Axis and Allies music: what songs do you listen to while playing the game?

The first one is appropriate - though not along the lines of the hardcore that you’ve listed.  I had the 45 inch vinyl when I was kid, played the hell out of it.  :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU

And here’s another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mdGZWIVvY

This may be a bit too classical compared with the music you’ve listed, but for the German invasion of Russia, I recommend the first movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 (the Leningrad Symphony).  It starts out quietly, then switches to a march representing the German invasion, then explodes into a musical battle sequence that always makes me think of the massive armoured clash at Kursk (even though the symphony was composed a couple of years earlier, in 1941).

If we’d use music in our games, and if i had my way, some of my choices would be:

(as opener)
Laibach - Drzava
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRADA7fLVpQ

Front 242 - Commando Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12aKfNsUdQY&feature=related

(USA entering the war full of hope)
Wumpscutt - Total Recall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSvSVMvwMI
(which is indeed a cover of the Total Recall theme song)

(drama rising - big battle ahead)
Turbund Sturmwerk - Kainsmal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fu4hbnK4A

(getting aggressive)
NON - Total War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3aeWHz6Zok

…and concluding the game:
The Klinik - World Domination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTD6Mot7v1g

Rock and Roll. And just about anything else… although, no rap or country.

Metal!