Absolutely filthy metal riffs over retro shooter chaos. Nightmare Reaper's soundtrack by Andrew Hulshult is the audio equivalent of circle-strafing through a room full of demons while laughing. "Lucid Mayhem" opens with this chugging guitar tone that immediately tells you what kind of game this is.
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"Intravenous Animosity" has some of the nastiest breakdowns on the whole record, and every track title reads like a medical chart from hell. "Necrotic Optimism" somehow makes that contradiction work sonically. Heavy but almost...
fun? The way it mixes 90s shooter energy with modern metal production is exactly right for a game that's basically "what if DOOM had a Game Boy in the menu." If you play boomer shooters, you already know this one rips.