Thick, grimy blues guitar over pounding drums that sound like they were recorded in a coffin. DEADBOLT is a 2016 stealth-action game about being the Grim Reaper, and the soundtrack sells every second of that premise. "Now I Am Become Death" opens with this slow burn menace that sets the tone for the whole thing, while "Blood on the Dancefloor" picks up the pace with a groove you'd expect from a bar full of vampires.
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"Reaper (and) Blues" is the track that ties it all together, raw and distorted and weirdly soulful. The whole OST lives in this space between noir jazz and garage rock that has no business working as well as it does. Every track feels like a smoke-filled room at 3AM.
Something dangerous just out of frame. If you ever wanted to know what death sounds like with a guitar in hand, press play.