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[Mister Apoc]

Their is no denying that Rockstar Games has a great love for music, and have often had amazing songs in their games, and showed love and appreciation for various, diverse genres. If you look at the stations of GTA V you have

- Modern Rap
- Funk music
- 80s/90s west coast rap
-Country Music
-Classic Rock
-Soul Music
-Regge/Dancehall
-R and B/Pop music
- Latin Music
-Chillwave/Jazz-Funk
- Punk Rock
-Indietronica
-Modern Rock
-Techno/House
and much more

Hell even GTA 4 had a station that played Eastern European music

If i would have to think of one genre Rockstar has kind of underrepresented in GTA would have to be Heavy Metal possibly?

what do you think?

 

[ARK1391]

Metal I guess. Since it's not on your list

 

[MayauMiao]

J-pop & K-pop

 

[GooseMan69]

Severe lack of metal in GTA V

 

[Mister Apoc]

Severe lack of metal in GTA V

yeah Metal seems the big one, and although this is probably more obscure, i don't think they ever had a classical music station either in any gta

 

[intbal]

Gospel

 

[Represent.]

Afro Beats

 

[nkarafo]

Early 90's Techno and Rave

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Industrial metal. Dark wave. Yacht rock.

 

[PleazureDome]

Early 90's Techno and Rave

 

[drotahorror]

90's grunge
Numetal
Synthwave

That would be my picks.

 

[nkarafo]

Early 90's Techno and Rave

Or something like this




Or this




Or this

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Deathcore

 

[MiguelItUp]

Metal I guess. Since it's not on your list

Yeah, definitely metal and its subgenres/adjacent subgenres.

I wouldn't be surprised if this GTA brings in various metalcore and hardcore acts as they've become pretty hot over the last couple of years because of TikTok. Bands like Knocked Loose, Turnstile, Scowl, etc.

 

[kevboard]

Metal.
the most we got is some very mainstream stuff in Vice City. but in San Andreas there was less, and then in 4 and 5 it was almost gone as a genre.

I would love an actual metal radio station with some song picks that aren't just nostalgic Iron Maiden or Hair Metal songs.
best case would be a radio station specifically focused on modern European Metal like Blind Guardian, Sleep Token, Sabaton, Jinjer, Orden Ogan, Dimmu Borgir, Wintersun, Cypecore... stuff like that. I bet it would also be cheaper than just licensing another Iron Maiden song, or another big mainstream hit from 20 years ago. and since Rockstar seems to be unfathomably stingy when it comes to renewing licenses, that would also be in their interest.

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

Naw man, Ska is the most underrepresented genre. GTA needs way more Ska music.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Eurobeat

 

[theStartupSound]

yeah Metal seems the big one, and although this is probably more obscure, i don't think they ever had a classical music station either in any gta

GTA 3 had one classic station when I remember correctly.

The whole Rockabilly, swing, Rock‘n‘roll area is also missing.

 

[CGNoire]

Synthwave and Ambient Electronica station.

They had some decent tracks in GTA3-SA but every since then there radio stations have been seriously lacking.

 

[amigastar]

Jungle Music
IDM Music
Jam Music like Grateful Dead

 

[RoadHazard]

Metal in general, progressive rock/metal in particular. Let me cruise to some Rush and Dream Theater.

 

[Yerd]

Christian rap, Christian rock, Christian rap/rock, I mean, I could go on forever. I'm a career criminal but I believe in god and I want to reinforce my beliefs with good christian music as I run over people.

Polka

 

[djjinx2]

MSX FM gang where we at.

 

[pqueue]

goth rock
futurepop

 

[Paasei]

Lack of metal and especially in GTA IV and V the "metal" that is in there is top tier trash.

 

[Hudo]

Any combination of progressive + <include metal sub-genre>, essentially. Would be dope to hear Opeth, Tool, Death or Deafheaven on a GTA radio station. They have a lot of stereotypes to play with for writing the host dialog.

 

[willothedog]

This looped.

 

[RJMacready73]

Christian rap, Christian rock, Christian rap/rock, I mean, I could go on forever. I'm a career criminal but I believe in god and I want to reinforce my beliefs with good christian music as I run over people.

Polka

they should do one of those evangelical nutcase radio stations and just have them blurt out all the mental insane shit they do only no need to parody it, just read it out verbatim

 

[Loke]

Meshuggah.

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Bring back trance from gta3

 

[DenimDevil]

Surf rock
Post punk
Post rock

 

[Dr Cowley]

Yacht rock.

Yacht rock was in GTA5. I hated that station, got better later on, in GTAO but that took a few years.

I'd like to hear some soul metal, it's a licensing nightmare though

 

[MMaRsu]

yeah Metal seems the big one, and although this is probably more obscure, i don't think they ever had a classical music station either in any gta

What

 

[Mephisto40]

Drum and Bass, had a whole radio station for it in GTA3, then nothing in any of the other games

 

[GymWolf]

House\disco dance?

I would love to drive while listening some 90s dance\disco music like molella, gigi d'agostino etc.

 

[Kings Field]

 

[Three]

yeah Metal seems the big one, and although this is probably more obscure, i don't think they ever had a classical music station either in any gta

They did in GTA3 I believe.

 

[nkarafo]

Yeah, 50's and 60's rock n roll is another one.

 

[nbcjr]

Reagaton or twerking

 

[DaciaJC]

Classical. Not been included since GTA3.

 

[N0S]

 

[Shaki12345]

Schlager music and jodel music. Opera. Folk music. Synth music.

 

[Imtjnotu]

J-pop & K-pop

 

[adamsapple]

Bollywood.

 

[saintjules]

Techno. The "Techno" on OP's list has been misidentified as a genre over the years, specifically in the United States.

When People hear the word "Techno", they think it's Eurodance/DDR when it isn't. Here's an example of something within the Techno genre:




But anyway, I'd like to see more electronic genres like Bass/Tech House and Trance get into the mix. Having Solomun was a good first step for some of the electronic music in GTA V.

 

[GreatnessRD]

VCPR channel in Vice City.

"I'm not talking about magic like pulling rabbits outta your ass and quarters out of your ears. I'm talking magic"

Lmao, classic

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Early 2000s nu-metal. Korn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Soulfly, Coal Chamber, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Static-X, Spineshank...

 

[ienjoyrawfish]

Disco

 

[DAHGAMING]

Uk Drill, hope that its all over GTA6 you mandem are going to love it.

 

[M0G]

Metal. Considering the budget and masses of popular music these games have, they never really embraced mainstream metal bands let alone dug deeper. There's always been a mix of hardcore/punk stuff and that's as close as it gets.