Storm Peaks - Music & Ambience - World of Warcraft
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- The Storm Peaks have treacherous paths, powerful winds, jagged cliffs, and hungry monsters. They are also home to the storm giants, one of the oldest races in the world and the keepers of the titans' legacy. The two biggest dangers in the Storm Peaks aren’t necessarily its inhabitants. The wind is fierce and constant, and can easily tug someone off a cliff. One look at those paths it has cut through the cliffs and one realizes how deadly wind can be. The second danger is sunlight. The peaks are covered in ice and the light reflects from every angle. Up here the ice is everywhere. Wearing dark glasses is the only way to survive - otherwise a person is blinded every time he moves his head, and before long he will take a misstep and tumble off a cliff or down a ravine. The weather doesn’t help - it is either clear and sunny, with the nasty glare, or dark as night and pouring, with sheets of freezing rain, hail, or snow battering down and making every surface as slick as oil.
One would think the Storm Peaks were mountains, but that is not entirely accurate. They do have the highest elevation of any other region in Northrend. On the edge of the peaks, one can look out over Icecrown Glacier to the west, Crystalsong Forest to the south, Zul'Drak to the east, and the ocean to the north. But they are not mountains. They are actually cliffs. The "peaks" are the spots where wind has not cut away the ice and rock, as opposed to the narrow paths it has carved. Through large parts of this region, a person can literally leap from peak to peak, provided the wind does not throw him over the edge. Ulduar, like much of Northrend, is sparsely inhabited. The storm giants stay hidden, their golems don’t bother anyone unless someone approaches their masters’ homes, and the magnataur and wendigo are infrequent and large enough to spot from a distance. It is a good place to be alone with one's own thoughts, if you don’t mind the biting wind, the searing cold, and the repetitive stretches of ice and rock. The peaks are handsome in an austere way. Little grows here - a random bush sprouting in a nook along a cliff face or a few tough blades of grass in a crack. Everything else is stone and ice. Animals appear to be rare, and its unknown what the wendigo and magnataur eat to survive. Perhaps they eat each other and any travelers they can find.
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One of the things I like best about these soundtrack videos is seeing people discuss their memories and nostalgia
Agreed. As a means of confession, I never even played WoW but the sharing of memories and nostalgia for times long-since past resounds with me, as I too have such memories and feelings but with other games (EVE Online).
Right? I came here specifically to get re-immersed in the nostalgia of all the time I spent here. WoW music is like a punch to the gut, it's so weirdly immersive.
I stopped playing wow not too long after Cataclysm came out. I just can't deal with how Blizzard has changed everything.
I noticed under every soundtrack video, there are lots of people discussing time spent with WoW. I find their comments interesting because I used to play games, so I have similar memories, although I have never played WoW myself. Music is really good!
I remember flying around storm peaks farming ore at 3AM listening to this music
endless hours looking for the damn time-lost proto-drake !
at least the music was great!
yep, thats why its called "time lost"
I only saw dead one once. Never lucky.
I gave up after 2-3 attempts, 1 hour each.
i accidentally flew directly into its face once day when i least expected it. oh the heart attack.
My grandmother used to play this game with me and my dad. She passed away, but she will always be resting in our hearts and in our memories of the Storm Peaks.
Your grandma sounds awesome. Bet she played a shaman.
She actually played a Night Elf Hunter named Sylata from the Llane server. Best grandmother that ever existed.
at least your awesome grandma didn't see what Blizzard become, greedy bastards ruining everything they touch these days, well we have those good memories with us at least they can't touch those 😥
This is epic. Respect for granny.
I have to think all the time, I am listening to this music, about your grand mother, now.
This video reminds me the time I was looking for the Time Lost Proto Drake. I was sleeping only for 3 hours then wait 3 hours at the spot, then sleep again 3 hours if needed. I fell asleep in my sofa while watching a movie at the same time. The TLPD appeared, the music for rare mobs of my add-on started to play but it didn't wake me up. I was living at my mom's house at this time and she was aware of what I was doing (it was the 4th day). She heard the sound, she yelled at me : Claire wake up now, there is your f*cking green dragon on your damn screen ! Thanks mom, you get me the Time Lost Proto Drake. Love ya.
