Shusaku Uchiyama (kanji: 内山修作) is a video gamer composer that worked on: Read Full Bio ↴Shusaku Uchiyama (kanji: 内山修作) is a video gamer composer that worked on:

* Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (2009)
* Devil May Cry 4 (2008)
* Biohazard Sound Chronicle (2005)
* Resident Evil 4 (2005)
* Product Number 03 (2003)
* Resident Evil Remake (2002)
* Resident Evil 2 (1998)
* Mega Man 8 (1997)

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The Basement of Police Station
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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@robotoboy30

The whole OST does. The issue I have with people being weird about how the soundtracks are so memorable despite every single song lacking a melody is bizarre as hell to me.

Either people who love this music so much are tone def, or they are hearing something I'm not and I'm tone def.

But they act like we're listening to Mozart when there is no real inherent musical structure to this music which is meant to be ambient and create tension in a low poly game using every trick to up tension because it's design wasn't inherently scary.

Like if you remove the fixed camera angles, keep the lighting of the original and just have sound effects on you would laugh at the experience.

Many people have lamented the loss of the OST as something that the remake lacks and it somehow ruins the atmosphere... when the remake does a far better job with ambient sound effects, darker environments etc. The RE2make needs far less to make the game spooky... while the original needed a lot more to lean on to reach the same level of spookiness.

This music is meh, it sounds like all other non-descript b horror movie music to me. Go watch a nightmare on elmstreet movie and you'll find many songs like it.

All comments from YouTube:

@JBthree24

7y↑645

The absolute epitome of what a Basement should sound like

@SephirothXValentine

7y↑28

Barry: It's a weapon, it's really powerful, especially against living things.
Hearing what people think of it
I'm...really embarassed to see you now... don't listen to this soundtrack...g...go quickly

@nicklauskindelberger6877

7y↑23

Marcelo Zuniga That derpy song scared the shit out of me, my brother just started blasting it right when I woke up, and that was probably the most scared I've been in 3 years to be honest.

@nicklauskindelberger6877

6y↑9

ert I'm not being sarcastic. It sounded so bizarre it made me think I was having a stroke or something. He woke me up with it and I jolted upright.

@nicklauskindelberger6877

6y↑4

ert Like, ACTUAL horror music wouldn't have scared me, but it did, cause it was so unexpected

@marionaccarato2798

5y↑4

@Marcelo Zuniga bro...don't even go there...

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@whimsybomb7929

8y↑237

Whenever I hear this start, I instinctively hear my character's super loud footsteps. CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP XD

@RabuHina

5y↑20

Same xD
Claire/Leon: gotta go down in this dark scary basement. I better go down quietly descends the stairs in loud stomping sounds

@miguelpereira9859

5y↑7

@RabuHina dude the sounds they make while descending ladders is worse they are literally kicking those damn things

@cr4yv3n

4y↑4

Add in the sound of infected dogs ( that you haven't met yet in the game )

@montec101

3y↑6

Going down there for the first time then hearing that sound yet they were off screen so you had no idea what the hell was making that noise. Scary shit.

@Daniel328DT

2y↑1

Opening the menu be like DOOT DOOT DOOT

@bigbrother3465

5y↑350

This music is telling you something along the lines of ''You're not supposed to be here''

@grandmofftarkin77

3y↑11

If only there was a hostile NPC to shout that exact line at you ala Skyrim.

@Agent1W

3y↑2

@grandmofftarkin77 A dremora...

@someone2746

2y↑7

Yes, when the music is distinguished from the area of the video game and the listener is not informed about anything else which is intended for it by the designers of the game. As a stand-alone piece, it’s one of the most potent audible signifiers of “DANGER.” that I’ve ever heard. If this is a “before” then Distant Memories from 1.5 is the “after”.

@britneyfanboy4835

1y↑2

“There’s lickers, zombies or dogs down here..listen closely”

@robotoboy30

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@Abdula12345

7y↑144

Holy fuck i was so fucking scared of this theme back in the days.. I remember going down there and hearing this song alongside with footsteps on the concrete with zombie moans across the room.
I noped the fuck outta there and tried to find another way to complete the game before my brother had to finish this place for me. Good times.

