Poets of the Fall wearing their Old Gods of Asgard mask across three Remedy games and somehow every track sounds like it was always meant to exist inside those worlds. "Children of the Elder God" still goes impossibly hard, this crunching rock anthem that made Alan Wake's cabin fight feel legendary.
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"Take Control" pivoted into industrial-tinged alt-rock for Control and basically stole the entire Ashtray Maze sequence. Then Alan Wake 2 brought "Herald of Darkness," which layers eerie vocal harmonics over driving guitars in a way that's genuinely unsettling.
Nine tracks spanning 2010 to 2023. The way these songs function as both standalone rock bangers and narrative devices within the games is something no other studio has pulled off. If you played any Remedy game and skipped this, what were you even doing.