Left 4 Dead 2 | HORDE THEME | All Campaigns 

These don't sound the same without the sounds of shotguns, automatic weapons fire, explosions and the characters shouting out names of random special infected.

Valve sound designers be like: Ayo just break the instrument and record it

People asked me “Why does it sound so mixed up and crunched together.” I say, “What do you think of when your fighting hundreds of the undead running full sprint, multiple wounds over your body, drugs coursing through your veins, with nothing but a gun, explosive, and a side weapon. Now think of that with this music.”

I love how the Passing's Horde music is using L4D1s Horde theme as a base since this is where you meet the L4D1 survivors. Small things like that are amazing.

You can tell that the audio designers were going bananas on the instrument samples. They were cutting, shifting and sticking them back together like a frankenstein monster. They make no sense and resemble no cohesive melody. It represents true chaos and danger. That rough sound that plays in the background and repeats itself is meant to act as an alarm to make you feel absolutely out of control and paranoid. The pitch is always high, which resembles a tone that a child would make, instantly grabbing your attention and making you focus on the music instead of what's in front of you. The rawness of the instruments used, such as the uncoordinated symphony of the violins creates a grotesque and wild feeling of danger, agony, unfiltered anger and an unexplainable expectation of an upcoming, gross, filthy and painful demise. It lets the listener fill in the holes in their own knowledge of what is to come and what is the current situation. A truly powerful move.

I like how the drums are included in all of the horde themes as the drums represent the violent rush of the zombies footsteps while the other instruments reflect on the location the survivors are in.

I love how they incorporated New Orleans music into the actual soundtrack

The fact that the music creators took their time to make custom themes for each map

Probably the best soundtrack in gaming, simply because it had an actual mechanical purpose to convey vital information for split second decisions whilst enhancing the mood and storytelling of the scene, in real time.

I really like the beginning sounds It really perks up a bit the creepy and scaryness of the game.

Props to the drummers who performed these beats They are all amazing.

Swamp Fever: I am the loudest The Passing: Hold my beer

The Hard Rain one is top tier

the passing's horde theme gives me anxiety

Dark Carnival's horde theme reminds me of a slide-whistle Actually, considering the Clowns attract and enrage the Common Infected, it makes me think of an undead Clown dancing around, playing his out-of-tune whistle, summoning a horde to ruin someones day Like a demonic pied piper

My god the horde themes are brilliant

swamp fever is scary,sad and stress inducing, its the best amongst other hord themes.

dead-center= angry hill billy on black friday the passing= dying cat on a keyboard dark carnival=alien invasion swamp fever= swamp monster coming to get your ass Hard rain= very hard rain The parish= person that simultaneously does and does not know what they are doing with a trumpet.

the starting scream of the hordes always scare me because: *how do they scream that loud and sound like that*

I think Hard Rain out of all of these is the most cohesive due to how the backing drumline matches the central banjo. But when it falls apart, it falls apart HARD....

fun fact everyone probably knows by now : each horde song will sound different since each campaign has a library of songs to use for the horde theme

Dark Carnival: You must be this tall... TO DIE! Short People: I am alive, is nice, yes this is stupid

dark carnival feels like a broken attraction,maybe its what the sound designers wanted to do

There’s always a feeling down my spine when the horde comes

What i like about The Passing horde theme is that it plays apart of the LFD1 horde theme at 4:39 Because the LFD1 Casts are seen on this Campaigns Nice Details.

I cannot stress enough about how cool it is that Valve would make each individual campaign it's own horde theme to match the environment

Why does it feel like the producers gave the musicians too much energy drinks.

i like the music of the parish because it sounds like the end of the adventure, while fitting with the nar'lens setting the trumpet indicating you CANNOT give up yet! keep fighting those infected until you see it through to the end!

I love the parish horde theme because I honestly think the trumpet sounds great

Once joined a public match, and kept on hearing "PUKE IN THE HOLE!" "FIGHT AMONGST YOURSELVES!" "INCOMING!" from Nick every freaking time he found a Bile bomb. Not one bile bomb was left on the map.

