Industrial metal riffs crashing into electronic beats and it immediately makes you want to build a tank army. Frank Klepacki's Red Alert soundtrack is one of the most aggressive scores in 90s PC gaming and it still goes off.
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Hell March is legendary for a reason, that stomping beat and distorted guitar riff became the sound of RTS warfare overnight. Crush keeps the intensity up with relentless percussion and these gnarly synth textures that feel like machinery grinding.
Then Workmen pulls back into something more atmospheric, industrial ambiance that soundtracks base-building perfectly. Run is just. Pure adrenaline and no apologies. The whole album treats a Cold War strategy game like a metal concert and somehow it works flawlessly.
If you played RTS games in the 90s and this doesn't trigger immediate nostalgia, check your pulse.