User blog:Le Rottweiler/Your favourite Quake song(s)

It looks like we don’t have any topics discussing our favourite songs in the Quake series. Let’s fix that.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve listened to any of the music of the later entries, so I’m unqualified to comment on them. I do know that Trent Reznor, Jeehun Hwang and Aubrey Hodges all did some mighty fine work, but the tones of their musics are different. If I had to go with an absolute favourite, I’d select this:

Track 006: The Journey / Parallel Dimensions

Many of Reznor’s tracks have horrific or disturbing tones to them, but track 006 is something of an outlier because it feels more ‘casual’ compared to the other works. It’s industrial, slightly upbeat, and slightly eerie, which made it perfect for the Earth levels in Quake. Many of the songs would sound unusual in a normal context, but I think that track 006 would perform the best in them. In fact, I wrote this post whilst hearing it.

What about you? What are your favourites from the Quake series? Do you have an absolute?