This game is such a masterpiece Probably the best zombie horror game to ever exist in the world, I still love playing this game since I was 7 years old

Dark Carnival sounds like an alien invasion, a broken carnival radio, and an EAS scenario.

I love the slogans for each map cover

Hard rain is my favorite it just sounds so good

This game had the best soundtrack of any zombie game Ive ever played, I'd even say any game too. The music never took away from the experience infact added to it, one does not play l4d without headphones on

i also really enjoy hard rain bc of the homage to L4D2’s main theme, that banjo really gives that feeling that “this is the thick of it, THIS is the worst to come” as even the natural elements of nature become your enemy against the hordes of disgusting, puke-filled, acid covered, mud-drenched, blood smothered zombies.

The Passing a fusion of L4D1 Horde Theme and an Orchestra Piano on steroids.

the thing i appreciate most about the parish's music the most is that it's not just any old trumpet sound, it's that specific mardi gras marching band/new orleans jazz tone

The Passing's theme is really creepy. Imagine this was Dark Carnival's theme.

the dead center and the parish are the best soundtrack I've ever heard

I would listening to the Hard Rain dobro for good hours. This is just masterpiece. This soundtrack made dobro my favourite instrument...

Dark Carnival is a weird one with the flute/ saw(?) sound, making it sound alien or ghost like but whenever I hear it, it reminds me of one of those alarms you may hear go off at an amusement park when a ride breaks or when it gives warning to step back from the track. The theme is mostly heard when running on the rollercoaster track and I always thought of it as a alarm, warning to step off the track as fast as you can.

Imagine an actual L4D movie series with those posters

Guy on guitar or whatever instrument that is for hard rain was killin it. Plus drums go hard on every one of these

Fun facts for people, the horde music is RNG, and all the instruments are all recorded, then played by the AI Director in the game. So whenever you play the game, the horde music with sound slightly different every time, if you could only hear the music, but the sounds are so loud you can almost never hear the music.

The passing one fills me with so much anxiety

If your in expert, horde calls is the least thing you wanna hear

Left 4 dead 2 horde music is what I like to call “ aggressive southern”

Every hoard theme in the game is amazing. They all do an excellent job at building tension as you try to fight off the horde and push back this nightmare.

Many people shooting at once with really loud guns dose not attract zombies but poring gas into a car does

I love how each one of them got its own thematic touch depending on the place they are supposed to be played, smth they didn't do in the first game, left 4 dead franchise is just a pretty piece of jewellery

The music of this game is great. When you hear the horde themes out of game it might sound funny, but in the game it is absolutely terrifying. Really shifts in tone.

Dead Center: almost sound in hard rain ig The Passing: Someone died in the hospital Dark Carnival: ghosts everywhere Swamp Fever: Playing A Violin in off tune Hard Rain: wild west rock star music The Parish: Who drank lots of coffee and the trumpet goes wild

The passings start sounds so much like cyriaks songs he puts in his videos

The guy doing the Swamp Fever theme just went fucking nuts and incorporated the Epileptic Techno into this theme.

0:16 what the retail workers hear when it's black friday

Its very interesting in Parish theme, the trumpet never play a complete song but chopped samples. In game I never notice that (probably wouldnt notice that anyway due to high concentration on the game). But now even listen to it in a completely calm setting, it is not weird to listen to. Personally its actually fitting and giving a uncontrolable/messy feeling

Everytime I tune to these themes, I always feel that a horde is coming after me.

The start of the passing is so aggressive, i love it

I feel like I'm swinging a melee weapon right now.. " Yea I'm ready, Y'all ready? "

I like how dead center’s horde theme kinda makes you feel like you’re going on higher floors on a staircase, basically the last 2 chapters.

The artist who performed the musical saw in Dark Carnival and the guitar in Hard Rain his name is Reggie Mills.