I hope you threw your mom some gold for that.
Green? Think you mean yellow
@@WowplayerMe Now I'm saving to help her buy a house yep! :D
@@dennisshigeno2875 you're right but I always thought it was a mix between green and yellow, sort of a "khaki", I don't really know!
@@caseycandice Nice!
37:57 this part probably will give you chills
YES!
this is what why clicked on this in the first place :D
Also 1:52 :)
come here exactly for this part
Totally in love with those choirs
Warcraft was life during this expansion. I spent so many countless hours in game with really good friends and guildies. I stopped playing many years ago but I come back to these soundtracks to remind me of my epic adventures in wow. A small piece of my heart will always live in WoW.
Despite what's become of blizzard my hearts still lives those adventurers. Iam currently playing legión and enjoying the heck of it. I love it but I know I will never experience something like leveling on the storm peaks for the first time again.
Same thing brother same thing, just so much great memories, would love to come back in time and experience it again
one of the best tracks in the whole game.
Harrison Hatton , My favorite music of the expansion!
Why not the best?
because my favorite is azuremyst isle.
agree
Ashenvale music is awesome too
Ah 3:10 I remember camping tlpd for 4 months, 8 hours a day. Listening to this track and hearing my blue proto drake wings flap, endlessly waiting. After many failed atemps and what seemed like an eternety the npcscan went off. The magnificent yellow proto drake soaring the sky alongside the white mountains. My heart bursted out of my chest and i thought i would pass out. Never have I seen such a beast alive. Tagging that yellow piece of hot ass and claiming my reward. To this day I still go back to my sweet campspot in storm peaks and listen to the track. Now riding a yellow magnificent beast.
Same story as you but fortunately I only had to camp for 3 weeks before I found him purely by accident during a daily circuit.
Fitst TLPD took me like months to catch. Second one i got randomly farming Saronite. Such is the rngsus
@Forgotten455 dude you should, Dragonflight is fing amazing!!
Miss all the friends that I made in this game that never came back online. Sadly have forgotten their in-game names but Ill always have the memories of playing with them. This game will always be special to me for that reason
God this hurts.
The magic of WoW music is that not only does it transport you to a place that exists in the game, but a place that exists in time and memory as well.
Always loved the music at 8:41. It perfectly captures the awe of being a tiny insect of a mortal, gazing at the enormous facilities of the Titans.
My dad passed away last year and we used to play WoW together more than any other game by a long shot. Been listening to WoW soundtracks a lot and reminiscing about the days we played together. I miss him so much. I wish we had played together even more, and just had more time together overall.
Even after so many years I had stopped playing, I enjoy immensely listening to WoW soundtrack - brings back lots of memories!
1982guevarra same way I feel!
37:58
Beautiful.
;_;
Best part, thanks
@@knusperhirsch7056 this is the best, there are 3 variations of this melody aswell,
Iris Seyrena thank you!
Да да,я именно за этим :P
Time lost...
My kids have laughed at me for tearing up over video game music. But I don't care, Storm Peaks literally has some of the music I've heard. There is something just perfect and atmospheric, so stirring about this particular track. It just....connects with me. (I'm swear I'm not PMSing) Wrath had some of the best music in whole game - Grizzly Hills, Howling Fjord, Sholazar Basin, even Zul Drak....
Oh...the hours camping Skoll to tame him, sitting by that disc in the snow next to the rhinos and protodrakes, staring at the flying blue protodrakes...occasionally flying around to his other spawn points...chatting with the incredible guildies I had back them. Days of this till I was ready to jump off the side of Storm Peaks and had named and made up a story for the one protodrake that was perched on the cliff above me. Yeah, I had gone mad with boredom by then. And then, finally finally finally seeing that cobalt blue worg pop into existence and hitting tame, and praying no one would attack him, and finally that tame going off and seeing him run to my side as my own beautiful pet. God, what a feeling! I miss those days.
