The Witcher 3 is my favourite game ever. I finished the main story a month ago, went back and read all the books (which are fantastic by the way, at least if your translation is good. I've heard the English translation is unfortunately not that well done. German one is really good, though.) Now I'm replaying the whole game series and it's amazing how many small details and references there are to the books. Also, this is the only game (and one of very few things ever) that gave me chills for 2 hours straight and made me tear up so that I could hardly read my dialogue options at one particular moment (which was pretty sucky, since it was a timed dialogue
). Such fantastic characters, so much great content, no filler, amazing graphics, really good gameplay at least in my opinion) and a great story to add to that. You can feel the developers really cared about making this as good as possible.
Didn't play much gwent, though. But I will in my second playthrough.
Also, I recognize none of these bands or songs, and my guess is that won't change as the full names are revealed.