I'm looking for two catagories

Fight/get pumped music (i.e. Let the Bodies hit the Floor)

And music that's better for background during a game. Stuff that isn't distracting, but still mood setting. Preferably for a Shadowrunish setting. But I'd be interested in something more Fantasy. For example I though just putting in my old mechwarrior 2 CD and playing that worked in the past.

i.e.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C42xCauM9jU
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ysrowWrzI...feature=related

I've discovered that video game music are really good for PnP games since they are often designed to be looped and not too distracting. Some of them can be downloaded freely as well, which is also a good thing, here is a list of free good music:

Action music:
* The music from the Action UT2004 mod. Download the mod, and just take the .ogg file in the music folder. Same with the music from Killing Floor, with some action and some ambient tracks.
* Tapan Kaikki's music: excellent action music.

Ambient music:
* Dreamweb OST: Old school yet still good ambient cyberpunk music (or maybe that's because I automatically associate it with the game's atmosphere)
* Syndicate war's OST: 3 long tracks, perfect as a background for a cyberpunk game.
* Deus Ex: Invisible War's OST. Good tracks too.
* Harmony Steel's Shadowrun music

let the bodies hit the flow was always our song for zombie combat.

Ummmmm. I'm thinking you misheard some Lyrics there,

That would be more appropriate for........you know what, I'm just not going to go there...

I got one picky group when it comes to music so some of these were played only once But I think they would have all fit to SR.
Ambient:
Equilibrium soundtrack
Silent Hill soundtracks (needs bit of checking as some are... not too suitable)
Terminator 2 soundtrack
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines soundtrack

for bit faster:
One Must Fall

otherwise I got Metallica, Amorphis, Sentenced, The 69 Eyes, Rage, Nine Inch Nails and Rammstein playing

Mortal Kombat Movie Soundtrack.

As previously stated. Best. Bad. Techno Rock. Evar.

Hell March from Red Alert is good 'get pumped' music, that turns to ambient techno for the second half; it would probably be perfect for a shadowrun fight scene.

Battle Without Honour or Humanity is awesome fight music too.

Some of the tracks from DOOM & DOOM2 make awesome intense ambience, others make great fight music.

Edit: The Terran tracks from starcraft could make good ambient music, and There She Is by Witches could work for a more light-hearted chase scene.

The first few that come to mind are

Rob/White Zombie Remixes
A Perfect Circle Remixes
Linkin Park Remixes
Nine Inch Nails Remixes
Scooter
VnV Nation
Grendal
Mind in a Box
Prodigy
Crystal Method

I've got my Killin music playlist up right now...

Lamb of God: Now You're Got Something To Die For, Laid To Rest, and Ruin
Amon Amarth: Asator, Valhall Awaits Me, With Odin on Our Side, The Crusher, and Pursuit of Vikings
3 Inches of Blood: Deadly Sinners, God Of The Cold White Silence, and The Great Hall of Feasting
Arch Enemy: We Will Rise
Arsis: Carnal Ways to Recreate the Heart
Behemoth: Zos Kia Cultus
Children of Bodom: Tie My Rope, Bed of Razors, Are you Dead Yet, Living Dead Beat, and Lobodomy
Cannibal Corpse: Make Them Suffer
Converge: Eagles Become Vultures
Death: Suicide Machine
Dethklok: Go Forth And Die, Briefcase Full Of Guts, and Bithday Dethday
DevilDriver: Swinging the Dead
Finntroll: Every single song that isn't an instrumental or mellow(I'm listening to Forsvinn Du Som Lyser right now)
Ghoul: As with Finntroll
Job For a Cowboy: Knee Deep and Entombment of a Machine
Rage Against The Machine: As with Finntroll

Yeah, metal all the way.

I currently got several playlist for shadowrun.

1. H3llB3nt: Regress
2.KMFDM: Kraut
3.Holocaust Humanity: Grind Decline
4.Holocaust Humanity: Us Astray
5.Meat Beat Manifesto: No Echo In Space
6.Gravity Kills: Disintegrate
7.H3llB3nt: I am Electro
8.H3llB3nt: 3 Murder, 3 Nights
9.Iron Lung Corp: One In the Clip
10.Meat Beat Manifesto: Suicide
11.Iron Lung Corp: Liquid In the Lungs
12.Killing Joke: Loose Cannon
13.Land of The Dead OST: Military Zone
14.KMFDM: Bumaye
15.OhGr: Majik
16.Ministry: Over the Shoulder
17.Pig: Everything
18:Saul Williams: Sunday Bloody Sunday

I got others that's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

I a mix of both but I try keep it in vein of SR.

Cannibal Corpse is not metal, it is noise. >.>

I have to agree. There's a point when it can't even be considered Troll Metal.

Brutal Death Metal is still metal, like it or not. So is extremely badly produced Black metal. Technically, even though I deny and dislike it intensly, even Nu Metal is still metal.

Go listen to Helloween, Iron Maiden, even Accept or Nightwish, then listen to Cannibal Corpse, or any other black / death 'metal.' They are not the same style of music (and I cringe at using the word 'music' to describe the latter...)

If you want ambient techno, I'd recommend Orbital. Specifically songs like Belfast or Desert Storm. They're bouncy enough to keep you alert but they aren't particularly intrusive beats.