It was when there was actually a rewarding feeling of accomplishement in wow, Good Old Times!
Back when Blizzard had passion for the game.
This and Grizzly Hills music are the best in the entire game. Storm Peaks music has something mystic, mysterious and sad at the same time. It works perfectly with the titan themed buildings and quests.
Right after wintergrasp.
sholozar is best area song wise
I still remember the old days. Just logging onto my Orc Warrior. Finishing some dailies after work, into the evening. Before raid doing an HC with some clan-mates. Just chilling on a peak, talking over team-speak. Then going into the night for some Ulduar 10.
I'm in contact with one of them only. After more than 10 years. We will never touch WoW again, but we still hang out on an abandoned team-speak server, with four other lads. Talking of adult things.
I don't know what became of the clan, I don't know where they are... what they are doing. But I sure hope they are happy somewhere in the world. And that our characters rest peacefully in the digital graveyard of a server.
3:10 is what you’re looking for
NO!!! IT HURTS!!! I CANNOT TAKE ANYMORE
Yes it was
funny how somethings are universal to ears
@@RabblerouserGT we all came for the ooo's
fuck yes, youre right
My memories don't involve the Time-Lost Proto Drake like many others. For me it was the slow buildup of goofy goblin quests at the start to warm me up, leading to the most mysterious zone ever, learning the origins of multiple races, passing by what looked like a god (?!) just standing atop a mountain, reuniting with a certain Dwarf friend who I thought was lost forever back in Warcraft 3, feeling genuinely intrigued by what I might discover around every corner like I was a kid again playing a Zelda game rather than an MMO.....all with this incredible music bolstering the mystery, danger, and discovery every step of the way!
And the craziest part is that I experienced it all playing solo many years late, around the time of WoD, and despite not playing it when it was current, I STILL got this amazing experience and consider it to be both my favorite zone and favorite OST.
I started playing WoW just as BC was winding down & players were getting ready for WotLK, so essentially Wrath was my "childhood" in the game and I look back on it just as nostalgicly as my real life childhood. In my mind No expansion will ever match the epicness & excitement of Lich King...what a time to be alive. I left the game 6 years ago during the Warlords of Draenor, I do miss it a lot but I don't think I could ever go back. It would be like chasing the dragon, futilely trying to rekindle the nostalgia but being let down at every turn, that would make me even sadder that I am now. I truly mourn for those bygone years.
This was a very profound and beautiful comment. I feel like many people are in this dilemma of wanting to re experience the nostalgia but with risk of tampering with those beautiful memories of their childhood
I'm not crying, my eyes are just sweaty! This soundtrack brings back a lot of great memories.
1:54 Barely audible amongst the howling winds, Arthas' theme echoes from the far off reaches of Icecrown.
MegaChickenfish I chearched this song by that!
It’s incredible
nope
8:14 is the beginning of the best part.
I guess, sadly I will be the first one to thank you.
When I moved 500 miles away from my home town, from all my friends, my memories, my childhood... this game, this expansion is what kept me and my best friend together for all these years. I can never cherish that time enough. Now, at 31, this auditory montage brings tears to my eyes, reminding me of simpler times, happier times. Just today, actually, my friend texted me, saying how much he misses WotLK, and how much he wishes we could go back and do arenas and BGs.
I want that, too, Kevin. Maybe if Classic gets enough traction, we can get official WotLK servers, too. Then, maybe then, we can bring it back. For now, though, I'll deal with being a 30 year old boomer patiently waiting for Classic to make its debut.
Keep your feet on the ground.
ONE LOVE BRO!!!!! WOW HELPED US!!!
Classic WoW, my friend.
Why don't you go private server? There are some really good server, fully scripted, less buggy than official ones haha
I read this, and thought exactly the same. I moved to another town as well, 120km apart, so it's not as much as you. But WotLK kept me alive as well! It helped me get trough the beginning of Middle School. I really loved to play with my friends, my brother and my dad. Funny thing is that my name is Kevin as well and I liked WotLK too! I sincerely hope they will do WotLK servers, private servers are not the same. If things go well, I believe Classic will be The Burning Crusade in 6-9 months. So maybe a while later we will have WotLK!
