The Culling of Stratholme - Music

[arthegor]

I consider this music treason! PURGE IT IN THE NAME OF LORDAERON!

[GrandMasterPrayer]

Yeah... "wow music is epic", "2:20 is where the good part starts" or "blizzard creates epic music" if that's what you think, then why don't you start listening to Beethoven's Symphony 9: Movement 2? in which this piece here is clearly based on, if there is one epic mind behind this music surely is Beethoven's --> watch?v=9BDlqlhcCIk

[Leniaal]

@GrandMasterPrayer Why so grumpy?

[laalalolspop]

Remember - No common.

[LURKTec]

FOR GLORY OF LORDAERON!

[KapitalistenGandalf]

Meine Lieblingsinstanz <3 War das einig gute an WOTLK xD

Erinnert an Warcraft 3 :)



[19Matze87]

omg i dont play for 5 months and i miss it so :( yo the rest before 2:02 was always waiting :D

[Gruuten]

I don't understand why all is playihg horde, I am playing alliance and I always will.... well i changed 2 of my lvl 85's to horde but who cares lol... all my characters were alliance from the start, I'm just in disguise!

[darkmankill1]

I want to see a caverns of time: Plaguelands

[TheChronix000]

@darkmankill1 i want it too ! :D

[Novascova]

lol.. i dont remember the music xD i guess its cuz it plays LOW for me in this instance

[HalloweenBells]

FOR THE ALLY!!!

THUMPS UP!

[Jadyn462]

Your Random Dungeon Group is Ready!

Loading Culling of Stratholme...

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­-"

[ElCarito1221]

@Jadyn462 was it because when it finished loading you looked to the left of your screen and saw that the tank left group? :3

[Lm3ntz]

@Jadyn462 What u rather had the old kingdom?

[fiviifjj]

For Lordaeron!

[Gazgo2]

I remember when i was playing w3 and did this mission. It was really cool to reexperience the whole scene and plot through a RPG point of view, and Blizzard should start to make more dungeons from the past

[SanguinPenguin]

3:34-5:03 = The best part of this collection. This was one of my favorite instances in WotLK. The music made it for me.

[Marshmillo]

@SanguinPenguin totally agree, epic music.

[reddusa]

I want a sample(the fleshcrafter)...All of his shyt talking is awesome-sauce

[erossskywalker]

I wish Stratholme will be restored to its former glory :( they can replace it with New Avalon as the new dungeon! :(

[aramisx]

I love this piece, but most especially, in the middle...when the staccato begins. A very dark, uprising feel to it. And when the choir and vocals jump in....chills.

[reddusa]

@aramisx ikr..i come to youtube to listen to the music from this instance just b4 i got log in to my WoW account...i thought i was the only one that got chills when the choir jumps in....lawl

[THESage1Naruto]

im a lvl 61 war with whole set of marshall gear, my normal hits r 2-5k crits 5-7k, if i got a healer (and i hold tank better then anyother my lvl) could we duo this instance?

[Likeaperv]

@THESage1this is a lvl 80 dungeon, being 81 does not help at all, u need at least 4 for aceptable dps.

[THESage1Naruto]

@Likeaperv thank you!! im lvl 67 now(i take my time)

[Ymbrin01]

lol i´ve done CoS so many times but never heard the ,usic until now.....

now i wonder why i didn´t listen to it it awesome!

[Brady2k10]

@KILLitWITHfire100 well no ones takin it back it seems, just like gnomeregan, couldnt have tht back cos its a dungeon, just like strath, poor lil gnomes gotta stay outside in the cold. If anyone was to get it, could be the b elves, i mean ther city aint tht far away, n they dont have alot of places outside silvermoon, well not as many as other races have

[vurtualboy]

7 people could never complete CoS in time to get the drake mount

[MegaJiol]

@vurtualboy wow thats a fail

[vurtualboy]

@MegaJiol I know right? I never have done the instance without having the mount drop, you have to like, intentionally stop for bio breaks like every 5 minutes or something. They give you so much time to do it

[BozoDoMalByRafael]

2:30 amazing o/

[Brady2k10]

you wont be getting stratholme back allies >:D you really think the horde would allow that? muahahaha i think horde should get it, forsaken could move from UC, lets face it UC is kinda shit as a horde city, its not even a city, its like a dam sewer, everytime i go into CoS i think to myself, this is a placed thats doomed its on the verge of being fucked by the scourge and u cant save it a once great city has fallen n u think bout how it used to be, busy with humans

[cobelli1978]

THE LETTER SAYS THE MUSIC?????!!! I hear you say some fruit and malganis

[andreszeruel]

culling of stratholme is my favorite instance because your history and the music is epic

[TotalWarPhilosophy]

The moment he killed the first villager of stratholme arthas was lost.

