Left 4 Dead Soundtrack

Left 4 Dead's Soundtrack is composed by Mike Morasky. He was also involved in the Team Fortress 2 Soundtrack. Team Fortress is another highly successful franchise from Valve.

Music is a big part of the Left 4 Dead experience. It brings suspense to a bad situation, alerts you when something happens, and sends chills down your spine.

Left 4 Dead
150px|right Left 4 Dead is the main theme of the game, and many other songs in the soundtrack sound at least somewhat similar to this track at some point or another.

Left 4 Death
thumb|150px|left Left 4 Death plays when one of the Survivors have died, though most of it can only be heard on screen of the one who died. The first twelve seconds of it play if the Survivors have been overwhelmed.

Skin on Our Teeth
thumb|150px|right Skin on Our Teeth plays at the end of every campaign's finale, when the rescue vehicle has arrived and the Survivors are attempting to board it.

Skin on Our Teeth (Left 4 Dead 2)
This theme plays in Left 4 Dead 2 at every campaign finale when the rescue vehicle arrives and the Survivors have to board it. It is very similar to Left 4 Dead, only the music theme is changed. thumb|right|150px

The Monsters Within
thumb|150px|left The Monsters Within plays after one or more of the Survivors have boarded the rescue vehicle and escaped, and throughout the "credits."

In the embedded video on the left, the final five seconds of the song is a separate track titled "The Monsters Without", played at the end of every chapter while the next chapter is loading and the statistics are being shown.

The Monsters Without
thumb|150px|right The Monsters Without is the song that plays at the end of a chapter in Left 4 Dead 2. It is similar to The Monsters Within.

No Mercy
thumb|150px|left No Mercy is the theme of the No Mercy campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Apartments, and it will not end until the Survivors leave the rooftop.

Crash Course
thumb|150px|right Crash Course is the theme of the Crash Course campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Alleys.

Death Toll
thumb|150px|left Death Toll is the theme of the Death Toll campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Turnpike, and it will not end until the Survivors begin to move along the road.

Dead Air
thumb|150px|right Dead Air is the theme of the Dead Air campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Greenhouse, and it will not end until the Survivors have entered the room below them.

Blood Harvest
thumb|150px|left Blood Harvest is the theme of the Blood Harvest campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Woods, and it will not end until the Survivors leave the campsite.

Dead Center
thumb|150px|right Dead Center is the theme of the Dead Center campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter.

Dark Carnival
thumb|150px|left Dark Carnival is the theme of the Dark Carnival campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Highway.

Swamp Fever
thumb|150px|right Swamp Fever is the theme of the Swamp Fever campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Swamp.

Hard Rain
thumb|150px|left Hard Rain is the theme of the Hard Rain campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter.

The Parish
thumb|150px|right The Parish is the theme of The Parish campaign. It can be heard at various points throughout the campaign, primarily at the beginning of every chapter. The full song plays at the beginning of The Waterfront.

Tank
thumb|150px|left Tank is the musical cue of the Tank, which plays after the Tank has noticed the Survivors and loops until it has been killed.

Witch
thumb|150px|right Witch is the musical cue of the Witch. The first fourteen seconds of the track loop play as long as the Survivors are in close proximity to the Witch, and from 0:15 to 0:45 is what plays after the Witch has been startled. After that is the music that plays when the Witch has incapacitated her victim and is tearing them apart. That music also plays when she is set on fire.

Bacteria
Bacteria is a name for the Special Infected jingle that plays when one is around. They each have their own tune to identify them by. They also have a song that plays when their attacks hit.

Hunter
thumb|150px|left The Hunter's attack is known as Exenteration. Exenteration is also a medical term for disembowelment, which is fitting as the Hunter claws at your stomach.

Smoker
thumb|150px|right The Smoker has two attack jingles. The one when Survivors are being dragged away is named Tongue Tied, then the song played when fully constricted is called Asphyxiation. Asphyxiation is a term for suffocation, fitting for the Smoker.

Boomer
thumb|left|150px The Boomer's attack is known as Pukricide.

Charger
thumb|right|150px The Charger has two songs that go along with him. Contusion plays when he grabs a Survivor then Mortification plays as he pounds them into the ground. Contusion is another term for bruise (probably from being slammed by him) and Mortification can mean either humiliation or decay of a part of the body, possibly referring to the Charger's shriveled arm.

Spitter
thumb|150px|left The Spitter's song is called Enzymicide. Enzymes are a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions while the suffix -cide means to kill.

Jockey
thumb|150px|right The Jockey's song is called Vassalation. The word can be broken into two parts, Vassal and -ation. Vassal means slave, and -ation can be "creation of", so the word means "creation of a slave."

Train to Miami
thumb|150px|left Train to Miami is one of the songs featured in the two commercials for Left 4 Dead. It was created by the hardcore punk/noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub, played in their album The Miracle of Sound in Motion.

Lyrics

Left Chicago, left the filth. Hopped a boxcar, headed south. Lust with thirteen Siamese twins. Bought for science, kept for skin. Twenty souls touch themselves. Lord help them! I help my self. This is my circle of instant friends.

(South to Christian lands)

These are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now. These are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now!

I'm on assignment for the FBI, Miami, Florida. Child sacrifice. The swamp is deep and warm and old. (I'm falling) I think she loves me, I love her, too. Satan brands, and home made tattoos. You can't believe the things I've seen.

(30 churches burning)

These are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now. These are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now!

We sit, and drink, all day now. We sit, and drink, all day now. (Cinder block temple) The sun beats down outside, and I can't think of a better reason to. Too late now, too late to tell me what I've become. (We are becoming)

These are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now. These are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now, these are my friends now!

I'm all alone in a big white house, and, I'm all alone in a big white house, and.

(I fade)

Grounds for Divorce
thumb|150px|right Grounds for Divorce is one of the songs featured in the two commercials for Left 4 Dead. It was created by British band Elbow, which was a part of their album The Seldom Seen Kid, released in 2007.

Lyrics

Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

I've been working on a cocktail called "Grounds for Divorce" Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve Down comes him on sticks but then he kicks like a horse There's a Chinese cigarette case, And the rest you can keep And the rest you can keep And the rest you can keep

There's a hole in my neighborhood, down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood, down which of late I cannot help but fall

Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

There's this whispering of jokers doing flesh by the pound To the chorus of supposes from the little town whores There'll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed Lounge And I'll bring you further roses, But it does you no good, And it does me no good, And it does you no good

There's a hole in my neighborhood, down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood, down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood, down which of late I cannot help but fall

Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid