During worst part of Covid pandemic people were hoarding toilet paper. Shelfs were empty everywhere. Our small shop received one transfer cage of paper.. and went in to the shop with it. Search for "Day of the dead intro". Cage was almost empty when I arrived at our paper shelfs..
I like to imagine valve hired a band, gave them the most potent drugs available and let them loose in a recording studio, and thus the hoard themes were made
It was Mike Morasky and the concentrated power of the Valve Orchestra just goin off Fun fact: The Midnight Riders are just friends of Mike who decided to fill the roles of the 4 Musicians
I can't hear the song properly with the sound of 3 obnoxiously loud M16's rapid firing and my little puny hunting rifle being drowned out by the M16's being drilled into my brain.
Lol why would you use a hunting rifle? Truth be told tho, the horde soundtracks are really good.... I can understand how L4D was really good not only as a coop game but as an intense, nerve-racking zombie game. The soundtrack was a big part of it and almost everyone knows that
This is wonderful to hear at long last! I don't play video games. So, I had absolutely no idea what my parts in the creation of this sound track sounded like once the work was completed. I was hired to sit in a music studio for 8 hours to record parts for the soundtrack of this game. And what I didn't realize, until just now, listening to this is, how the music director was recording me during my warm up exercises and took pieces of what I was doing, in between takes, when I wasn't even aware that I was being recorded. Then, he chopped up what I played and digitally manipulated them via sampling them, to create these arrangements. That's me playing musical saw during the Dark Carnival theme and that's me again playing bottleneck slide style using my homemade resophonic guitar for the Hard Rain theme. I've got to share this on my Facebook page and other websites.
@@lobaandrade7172 I played only the musical saw parts for the Dark Carnival theme. I don't know any of the other musical artists who contributed their talents to the soundtrack. And I was also invited to play acoustic bottleneck slide guitar for the Hard Rain theme.
Not sure I can believe you because it's the internet but if it's true, you've given alot of people happy memories dude. Hope life's on your side, Goodluck.
Yep, I was the acoustic guitarist who was invited to play this part for the soundtrack. Thanks for sharing that my efforts have been a positive influence on so many others. Life is a challenge but I persist in my creative pursuits and my endeavors continue to reap rewards beyond my imagining. Many thanks.
Swamp Fever's theme never fails to make me feel uncomfortable. The sound of the violins being aggressively played makes me cringe while striking fear into me at the same time
Dead center: black Friday from hell Dark Carnival: alien invasion going on? The passing: ahhh my ears! Swamp fever: all I hear is violins Hard rain: me in a rain Strom with no umprella The parish: marching band running with us?
Dead Center sounds like a typical Black Friday Dark Carnival sounds like someone tripping over a bunch of boiling tea kettles Swamp Fever sounds like murdering a violin class with a violin Hard Rain sounds like you angered a group of hillbillies who insist on chasing you down a hill while playing the banjo The Parish sounds like your running from the horde with your own personal not so good marching band behind you This is why the L4D soundtrack is so good
The community: wow the unsync instruments stand for the horde running at you chaotically The artists that wasnt sure what they were doing: *yes* edit: I beg the people in this replies to search up the definition of a joke
The walking dead: Many survivors kills over thousands zombies throughout all seasons and episodes Left 4 dead: 4 survivors Kills over 95396 zombies in 5 campaigns
@@Jokester1990-ri3jl thing is TWD Survivors arent trying to go anywhere. They try to stay away from the dead, while L4D's have to face the dead and are trying to get to a certain destination. Plus, I don't see Coach, Nick, Rochelle, Ellis being community leaders anytime soon
coming from someone who’s been too *plenty* of those, the music is really fitting. felt super weird seeing a place i’ve been too so frequently completely overrun. louisiana is never really shown in media, so it’s cool when we get some rep :)
to me it sounds that Dead Center is the most coordinated out of all of them. the others sound like just random instruments together, while Dead Center sounds like you are actually getting chased.
@@randymarsh9488 ik this is a old comment but nah back 4 blood is a mess, all of the simplicity and chaos of left 4 dead 2 is gone. they added items etc
Dead center: Worst black Friday of the year Dark Carnival: Cursed police siren Swamp fever: Playing violins for the first time Hard rain: Rushing to get inside The parish: A game of tag in a Mexican party
11:53 The Parish sounds like the Ed, Edd, & Eddy soundtrack on 6 lines of cocaine with a dash of crack. sounds like the trumpet guy is having a seizure. i swear i start laughing everytime this theme comes on when i play because of this
What I love from these is the expression of tension, pressure and danger they all have, from the rough bass (3:47), the intense drums, and the main map theme melody. While hearing it as itself might feel empty, with the fireshots, the groans, the screams, the hits and the survivors, it fits just so well
Dead Center: you missed the evacuation and are left in the ruins of Savannah Dark Carnival: A place once filled with joy has become filled with dread Swamp Fever: even in the bayous and marshes of the deep South you are not safe from the pandemic Hard Rain: even in the apocalypse Mother Nature's wrath is relentless The Parish: the birthplace of jazz could not hold out but there is still chance to escape this grave
If what everyone says is true, that the people who playing the instruments had no idea what they were doing and everything was out of sync, then it perfectly describes the hoard running at the players chaoticly. The hoard is trying to get the uninfected all at the same time without any thoughts on team coordination, complete chaos, like the music.
or they were told to be as chaotic but chaotically sync at the same time (the tempo of each instruments sure don't match but they implement each other in a way that's it's comprehensible)
map description Dead Center: Prices Aren't the Only Trings Getting Slashed Dark Carnival: You must de this tal... TO DIE Swamp Fever: THE ONLY CURE IS DYING Hard hain: Come Hell and High Wather The Parish: THIS TIME IT ALL GOS SOUTH
I love the way all of the different instruments used in these soundtracks sound all jumbled and chaotic, it goes so well with the high tension when fighting off hordes. I love it!
I hate when people defend Back 4 Blood to the death, like yeah you’re allowed to enjoy whatever games you like but do you really want to be supporting such laziness in the industry? By supporting a game that is objectively lesser in so many regards than a game that came out over a fucking decade ago, you’re also supporting the ever slipping standards in the gaming industry. And people wonder why modern gaming has become so shit
They did. The Parish with its trumpets reminiscent towards its culture. (See the song ‘The saints will come’) Swamp Fever with its fiddle copying its hillbilly swamp culture. Dead Center with its neutral guitar Dark Carnival with its synthesizer going with the out of world nature and homage to clown culture
Personally Dead Center for me was the best second would be Dark Carnival. Dark Carnival just had the creepiest microtonal vibes with the weirdest time signature/beat of them all
Dead Center theme: Black Friday and Shopping in Mall theme Dark Carnival: Alien Invasion Swamp Fever: Late in Class and running to school Hard Rain: Classmates drumming the table The Parish : Intended for our Funeral. Also intended for killing someone and attending their Funeral
*Thousands of zombies climb over it, Chargers accidently charge into it, Hunters land on it.* *Alarm car:* ... *Francis' arm hair barely touches it.* *Alarm car:* ⚠ HERE THEY COME! ⚠
Dead center sounds like a southern scuffle, dark carnival sounds like a broken toy, sounds like a souther SWAMP scuffle(and my favorite), hard rain sounds like a very western or wild confrontation, school band class
How to make a zombie horde theme for a Left 4 Dead game: Step 1: Get a lot of percussion, brass and stringed instruments. Step 2: Find a group of 12 musicians. Step 3: Tell the musicians who play stringed instruments to use a slide and just mess around. Step 4: Tell the percussionists to make up a little beat like they would on a test in school and do it on percussion as violently as possible. Step 5: Tell the brass musicians to make up a 15 seconds solo or less that sounds kinda funky and repeat them over and over. Step 6: Introduce percussion first, then brass and then stringed instruments. (for bonus points in other themes change the order) There you go, you've just made an award winning music theme for a game!
@@saveusm1saki726 no it's amazing, nowadays modern games get like 1 - 2k players average and dies like in a few months so having a 10 - 20k+ players even after a few years is a lot.
It's been said before, but I really do think about how neat it is that the music is chaotic and messy to represent the pure rage and anger in the common horde.
The Un synchronization just fits with your team trying to kill every zombie, not knowing that you’re all far apart and when you do it’s too late and you have to kill the zombies around you by yourself. Edit: Also “God damnit jerry, this is against Zombies, stop playing your alien noises!”