[Tosaith]

I just love it! :( I SO FU CK IN LOVE IT!

[Feuerhexer]

Stratholme is Epic... i love this Music!

[wolfinak]

@Agonising LOL!!!!! also great music

[Danilov424]

@Agonising Hahahaha yea

[kyungdaesung]

@Agonising lmfao

[datura1983]

i think arthas made the best decision he could and the right one. for those who got their souls spared and didn't have to be undead scourge, they probably thank him for saving them from a wretched fate. besides it even talks about from a quest giver that ppl were committing suicide to avoid becoming a scourge by running into the cities.. flames..

[ToaJallerInika1]

@datura1983 Uhh, apparently the people killed by Arthas were also revived as undead.At least, I think so.Imo, the "grain plague" was a tactic made by the Lich king into forcing Arthas to kill those people.

[datura1983]

@ToaJallerInika1 no shit, your point?

[datura1983]

@ToaJallerInika1 not all of them turned to undead. the ones he killed in human form didnt turn into undead. do the culling of stratholme and see (rolls eyes) or go into stratholme in eastern plaguelands where you see human spirits wandering around

[joonte1010]

@datura1983 They were infected.

[datura1983]

@joonte1010 no shit, but the ones arthas and his men killed didnt rise up as the scourge. the just became ghosts. go into stratholme and see for your self

[joonte1010]

@datura1983 Well he did what had to be done, He didnt want the plague to spread to the rest of hes kingdom.

[ThePenguinforce]

Best. Music. INGAME!

[gerillamotherf]

i h8 the remains of the city.. they should renew stratholme

2 city's for every race xept trolls and gnomes get 1

[m123c456r789]

many bad memories with this music alas i have to say.. how would anyone know whether he had other ideas first but didnt work? i mean pre the scene we saw he might have planned many things that never came to light so then i ask.. how do all you guyz think this was his first option? also as i said.. bad memories..

[NetherDrakeye]

@m123c456r789 there were ways to heal them, he as a paladin should know them. but he was blind (also the story would drive itself better that way haha)

[brendonian]

3:30 and beyond reminds me of the music from The Tower of Dr. Zalost from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[cobelli1978]

wath say the music in 3:53 ?!!!!

[catlitta]

Stratholme will be rebuild someday!

[gerillamotherf]

@catlitta Amen

[datura1983]

@catlitta i want stratholme back too lol. i'd trade stormwind for it any day of the week plus it would put silvermoon under threat muahahah x) it will be waaaaaay cooler and bigger and just more awesome and prettier bless stratholme!

[PerfectKirby]

As terrible as it was, Arthas' culling of Strat itself wasn't his worst crime, seeing as it was inevitable because the people were gonna turn undead anyway. It's the fact that he didn't even TRY to think of another way to stop the plague, he didn't even stop to consider another option for one single second; he immediately set his mind on killing the whole city. THAT was his worst crime there.

[Illidan360]

@PerfectKirby Well as far as i know there is no cure for the plague so they were already doomed, perhaps you are right to say his worst crime was to kill everyone as the first option, but it was a genocide or a whole major town turned into an undead army ... i think that was what he thought at the time.

[Glacierbabe12]

@PerfectKirby the plauge was pretty much unstoppable by then, Arthas was too late to save them......I mean didn't you see how FAST they changed? it was liek BOOM left 4 dead WoW style ._.

[BigBlazeTV]

2:12 onwards is epicness... i find the music makes me fight harder while doing this particular heroic... My favorite heroic by far

[V0Rt3cK]

when Jaina leaved Arthas at Stratholme was like break with her ..and that corupted Arthas heart :D

[wiwq]

whis could be forsaken hymn so damn majestic especially second part!!!

[RyvernRaigon]

@Smurfntz5 LOL poor Arthas xD

*on his death*

Arthas: Father where are the..cookies?

Father: There was no cookies all along, my son

Arthas: I see..then the darkness...tricked me..those bastards..*dies*

Father: *Looks at Tirion* HAH! HE FELT FOR IT LIKE WE PLANNED! >:D

Tirion: HAHAH WHAT A n00b xD

Bolvar: Man that is so f*cked up...

[Chmielok]

@RyvernRaigon

Cookies are real. The cake is a LIE!

[3DTyrant]

@Chmielok no no no, i heard it was the COOKIES that was the lie, Arthas went insane when he found that out

[Remy21337]

@Chmielok Glados is back!!!

