Matthew S Burns composed this like he was scoring a war documentary that never existed. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45's soundtrack captures the Eastern Front with this heavy, somber orchestral palette that never romanticizes what it's depicting.
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"Operation Barbarossa" rolls in with militaristic brass and building tension, while "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" takes that old Latin phrase about dying for your country and wraps it in music that sounds more like mourning than glory.
"Na Beregu Reki Volgi" shifts perspective to the Soviet side with these darker, more desperate tones. The whole thing feels like frozen mud and gray skies. If you play tactical shooters for the atmosphere, this is the soundtrack that actually earns it.