Got any thoughts/questions/concerns for Jonathan Barkan? Shoot him a message on Twitter or on Bloody-Disgusting! Who would call this insanity their heaven? The name is also an aspect that frightened me. This is sheer chaos, unpredictably jumping from frantic drums to paced notes, all while a terrifying pitch-shifted howl screams overhead. What was this scratch that forced the other instruments into silence? My imagination ran wild with that very question.Įverything comes to a header with this track. I was always terrified by that because I never knew what caused the “music” to stop. Suddenly, everything drops out and there is silence. The track opens with strings, pulsating booms in the background, and a strange, goose bump-inducing raspy scratch. The track ends with a piercing tone, almost like a the sound when someone flatlines. And then, when the frantic tribal drums come in, there is this cacophony of screams, a choir shrieking in pain and urging you to run fast, to get away. Be it low pitched, arpeggiated rumblings or shrieking whistles, something is after you. Each instrument creeps in, building in volume and intensity, as though something is coming closer and closer. This track, for me is the perfect Silent Hill representation of a “chase”.
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And yet, there is something incredibly sinister in the air. Towards the middle of this song, there is a bell-like peal, a beacon calling out to offer salvation. Demonic whistling pervades when suddenly a whooshing howl escapes, letting you know that some thing terrifying is just beyond the darkness, ready to pounce out.Ī single windy howl floats ghostlike through this track, while, sporadically, a very, very low rumbling rest underneath, the juxtaposition of air and earth, Heaven and Hell. Pipes clang but, unlike “Hear Nothing”, you are in the middle of them. This track is a build up to something terrifying.
Who was banging those pipes? Where was the sound coming from? Much like the town of Silent Hill, this track was minimal, almost a “ghost town” of a track, ambient noise hovering overhead while pipes clanged distantly in the background, barely emerging from the fog. The reason this track scared me so much was how sparse it was.
It all comes to a fever pitch with those sirens shrieking, warning everyone to get as far away as possible. Then, a maniacal siren comes in, schizophrenically changing pitches followed by violent percussive sounds, an impending doom coming straight for you. It’s the tease that always got to me.Īnother track that builds slowly, this time adding in a wheezing, bellowing sound, like some awful, diseased breathing. And then it simply fades out, leaving without letting you know what it is. Opening with a metallic shaking that snakes in, increasing in speed before suddenly slowing down and fading out, this track builds and builds, hinting that something huge and awful is coming for you. Head on below for a playlist that will make your Halloween party that much more spooky! Since it’s officially Halloween, I wanted to share with you my 8 Scariest Silent Hill 1 Tracks as a way of revisiting the past to one of the most terrifying video games ever released. I was looking over my shoulder as each track unfolded and I felt my nerves begin to stretch and tighten. And as I was listening to Akira Yamaoka‘s Silent Hill 1 OST, which I used to fall asleep to (that probably explains a few things about me…), I felt something that I hadn’t felt from the latest film in any way, shape, or form: fear.
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With the horrible taste that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D left in my mouth, I found myself returning to classic Silent Hill music to remind myself of how amazing the series was (and is, thanks to Downpour ( review)).
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