[solja19k]

3:35 gave me this American McGee's Alice feeling to it. Very eerie and the perfect bit for the gauntlet part before hitting Market Square.

[slyaina]

Im crying... {=(

[reddusa]

This music is so catchy.. It makes me wanna keep jumping the whole time...lmao

[Veraad]

"At last some luck, Market row has not yet caught fire..."

/e sets fire to Market Row.

[Endgame81]

cant say i've ever really paid the music in wow even a second of attention, but this just blows my mind from 2:20 onwards.

[j3drz3j]

Epicness of 2:15 -just blows my mind

[niktnad]

I'll hunt you down Malganis, TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!!!, ya w/e arthas, shadap. he talks so dam much in this instance. probably more than kael thas

[princekaylon]

From 2:20 is awesome.... some of the music composed for both BC and WotLK was amazing.

[AnnaMezale]

очень красивая песня духовная,легкая,нежная но смотря что сам стратхольм страшный то песня внушает и беззащитность и быстроту времени....

[Guillidan]

@AnnaMezale  мм да, это заметно. Тем более когда музыка переходит в состояние трагедии, а потом возвращается в расслабленный темп.

[Drunkensteinz]

For the Alliance!!!!!!

[Ins0mnia365]

Anyone has the lyrics?

[TinksMum]

@Ins0mnia365 Generally in WoW the lyrics are quasi-latin and half made up.

[Ins0mnia365]

@TinksMum hehe true that. I just love the part they all sing :)

[Skandalos]

WoW music rocks, and this one tops it all. Fell in love with it the very first minute I entered this instance the first time. Never get tired of listening to it.

Someone should make a symphony out of the best of WoW soundtrack.

[Ins0mnia365]

To bad Cata has no new CoTs =/ I think this is one of the strongest things they have in the game tbh..

[CBleck]

@Ins0mnia365 its still in alpha testing, they may add a CoT dungeon

[conscript125]

Every time I ran this instance half the group would always chose to ride into the city just to hear the music. I was one of them.

[MrDeceitful]

I like the opening much:)

and i like the CoT Stratholme takes me back to w3 and ye the older game but in 3person view and more explore kinda why i like Cot

[TankSenior]

Great music.

[HANSMKAMP]

Before I saw this instance, I thought: "It will look like Stormwind." When I was in the instance, I was right. It did look like Stormwind.

[Warikz1234]

Well they are both Human cities, so it stands to reason.

[Stupoider]

@HANSMKAMP Maybe because the level 60 Stratholme looked a lot like a reskinned Stormwind? Nothing gets past you! :D

[PerfectKirby]

@HANSMKAMP

Well, Stratholme used to be a human city, lol.

[mactherogue]

i live CoT instances/raid they bring me back to WC3 lore from a different point of view <3

[Spideygai]

i like this instance based off of one of my favorite levels in WC3

[zeldafreakje]

@flpsnk4848

*COUGH PUTRESS COUGH*

[TheLilBlackStar]

a Beautifal Opening no doubt about it

[YouGotPwntDotCom]

best music in an instance. love it when i get this as a random, just turn effects down and music up

[Giliization]

Any can say what name of this song 2:14  start

[Kaeldashen]

Everytime i listen to the opening I think to myself "I wish i could have saved Stratholme from destruction" i get so depressed.....makes me sad lol.

[jamiejames081]

@Kaeldashen I think the same thing. Imagine what it would be like if we had Stratholme back to the way it was.. D:

[datura1983]

@jamiejames081 stuff like this makes me depressed. especially stratholme but all the great alliance cities. diremaul is another good example of an amazing city that got currupted. difference is, it's still very in tact. i think the night elves should at least get diremaul west and maybe keep north and east open as instances. it's huge so even just having the west section would be great as a start. i'd love to see alliance get stratholme but it will be neutral.. sigh everything about allie is

[Omeedesf]

Anybody else think that part of the first track sounds like the music from the opening cinematic for Starcraft: Brood War?

[ZoMg801]

@Jpcristel if that was the case the tauren wouldnt be part of the horde anymore which would affect the game majorly

[geohnzorz]

CoS is one of my favourite instances because of this music imo.

[Marshmillo]

100% agreed

[HANSMKAMP]

I like CoS, because it teaches me about what happened to Lordaeron and Stratholme. The current situation is now a level 58-60 instance.

