Trent Reznor made a soundtrack that sounds like a nail gun feels. Quake's 1996 score is Nine Inch Nails filtered through Lovecraftian nightmare fuel, all industrial drones, feedback loops, and textures that make you forget music is supposed to have melody.
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"The Hall of Souls" is just this massive reverberating space filled with distant metallic groaning and what might be voices. "Parallel Dimensions" pulses with a slow mechanical heartbeat under layers of corrosive noise. Then "Damnation" strips everything to raw ambient terror.
Ten tracks, none of them comforting. The NIN logo on the nail ammo boxes wasn't just an easter egg, it was a warning about how deep Reznor went into this thing. If you've never heard it, you've been missing one of the most committed horror scores in gaming.