Dark ambient drones and industrial hum seeping out of your speakers like radiation. Fallout 1 came out in 1997 on DOS and Windows, and this Redbook soundtrack is one of the most atmospheric things the late 90s PC scene ever produced.
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"Metallic Monks" sets the tone immediately with eerie chanting and metallic scraping that sounds like a cathedral in a junkyard. "Vats Of Goo" is pure body horror in audio form. Wet, bubbling, deeply uncomfortable. Then "City Of The Dead" drops this hollow, windswept desolation that just sits with you.
The whole album lives in the spaces between sounds. Long silences, distant rumbles, the occasional unsettling melody that dissolves before you can hold onto it. If you have ever wanted to know what nuclear fallout sounds like as background music, this is the answer.