp of sorrows, and a cemetery all in one. Very desert.
It is because the composers are common. For example the composer for some of the Ahn Quiraj tracks is Matt Uelmen, same composer for the Zangarmarsh music :)
I can't wait for classic
6 days now
This is the zone where I dinged level 60 on my first WoW character ever!😍
No doubts, this was the most mindblowing area I visited in Classic. It felt so hostile. I loved the soundtrack.
I absolutely love this zone, the music and the array of instruments used yet still maintaining the same feeling, the dull and deadly desert visuals and the huge bug hives scattered around. It all adds too a feeling like none other in wow, I love it. Also coz I just love deserts (Tanaris is also one of my fav zones)
Thanks Jack. Here is a video with Tanaris (Vanilla): ruclips.net/video/YTnLxsYOj8w/видео.html
I hope you like that one too :)
Silithus really fits as an end game zone. When I was soloing Ahn'Qiraj a couple years back, I had this really uneasy feeling the closer I got to C'Thun's room, and hearing him whisper to me in that icy cold, monotone voice, "You will die" nearly made me jump out of my skin. Aside from Ulduar, very few raids ever interested me as much as Ahn'Qiraj.
I never got a chance to experience Ahn'Qiraj or explore much of Silithus when I first started playing or do the questline or gate opening event before it got removed. I actually researched the whole questline for the Scepter of the Shifting Sands and damn it is long. I may never get the Scarab Lord title but I have to at least do the questline, it truly seems to scream "epic." I can't wait to fully experiene Silithus once the classic server comes out.
I was lucky enough to experience this on live servers back in the day. My guild cleared first on the realm all end-game raids. I was indeed fascinated by AQ40. There was something exotic about the sand and the bugs, especially because I was also reading SF novels such as Dune.
But I'll probably not do it this time, I don't have the time to raid at that level :-(
That is why classic, Burning crusade and WOTLK were so beautiful to my eyes and ears. Their musics were more ambiant. It participate to the identity of a zone. Music from WoW today don't have that ambiant vibe.
Pandaria has amazing music too.
This is where my tauren warrior turned 60. I used to come here after work and grind the twilight mobs and the wind elementals. It's not my favorite zone, but definitely relevant.
WTB Breath of Wind, will pay 10g a piece. ;)
Where my human paladin turned 60 as well, in some cave when I killed a scorpion.
I love watching Hardcore- Chars ending here.
Just the best Place for it.
WOW! I had forgotten how fantastic this sounded, ty!!!
My pleasure and welcome back :)
Unfortunately the zone here is completely destroyed on WoW Retail :(
Meisio Yes it is, along with quite a few others. Darkshore...they clobbered Darkshore, it sincerely broke my heart.
Finding this place after Ungoro Crater & Tanaris was sooo damn good. Vanilla hands down has the best mmo music of any game, Matt Uelmen is a legend. These tunes give off huge Act 2 & 3 of Diablo2 vibes... even WC3 had massive soundtrack too but both were all staging for this 👽 absolutely epic...
This is where you used to farm giant worms to max out your cooking
I wish I played when this came out this is so good
Thanks for having these amazing music pieces!
LeystTV, how nice of you to drop by :) You are welcome!
One of my favourite zones !!!!
+John
I am glad you like it John. One of my favorites as well since I have a lot of memories here. At some point I will try to share with you guys screenshots from 13-10 years ago.
I still have to figure out what is the best way to do it. :-)
Thank you for visit,
Meisio
29:21 = Priceless
Never played this series, but seriously considering it after going through some of your content
Love the music. Probably in top 5 of least played zones for me.
At 48m and later, is the music later used in zangermarsh the same here? (or more correctly, did zangermarshre-use the theme from here?
Can definitely recognize Matt Uelman in it.
re-using raid music later as zone music isn't unprecedented, Some of the Ulduar music was slightly modified as Dark Ironforge.
It's the music from Ahn'Qiraj (patch 1.9.0), most of it composed by Matt Uelman. But from my knowledge, the music is different, can be recognized Matt Uelmen's style in both of them :)
By the way, more details in the description of the video. I am putting all the time timestamps with music & zones.
Salutations!
Meisio
AQ farmland. Great times!
still getting ptsd from this thanks to the SL rep grind
It actually has the same music as zangarmarsh in places, just zangarmarsh has more extra notes and instruments
true yo
i hate silithus, but it is attached to some really cool visual storytelling with how the mounds and colonies exist in earlier zones, southern barrens, thousand needles, tanaris, ungoro. adding intrigue to these alien bugs and their hideous dripping ribbed tunnel structures that exist nowhere else, then if u have good enough draw distance as u enter silithus, a long dusty path is ended with an equally dusty and scarred night elf structure sat on a plateau, then piercing the skyline further is it's watchtower swarmed by streams of more insects, even the outpost is barely holding on through the hostility of these bugs.
hate silithus, feels like you spent all this time getting there with a 20 minute flightpath and a 10 minute walk just for there to be 6 quests that dont need a raid and you go onto the next bit.
Finding wow was the most destructive happenstance of my life.
I started out telling myself I'd just play for a year so i wouldnt be out wasting money.
I finally quit 16 years later.
Im middle aged now and almost every memory i have is wow related.
The worst part is its the only thing i ever really enjoyed. And i know i can never set foot in Azeroth again or i will not able to get back out.
And no one irl can understand what the hell im talking about.
2:46
Hey anyone wanna farm some runecloth with me for rep? We just have to kill a few of these twilight cultists. just A FEW. hehe. Funny enough my guild was actually the one that built the scepter that rang the gong that opened AQ for everyone..on Draka server. Memories :)
Oh man you can hear it rising at 5:08. Whoa the feels.
So there I was...
mmmm bug brain
tfw due to relive AQ gates opening event with 100 fps & stable servers
Hahaha :D
That's why I often received _One-Day Exempt_ back then :)
8 FUCKING DAYS BOIS!
Do you not get a copyright strike on these videos?
I am an official WoW Partner (Part of the WoW Creator Community recognized by Blizzard.). We are doing them a favor by creating these videos.
Chic!
Frederic Ratelle
Merci beaucoup Monsieur!
Amazing video, But I absolutely hate this zone. Lol I remember as a nub dying alot on a quest.
It was like that in the entire Vanilla by the way. I remember dying a lot at a quest even in Ashenvale. :-)
Thank you for watching and I hope we talk again :-)
Do you not get a copyright strike on these videos?