Soundtrack Context

[Parboleum Loyce]

Anyone got a list of when in-game what tracks play? A few are inherently obvious, namely The Descent being the loading music. Just curious, it's interesting to know.

[Liobuster]

just listen to the soundtrack and compare them yourself ^^

[Parboleum Loyce]

It's hard to compare when a lot are similar, they're all long, and you're more likely to be hearing screaming dwarves, screeching glyphids and a lot of guns!

[ULTRA]

Off the top of my head:

Track 2 - Attack of the Glyphids
Plays during swarms, particularly on hazard 2, I've noticed

Track 4 - Hold my Beard
Also plays during swarms, perhaps on hazard 3

Track 7 - Petrified Fury
Plays during swarms, on hazard 1, I believe

Track 9 - Robot Getaway
Plays during extraction on mining expeditions and egg hunts

Track 10 - Horrors of Hoxxes
First part plays when a glyphid dreadnought randomly appears, second part plays during an elimination when the dreadnought is awakened

Track 14 - Fighting the Shadows
Also plays after hatching a dreadnought, correct me if I'm wrong

Track 16 - Leave No Dwarf Behind
Another adaptive song, plays during pod extraction and the climax about 5/8 through plays when you are near the pod

Track 17 - March of the Brave
Another pod extraction

Track 22 - Ode to the Fallen
Plays in the memorial hall

Other than that I think the tracks mostly play at random and ambiently. The music seems largely informed by John Carpenter soundtracks, especially on Dark Star, synth wave, and drone music of the late 90s and early aughts (all these are kind of related).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaiI2TN8ghk

Dark Star is a sci-fi film about a dubious company with crappy, outdated equipment contracted to deal with planets on the far reaches of space - sound familiar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPuCUz2xEj4

Synth wave is a genre of electronic music that is largely inspired by 80s movies and media and attempts to mimic some of the instrumentation of that era while adding more modern EDM tropes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kILB4JQqp5g

Drone music can be thought of as the counterpart to trance - instead of being so uptempo and progressive that it drowns everything out, it is very downtempo. Many drone/space music artists were commissioned to do soundtrack work in the 70s-2000s because the genre is atmospheric. High reverb, low tempo, and an electronic, almost metallic character define this genre that was probably the inspiration for the "in-between" atmospheric music in DRG.