Mankind is dead, blood is fuel, hell is full, and breakcore owns. These are the pillars on which smash hit indie shooter Ultrakill was forged. A New Blood Interactive joint, developed by the enigmatic Hakita, Ultrakill drips with gore, guts, and style. It fuses ultraviolent old-school FPS action with the speed and sophistication of modern character action games to create an experience all its own. Likewise, its music is the product of a beautiful, unholy union of influences. Hakita, by way of the rock/metal project Heaven Pierce Her, has crafted a distinctly gnarly soundscape that pairs MIDI-powered foundations with heavenly instrumentations and, of course, the ubiquitous Amen break. It rules, it slaps, and, in iam8bit’s humble opinion, it needs to be on as many formats as humanely (or inhumanely?) possible. So we proudly brought it to CD. This is Ultrakill Soundtrack Volume 1: Infinite Hyperdeath CD. On its two discs, you’ll find the music of Ultrakill’s Act 1, a phantasmagoric audio journey sure to take you to the heights of heaven above and the bowels of hell below. Speaking of phantasmagoric, we worked with New Blood Interactive’s own Francis Xie to create album art that was appropriately striking and splendid, reformatted and fit for the Digipak canvas. You’re gonna want to spin this one again and again.