@IceBlueEyesX

5y↑170

This song works so well with that cover art.
Too well, honestly.
There are many reasons why this game was held in such high regard as a survival horror legend, and the music was certainly one of the big ones.

@solid_fire9388

2y↑15

they didn't have high tech stuff at the time to generate the kind of mood they were looking for, so music was a big part of building a character for every location you enter for the first time, it's not just Nostalgia, a certain track for the right atmosphere it all it need's. something that newer RE games like RE8 lacked hell even the RE2 remake have locations that needed music but end up with out background music... :(

@KungFuPandurr

1y↑8

@@solid_fire9388 That's why I bought the original soundtrack DLC and played with that. Not a fan of the "reimagined" soundtrack at all.

@ajaxamsterdam1365

24w

The best soudtrack of all RE games

@XanderNiles

6y↑307

I really liked the whole aspect of the basement, the dogs, the autopsy room and stuff like that.

@adambriceland6588

4y↑14

dont forget the cell block and the parking lot lol

@adambriceland6588

4y↑9

and the weapon storage room, power room and dog kennel

@glenwicks4976

3y↑16

And Ben getting his shit fucked up.

@E-D-i-T-0-R

2y↑11

And the fact that if you play in B mode and return to the basement floors after a while, you realise that suddenly there are dogs and zombies around, because the character in A mode has meanwhile been in there and caused for the dogs in the cages and the zombies in the autopsy room to break out.

@TheDjblusasmezclador

2y↑7

Not to mention the lickers after the dogs

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@theartistguy2668

3y↑74

One of the darkest, most sinister soundtracks ever created and even puts big time films to shame.

@owenent9636

8y↑219

This ominous music, is telling you that something bad happened here, lots of death. But a small amount of the horror remains in the halls.

@terribletanner805

7y↑29

Just imagine Wesker's (RE5) voice: "You really shouldn't be down here, officer.."

@ubcsmercenary2730

7y↑13

Leon's voice. "Hold it right there, don't move!"

@Donkey_Lips

7y↑15

Barry Burton's (RE1) voice: "But just take-a-look-at-this!"

@terribletanner805

That wouldn't really be creepy, though would it?

@AlexK-wo3xi

7y↑9

+Terrible Tanner you've almost made it into a Jill sandwich 😂

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@BigLebowski2000

8y↑90

That's when u hear the ticking sounds of the dogs for the first time.....ugh the memories!

@BlackMetal_Goat

6y↑4

BigLebowski2000 don't forget the sound of the lickers walking slowly and heavily breathing 🤤

@rumuelnathanael8043

2y↑1

And you can't even see them so you wondered what could made that sound? Mysterious and terrifying af.

@Xehanort10

9y↑142

This takes me back. I always used to equip my shotgun as Leon before I went down here to get ready for the zombie dogs.

@BigLebowski2000

8y↑6

Exactly!

@TheBloodstein

5y↑2

pfff... you dont have enough handgun bullets? a hand gun is enough if properly downed the dog's at the same time, just shoot them as they get up before they attack

@nicholasdiaz724

4y↑8

@Matt Slayer When there's more than one dog...just run like hell!!!

@TheBloodstein

4y↑2

@Nicholas Diaz lol

@Chelsea1991FC

3y↑6

And shooting the dogs at the right enough angle to get the bullet holes on the screen, Easter egg if you’ve never had it before by the way 😀

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@wt8012

7y↑81

I remember playing this game for the first time on the A Scenario. Hearing the "tic, tic" noise of them dogs along with this soundtrack always got my heart racing...

@DBarns7

6y↑9

wt8012- Or Scenario 'B' with the Lickers. 'HSSSSS!'. That was scary shit.

@wt8012

5y↑6

Daniel B Actually, the lickers were encountered in this corridor in Scenario A after either Ada or Sherry retrieved the Club Key for Leon and Claire, respectively. In Scenario B, there were either a few zombies in this corridor or it was completely empty. There were, however, lickers in the morgue that had replaced the zombies that were playing dead on the floor in Scenario A.