@@trytocatchmeful No. They are shit. Google fake bugs for classic wow turrens. Basically peoples memories got distorted with private servers so much the hit box for turrens was wrong all these years 😄. Blizzard verified with a real install of the original. Wotlk private servers are sad places in places like Winter grasp and Dalaran. Empty and filled with elitist pricks who expect someone who hasn't run in 11 years to still be awesome. I want the community which still not is the same on a real wow server. I want to level up and start barefoot in the dirt like everyone else at level 1. I want to see a crowded Dalaran and battle in Winter grasp
Endless nights of farming Lichbloom and Icethorn in this zone, this music will
forever be encoded in my DNA, nothing will ever come close to this zone and those incredible sounds.
6 years later, yet I still have goosebumps every time I hear this soundtrack, otherworldly piece of music
same
I remember playing WotLK and leveling through Storm Peaks. I had this one Icelandic guy in my guild who didn't stop talking about how NPC's in Storm Peaks had the same names as himself and his friends. Good times.
The Ulduar soundtrack is probably the most hauntingly beautiful soundtrack in WoW.
1:53 The feels, the perfection, camping skoll and the Lost protodrake boi
1:27 - 2:48 is encapsulating the whole desolate and isolated atmosphere to perfection. Incredible piece of music.
Great vid Everness, spent a lot of time in Storm Peaks doing the dailys with the dodgy names, "Mounting Hodir's Helm" and "Blowing Hodir's Horn" among others lol.
Don't forget "Thrusting Hodir's Spear"
Everness , "Jormuttar is so Fat"
I get fucking chills every time I hear 1:54 coming up. The storm peaks were my most favorite region of all of World of Warcraft. Finally meeting the wardens the titans left behind, seeing their enormous structures. Being able to befried Earthen (alliance player) and Giants, those who were meant to safeguard Azeroth and shape her surface in the titans will. Seeing the corruption of the old gods again, feeling like realy being on the "roof of the world" and that our actions here really matter.
I never got to raid in Ulduar, at the time I finally reached level 80 on the privat server I joined to be able to feel like in my starting days of WoW again (joined roughly around the launch of BC but played so slowly, that I only got to level 67 before Cata hit) everybody was only running Icecrown and daily dungeons, with no respect for lore or people who wanted to enjoy sceanery or music. I felt the same way, that I felt when Cata hit, and I stopped playing, switching to a classic server a while after.
If I wouldn't despise Activision-Blizzard for their actions since the merger, I would consider playing on the classic servers now, but after all, all that is left for me now, are these videos on UA-cam. Thank you @Everness, for bringing a single tear of nostalgia and melancholie to my eyes.
I've been thinking about getting into a WotLK private server
@@tombowombo- they can be fun, especially when, you find the right guild.
@@Yormolch yeah I did dungeons a bit last year but was never in a guild not raided despite TBC and WotLK being a large part of my childhood
23:00 The greatest part of the music in Pantheon, Antorus, is from this nostalgic place....
Somehow, Sadly those music nowadays no longer give me such profound feeling.
Hands down my favorite zone and song in the series. Thank you, Everness.
I absolutely love this soundtrack. I can't help but think about all of the adventures I've had in this game when I listen to it, especially when I hear it in-game. At the same time, there's a sense of loneliness in it too. It really feels like your character is trekking through a snowy wasteland with no civilization in sight, but they must press on in hopes that they find someone to help them.
8:14 is my favourite, it's quite obviously heavily inspired by "The Bridge of Khazad Dum" by Howard Shore, which is one of my favourite soundtracks ever. Love this game so much, the music is always on point
Yes fr thank you, the Moria chase scene music was some of the best in the trilogy
I've always thought the same
i love this zone and the music. its perfect. And everytime reminds me of the one time finding the timelost protodrake by accident, after giving up searching for it.
