There's this restless industrial drone running through the whole thing that makes your skin crawl in the best way. Rod Abernethy's score for id Software's Rage lives in the space between ambient tension and full-throttle wasteland aggression.
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"Ghost Hideout" layers these distorted guitar textures over rattling percussion that sounds like metal scraping concrete. Then you hit "Deep In The Wastelands" and the driving sections open up into something almost meditative, dust and distance.
"Dead City" is where the score goes full survival horror, low frequencies pressing against silence until combat erupts. The combat tracks don't let up either, all crunchy distortion and urgency. If you ever wanted a post-apocalyptic road trip playlist that actually commits to the desolation, this is it.