D&D's 8.5-hour Spotify playlist is gonna make you (gather your) party like it's 1985

The Dungeons & Dragons team just curated an 8.5-hour playlist of music on Spotify. Calling it the "Playlist of Holding 2025" (a play on the Bag of Holding magic item in D&D), the folks at Wizards of the Coast gathered up no fewer than 108 musical track recommendations from the D&D Discord channel.

It opens with Metallica's "Master of Puppets," plants a flag at the midway point with AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)," and wraps things up with Alestorm's "Wolves of the Sea." If these sound like songs Dungeon Master Eddie Munson would play during a meeting of the Hellfire Club, you're literally on the right track.

But there's more than just '80s rock and roll bangers on this playlist. There's '80s pop, current synthwave tracks that sound like the '80s, movie soundtracks to '80s movies (like Labyrinth), or brand-new movie soundtracks to movie series that started in the '80s (like Tron: Ares).

If you were a kid that got yelled at for blasting both Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" and Enya's "Orinoco Flow," then you and I probably grew up together. If you're an adult that can appreciate a Kate Bush resurrection because of Stranger Things and unironically appreciate a full-on Rick "Rickroll" Astley record, then you and I are probably hanging out this weekend. You might already have Tears for Fears in your favorites. But is Hildegard von Blingin and his bardcore rendition of "We Didn't Start the Fire" new to you, too?

For real, I'm adding Ayreon and Sunglasses Kid to my heavy rotation. My Slack D&D crew can expect to hear them very soon during our big bad boss fight in our Dragon Delves one-shot. Time to (gather your) party like it's 1985.