The release of DCC #100: The Music of the Spheres (is Chaos) looms on the horizon, so Dieter Zimmerman takes a look at the relationship between DCC RPG and music in a series of blog posts appropriately titled “The Music of DCC (is Chaos).” (Go read the first post now!) Join him as he decides which Goodman Games person has the most embarrassing taste in music, as he interviews some bands associated with DCC RPG, and as he examines songs that specifically reference Appendix N authors and some that are written by Appendix N authors! The Music of DCC (is Chaos) #2: The Music of Michael Moorcock Many players of DCC RPG are well-steeped in Appendix N lore and are fully aware of author Michael Moorcock’s influence on fantasy stories and fantasy gaming. The last living Appendix N author, Moorcock created iconic heroes and anti-heroes like Elric of Melniboné, Dorian Hawkmoon, and Jerry Cornelius, and he still publishes new novels every few years. His works popularized many concepts central to old school roleplaying such as the conflict between Law and Chaos, the multiverse, and gaining power from demonic patrons. Author and musician Michael Moorcock Fewer people know that Moorcock lives a parallel life in music that’s been a long and varied as his life as an author. He’s best known for his work with bands like Blue Öyster Cult and Hawkwind, but he’s also recorded projects of his own starting with 1975’s New Worlds Fair with his band The Deep Fix. Blue Öyster Cult (“Don’t Fear the Reaper”) worked with multiple lyricists outside the band in the ’70s and ’80s. Moorcock penned the words to three BÖC songs during this period. The subject of “Black Blade” should be obvious to anyone familiar with Moorcock’s stories, “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” is possibly a reference to a line from his novel The Dragon in the Sword and was included on the soundtrack to the movie Heavy Metal, and “The Great Sun Jester” honors a friend of his who died from a drug overdose. Moorcock performed live with Blue Öyster Cult exactly one time: at the very first Dragon Con in 1987. Moorcock (left) on stage with Blue Öyster Cult If someone knows British band Hawkwind at all, it’s probably as “that band Lemmy was in before Motörhead.” But Moorcock’s collaboration with...