I almost got a heartattack there.
How many hours spent farming ore and herbs in the zone, good memories, Cheers from Furia Francese
Oh man... I was in 7th grade when Wrath came out. I have to say... The storm peaks was my fave zone, the mystery, the sweeping bridges at the terrace of the makers, and around Ulduar... Say what you will but wrath had some of the most visually stunning zones.
Probably the most atmospheric zone in the game and this music was one of the reasons. I remember I'd sometimes just go idle in the Peaks while chatting life with guild mates to enjoy the mood. Good times.
@15:00 is just so damn epic, gives me goosebumps everytime
Been years since I've played WoW but I still follow the story and listen to the music.
No matter what happens, if I and my loved ones are healthy and if I can have a quiet evening listening to this ost, possibly my favorite from the game, then life isn't so bad :)
Thank you for uploading this. A lot of the time I when I play I turn off the game music, but not in this zone.
I love the overall melancholy feel to this zone and music, the wind and other ambience just makes it all the more perfect.
Wow, I wrote this 4 years, lol....wow.
30:10 hits me every time
The drakes attacking those rinos and taking them to the skies to feed was so awesome for 2009 stuff
"I remember you... IN THE MOUNTAINS."
Endora Roberts I could hear this
Day 18trillion, still dont have the time lost proto drake.....
I do.
It was the biggest time waste ever :D but still in love with the track.
Archavon?
Got it after 3 minutes of searching
I stayed up for 3 days trying to get him , i feel like i was close to death.
I will never forget my time lost protodrake ♥️♥️♥️
Dont play this game anymore for over 8 years now. But still remember the night I spotted him 🙂
Damn was I happy 😂
I've been listening to this while working for the last hour and it really is the best. Thank you for this. I remember hearing this music for the first time leveling my new death knight and just really getting sucked in to how epic it is.
I'm glad you've enjoyed it!
1:53 made me cry
I miss my childhood so much!
Me too... 😭
When the life was more more easy...
It really is amazing to read about the experiences of so many people having good memories of the good ol' days of WoW before the endless greed kicked in.
Studying while listening to wow videos helps a lot. Thank you again
Time-Lost Proto Drake anyone? Yes, much time was lost trying to hunt this rare.
Still the best zone to quest in and listen to music at 1am in the morning.
I miss this place, camped TLPD for 22 days straight. I met a lot of good people and it brings back the memory when I finally got TLPD ;-;
this is one of the best zones and one of the best expansions of WoW..
From 1:55 - 2:45 always gets to me
This was smack right outside of Dal. I always rode through this on my way elsewhere. So many memories listening to this
Good old days. I remember that day I was so happy, because I killed time-lost protodrake (and got it!) on my way to ICC to kill Lich King. And i Got Invincible as well. Best day in my life
Duuuuude!!! What an amazing day that must have been
Such a majestic zone. Flying over this for the first time really suprised me.
I JUST GOT TIME-LOST PROTO DRAKE!!! 10 years it took me!!!!!
Nice !!!!!!!
gratz!!!
wow, I never realized how amazing the music in this zone is.
If I only could travel back in time and experience everything again. I miss all the old time in Azeroth and especially in Northrend. There was so much adventure and great people I met. Your videos are bringing back such a warm nostalgia and memories. For moments I feel like in those days. It almost bringing tears in my eyes, in a very positive way.
1:50 atually gives me phisical pain. Nostalgia hitting strong
Very true...😭🤧
As 2020, I think this zone music and aesthetics is still the best in game
Such beauty
15:40
Damn I love that one so much. Reminds me of Chopin for some reason.
@2:00 Calling blizzard support and getting placed on hold!
10 years.... 10 years I've tried on and off to catch the TLPD... if i ever catch it, I think I'll seriously cry grown man tears.. I'm not even joking right now.
Hope you have it ♡
I remember exploring this zone back in the day with my friend Harley, those were some really good times.
storm peaks is some of the best music in the entire game
So many great memories here! So many hours with My friends try to find lost proto drake and preparing for ulduar
Dear jonrivers (a resto druid during cata) I hope you got your tlpd
Hey look, it's 2009 again.
