Egyptian-flavored electronic rock that defined what Serious Sam sounds like and still holds up twenty years later. The First Encounter's OST nails this balance between ambient exploration tracks and fight music that kicks in the moment enemies appear.
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"Valley of the Kings" sits in this tense atmospheric space before "Dunes" opens up into something bigger. The fight tracks are where it really goes off. "The Ride of the Marsh Hoppers" and "Marshfreakinhoppers" are two different flavors of panic set to music.
"Ugh Zan III" is a boss theme that earns its exclamation. The 2020 release cleaned up the audio without losing the original energy. If you've never heard the soundtrack that started Sam's whole deal, these twenty-four tracks are the foundation everything else built on.