@Braydon_Wedo

2y↑1

Pull out that shotgun. You gotta make them dogs suffer 😆

@troywright359

1y↑1

Yes, their nails tapping on the floor as they pace, just out of sight up ahead....

@oldhoonta

7y↑104

Waiting for those dogs to come at you was intense. In the end, it was you, who had to make the first move...

@Agent1W

7y↑13

When the YOLO philosophy first became practical.

@vincentalvarado6985

6y↑20

i hated that you had to be the one to round the corner and face the dogs and not the other way around. my first time in the basement i waited gun drawn for about 15 minutes for whatever it was making those sounds to walk into view lol

@88gschannel39

6y↑10

Radsoe The random Licker breathing was worse...followed by the high pitched squeal when you went around the corner

@Braydon_Wedo

2y↑1

Having to turn that first corner terrified me.

@DarkMoonRDZ

2y↑1

True lol

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@cameronratliff305

5y↑9

One comment on another video for this soundtrack described this song the best:

"If you're stranded in the desert with this song on your iPod, you'd most likely survive the heatstroke. It's just that fucking cold."

Pretty accurate.

@tommis4084

7y↑30

Masami Ueda is the KING !!!! ( main Resident Evil soundtrack composer for those who don't know )

@topgears7775

2y↑24

Best days of my life were the days I played this game for the first times, also RE3 the original version.
it was an experience out of this world. a lot of mysteries, horror and the weird feeling of wanting to explore a world you know is very scary , you sometimes wanted to turn the game off but the curiosity sparked inside you made you to be wanting to continue playing . the feeling which made you wish the world inside the game happen in the reality.

@BaldCape9

2y↑7

Back then with minds untainted, hearts unjaded.

@robkearsy2995

7y↑45

If you don't start sweating nervously during this theme I don't know about you.

@Natedawg38

2y↑14

The basement is by far the most lonely and depressing part of the series

@buyinterestingthings9558

1y↑1

you can't feel more in the depths!!!

@abdulqudz89

9y↑43

all this time, i never knew there was an eye in the picture.
great scary music as well.

@joga1st95

What eye?

@abdulqudz89

@Joshua Durrant look at the right socket and you'll see it.

@abdulqudz89

@Superior No1 i probably didn't pay too much attention to the cover of the game.

@kamilslav2239

Same :D

@kamilslav2239

5y↑4

And tbh it makes this ost even more scary :D

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@adambriceland6588

4y↑10

this music is so perfect for the atmosphere of the basement, the zombie dogs, autopsy room, weapon storage, power room, parking lot, cell block, dog kennel then the sewers...good times back in 98 playing this as a 10 year old

@adambriceland6588

@Jaden Bissell and thats all

@Adam-qf8ps

2y↑13

I've had this track in my head, for the last couple of hours. I really love this music, the Marshalling Yard (1), and the Undergound Laboratory music. The soundtrack, as a whole, is a masterpiece.

@daleorth7690

2y↑1

Yess The Marshalling Yard is my one of my top 3 RE soundtracks!

@Jay-mi5dg

28w

Yes completely agree with you! The marshalling yard is so haunting and brings the perfect feeling of loneliness and the fight for survival all the while the moon beams down on you like it doesn’t know anything has happened…

@GenDizz

4y↑7

The single most terrifying piece of music in resi history

@alexwhite958

19w↑2

In my opinion one of the more chilling tracks RE has ever come up with. After fighting through the upper layers of the RPD, this definitely feels like a theme that would belong in a basement. Horrors above, what do we find below? Long dark corridors with stagnant air that reeks of death. A quiet stillness that is only offset by the soft noises of paws. The dim red lights of a room for the deceased. You know you shouldn't be down here, but the only way out is deeper.

@Jay-mi5dg

28w↑2

This soundtrack, coupled with the scream of William Berkin after the death scene of Ben… scarred me for life. No game even comes close to this gem 💎

@Soen5_

39w↑3

I play with this music in the remake, the atmosphere and the vibe in the basement is a masterclass 💥

@sirfrightmare4506

3y↑2

I'm glad I played the remake with the original soundtrack turned on.

