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Personally I'm not really into the song they chose for this trailer. The vocals actually made it hard to hear the dialog. It also just seems like the wrong feel--I guess they were trying to make it more "fun" and lighthearted instead of dark and scary?

There was only 1 spot where vocals were overlapping dialog, it was at the end where Mara Sov (The Queen) said, "It is all up to you now." Every other piece of dialog had the the song (Black Dog) muted.

Not really into that song they chose they chose for the trailer? Meaning, the song or the combination of it & the trailer? BTW, you're wrong. ;-) Whenever 2 things I'm a 'blind' fanboy over come together it's the greatest thing ever, and this is one of them. :-D

Edit: Adding more winks and smilies to make it clear offense is not intended and I'm just joking, but you're still wrong. :) ;) :)
Edit2: And so is Cody (#CodyIsWrong)

But, if they are trying to establish a thing where they're the video game with the Zeppelin music then whatever. They should definitely have picked a different song, though.

I liked last year's live action trailer with the Zeppelin music. It captured the feeling of dashing around the galaxy, shooting monsters with your friends. It was light-hearted and fun. It worked because they had another trailer that focused on the epic space-opera angle, with intense gameplay and dramatic music.

This trailer feels like they took both approaches and smashed them together, which doesn't fit at all IMO.

That being said, the game itself looks totally rad :)

And I'm a huge Zeppelin fan.

I'm going to try and track down some proper music to replace the classic rock.

Not having English as my native language, I usually completely ignore the meaning of the lyrics and just enjoy the sounds it makes. I call it "music mode".

As a somewhat good English speaker, I can sometimes do that with music in my own language too. It helps a lot, considering how cringe-worthy some of our lyrics are.

I'm pretty sure someone in marketing who has never played the game got a boner for that song, and someone else in production who has never met or heard of the marketing guy picked all of the clips they could use, and some poor guy at a trailer house got the files and then stabbed himself in the ears, resulting in this commercial being edited purely based on where the drum beats were in a visual timeline.

At least up until the ear stabbing, I'm 90% certain that's how it went down.

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... but easily the best song every written about Batman Forever ;p

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It does look a bit like a stale cheese hat...

I keep forgetting you Xbox people haven't played the Psion Flayer strike.

Regarding the mixing of universes, I thought it really worked for The Law of the Jungle trailer back before launch. I thought that was fantastic, but that's also because it tied itself well to the Destiny universe and provided an insight into who our Guardians are and what values they held.

I don't think the music does the same thing at all.

While I have the same reaction as you to both trailers, I think the music is actually supposed to do something completely different: make the game feel light and fun. The story may be ominous and brooding, but the game play is filled with friends laughing with each other. Now, there was obvious comradery in the prelaunch film which is not shown here, so it seems less obvious. But I bet you the music was chosen to convey game play emotion and not story emotion. Given that the trailers to date have focused on story and not gameplay, I don't think the trailer is completely uncalled for.