[Crybiatchcry]

we horde stick together !!!! horde did a lot of thing ... they sacrificed for everyone ...like grom hellsream he sacrificed himself ... horde FTW! LK rulez :D

[mickytc]

blah blah blah this is good music so don't care.

cya

[Lm3ntz]

It's al the fault of jaina and uther that he became the lich king, they deserted him when he needed them the most....

[flpsnk4848]

thats why Im playing the horde :P we stay together!

[Lm3ntz]

Grrrrrr! But it's true :D

[Jpcristel]

The Horde stays together hey? How about the recent rumors brought by Cataclysm about Cairne Bloodhoof getting killed by an Orc, maybe a certain GARROSH who doesn't appreciate the pacific nature of the taurens toward War agaisn't the Alliance?

[flpsnk4848]

where the hell u found that garrosh killed Cairne?

..and by the way cataclysm is one big nonsence, i like lore but for me arthas is the end

[Kiwii156]

You seem to be rubbing that in as if it's a real life occurence. :p

[saviordd1]

@Jpcristel Do remember, they ARE rumors

[Arresfield]

horde is just nonsence ALLIANCE 4 EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[datura1983]

@Arresfield amen to that

[hotdoggy854]

epic string instruments

[cbfd234]

It can go either way actually, it's just most people think he did NOT die because of WoW's story line, and in WC3 there's no trigger that can show a unit being knocked out. There's only a trigger for a unit dying which is what they used, but they also used a trigger that keeps the body there and not decay.

[PlaguedMan]

No. In WC3 they never said anything about muradin's death. It just showed muradin collapsing and arthas running away, just like in WoW. In WC3 they just never show the complete story, because they focused on the main one.

[Myfavouritetroll]

02:12

Let the epicness begin.

[Stonekom]

/Agree

[gothcraft]

This music matches perfectly all the feelings one can recall from this episode of Azeroth's history.

[1amn0th3r3]

Can I just say that Azeroth is a pretty sad place to live?

A) Orcs have been tricked, enslaved, abused, used, and exiled. Not to mention Garrosh is going to screw up them up.

B) Draenei were tricked, enslaved abused, used, and exiled. No one's screwing them up, except their own.

C) Constant warfare, blood-letting, losses, sacrifices, martyrdoms, gladatorial onslaughts, the armaggedon, etc.

D) How would you feel if you couldnt sleep in your own bed every night traveling endlessly to help others?

[LordManda2]

in reponse to D) Well your character is supposed to be a selfless hero who helps others at the expense of not having a happy life. And btw, im sure there ARE still people living in places like Goldshire and the Capital Cities who live peaceful and happy lives.

[weaponomega614]

Peaceful until a Horde raid pops in for a little visit.

Anyone ever wonder why you can't kill child npcs?

[gothcraft]

@weaponomega614 hmmmmm be cause it's a little bit awful to kill a kid?

[wasp9]

@gothcraft Its either the kid dies a slow, painful death and becomes a zombie, or a quick, painless one.

[gothcraft]

I understand what you mean. But I was talking about they see killing kids "besides it is just a game". You know there are people who can suit blizzard for that.

[nighteyes360]

Epic.

[Smurfntz5]

Poor Arthas.. Didnt realize until too late that they lied about the dark side having cookies.

[MagisterTenebrarum]

@Smurfntz5 I lol'd

[Novasonic23]

is there somewhere i can download an mp3 of this? thank you

[kerobn]

"Jaina?!" "sorry Arthas, i cant watch you do this" maybe things would be different if Jaina was with Arthas that day

[undeadplayer3]

in warcraft legends 5 tells what would of happened

[EndlessMater]

According to the comic series, Jaina would have been the Lich Queen then.

[LoveMeimPinky]

@kerobn Then it would be World of warcraft: Wrath of the Bitch Queen

[Iwillgetyou2]

Mal`ganis ! I will chase you till the end of the world ! -Arthas

[CBleck]

sounds more tragic than corruption

[gerillamotherf]

good dayes in stratholme ^^

[Khaeldhoros]

WHY?...

[MrMouldyorange]

so FUCKING EPIC, i want more!

[Lordbebi]

About 2:10 in is where it gets exceptionally awesome.

[luvisuzu]

i want to see this music played live one day. that'd be epic

[jackoneilier]

i loved this mission in wc3

[Apollyon511]

My favorite part is when he goes up to the first infected human and strikes him down.. makes me laugh every time

[number23akameechy]

lol same here

[Xstormraider]

then he got commanded by frostmourne he didnt know its powers that the lich king chosen him to become his mentor cuz the lich king practiced some magic during his abandon in northrend from kil'jaiden so he returned to kill his father while he became a death knight so he met tichondrious and jaina abandoned him and met thrall , mean time arthas was guided to kel'thuzad (u know the other part of the story) anyway why is the picture on the video looks like stormwind?

