Style: video game music, dark ambient, noise
Primary Emotions/Themes: pray you don't get lost in the fog
Thoughts: The Silent Hill soundtrack are some of the absolute best in all of video games. While the later albums show a more musical quality to them, the first soundtrack is largely noise and ambient in it's approach, making it a lot less accessible than the follow up albums.
After the intro music, there really isn't much in the soundtrack besides industrial noises, screams, banging, clanking etc throughout the rest of the soundtrack. It really is as unsettling as the game is, especially considering how pleasant the other game soundtracks are in comparison.
Silent Hill's soundtrack is not an album you put on to have a good time. It's not something that you would voluntarily listen to more often than not. It's a challenging album that borders on noise for most of it's run time. Listener beware.
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