I don’t care if you have the most mind-numbing desk job in the world. Listen to this while working, and you’ll feel like your day is a heroic journey of epic proportions….

Okay, a little bit of backstory on this….

1. I love listening to music, but I can’t listen to music with vocals while working. It’s just too distracting for me. I have a tendency to start singing along, and that doesn’t work too well when I’m trying to focus on, you know, working. As such, I’m always on the lookout for good instrumental music.
2. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by the process of film scoring. Music is a powerful manipulator of our emotions, and an effective score conveys all the feeling visuals alone never could. It just immerses you in the scene.

That’s why I was immediately hooked when I came across Two Steps From Hell, a music production company that specializes in composing music for film trailers. Man, talk about some intense music. Listening to this stuff makes me want to go out and storm a castle:

Okay… so maybe it’s not the most effective music to listen to while working. But hey, it sure makes me feel like a badass while I’m staring at my display and typing away at my keyboard….

Image by Gary Elsasser