Left 4 Dead 2 all campaigns Horde Theme Variants . ////. . ///// . Dead////////Center Horde Theme Variants . ////// . . ///// . 0:00 ambience 0:15 Germs 0:18 Horde screams/here they come! 0:24 death drums 1 0:30 death drums and banjo 1 0:35 death drums and banjo 2 0:41 death drums and banjo 3 0:47 death drums and banjo 4 0:52 death drums banjo and horde slayer 1 0:58 death drums banjo and horde slayer 2 1:04 death drums and banjo 5 1:09 death drums and banjo 6 1:15 death drums and banjo 7 1:20 death drums and banjo 8 1:26 death drums banjo and horde slayer 3 1:32 death drums banjo and horde slayer 4 1:37 death drums and banjo 9 1:43 death drums and banjo 10 1:48 death drums and banjo 11 1:54 death drums and banjo 12 2:00 death drums banjo and horde slayer 5 2:06 death drums banjo and horde slayer 6 2:11 death drums and banjo 13 2:17 death drums and banjo 14 2:23 death drums symbols and banjo 2:29 death drums symbols banjo and horde slayer 2:34 death drums symbols and horde slayer 1 2:39 death drums symbols and horde slayer 2 2:45 death drums symbols and horde slayer 3 2:51 death drums symbols and horde slayer 4 2:56 death drums 2 3:02 death drums and symbols 3:09 Gates From Hell {}>

It's funny. L4D1 had unique safe room themes for each campaign and L4D2 had unique horde themes for each campaign. It's almost like the L4D1 crew is characterized by scrambling for safety, while the L4D2 crew is characterized by mowing down hordes of infected. That's even what their respective intro movies are about.

Swamp fever one is by far my favorite but always makes me feel uneasy haha, but I love it so much

Nicks head on the passing lol

The Passing sounds like Crazybus.

The prarish sounds like zombie mexico party

The drummer be making fires with the sticks

Hard rain is honestly pretty underrated

The combination of the l4d and l4d2 soundtracks is very interesting

The group from Left 4 Dead 2 is the biggest horde killer I've ever seen.

That sax player or whatever in The Parish had wayyy too much coffee.

“Come Hell And High Water"

My honest reviews about it Dead Center-not a big deal,its fine The Passing-it kinda have a mix of a zombie apocalypse and a party music Dark Carnival-it have a vibe of a creepy killer clown sound Swamp Fever-one of the best horde themes ever heard(but i wish the map is good like the horde thems Hard Rain-stormy vibe in it,great The Parish-kinda have a church sound on it,its not bad,but its great

I just realized that the passing horde theme has a mix of the original l4d's horde theme. Nice touch

This guy was making these like his life depended on it

HERE THEY COMEEE!! AHAHHHHHHHH!!!

*Rochelle alarmed the car*

The Parish one is so goofy but my favourite horde theme

I always loved The Parishes horde theme.

All of these tracks are disorganized, I don't know how but they truly managed to make a filthy feeling, disgusting and nauseating track. It sounds like sickness, and it is done amazingly

I love the l4d ost, it makes the zombies feel terryfying but also badass as fuck, I want to be just like them

15:30 how it feels to be an employee in a store the moment any big sale is held.

I think out of all of them I like the parish one. The way that the trumpets being played matching along with the drums it's just a whole bunch of chaos

the whistle is when you know a horde is coming

I think that the Parish is the best one.

0:53 the background brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr sound is just fu-in amazig

the scariest: see this any theme horde in expert with everyone ded, 5 hp 2 smokers 1 huntes and 3 chargers and a tank theme. F

You hear these noises in expert: Panik! You’re not playing l4d2: kalm *YOU’RE NOT PLAYING L4D2: PANIK!*

So many memories when i first played this

THE NEW CHANNEL!!!!: ru-vid.com/show-UCeKliojX8zphQwr9FISag7w

2:34 When your the last survivor on expert realism 💀

the definition of "that's not a good sound".

"oh sorry my violin is out of tune." "perfect"

When you hear those 3 notes, you know shit is about to either go down, or hit the fan

The Dead Center is kinda offbeat though but i still like it

I love the chaotic and jumbled up nature of these songs, it perfectly encapsulates the anxiety of trying to gun down the 30 zombies and special infected rushing at you.

SWAMP FEVER SOUNDS LIKE Squidward CLerenate

L4D2 having unique mixes for all the campaigns with the hoard theme is my favorite part of the music.