@davson13

8y↑6

i miss so much this kind of scary sound, the terror to go down to some place, where you didnt know what are you going to face

@Shinnokxz

2y↑4

I was 10 when RE2 came out and would play up until your first visit to the basement. It terrified my that bad and this song did it. I probably wasn't actually continuing the game until my midteens, just replaying the first part over and over.

just now a loud noise happened outside my office window and made me jump as this song was playing

@smithwesson1896

6y↑9

trumpet note plays
OH HELL NO!

@patrickdumas224

3y↑6

I was 12 years old at the time when I first played this and this music has given me the creeps ever since I first heard it.
Even when I was in college, the dormitory basement was a tad creepy. Plus there was this work station down there where students would work for a few hours and even I worked there once.
But several months later, I was working in the county hospital with the maintenance group and sometimes we had to work in the hospital basement and oh my God!!!!! That basement was a thousand times worse. It was dark with these red lights up and down the corridor and there was this walk through green light rack that kills germs on your skin and clothes.
It was also pretty damn cold cause it was very close to the morgue.
I hated working down there. Even the other guys I worked with hated it too. We had to work there, I was something not looking forward to.

@tomaszgaluba1459

2y↑2

So if you value peace at work, the basement you mentioned is a blessing - no one will go down there to bother you! 😁

@yeahgirl11

2y↑1

@Tomasz Galuba Yeah, no one is definitely going postal down there lol. That's the perfect place to hide for basically any situation.

@spaceshiptelevison2928

1y↑2

Most terrifying music in RE2 hands down.

@AlefSigma

6y↑14

I played this game million times before, but every time i get to this part, i get nervous.

@Braydon_Wedo

2y↑1

Bro same here! The dogs are absolutely terrifying

@armanimillet1219

2y↑2

They do such a good job creeping you tf out even this track makes my arm hairs rise dude ❤️😍I love the old resident evils they just don’t make it the same anymore💔🥺

@josegatica6599

39w↑2

This kind of stuff makes people like I believe that this is one of the best horror games in history ❤

@castortroy7704

2y↑3

My childhood here. I now own the remake. Love nostalgia.

@NinjaAttorneyAtLaw

19w

18 years later and I can still remember the dread I felt standing outside the Autopsy Room.

@Beforezzz

2y↑7

Many like the 2019 version and that's fine, but for me it's never replacing this classic gem.

@reniisgod

1y↑2

Nothing can touch the impact the OG had. The remake was complete generic clichéd trash

@chrisnichols9014

@Reni The old Resident Evil games had amazing soundtracks.

@Britishgas.

34w↑1

@reniisgod bad opinion the remake was solid don't get me wrong og re2 is amazing but the remakes good

@picklepete8723

2y↑3

I feel like once you hit the basement shit started the get real.. game got harder and scarier

@cloudsmiles1

5y↑6

1 month and then we get to hear this again! Can't wait!!!

@genkia87

4y↑2

RE1 (non dualshock) and RE2 have the creepiest sounding music for the basement's. I still haven't heard music this terrifying decades later.

@DraggoB

2y↑1

Don't forget about "Moonchild." The basement theme of Alchemilla hospital in Silent Hill 1.

@SajgonProMaster

3y↑4

I remember when I was a kid and one night I woke up and my brother was playing this game and I saw a licker and there was that background music and then for a few years I was afraid to go to the basement for anything

@MassEffectGER

6y↑1

There's simply no other best way to musically depict a basement of a large building than by this music.

@haloPrestoGiant02

2y↑2

I'm back here to say, after replaying the re2 remake with the classic ost, this GENUINELY made me fear even the atmosphere of the basement area. mix that with the dogs hanging around, and this was one of the first times a game has genuinely had me scared in YEARS. crazy how much music can add to the atmosphere.

@yeahgirl11

You can use the OST in the remake? I don't have the game so I can't experiment.

@rumuelnathanael8043

2y↑1

@yeahgirl11 Yes you can it's paid dlc though. But the experience is surreal with the original soundtrack.

