"My Heaven" from Silent Hill on the Playstation (1999)
Silent Hill Original Soundtrack
Composed By: Akira Yamaoka
Record Label: Konami
Game Developer: Konami
Confession time. I have not played Silent Hill yet. I have the game on my PSP, but I would really like to play the game in a darkened room with headphones and I haven't had too many times available that would not make me look/seem like a creep. But I did acquire the soundtrack awesomely enough from a Silent Hill community website.
So not having played the game, I have no emotional or nostalgic attachment to any of the songs, which was somewhat nice when I first listened through the soundtrack. The song "My Heaven" stuck out to me among all the other great styled songs that you would be happy to find on any well crafted horror soundtrack. I think what it was for me was the static/white noise/drone that ran through the song while rusted metallic drums were frantically drummed in the back/foreground.
I could probably analyze this song and infer meaning where there isn't, especially not having played the game. And then there's the obvious contrast between the sounds in the song with the title. I just think it's a great, unsettling song.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
All I Heard Was An Unearthly Silence
I love how much I hate this song. It is very effective.
ReplyDeleteI would like to hear what you think when you play Silent Hill. I didn't make it very far-- out of a combination of terror and poor grasp of the controls.