Raw, crunchy, late-90s industrial rock that still sounds like the future went wrong. Kelly Bailey composed the original Half-Life soundtrack in 1998 and nothing about it has aged. "Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar" is the track everyone remembers, that distorted riff kicking in right when soldiers start shooting at you.
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"Nuclear Mission Jam" hits even harder, pure combat adrenaline with a groove that has no business being this tight. Then there's the other side. "Space Ocean" drifts into alien ambience, "Nepal Monastery" goes eerily meditative, and "Dimensionless Deepness" is Xen in audio form.
"Traveling Through Limbo" makes the borderworld feel genuinely infinite. "Steam In The Pipes" is ambient tension perfected. You hear it and you're back in Black Mesa, crowbar in hand. If you've somehow never listened to this outside the game, fix that tonight.