@IkariSniper

20w

I'm 25 and I can swear that this is the most terrifying, darkest, scary, eerie soundtrack I've ever heard... and I love it. This goes hard in the PS4 remake btw

@WankOr538

44w

For me this is scariest theme in the whole game,really captures the feeling of mystery,the fact you know you will find walking corpses and dogs,but dont know where and a combination of the fact your underground without the ambience of the police station really terrifies me, amazing 👏🏽

@leafy4102

46w↑1

I can already hear the sound of zombie dogs running towards you

@sonicdoommario

For me, the first thing that comes to mind with this track is the loud footsteps on the loading screen when going down the stairs into the basement, it's the only stair loading screen that has those loud footsteps.

Also, for some reason I get a real lonely feeling with this track when exploring the kennel/prison area as Claire B, after you get Leon's radio call that you can get behind the parking lot.

@manolako

7y↑5

i remember when i started to listen this music entering the basement... one of my scariest moments of my life hahahah

@RestlessWandererOriginal

6y↑2

The first time i played re2 i was around 14 years old back then, the jumpscares shocked the crap outta me, i paused the game when it got too intense... good memories ...

@CB-qg3yh

3y↑1

The music in this game is so simplistic, but so fucking affective

@user-fc1nf4sk1y

28w↑1

The first time I got this far as a kid I was so terrified that I couldn't focus, got killed by a dog, turned off my console and called it a night.

@purpleexodus3275

6y↑4

Essa trilha sonora me remete a tantas coisas 'boas' na infância, amo RE2...e tô aguardando o novo remake de RE2, apaixonado por esse jogo hehe

@timjohnson1273

21w↑1

I played this game for the first time just after watching 'The Return Of The Living Dead' for the first time, and when i stood at the top of the stairs leading down into the basement, i was like "Oh, hell no! I remember Tarman -- fuck you basement!" No lie. I let Leon A just stand there for ten minutes straight lol. My first RE game. Wonderful experience.

@richgerow3472

7y↑13

FUCK THIS THEME. I remember first getting to this part when I was six, and after hearing this music alone in my dark room, I thought, "Yeah, probably time to turn this off. I'll play this part when it's light outside."

@thunderssound

7y↑4

Memories :((

@BadAssMacmillan

5y↑15

Reminds me of Silent Hill

@sirfrightmare4506

Resident Evil 2 came out a year before Silent Hill 1.

@Darth_Revan40

27w↑1

Sounds like something you would find in Silent Hill ngl
But it fits perfectly here

@revokdaryl1

Currently listening to this through my circa 1986 Infinity RS III/B towers and it sounds glorious! 👌

@yahelharchagonzalez4692

2y↑1

This is Sinister. RE2 is the definition of dark and horror.

@oici163

4y↑2

El Mejor Juego De Horror De La Historia y Musica Espectacular De Otro Mundo Grande RESIDENT EVIL 2 THE BEST FOR EVER

@Cryogenics12

9y↑31

Dogs....get your shotgun ready

@JayKhwaja

8y↑2

Lock & Load!

@Xehanort10

8y↑4

+Cryogenics12 Sometimes there are also Lickers there if you have to backtrack.

@Kaida760

7y↑2

If you play it on Hard there's an alternating set that keeps reappearing - Zombies / Lickers every time you back track.

@paulfrazier1021

Knife them like a sir.

@VindensSaga

This stuff terrified me as a kid. xD The music, the dogs, the basement itself. Everything.

@598bryce

6y↑4

The remake looks amazing but this honesty suits even modern horror atmosphere for me

@coIdkristen

Just swap to original soundtrack

@chek4lovv

29w↑1

You came there and you already hear the sound of dog footsteps 😅

@michaelkoutek807

3y↑1

Works good for the metro also.

You're 17. going on your first mission, at the 600th meter. Nerves rattle with both fear and anticipation. Every noise, every creak, scuttle lights up your nerves like a match. It doesn't help that no one has gone to the 600th meter in a few months.

@symbiote_gt

2y↑2

this sounds like something out of a very very very scary Freddy Krueger nightmare...

@claytonrobbins3089

No joke this is my favorite room audio bc it scared me the most as a kid

@masterbetty7050

6y↑9

I don't see how the remake can have better music than the masterful original RE2.

