The first few games of the Silent Hill series are considered some of the best horror games around, and the soundtracks are considered some of the best in gaming, period. To match the hellish world of the games, sound designer for the first seven Silent Hill games Akira Yamaoka created a mostly ambient industrial soundtrack, broken up with some extremely emotional rock songs. These four official soundtracks (for Silent Hill 1 through 4) focus mainly on the more melodic side of the games' music, which can usually be found in cutscenes and the like.
However, Silent Hill mega-fan Fungo has created complete soundtracks for the first three games which focus more on the in-game tracks, and as such are much more ambient (and in the case of Silent Hill 3, much better than the official soundtrack). I've uploaded the first four official soundtracks here, but I haven't uploaded the complete soundtracks as you can download them for free from Fungo's website: Silent Hill Media (because he's put a ton of work into them and you should totally check it out).
Silent Hill 1 OST:
42 tracks, 1:06:49, 68.34 MB
Mediafire (Mp3, 128 kbps)
Silent Hill 2 OST:
30 tracks, 1:13:05, 106.02 MB
Mediafire (Mp3, 192 kbps)
Silent Hill 3 OST:
26 tracks, 1:16:19, 75.21 MB
Mediafire (Mp3, 128 kbps)
Silent Hill 4 OST:
20 tracks, 1:13:40, 137.16 MB
Mediafire (Mp3, 320 kbps)
I bought the Silent Hill 3 game just for the soundtrack. $5.00 in a bargin bin. Couldn't load the game in my computer, the the soundtrack is brilliant.
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