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Overview

I've been digging around in the extracted audio files for Borderlands 3, with an eye to figuring out what songs aren't present in the official soundtracks, and putting together some extra playlists for my own purposes. Specifically, practically none of the songs with lyrics (generally from "real" bands instead of hired composers) appear on the soundtracks, which means that none of the Crimson Radio tracks are on there, or the intro cinematic song by The Heavy, or any of the songs that pop up in the credits. Also missing are a few in-game tracks like the electroswing track in VR-0N1CA's construction area, Ellie's "Project DD" playlist in Neon Arterial, and the track from the Baby Dancer mission.

So, this basically serves as a master list of all those "real-band" songs which exist in the game, and the raw sound file names that they map to. Practically all of this information is available scattered around various places online -- I've not really done much new investigation work myself. I do think it's the first time the authoritative soundfile-to-song mappings have been posted for some of these, though, so at least there's that, and I believe that this'll be the first time all this info's been posted in a single location, rather than having it spread out over a number of sources.

I've attempted to link to online sources for as many of these as possible. I link to Bandcamp when possible, though in some cases that's not possible. I don't generally link to streaming services since I don't use any of those. Some tracks, alas, appear to be entirely unavailable online, though that's most common for what seem like internal GBX employee tracks. If I'm missing any links that would be useful, please let me know and I'll add 'em in!

Data extraction for sound files is well-known (you could also use the methods used by the hotfix modding community). Once you've got the .wem and .bnk files extracted, you'll see that they're all named incomprehensibly with just strings of numbers. The wwiser utility, in conjunction with this BL3 name-mapping file can be used to associate those files to more human-readable names, which get output as .txtp files, which might end up combining multiple .wem files into a single song/track. The majority of the songs here just have a single .wem file, and you can convert those to .ogg by using ww2ogg and ReVorb. Playing more complex .txtp files can be done with the vgmstream project, which is also another way to play (or convert) .wem files directly.

Crimson Radio Songs

Aeternam

Blind the Huntsmen

Matthew Tote

These tracks are labelled as "Caleb Tote," who appears to possibly be a GBX employee, though I found 'em online as Matthew Tote instead.

Crimson

Jo Drolet

Credited as "Jonathan Drolet" in the game credits, but public references seem to prefer Jo. Pretty sure that Jo Drolet was a GBX employee at the time, so these were "internally generated" tracks. They don't seem to be available anywhere online anywhere, so the track names are just assumed from the TXTP filenames.

  • What If
    • Drolet_What_If.txtp
    • 271517257.wem
  • Worry Free
    • Drolet_Worry_Free.txtp
    • 531956279.wem

ESC

Ghosts From Home

This band's contributed songs to prior Borderlands titles too, though they've been extremely inactive online since 2014 or so, and I couldn't find any mention of these tracks anywhere. Possibly produced specifically for BL3, or just unreleased music from an album that's not yet released? Anyway, song titles are just inferred from those TXTP filenames. The band does have various online resources available, at least: Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Facebook.

  • Dead
    • GhostsFromHome_Dead.txtp
    • 165301299.wem
  • Drive
    • GhostsFromHome_Drive.txtp
    • 100503335.wem
  • Floods
    • GhostsFromHome_Floods.txtp
    • 504893192.wem
  • The Great and Powerful
    • GhostsFromHome_TheGreatAndPowerful.txtp
    • 695404200.wem

Hillward

Hunt the Shark

James Dwyer

James Dwyer appears to be a GBX employee; this is a silly electronic track built around the sampled line "Guns that shoot guns." Title's just inferred from the TXTP filename and embellished by myself.

  • Give Me All Your Guns
    • James_Dwyer_Give_Me_All.txtp
    • 533694317.wem

Jeremy Neroes

Jeremy Neroes appears to be a GBX employee as well; he's got a soundcloud presence and one of these, at least, is available online there.

The Capsules

Man Mountain

Midnight Revel

Raison Varner

Raison Varner's a GBX employee who's been a pretty major contributor to the symphonic soundtracks of a few Borderlands games, and appears on the official soundtracks as well. The track names here are just inferred from the TXTP titles, and don't appear to be available anywhere online.

  • Angry Mouth
    • Raison_Varner_Angry_Mouth.txtp
    • 305863583.wem
    • Pretty silly track built off of some vocal samples
  • Cloud Ocean (v2)
    • Raison_Varner_Cloud_Ocean_v2.txtp
    • 374180958.wem
  • GBX Ultra Flying Music
    • Raison_Varner_GBX_Ultra_Flying_Music.txtp
    • 277140055.wem
    • Chiptunes!

Arure

Collab. with Raison Varner; the sound cue name / TXTP name groups this specifically as Raison Varner, in fact.

captainkeytar

Sean Ahern

Sean Ahern appears to be a GBX employee; many of these are built around sampled vocals from Borderlands games. The track names here are just inferred from the TXTP filenames; they don't appear to be generally available online.