@francohaedo3931

5y↑10

It didnt lmao

@kolyasmirno9116

@Franco Haedo yeah not even jumped far from original.Quite impressive for 1998 Game then 2019.

@TheAndrewlolz

20w

When you're in the basement corridor, your did not see any human silhoutte dragging around, but you hear a faint "tsk tsk" crawling with a long tongue on the ceiling..

@ThejollyFrenchman

4y↑3

This piece always sounded more Silent Hill than Resident Evil to me. Fantastic track.

@phellipegalileo9225

From classic to remake, this song still disturbs me.

@claudiutanul6022

45w

Cerberus steps on the background. One of the scariesta soundtracks in the game.

@DNSV-ex8of

the music in this game was the scariest and best of all the resident evils. police station 1st floor and this at a close second.

@aprilm2800

Such an eerie song

@adambriceland6588

4y↑2

and i remember the first time playing this as a kid, even with the handgun and shotgun i was scared because of the dogs and the music and not knowing what was down there lol

@lunamaria1048

42w↑1

What every kid hears when entering the basement alone lol

@RabuHina

5y↑2

One of the creepiest themes in this game

@terraytia

8y↑1

Sounds seriously good.

@madandy2008

2y↑1

This theme makes you want to say " aww fuck this im going back upstairs "

@felinusfeline5559

51w

This just feels "cold" and "stoney" to me and that's what I felt the Basement was, with the steel doors and stone floors. Plus the morgue probably needed low temps.

@remembernavarro5344

4y↑5

Good theme but you know what it's lacking? The sound of some clowns farting around down there.

@sebastiandordoni2268

Wtf dude i almost spit out my chocolate milk 😆

@tubby_1278

The ambience and theme here really spells abandonment

@buyinterestingthings9558

1y↑1

Que ambientacion! lpm! obra maestra.

@Shabs89

3y↑1

First time I heard this, it was like the music was saying "Welcome to hell"

@q1w2e3r4t5y6i8

7y↑1

The sound of this gong alone is scarier than even the blackest of lickers.

@blessedevelyn339

Think of how the composers made this song though. With very little noise but it conveys so much emotion. And the correct emotion too..

@troywright359

Getting trapped in the autopsy room as the zombies come alive, and escaping to the corridor, only to face the dogs I had evaded earlier...

@andysledge

6y↑2

I cannot wait for January #RE2 Also if you get the Deluxe Edition you can swap to the Original Soundtrack AMAZING

@sean-thiago1986

6y↑12

Oh dude, Capcom is killing it. I just heard the remake version of this theme and it sounds f*cking brilliant. Props to the devs.

@Kyle-ii4fp

28w↑1

Scariest song in the game and scariest part in the game lol

@CYB3R2K

16w↑1

Is not the same without the "pawsteps" sounds of the dogs in the background...

@tezcatlipoca6336

...this is how you create NIGHTMARES .... excellent Stuff !!

@CheyenneEntertainmentYT

3y↑1

This is the only part where I loathe the fact I put on the classic soundtrack in the remake 😅 Holy crap, it still scares the hell outta me

@sam64

2y↑2

This bit of the game used to scare the shit out of me!

@LegendarySparantus

It sounds like " PS1 music " so much with this weird slightly low quality keyboard sound, I like it.

@huntersheridan3444

This music terrified me as a kid in 2003

@Morbutt

This music made me scared out of my mind to go into the basement in this game.

@joshmonaghan8970

46w

Getting to the basement for the 1st time after many attempts of getting lost and dying. When i got there i was so scared by the track alone.

Then hearing something moving which was different the moment i seen a dog i turned off the ps1. But I knew I had to get back there and face the fear head on

As a kid that terrified me but it was so effective. Great memories.. great game ❤️😅

@TheAssassin2299

tic tic Tic TIC
RRRRRRRRRRRRRHRRHH

Leon: "HeHE... I'm in daaanger."

@Sastrugi

2y↑1

Does anyone know which vst synth could be capable for creating sounds like this? Preferably free and cpu-friendly. I know Omnisphere would definitely do it but it's out of the question for me cus of the reasons mentioned above..