I hope you're all doing well, group, you honestly were my first friend circle.
I haven't replaced you yet, though. Too many business acquaintances now.
I can't wait, 1- 1/2 more months :)
Me too
I have spent weeks and months of my life sitting idle in this zone or traveling through it. Took me 1 week 4 days to get TLPD back when wrath first launched, I had 60% movement speed for flight lol barely caught him
Of course I remember exactly how I caught the TLPD it is burned into my memory despite it being over ten years ago now.
Are you going to hunt him down again in WOTLK Classic?
@@lilpuddin1560 Oh god.. I honestly don't know if I will even have the time now that I'm 36 with a wife who has 3 kids and a new puppy haha. When I did it the first time I was only dating a girl who visited once a week and I had every day to myself.
I may do it just out of nostalgia though, I won't lie there were some times I would just sit in Storm Peaks riding the TLPD in past expansions because I was missing the zone. The music in that zone is drilled into my memory forever. I used to hate it because I had to listen to it for so long (until I finally turned the music volume down) but now I like it.
Would love a cheeky version of this to have NPC Scanner alert for the TLPD to go off...
and after the heart attack you realise it was just fucking vyragosa
ive seen more tlpd spawns than vyra, despite it being 1/16
so many scenes come to my mind hearing this... 2010 was a good year
Bury me in Storm Peaks and play this at my funeral
13:47 is just amazing. entire soundtrack is one of the best in the game along with grizzly hills soundtrack.
the hours spent in looking for you, Time Lost Proto Drake
Cypekjam and still didn't get it *crying*
I am so deeply in love with northrend
I never did much questing in storm peaks but whenever I was flying to the Argent Tournament I would often just slink off to the east and skim through Storm Peaks just to listen to the music on my journey.
37:33 best part ;)
After playing wotlk many many years ago, I became a hobby mountaineer and climbed a few actual alpine peaks. This music since then brings me weird mixed nostalgic memories of the sound of crampons biting into the glacier snow, rockfalls, alpine wind, and farming Sons of Hodir rep.
This and Suramar are tied as my favorite zones
You are my favorite youtube user
One of the best Soundtracks in the World of Warcraft.
This expansion was so very good, it was sublime. Concepts, Gameplay, Creativity, Art, and Music !
Blizzard should hire all the people who made this, and put proper investment into Game. If they did this, the game could become an even bigger cultural Icon, played and liked by over 500 million subscribers with many Movies made. It could become very successful like a Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars franchise. It could become a franchise worth 2 billion dollars for Disney to Buy. Blizzard has wallowed in massive stupidity.
I love it that wotlk was inspired by viking culture and how the north looks and the feel and the beautiful theme of Northern Lights when i play in northrend i feel just as home
There I got my TLPD, so good memories
38:00
IN THE MOUNTAIN
35:00-36:02 and 38:00-40:00 the feels almost made me want to cry
I just got the Time-Lost Proto Drake. This music will forever be etched in my memory. A reminder of the quest I endured in the endless, windy cold.
People can stan for vanilla and TBC but as someone who played the game since its inception, nothing in terms of sound really blew my mind until I played WOTLK launch. I leveled in Howling Fjord first and went from there to Dragonblight to Grizzly Hills. It was John Williams levels of jaw-dropping music. I'll always have a soft spot for Ashenvale but really, nothing that came before was anywhere close to this.
I love reading all these comments. I'm trying to find the music from when I used to do the dailies in Dun Niffelum. Anyone know exactly when it might be in this video? Is WOW just too complicated now? Or have people moved on to different MMORPGs
I always felt a nostalgic in this place, even as I was experiencing it for the first time.
This is why this game is the best in the world,and Storm Peaks music & ambience is probably the cutest from the list 😄😄😄
After grizzly hills one of my favourite songs in WOW, absolutely great. I mostly live these choir parts around 2:05 and like that.