  • Chamber Maiden
    • Sean_Ahern_ChamberMaiden.txtp
    • 293569682.wem
  • Claptrap Rap
    • Sean_Ahern_Claptrap_Rap.txtp
    • 957392246.wem
  • Claptrap's Dubstep Song
    • Sean_Ahern_ClaptrapsDubstepSong.txtp
    • 177410924.wem
  • Claptune: The Wall Sphincters
    • Sean_Ahern_ClapTuneTheWallSphincters.txtp
    • 1038150521.wem
  • Frostbite
    • Sean_Ahern_Frostbite.txtp
    • 752098460.wem
  • Salvador Gets Down
    • Sean_Ahern_SalvadorGetsDown.txtp
    • 1065269571.wem
  • Sanctuary (I Think I Might Stay)
    • Sean_Ahern_Sanctuary_IThinkIMightStay.txtp
    • 556033462.wem
  • Take Refuge
    • Sean_Ahern_TakeRefuge.txtp
    • 195732664.wem
  • The Soothing Sounds
    • Sean_Ahern_TheSoothingSounds.txtp
    • 430945332.wem

Somewhere Here

The Axes of Kane

Couldn't find any info about these folks other than the member names, from the game credits: Jeff Davis and Tony Martinez. Track name's just inferred from the TXTP filename.

  • Bandit Pre-Raid
    • The_Axes_of_Kane_Bandit_Pre_Raid.txtp
    • 877343729.wem

The Five Hands

I could only find one of these tracks online, from the band's official site.

Wandermine

No Bandcamp, alas, though the tracks are available on Amazon.

Cinematic/Credits Music

Many of these feature a single .txtp file which references multiple .wems to construct the full credits music sequences, though sometimes it's a bit different.

Intro Cinematic

Base Game Credits

  • Mus_Credits_GirlOnFire.txtp
    • Alicia Keys / Girl on Fire
    • 398067457.wem
    • I'll leave it to the reader to track this one down, since they're a bigger name.
  • Mus_Credits_Section2_Start.txtp
    • The first .wem file in here is about 30 min of "symphonic" official soundtrack stuff. The next two are Actual Songs.
    • Cage the Elephant / Trouble
      • 16608304.wem
      • I'll leave it to the reader to track this one down, since they're a bigger name.
    • Tyreen doing a jazzy scat version of Claptrap's "stealth time!" sequence from Covenant pass
      • 926395753.wem
      • Not available online that I'm aware of

DLC1 (Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot) Credits

This is the first place (in this list) that we run into some tracks from the Beat Swing series of albums, which seem to be geared specifically at licensing for remixes and inclusion in media like video games? They're made by someone who's alternately credited as "Mr.Edwardz" or just "Robert Edwards". I'll use the latter for crediting here. There's the original version of that, but then also a whole series of remix versions.

DLC2 (Guns, Love, and Tentacles) Credits

DLC3 (Bounty of Blood) Credits

  • Mus_Ger_EndCredits_Start.txtp
    • The first two .wem files in here are just "symphonic" soundtrack stuff
    • Then there is: Matt Cox And Jerry Jewell / When The Hunter Comes To Town
      • This is split between nine .wem files; the first eight are various bits of the vocals, whereas the last is the instrumental:
        • 221977428.wem
        • 259647013.wem
        • 323814835.wem
        • 505085173.wem
        • 517076406.wem
        • 529933439.wem
        • 558059219.wem
        • 822332084.wem
        • 831884463.wem
      • This track is actually available from the official Bounty of Blood soundtrack, though weirdly not from the Amazon mp3-download version. The Juno Download version has it, though.

DLC4 (Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck) Credits

Other Songs

DLC1: Steel Dragon of Eternal Pain

This is the metalhead who gets annoyed by Digby Vermouth recording his new track, in that sidequest in the DLC. The .wem files here are only really a snippet of the full track.

Baby Dancer

This is the track from the base game side quest mission Baby Dancer. It's split up between multiple .txtp files, and multiple .wem files as well, so it'd be difficult to stitch together properly without vgmstream and probably some TXTP editing. Regardless:

Ellie's "Project DD" Playlist

This is the sequence with Maya, driving a Technical through Neon Arterial on your way to The Rampager. There's a single TXTP file which references four .wems. Three of the tracks have been identified, but one continues to elude discovery: reddit discussion, gearbox forums.

Claptrap + VR-0N1CA Dance

This is the song you can trigger in the closet on Sanctuary where Claptrap is repairing Veronica. I think it's supposed to trigger somewhat late in the process, but the only time I've ever seen the button work is before you do much Veronica repairing at all. Weird. Anyway, the full song spans a couple of TXTPs, and a couple of .wems. It's another track from that "Beat Swing" series of albums that were first mentioned up in the DLC1 credits section above.

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