[Acuzio]

Well mate you got to remember Before everything burned Stratholme was an alliance town think about your alliance town colors.

[Xstormraider]

true i RP as a night elf and exactly looks like alliance buildings

[Acuzio]

Why do I get the feeling you're from Wrymrest and I know the EXACT elf?

[Xstormraider]

wrong go Twillights Hammer server my name is nehgeg or nightlss

[Xstormraider]

wrong this all wouldnt happen if jaina and arthas found the undead lich kel'thuzad he was leading his men to victory arthas then mal'gains came and scorched the lands and poisend the food to the villagers so arthas was mad about this so uther told him return but he didnt obey he brought a few knights with him to save the lands while the fight began mal 'gains fierd up the city so he went to northrend to hunt him and found frostmourne the guard tried to protect him but failed continue----

[CBleck]

were you rushing when you typed this...cause all I could make out was Arthas was mad and Malganis for poisoning food and burning crops...and btw, Malganis never burnt any land, just the city, also, Kel'Thuzad was a necromancer then, not a Lich

[cbfd234]

@Xstormraider

Mal'ganis' objective was to turn the world into an undead place, and he planned to do this by "plaguing" (not poisoning) the grain with magic that turned people into the undead. He didn't burn any towns besides Stratholme. Arthas wanted to save his people from the undead no matter the cost including his friends death of Muradin when he received the Frostmourne.

[sevdacayan]

incorrect Muradin is not dead he was hit by a shard of ice and he lost all hes memory know he is still alive but as named as someone else but its muradin :) u can read that down in wowwiki and see in vid's with the qeust of wow with the past :)

[cbfd234]

Yeah I made a mistake I forgot he was knocked out by the ice and then he was lost in Storm Peaks which is the snow level in northrend where Frostmourne is, and he found his brother Brann Bronzebeard and they met with the king of ironforge. they r all brothers.

[BmMaXXimuS]

2:15 is so fricken amazing, im a night elf druid resto, i was jumpin around doing wild growth and rejuv, this could possibly be the best music for timed cos, because it gets u right int othe game itself, all i have to say blizzard.. Fantastic job on the music in cos

[tichergeorge]

me too lol

[Carsath]

Well, neither Jaina, nor Uther tried to reason with him when he was getting increasingly fanatic. In the state of mind he was in, the fact that his friends abandoned him with disgust felt like the ultimate betrayal, probably. He does not want to kill his people either - but he thinks only by bringing down Mal'Ganis can his people be saved. And he thinks, he has to do all the grueling work to save all of them - his friends do not only leave him alone with it - but they even despise him for it.

[moo5009]

In Northrend, Arthas is very narrow minded as well. He doesn't care about the soldiers or the people he's hurting, as long as they're out of his way so he can save his people. Seriously, destroying the ships so they can't go back and then killing the mercenaries, not giving a care about the warning on Frostmourne's pedestal, you can't deny that to some degree Arthas had gone a little loopy before he wielded Frostmourne. So please, don't tell me that I don't play Wc3 or read the books.

[moo5009]

I play Wc3 all the time and know the lore very well. If you'd pay attention to the game, his behavior changes dramatically after the battle at Hearthglen. He becomes so obsessed with purging the Scourge from the land that he doesn't consider any other alternatives. He betrays Uther, disbands the Silver Hand, doesn't listen to Medivh, and instead of trying to think of another way to deal with it, he slaughters everyone in Stratholme and hunts Mal'ganis down without one single regret.

[moo5009]

Stonezorz, yes there is something that explains this. Not only would it stop them from turning into the undead and such, but at the time Arthas decided to slaughter everyone in Stratholme, he'd pretty much lost his mind already. I tend to think of it as he developed the same attitude as Maiev Shadowsong when she was hunting Illidan, although by doing so Arthas doomed the kingdoms of Lordaeron and Quel'thalas and put all of Azeroth in great peril.

[Luciank255]

No m8... He didn't lost his mind... He just killed everyone in Stratholme because he didn't want to fight 10000 undead scourge after the citizens were turned undead... Better to kill every threat when its not attacking, then to fight with it... Play WC3 and read some Warcraft books before you say that, at this point, he already lost his mind...

[cr4yv3n]

killing LIVE citizens = dead citizens = corpses for scourge = scourge armies ( same as leaving them alive)

so...why kill them then?

[Luciank255]

Its better to kill them while they are siting ducks, then to fight 10000 of them all at once...